This is completely unacceptable.

Ok, so for the past 3 years, we've been under the impression that our favorite team plays in the NFL, right? That they have an offensive scheme, that there's somebody there getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars annually to instill that scheme, and that somebody knows WTF is going on. We'd sit there on Sunday, watch Alex or Trent get blind-sided on yet another blitz, and say "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!?!?!?!?!!1111 r00fleez!!! Alex Smith is teh su><0rz!!!"or something similar. However, many of us thought that maybe, juuuuust maybe, it was the coaching staff that was to blame all along, and not a failing of the players.

We were right.

During 49ers practice today at their organized team activities, there was something obvious about the team's offense that had not been seen in a while. When a blitz was coming, the quarterback got rid of the ball quickly.

Ok...well duh, right? Surely that's not a new concept, right? Kind of obvious? Right?

"The hot thing is new around here," 49ers quarterback Shaun Hill said.

what?

In the recent past, whenever the 49ers saw a blitz coming, they'd try to adjust the blocking assignments to pick it up so they could stick with the same play. Now, if the 49ers under new coordinator Mike Martz recognize a blitz is coming, they can also get rid of the ball quickly in hopes of making a big play.

WHAT???? Are you [pardon the language here] fucking kidding me with this? They didn't hot route the play during a blitz?????

We as fans love to believe that we could do as good or better of a job than the coaching staff of whatever team we root for. That's one of the allures of sports- monday morning QB or whatever you want to call it. But honestly, which one of the 5 people reading this didn't know that you're supposed to run a hot route when the other team sends a blitz? I thought that was just sort of something you did, I didn't think it even needed to be a part of the playbook. For God's sakes, I do it in MADDEN.

And this is not nitpicking. Every one of us can remember specific plays where we wondered why the hell the ball wasn't coming out sooner. Many people on the furom wanted to point at Alex and say he was a failure because he couldn't make quick decisions. Well, maybe that's because in every one of his 3 NFL seasons, he didn't have a coach teaching him fucking hot routes. Honestly, I cannot believe this.

If you had a freak, over-sized, insanely fast TE, wouldn't you use him on one or 2 of these blitz hottie routie thingies if he'd been in the league for, oh I don't know, 2 years?

Tight end Vernon Davis, who is the target of some of those hot reads, said this is a different mentality than in the past. He said he couldn't remember being the target of any hot reads in the past.

You've got to be kidding me. I know Vernon likes to run his mouth, but I've certainly never seen him used as a hot option, and I'd be interested to know if anyone else has.

I cannot even accurately type out how unbelievable this is to me. What a goddamn joke it is that an NFL team didn't have an option to change the play when the other team was blitzing.

Also: less than 2 months until the preseason!