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and it shook up the snap count in Week 7. You can view the full snap count
below, or take a look at the gamebook PDF.We¡¯ve already seen Adrian Colbert
placed on injured reserve with a high ankle sprain. D.J. Reed took his spot at
free safety. Reed got a couple snaps at nickel back as well when K¡¯Waun Williams
briefly left the game. Jimmie Ward could eventually get an opportunity to
compete at free safety once healthy, but for Week 8, look for Reed to get the
full workload.The running back position saw Matt Breida aggravate his ankle
sprain. He played five offensive snaps before being shut down. Raheem Mostert
played 22 snaps and Alfred Morris played 20. Morris was looking like he would
spend the game complementing Breida. Mostert was the complement against the
Packers in Week 6, but Kyle Shanahan has said there will be a rotation based on
the matchup.Cornerback Richard Sherman was inactive with a calf strain, and it¡¯s
safe to say his status will be touch and go for the foreseeable future. When
asked if Sherman¡¯s injury was something they¡¯ll have to manage week in and week
out, Shanahan said:Ahkello Witherspoon and Greg Mabin started at the two
cornerback positions, with K¡¯Waun Williams serving as the nickel back. Tarvarius
Moore got 12 snaps and Tyvis Powell played four snaps. The 49ers return to
practice on Wednesday, at which point they will re-assess Sherman and Ward. My
guess is both sit out Wednesday¡¯s practice, but we¡¯ll see what comes of it.The
defensive line was one other interesting position. DeForest Buckner had the bulk
of the work with 40 snaps, but this week Solomon Thomas was next on the depth
chart. He finished the game playing 38 snaps. He had 15 at defensive tackle and
23 on the edge. That¡¯s a step up for a guy who¡¯s best pass rush work has
generally come from the interior.49ers snap count vs. Rams, Week
7PlayerOffenseDefenseSTPlayerOffenseDefenseST Well, that sucked. Don¡¯t even try
to pose as a hardcore football nerd by saying ¡°I prefer a good defensive
battle.¡± No one believes you, and SB 53 wasn¡¯t that anyway.This game stank from
the coin toss to Greg Zuerlein¡¯s missed field goal ¡ª the second shank of the
game in a dome. The halftime show was the worst ever ¡ª
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the Up With People medleys of 20-year old pop songs were more entertaining. Even
the commercials sucked.Gritless Jared Goff choking massively on the biggest
stage shouldn¡¯t have surprised anyone. All season long, Sean McVay has been
bringing in Johnny Hekker to throw key fourth down passes on fake punts, instead
of giving Goff the ball; that¡¯s how much he trusts his ¡°franchise QB¡± in clutch
situations. It¡¯s now a real question whether the Rams will even extend Goff past
his rookie contract, which is all good news for Niners fans.Even so, the intense
failure of Sean McVay¡¯s ¡°genius¡± offense was astounding. 260 yards total. TWO
rushing first downs, with both Todd Gurley and C.J. Anderson and supposedly the
best offensive line in football. 19 for 38 passing, with most of them check
downs (4.7 yards average). This was New England¡¯s lowest point total in 147
Super Bowl appearances ¡ª and their largest margin of victory.The real surprise
was Tom Brady also looking rattled and missing throws. The Rams defensive line
is tough but it certainly didn¡¯t dominate; Brady was only sacked once. Aaron
Donald apologized to fans after the game, and Ndamukong Suh seemed to wear
himself out after a frenzied first quarter.Maybe Brady is finally starting to
feel his age; that would explain his frightened look. It was always stupid and
cocky for him to challenge Time itself to a fight. (Bovada rates Brady as a 27
to 1 underdog in the Tom vs. Timebattle.) I¡¯m not even sure what Tom winning
would look like. Does he collapse space-time into just space through the sheer
force of his will? I imagine it¡¯s something sadder and duller, like this
scenario:Brady doesn¡¯t seem like the kind of guy to gracefully quit at the top
of his game, even though right now is the perfect moment to do that. Dude has
won a ring more than one out of every 3 seasons in his career. It¡¯s not getting
better, pal. All that can happen is a series of gradually declining seasons for
lots of money he doesn¡¯t need. If Bill Belichick hangs it up, Brady¡¯s NFL future
could get really ugly, like the sad tail end of Muhammad Ali¡¯s boxing career.The
Black Eyed Peas and Coldplay are the only people that halftime show made happy,
because they¡¯re no longer atop the discussion of ¡°All Time Worst SB Halftime
Shows.¡± Levine was a great poster boy for the truth that ¡°more tattoos don¡¯t
automatically give you more personality.¡±I¡¯ve made my peace with glittery pop
stars (e.g. Bruno Mars put on a great
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their only relevant hit was ¡°Move Like Jagger,¡± who is 75, and Adam Levine
couldn¡¯t even hit that low bar. Everyone knew his band was talentless, but at
least try to put on a show. Bring in wild animals. Little kids in cute outfits.
Do some ice skating while you sing. Any gimmick would have been appreciated.
Their budget was unlimited, and the only trick they had was fire jets? You need
to be more entertaining than a Mongolian grill.I¡¯m struggling to find things to
like about that whole ¡°spectacle.¡± The John Malkovich opening clip (with Peyton
Manning playing the fool) was funny. Two ex-Niners got rings (despite Trent
Brown¡¯s potentially disastrous hands-to-the-face penalty with the game on the
line), and Brian Hoyer even had a starring role of sorts, by embodying Goff¡¯s
cluelessness:Budweiser¡¯s surprise attack on Big Corn Syrup was exciting and
unexpected. They cut right to the chase: if corporations run everything, why
shouldn¡¯t they openly fight for power? This foretells a future of Brand
Warlords, with the Kingdom of Co¡¯Cola centered in Atlanta bumping up against the
Halliburton Empire in Houston, but I¡¯m safely inside the walls of Nike Nation so
bring it on.Ultimately, this Super Bowl was good only for Niners fans looking
forward to the rivalry with the Rams over the next few years. LA is
exposed
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will be shaky in any clutch situation. Patriot¡¯s linebackers coach (and
effectively, their defensive coordinator) Brian Flores drew a template for
playing through McVay¡¯s motion trickery, and will be justly rewarded with a head
coaching job in Miami.Big pieces of the Rams¡¯ defense will be lost to free
agency (Suh, maybe Marcus Peters). How badly is Gurley injured, and how pissed
will he be about his benching? Left tackle Andrew Whitworth is 37, and said
after the loss that ¡°At the end of the day you all die...¡± Lighten up, Sunshine,
most of us have at least a few weeks left. Years, even.The bottom line is that
the Rams are stumbling out of that debacle and into their divisional rivalry
with a questionable, gritless QB, a collection of aging stars and a gimmicky
offense that just got exposed. Hey, I¡¯m starting to like this Super Bowl better
already.