- Jozie is ready for some football
T-minus 51 hours til kickoff. The respective coaching staffs are both scrambling to find ways to make the other guy look silly. This game has subtexts up the wazoo. You have the ex-USC and ex-Stanford coaches (who have had their share of clashes) going at it for the first time in the NFL, you have the interest of a divisional game, you have the 1st game of the year, at home no less, and you have Jim Harbaugh’s debut as the 49ers coach. A job few thought he would want, let alone take. You also have the fact that this game comes down to a battle of two very maligned QBs. Tavaris Jackson had Chilly Childress singing his praises all the way to the old coaches home, and we all know about the supposed coach-killer that is Alex Smith.
This may not determine the rest of the season, as last year’s debacle in Seattle seemed to be, but this is a game that the Niners should win. The teams are evenly matched, and mainly because they are at home. Plus, if they get beaten by the likes of Tavaris Jackson this WILL be a long season.
Love that 1971 SI cover . . .
Looks like Williams gets the start over Goldson. Williams and Whitner better have one hell of a game for the Niners to win. Zack Miller and Sidney Rice are no joke. I look for the Seahawks to attack Whitner with play action to Lynch, suck up Whitner, then complete passes over the top of him to Miller. Not being critical of the Niners, but they really need another safety and two more corners. I think we improved our secondary this offseason, and I’m encouraged by Harbaugh’s ability to evaluate the old secondary under Singletary. I like Whitner’s game, but the other safety we draft next year needs to be damn good at defending the best TEs in the league and taller WRs.
I think we should draft a safety high next year, and a pass rusher, and a qb….. (do we have that many high picks?) Dashon Goldson is full of himself. He thinks he’s got so much game. We’ve seen flashes of his ability. I know he won’t play much on Sunday. But if he ever wants to be considered elite, go to pro bowls and live up to his own hype, this is his year to shine. Hard part is, he’s hobbled and he had a short preseason. Sucks to be an asshole. Del knows.
http://www.csnbayarea.com/09/09/11/bRattob-Shut-up-about-Alex-Smith-/landing_ratto_v3.html?blockID=561850&feedID=5884
The Ray Ratto challenge. I don’t accept. Why? Because until Harbaugh sacks Smith for good, I want to see Candlestick empty and the stadium in jeopardy. Peyton built a stadium in Indy, Smith (if they keep him around past this season) will kill a stadium deal in Santa Clara. So forget keeping quiet about how bad Alex Smith sucks, let’s talk about it until people are so sick to their stomachs they don’t even watch the Niners and Jed York is forced to look else where to increase ticket sales. I’m sure Jed would love it if Niner fans stopped talking negatively about Smith, and Ratto does have a point that it’s more tired than Rip Van Winkle after reading Unca Chuck excerpts. But what Ratto doesn’t realize is that keeping the Alex Smith debate alive keeps the fan base from buying tickets. Personally, I’m utterly disgruntled about Alex Smith and the state of my Niners. I won’t go to another game until Smith is off the roster entirely. Secretly, I want the general idiot Niner fan (you know the type – you’ve talked to them at games) to stay away, hate Smith and maybe never return or give Jed York another nickel of their family’s money. So, stir the tired pot, I say. However, for the rest of us who’ve earned our Niner stripes, I think now is a great time to buy Niner season tickets. I won’t. I’m really caught in a Jimmy Clausen.
That is a great SI cover chuck. I don’t have a clue as to how good we are gonna be this week. To be a well oiled machine is probably asking to much, however, unless we play like we’re all on the same page the probablility is pretty good that we will get beat. Once again in my mind it will all come down to the QB. I really can’t stand Pete Carroll and would really hate to lose this game.
Look out indeed. Now we find out if it’s “Look out for that steamroller!” or, “Look out, don’t step in that huge pile of dog shit there.”
Tavaris should help to establish our floor this year. A victory does not guarantee success against good teams. But a loss suggests a long, bitter, drunken lost autumn (again). Even a close difficult win does not imply good things when we play teams like Philly and Pittsburgh.
i’m ok with williams , but why whitner over reggie smith ?
