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Originally Posted by Discuss Thrower
Why was San Francisco in a position where two special teams screw ups ended their season to begin with
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The 2011 Giants-49ers NFC Championship game was between 2 power house defenses killing each other's offenses, and the first offense to blink and make a mistake was going to lose. Only, the Giants made 3 mistakes and the 49ers made 4 mistakes, so we lost.
If your point is that the 49ers offense was poor or mediocre, then agree, point made. Still, it is rare to impossible to make the super bowl with a top 3 defense and a top 3 offense. Pretty much the salary cap era makes you sacrifice mediocrity in one unit to dominance in the other. Both the Giants and 49ers built for defense, by chance or by intention.
A punt glanced off SF Kyle Williams knee in that game exactly the way it glanced off KC Marcus Cooper's knee in tonight's game, and that is 1 of the 2 special teams turnovers that he was referring to, that cost the 49ers to lose to the Giants. The other 3 mistakes were a kick return fumbled to the Giants, and 2 easy interceptions by Eli Manning that were both dropped. Actually, knocked out of one 49er DBs hands by another aggressive DB.