Your San Francisco 49ers links for Sunday Kentavius Street Color Rush Jersey , May 12th, 2019"Sharp Football Stats creates a statistic to track the percentage of explosive plays of each NFL team. This stat can be misleading as it doesn’t necessarily correlate to total offense or points scored. However, this stat correlates well to how exciting it is to turn on a game and watch the team. Offense is the reason we brought Kyle Shanahan in to run this team. He has a unique ability to scheme people wide open. Having lost Jimmy Garoppolo, Jet, Garcon, and others, how did he do in creating these explosive plays with his backups on the field?Our run game was supposed to star Jerick McKinnon with the fear of Jimmy G tearing apart defenses on the play action. Instead, we were all given the opportunity to watch Beathard and Mullens handing the ball off to Matt Breida, Alfred Morris and Jeff Wilson. It would not have been a surprise to see us rank near the bottom of the NFL when looking back at our 2018 starters. However, our rushing offense had the 4th highest percentage of explosive plays (runs of ten yards or more). Shanahan found a way to create openings even without his starters. The real question is how explosive will our run game be when Mckinnon and Coleman are behind the line? Will motioning Hurd from WR to RB yield even more?So if our run game was so explosive, what about our passing game? Were we anemic in this area? We didn’t have Jimmy G. We lost Pierre Garcon, Marquise Goodwin, and Dante Pettis for parts of the season. The only active WR for the entire season was Kendrick Bourne. Fortunately, we did have Kittle to save us in this regard. But from the players we trotted out each Sunday I would not have been surprised to see us rank near the bottom of this stat as well. Yet, somehow Shanahan created the 3rd highest percentage of explosive plays (15 yards or more). This is an amazing job considering the talent at QB and WR. I am excited to see what he will be able to do with Deebo Samuel https://www.49ersfanshop.com/Alfred-Morris-Jersey , Hurd, Tevin Coleman, and Mckinnon added to the list.These stats lead to two conclusions most fans realized when watching the games last year. One, Kyle Shanahan is an amazing offensive mind who can create consistent mismatches no matter who he has to use as weapons. Two, our offense is able to move under the tutelage of Shanahan but our red zone numbers must improve. We have the explosion to get down the field, now we need to utilize that same explosion around the goal line. Hopefully the addition of Samuel, Hurd, and Coleman along with the return of our injured players can create enough mismatches to improve our red zone percentage.On to the links....San Francisco 49ers have the NFL’s best kept secret in 201949ers’ 2019 ‘Whos is?’ series: Defensive end Ronald BlairWhy Jason Verrett could be 49ers comeback player of the year49ers roster battle: Cornerback competition could define 2019Jimmy Garoppolo still hopeful he’ll be ready for week 1 The players kneel. The president tweets.And the great divide over protests during the national anthem at NFL games grows even wider.So far the players — at least a handful of them — aren’t backing down. A few took a knee in the first weekend of exhibition games, at least two raised a fist during the anthem, and several stayed in the locker room as their way of making a statement.The NFL reacted by doing nothing, at least publicly. The league’s hastily adopted new policy on protests during the anthem is on hold while it holds talks with the players’ union on an issue that figures to grow more contentious with every game.That didn’t stop President Donald Trump from weighing in on Twitter, calling for any player who doesn’t stand during the national anthem to be suspended without pay.For Trump, it’s an issue that resonates with his base. For the protesting players, it’s an issue of social injustice that needs to be raised.The divide is not only splitting the country, but splintering the NFL.“I think there are a lot of people that are supportive of the players and then there are a couple of people that have been very vocal against it Weston Richburg Jersey ,” said Duane Brown, one of three Seahawks who protested. “Those people have power. We’ll see what happens.”What has happened so far is that the protests that began with Colin Kaepernick taking a knee before a 49ers game two seasons ago show no signs of disappearing entirely. If anything, the first preseason games show that while most teams fell in line with the desires of their management, there are some players who aren’t going to back down.And that could cause major problems not only for protesting players but a league trying to keep its dominant place in American sports.“The NFL is caught, they can’t really win either way,” said Eric Schiffer, the CEO of Reputation Management Consultants, a Los Angeles-based brand and crisis management firm. “They’ve now come to the conclusion they were alienating conservatives and attempted to mitigate it. But they have only so much they are able to do without alienating the core of their product, which is the players.”The fact the protests have been turned into something they were never intended to be is a big reason why a resolution will be so difficult. Kaepernick began kneeling during the anthem to protest social injustice against minorities, but Trump and others have portrayed it instead as a protest against the anthem itself and the country it stands for.Still, an NFL spokesman said the league and the players’ union are involved in “constructive” talks to resolve the issue. But they’re in a battle with time, with the start of the regular season just a few weeks away.They might want to start with one of the few good suggestions offered publicly so far. It came from Kenny Stills, the Miami wide receiver who took a knee during the national anthem in the Dolphins first preseason game.Give Kaepernick and former teammate Eric Reid jobs, Stills said, and let players know you’re serious.“You can’t say as a league you support the players and their protests and then blackball the players who initially started the protests Cassius Marsh Color Rush Jersey ,” Stills said. “To come to the drawing board and talk about solutions, we need to start there as a league, and then we can start drawing up other solutions to some of these other problems.”Employing Kaepernick and Reid shouldn’t be that much of a problem. Both are NFL players at the highest level, and both seem to have been blackballed from the league — at least unofficially — because of their protests.Offer them up to every team in the league. Waive any salary cap to do it, and there should be some takers.If no team bites, assign them through a lottery.After that, it gets easier. Offer players something in exchange for not protesting during the anthem — perhaps a 30-second commercial spot to highlight social injustice at halftime of every nationally televised game.The guess is players would respond favorably, partly because they have little alternative. By now they surely understand that their original cause has been hijacked and that they — along with the NFL — are in no-win situations.Their points can still be made, and perhaps find a more receptive audience.And, just maybe, the tweets will stop.