Reggie smith is a Fs, Whitner is a Ss. I think, while Whitner is on the team, the Niners really need to find a fast ballhawk of a Fs. Reggie has improved beyond where I ever thought he’d get, but he’s still not a ballhawk with a nose for the football. That’s what we need as FS. Dashon better have a huge year for this team to compete.
spit , imo considering the injury to goldson , imo we should play williams as whatever he is … and reggie at the other safety position !
imo reggie is better at FS , but with williams in there why not put reggie back at SS , ?
imho our best THREE safeties might just end up being williams , smith and goldson !
not bad considering we had mark roman for the last few yers !
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Rob, Reggie Smith shows flashes. Then promptly gets hurt. He has not stayed healthy long enough to develop into anything more than a maybe. Whitner has at least started in this league for years.
I think Spit is right (don’t you hate it when that happens? 🙂 ). We need to draft a real ball hawk free safety at some point. Just as soon as we find a goddamned reliable starting QB. 😉
I just wrote wordpress a sharp letter of protest regarding the availability and subsequent use of the winking smiley face.
The best smilies are:
:swearing:
:machinegun:
:purge:
:kill:
😎
🙄
:aargh:
:crap:
:barf:
Obviously, only the ‘cool’ one works here. Stupid WordPress.
🙂
:b
Nevermind . . .
Indeed. If you can’t reply to someone’s drivel post with the :crap: smiley, which appears as a steaming pile of shit, anything else is hardly worth the effort. As I understand it, every forum / site has software that supports a certain assortment of smilies. WordPress obviously does not support the more interesting ones.
Ok, how do u get a smiley face?
this is gonna be the fruitiest blog ever. we should ask Del to compare this blog with all its smiley faces to the “alternative lifestyle” blogs he frequents.
You’re just jealous that you couldn’t have the same conversation that I could with the Duchess of Cambridge discussing the upward mobility of tres chic fashion. Don’t playa hate Giorgio Armani.
And listen dummy. Our safeties just might not have to be as spot-on as you suggest: Sidney Rice is listed as DOUBTFUL for Sunday. If you’d pay attention to the little detail, maybe you wouldn’t be a total mook.
Just saw that Rice is listed that way. Great, you saw that twenty minutes before I did which is shocking because I know your addicted to the Blue Oyster Blog. Rice out doesn’t change the fact that we need a great FS.
Fantasy football update: I have Drew Brees in our yahoo! league. Yea for me! One small problem. Rob has ’em in our ESPN league and he’s playing yours truly Week 1. If I lose to Rob in the first week, I’m shutting that sucker down. 😛
That’s not nearly enough. Shut it down, apologize to the world, wander the deserts for 40 years praying for forgiveness, and then start looking for ways to repent.
sweet baby jesus…. this place is turning awful before my very eyes.
Well, fuck, it’s been a whole two or three days now, Spit!
Del waxing philosophic about European fashion? Winking smiley faces? Tafetta? We’re T minus 47 hours and counting away from football season and this blog has zero testicular fortitude. I want hits, I want bludgeonings, I want Pete Carroll’s head on a pike. I want the Seattle players crying. I want all of Seattle to go into a year long depression. I want every company Paul Allen is invested in to simultaneously, overnight collapse and cause Allen to sell to Bengals’ owner, Mike Brown. I want the guy who created the smiley face DEAD! His family, DEAD! His wife and dog, DEAD! I want the guy who created tafetta DEAD! I want the guy who made me aware there is such a thing, DEAD! I want Pete Carroll DEAD! I want Tavaris Jackson, DEAD! I want Zack Miller DEAD! There…. now we’re back on track.
Lol. I’m with ya, even though I don’t know what taffeta is. I will have to google it soon as I’m done with this.
Now I know what tafetta is and I find it amusing that I didn’t already know. Still looking for a Gdamn smiley face.
Get a room guys… Or better yet, email each other your fantasies.
Don’t bring it here.
If Jackson is as bad as this board says he is, it’s up to the defense more than Smith to win this game.And this is at home, where Alex destroyed a far better group than this one.Alex, BTW, had a 92 QB rating after Jimmy left. The hatred is obsessive and out of line with reality- he is at present an average NFL QB, finally with a chance to operate in a system compatible with his assets.Now try to root for our team, not wish ill for it’s QB..
After reading this, nevermind. I’m sold. Alex is awesome. I’ve been so wrong.
Clap if you believe in fairies…
Making a civil response must have been brutal .
It was. It really, really was.
