How bad is our defense?

Im pretty sure they only scored 1 TD and we held them in 3 redzone trips.....doesnt sound bad to me!

Yeah but can you honestly say the 19 points was due to anything we did well on defense??

Their offense sputtered in the redzone, the final score should have been much worse.

The good news is that The East is all in the same boat - excpet for the Eagles... We need to win going forward or we are out of the playoffs...

Im pretty sure they only scored 1 TD and we held them in 3 redzone trips.....doesnt sound bad to me!

The TD was on an 8 minute drive and one field goal came after the Giants started at their own 1 yard line. You have a team starting at its own 1 it should not score any points at all on that drive

No punts in the first half. That is bad D.

Harris leads 49ers' defensive attack with three interceptions (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/09/SPG6BLLF1H1.DTL)

Walt Harris is tearing it up in SF; he got three interceptions on Sunday and is a team captain....clearly we gave up on him too soon.

Is it just me or does anyone else have nightmarish flashbacks to Tom Carter when seeing Carlos Rogers? Anyone else remember TC? Highly touted first-round pick back in '93. Supposed to be the heir apparent to Darrell Green as the next great Redskins CB. Man, what a waste he was.

I really hope the same doesn't end up being the case for Rogers

I remember Tom Carter, but after his initial contract was up, he signed with Chicago and was out of football right after that. I think it was only a matter of time before this front office f***ed up a top ten pick.

Hindsight's always 20/20, but to think that Demarcus Ware and Shawn Merriman were still there at #9 ... sickening.

The good news is that The East is all in the same boat - excpet for the Eagles... We need to win going forward or we are out of the playoffs...

Will someone please HIT THE PANIC BUTTON!! SOMEONE?!?!?

If there was such a thing, now is the time to press it, not when it's too late.

The season is NOT over.. it's not cooked......yet.

However, we HAVE to get this team turned around RIGHT HERE!
If we want a chance to grab a wildcard at 10-6, we have to go 8-2! (assuming loss @indy). There is no time for working things out or giving things time to gel. GOTO PLAN B RIGHT NOW. Saunders needs to move pass this shuffle play offense thats now obviously been over exposed on film for too many weeks. ....And if he needs to make player changes to get his REAL offense executed then by ALL means get it done. This is no time to hold onto player's feelings and friendships. That time was on opening day when its "all good". WAKEUP!! RED ALERT!! MAN YOUR BATTLE STATIONS!! Its all about survival now.

We need to get aggressive on offense AND defense. ATTACK ATTACK LIKE APACHES... Set the tempo, hit someone in the mouth, and then hit em AGAIN. We're playing scared AGAIN on both sides of the ball.. These players NEED TO GET MAD.. I see a bunch of pouters, and excuse makers in the lockeroom.

Someone better do "it" NOW because we are a handful of losses away from being out of the hunt, and there's still alot of games left!!

Still too early to panic about Rogers.

Cornerback is one of those positions that you basically know what you've got right off the bat. It's a very instinctive position that shouldn't take much time to adjust to the NFL.

Look at it this way, we knew with Champ and Smoot pretty quickly what we had. If at this point Rogers is still "learning the ropes" then we've likely seen the best he has to offer.

Harris leads 49ers' defensive attack with three interceptions (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/09/SPG6BLLF1H1.DTL)

Walt Harris is tearing it up in SF; he got three interceptions on Sunday and is a team captain....clearly we gave up on him too soon.

I agree, he got burned on a few last year, and the hatred for him was unrelenting. I never understood it. Sure like to have him back.

Cornerback is one of those positions that you basically know what you've got right off the bat. It's a very instinctive position that shouldn't take much time to adjust to the NFL.

Look at it this way, we knew with Champ and Smoot pretty quickly what we had. If at this point Rogers is still "learning the ropes" then we've likely seen the best he has to offer.

I really disagree.

Corner is one of the toughest positions to come in to as a rookie, especially in a defense like this that asks so much from the position.

Smoot struggled early on as well.