[Mick]

I notice you left out 2014, when the 49ers were 25th in the NFL in ppg.  I also note you chose to highlight ppg rather than total offense; in yards per game the niners ranked 26th, 11th, 24th, 20th.  I'm not complaining about your choice of stats to highlight, but the full picture is a bit more mixed.  WE will see what the Bills do going forward; I'm not sure that the pre-season is enough to make any sort of difinitive judgment when you are basically playing backups and trying to find out who will make your roster.  I'm a Roman fan based on what he did as run game coordinator here but the jury on him as an NFL OC is still out.

BC

Yes, I picked points because that's how the winner of games is determined.

Fine, let's use a comparable yardstick.  In 2009 and 2010, Roman was Stanford's OC and running game coordinator.  In 2009, Gerhart was first in the nation in scoring with 27 TDs.  Luck was first in the conference  in QBR.  Stanford was second in scoring in the conference both years.  In 2009, Stanford scored 461 points in 13 games, an average of more than 35 ppg.  In 2010, Stanford scored 524 points in 13 games, more than 40 ppg.  Two days ago, Stanford scored six (6) points against unranked Northwestern.  I'm going to take a wild guess and say, mmmm, perhaps, just maybe we'd be better off with Roman than Shawgren.

[Mick]

I notice you left out 2014, when the 49ers were 25th in the NFL in ppg.  I also note you chose to highlight ppg rather than total offense; in yards per game the niners ranked 26th, 11th, 24th, 20th.  I'm not complaining about your choice of stats to highlight, but the full picture is a bit more mixed.  WE will see what the Bills do going forward; I'm not sure that the pre-season is enough to make any sort of difinitive judgment when you are basically playing backups and trying to find out who will make your roster.  I'm a Roman fan based on what he did as run game coordinator here but the jury on him as an NFL OC is still out.

BC

Yes, I picked points because that's how the winner of games is determined.

Fine, let's use a comparable yardstick.  In 2009 and 2010, Roman was Stanford's OC and running game coordinator.  In 2009, Gerhart was first in the nation in scoring with 27 TDs.  Luck was first in the conference  in QBR.  Stanford was second in scoring in the conference both years.  In 2009, Stanford scored 461 points in 13 games, an average of more than 35 ppg.  In 2010, Stanford scored 524 points in 13 games, more than 40 ppg.  Two days ago, Stanford scored six (6) points against unranked Northwestern.  I'm going to take a wild guess and say, mmmm, perhaps, just maybe we'd be better off with Roman than Shawgren.