Why John Lynch was ‘a little bothered’ during 49ers’ win over Cardinals
November 21, 2025
Why John Lynch was ‘a little bothered’ during 49ers’ win over Cardinals
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Honestly the lack of sacks can be frustrating, but Lynch isn’t wrong. The pressure *was* there even if the stat sheet looks ugly. Brissett dropped back 57 times and got the ball out insanely fast. A lot of them were check downs and thrown to the flats.
It’s not ideal, but at least the defense showed signs of life with the turnovers. If they can tighten up coverage and sync the rush, the sacks will come. This season is more about surviving injuries and getting incremental improvement week by week than being amazing statistically on paper
They didn’t sack the QB, saved ya a click.
This is just how the defense is going to perform.
It’s going to be a bend not break and hopefully forcing either a turnover or holding to a field goal in the red zone.
The offense will need to score touchdowns.
We just have to hope the remainder of our opponents commit 14 fouls per game.
>”The other thing I would say, probably the more important thing than sacks—sacks are a byproduct—are you around the quarterback? Are you pressuring him? And I thought we did pressure him. When you go back and watch the film, sometimes you’re surprised, and we were. Our guys rushed well. Now, we’ve got to do it a little better collectively. It’s tying rush and coverage together.”
We only had 1 QB hurry and 5 pressures on 57 drop backs. It’s hard to even articulate how shitty this is. Cardinals weren’t even trying to run the ball. We knew they were passing basically every down and our DL still could do nothing. Think about how easily DE’s key up on our linemen when we have to revert to a drop back passing offense.
And on the coverage side, it’s not like the Cardinals were even being tricky. We knew where Brissett was going with the ball. Wilson and McBride combined for 25 catches on 29 targets for 300 yards.
>”So we just need to tighten up our details, and I believe they’ll start to come,” he continued. “And I think I’ll continue to believe that because I see the effort going on. And we’ll talk about that at the end of the season, if that hasn’t changed. But I’d be surprised if it doesn’t, the way we were around the quarterback. Now, we’ve just got to bring him down.”
Idk what kind of weapons-grade copium Lynch is huffing, but we’re dead last in pressure rate at just 13%. The top defenses have a pressure rate between 25% – 30%.
13% is the lowest pressure rate any team has ever had since they started tracking this in 2018. Usually around 16% is the worst in the league in any given year. We have objectively the worst pass rushing unit any team has had in 8 seasons, perhaps longer.
So despite Lynch’s endless optimism, we’re not even getting close to the QB. It’s not that we have to learn to finish our sacks, it’s that we can’t even generate any pressure at all.
Missing Bosa is obviously a huge factor here.
But the rest of our DL unit outside of Huff simply cannot win against NFL offensive linemen, and none of our rookie DL have any pass rush ability.
Given the injury history there was a collective groan at the idea of swinging for someone like Jaelen Phillips but seems like the better alternative after the fact than holding onto our 3rds so they can earmark it for another developmental non-contributor they can platoon down the depth chart next year.
Anyone who thinks brissett had a good game doesn’t understand football. Guy was bad.
It’s about the lack of sacks, but it was obvious that wasn’t the game plan, we got no edge rushers so he dares them to throw knowing our safety core is relatively healthy and cohesive.
Can you stop posting these without posting what it says in the link. I feel like these are just bait to click this fucking link to give you some form of payout.
We did pick him off twice though, which is encouraging because Jacoby doesn’t throw a lot of picks anymore and we pretty much never catch them. So that’s something.
I know we have a fuck ton of injuries but this is seriously pitiful considering how much we’ve invested in the defensive line year after year and especially this last draft. They ignored so many glaring needs to keep drafting defensive line.
I was bothered as well. You gave JB an NFL record for passes completed and if not for 17 (!!!) penalties you have yourself a much closer game.
This whole team is screwed. Season died alas the draft. Gonna be at least 5 years before we stumble into the superbowl only to lose again cause we shoot our own feet.
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Honestly the lack of sacks can be frustrating, but Lynch isn’t wrong. The pressure *was* there even if the stat sheet looks ugly. Brissett dropped back 57 times and got the ball out insanely fast. A lot of them were check downs and thrown to the flats.
It’s not ideal, but at least the defense showed signs of life with the turnovers. If they can tighten up coverage and sync the rush, the sacks will come. This season is more about surviving injuries and getting incremental improvement week by week than being amazing statistically on paper
They didn’t sack the QB, saved ya a click.
This is just how the defense is going to perform.
It’s going to be a bend not break and hopefully forcing either a turnover or holding to a field goal in the red zone.
The offense will need to score touchdowns.
We just have to hope the remainder of our opponents commit 14 fouls per game.
>”The other thing I would say, probably the more important thing than sacks—sacks are a byproduct—are you around the quarterback? Are you pressuring him? And I thought we did pressure him. When you go back and watch the film, sometimes you’re surprised, and we were. Our guys rushed well. Now, we’ve got to do it a little better collectively. It’s tying rush and coverage together.”
We only had 1 QB hurry and 5 pressures on 57 drop backs. It’s hard to even articulate how shitty this is. Cardinals weren’t even trying to run the ball. We knew they were passing basically every down and our DL still could do nothing. Think about how easily DE’s key up on our linemen when we have to revert to a drop back passing offense.
And on the coverage side, it’s not like the Cardinals were even being tricky. We knew where Brissett was going with the ball. Wilson and McBride combined for 25 catches on 29 targets for 300 yards.
>”So we just need to tighten up our details, and I believe they’ll start to come,” he continued. “And I think I’ll continue to believe that because I see the effort going on. And we’ll talk about that at the end of the season, if that hasn’t changed. But I’d be surprised if it doesn’t, the way we were around the quarterback. Now, we’ve just got to bring him down.”
Idk what kind of weapons-grade copium Lynch is huffing, but we’re dead last in pressure rate at just 13%. The top defenses have a pressure rate between 25% – 30%.
13% is the lowest pressure rate any team has ever had since they started tracking this in 2018. Usually around 16% is the worst in the league in any given year. We have objectively the worst pass rushing unit any team has had in 8 seasons, perhaps longer.
So despite Lynch’s endless optimism, we’re not even getting close to the QB. It’s not that we have to learn to finish our sacks, it’s that we can’t even generate any pressure at all.
Missing Bosa is obviously a huge factor here.
But the rest of our DL unit outside of Huff simply cannot win against NFL offensive linemen, and none of our rookie DL have any pass rush ability.
Given the injury history there was a collective groan at the idea of swinging for someone like Jaelen Phillips but seems like the better alternative after the fact than holding onto our 3rds so they can earmark it for another developmental non-contributor they can platoon down the depth chart next year.
Anyone who thinks brissett had a good game doesn’t understand football. Guy was bad.
It’s about the lack of sacks, but it was obvious that wasn’t the game plan, we got no edge rushers so he dares them to throw knowing our safety core is relatively healthy and cohesive.
Can you stop posting these without posting what it says in the link. I feel like these are just bait to click this fucking link to give you some form of payout.
We did pick him off twice though, which is encouraging because Jacoby doesn’t throw a lot of picks anymore and we pretty much never catch them. So that’s something.
I know we have a fuck ton of injuries but this is seriously pitiful considering how much we’ve invested in the defensive line year after year and especially this last draft. They ignored so many glaring needs to keep drafting defensive line.
I was bothered as well. You gave JB an NFL record for passes completed and if not for 17 (!!!) penalties you have yourself a much closer game.
This whole team is screwed. Season died alas the draft. Gonna be at least 5 years before we stumble into the superbowl only to lose again cause we shoot our own feet.