In the conference final next week let's hope the 49ers don't suffer from the offensive malaise they suffered from in last years conference final with the New York Giants.

As I was discovering just a month ago, after purchasing the conference final game on iTunes, the 49er offense has quite an abysmal day. No other way to describe it.

I remember the game live and the Kyle Williams turnovers and how close the game seemed to be.

Then I analyzed it with stop and start and replay on my laptop. The 49er Defense played brilliantly. The Giants were never the offensive threat. The Giants defense was pretty good but I could easily see that this did not explain the poor offensive performance.

I really do believe, and not to reopen old wounds, that it was just a bad day at the Quarterbacking position, mistakes, confused decision making, really bad throws, even short ones, that resulted in the team achieving zero third down conversions in the entire game. Even when they most needed them at the end of the fourth quarter, and several times into Overtime the same problem emerged and it was painful to watch. Drives that ended stupidly and needlessly.

Not to criticize but it is this malaise that I believe Harbaugh wanted to address with the so called big scary decision to make that dreaded transition at the Quarterback position this year. He really had no choice no matter how the offense was designed to dress up the statistics.

We cannot advance in this league with performance that can fall to the level of Quarterbacking that occurred in last years Conference Final no matter who is at Quarterback. Period.

So as I said in my first sentence, in the conference final next week let's hope the 49ers don't suffer from the offensive malaise they suffered from in last years conference final with the New York Giants.

As Kevin was saying, that's why the change had to occur, as painful, and as Kardiac, as it appeared to be.