Arnold, you are of course right when it comes to judging coaches. I think for many of us, certainly me, after the DEER-Nolan-Sing years, any coach who can take us to the playoffs two years in a row (and possibly two division titles in a row) looks like a Hall of Famer. But H should receive criticism. I think the play calling has been poor at times, and even though Roman makes the calls and H has veto power, some stupid calls have to be blamed on H. And certainly going away from the run has to be laid at his feet. I would criticize the Kap decision if we had gone 2-4 under him rather than 4-2, and if he had lost the meaningful games. But he won the ones we thought would be toughest, and lest we forget, we were an Aker's field goal away from winning both Rams games. If he makes those kicks last night would be Kap's first loss. IOW, the guy has put us in position to win every game except last night. Every game. We will not know if Alex would have put us in that position against the Rams the first time. All we do know is Kap did. Stand back and look at it: Kap has started 6 straight games, and finished the game before that. In every game, every game, before last night, we either won or had the winning kick right in front of us. If Akers plays like last year, Kap would have been on a 6-game winning streak. That is phenomenal. All you can ask of your quarterback is to keep putting you in position to win the game.

Warning/reality check: the team we will see next week and most likely the week after, will be very different from the one we started the season with. No Hunter. No Williams. No (chance of) Manningham. No Vernon Davis. No Justin Smith. We cannot expect the production on either side of the ball to be what it was in, say, week 5 or even week 12. We should not be surprised if the points given up increases and Crabtree's numbers go down (he will be the one doubled).