Read this…. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ninerinsider/detail?entry_id=97215&tsp=1
Back in the day when he wasn’t counting gold fish and simultaneously wonder where his virgins went, Osama wrote or said something very smart. He said the most harm he could do to America was to lure them into an expensive battle that crippled the American economy. If you read the above article, I feel pretty good about the work I’ve done on the blogs. 1.5 million in revenue. 30th out of 32 teams in regards to revenue? A small market team status….. in one the biggest, most well known cities in the world? And this little punk ass kid because of the recent economic success of the Silicon Valley wants to move out of one of the greatest cities in the world? No chance. Not on my watch you little fucker. You don’t get to give me a decade of crap, starting Alex Smith, pissin’ down my back, tellin’ me it’s raining, then try to move from the greatest city in the world … not on my watch. No chance. I have no delusions about virgins, or use for them. Now if they promised me crazy women with seriously twisted brains and an endless desire to grab me a beverage, I might get delusional. But I’ll gladly count goldfish with Osama, employing his same strategies to keep the strangle hold on York revenue until York sees the error of his GM ways. Well played, Spitblood. Well played. Oh, look, someone’s at the door…..
And who was #1 atop Forbes’ list? The same team that’s gonna come in here Week 2 and kick the livin’ shit out of us.
How bout dem Cowboys!
The problem, Spitty? For every you, there are 1,000 escaped goats who will take your non-taken spot. Nothing the fans do can make a difference. Short of a massive boycott. Since this isn’t going to happen, at least in the immediate future with the hiring of Harbaugh, we have to let the chips fall where they will. Coulda had a stadium if Eddie had waited a couple years to get busted. Coulda had a stadium if Dr. Dork didn’t decide to sit on the NFL money and let the bond expire. As it is, they could end up in LAX after 5 more years of Yorkian ineptitude.
The city council will fight to the death over the rights to the fucking name and colors of the 49ers while they let the team skate. How far will be the big question. The Santa Clara deal is already on thin ice, and doesn’t look to fly. Hunters Point would be the best scenario. Build it next to the Stick as originally planned. Build better access from the north.
Either than, or we may see the team heading down I-5 in the middle of the night come Jan 5, 1015 . . .
I totally disagree with you on all fronts, Unca. The 49ers aren’t going to LA. And to say the fans don’t make a difference is a huge oversight on your behalf. You should see the Niner fanbase unrest on Facebook. I’ve created a Spitblood page over there, with about 450 followers, and I get to read their thoughts on the Niners. Marketing has an amazing affect on your way of thought. FB lets me talk to the people and hear their thoughts on the Niners. There are more people who are disenchanted with the Yorks than ever. And the Niners try everything to piss down our back while telling us it’s raining, without trying to address the substance. Nationwide search with Micheal Lombardi? Please. You don’t think Jed York hires bloggers to write good things about Alex Smith and the 49ers in general on the blogs, creating a feeling everything’s okay? You don’t think every word on the Niner website is written carefully to try and entice fans to buy tickets? It’s just the opposite with fans. They don’t have a central marketing headquarters, but they do have a collective voice that means something. There is a backlash to the York bullshit that means something. The York try to deflect that unrest by buying up empty seats so games aren’t blacked out, pointing to the fact that nobody really believes in a York product. The York don’t want people to know that Candlestick is a ghost town most of the time, and definitely not with a stadium proposal in the works. You can’t organize a walkout, but the more people you get calling this team a sham, the more you create your own walkout.
LA isn’t a real option for the Niners. They’d stil have the exact same problems in LA they do here. You want to move a team into LA? They’d still need a guy who masterfully draft and had the nutz like Holmgren to avoid free agency all together. The Yorks would still need to be beaten into submission with a rubber hose, so they valued good coaching, building through the draft, and most of all finding a GM who can evaluate talent and make smart moves to acquire superstars through the draft.
The Niners aren’t going anywhere, literally, until they solve their GM problem. Maybe they have with Baalke, I don’t know yet. By the looks of things, he still doesn’t know how to bring top five qb play to the Niners.
To win this game we need three sacks, 7 pressures, one pick, a QBR of 88 from Alex, 90 yards from Frank, some eye of newt, one sacrificial virgin and a partridge in a fucking pear tree.
And breaking Tavaris’s arm wouldn’t hurt either.
Those sacrificial virgins are hard to come by, but probably not as hard as Alex getting a QBR of 88.
Well, it was 130 last game against Seattle..