First Half - Niners Saints

Wow. What an insane first half. Really a tale of two quarters. Niners dominated the first with three turnovers and a couple touchdowns. Saints dominated the second quarter with two nice touchdown scoring drives.

I am very worried about our defense getting tired. We are on the field way too much. Alex Smith is playing bad. Besides two touchdown tosses, he looks jittery. I am also a bit annoyed with our play calling - how are we not running on 1st down every single possession? I don't think the Saints can stop our running game. Also, our 3rd and long offense is looking terrible. We know they are blitzing and we can't do anything about it. 3 sacks on 3rd and long already. Michael Crabtree needs to catch the football. 2 drops, even though 1 was a bad throw. He still needs to catch it.

We win this game by beating them up. We had them on the ropes in the first quarter and didn't knock them out. They win this game by tiring us out. Run, run, play action. That is what our offense needs to do. Alex Smith needs to make some plays with his feet. We need to have some long possessions. Our best possession was actually the first one of the day, where we brought it out from the 2 yard line out to the 40 or 50. The rest have been too short. I have no problem with us running the ball on 3rd and 6 or under, also.

This game is going to come down to the Niners offense. We know the defense came to play and will do their job. If our offense can keep Brees off the field in the 2nd half, we will win. If not, we lose.