- 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.
Forty Niners Forever 
No, we want Tavaris in there.
Whitehurst likely beats out Jackson by week 4.
Hmm. Okay, I guess I can settle for a hairline fracture that only shows up in the postgame X-Rays.
Like Mikey would say, I gotta see the fucking film!
Easy on the X-rays, Grump. I just had a few on myself today. That’s OK, I’ll take one for the team. But I do have one little question…why in the hell does that hospital gown tie in the back? That makes no fucking sense at all…Kinda like Spit’s 5 paragraph-long diatribes that he composes at 4 AM after having too much “coffee.”
Are you OK? Serious question.
Del,
I can literally see your Eczema covered Al Davis fingers with bandages over the boils and yellow fingernails twitching as you put the quotes in the air around the word, “coffee.”
Dennis, what is up with you? I know you have back problems, but you have more medical procedures than Michael Jackson and Liz Taylor put together.
Nothing too major. It’s my goddamn hip. Just checking to see if I might need a revision surgery. You know how I like to quote lines from “The Sting,” and Doyle Lonnegan in particular? Well, he and I have the same gait.
“Ya follah?”
That is a nice SI cover of Brodie. My favorite of course is the SI cover of SB XVI that has Earl Cooper leaping high in the air about to spike the ball with his left hand after his TD gave our Niners a 14-0 lead in the 2nd quarter. Word is that was a play that Walsh hadn’t called in two years. That guy wasn’t too shabby…anyway, that’s my favorite cover because *I* was sitting in that exact goddamn end zone when and where “Coop” spiked that ball. I had the perfect viewpoint.
But even better than that, was the viewpoint I had for the goal line stand when Danny Bunz stonewalled Charles Alexander on that 3rd and goal. And then on that 4th dn play, well, shit, it seemed liked the Niners had their entire team out their piled up in the middle with Archie Reese on top waving his hands back and forth after they denied Pete Johnson. I think I just about lost my mind right there. I’m getting emotional just reminiscing about it. It’s good to be a 49er fan…
Dennis, good memories.
I just went to take a look at my ticket stub. I do that from time-to-time just to make sure it wasn’t all a dream. 😉
“Live” dogs I like to win SU on Sunday.
Steelers + 1 1/2
Lions + 1 1/2
Rams + 4 (+180)
Redskins +3 (+135)
Cowboys + 5 1/2 (+210)
How bout dem Cowboys!
Gary Spitblood Points to the Obvious
Well after months of fornicating, groping and lewd conversations with the wrong women this off season, I’m back here at Chuck’s new digs to point to the obvious; and the obvious is, “IT’S FOOTBALL TIME, BABY!!!!” Most of the story lines have been covered from the ineffectiveness of both O lines, to our new safeties, to “What’s your problem,” to Pat and Navaro blitzing more this year. All of that’s fantastic, especially, “What’s your problem,” because it speaks so clearly to the essence of Jim Harbaugh. “What? You comin’ at me?” In an instant, without even thinking, Harbaugh was going after Carroll. That’s how you know we got the right guy. He’s not just a competitor, he wants to run you over and he’s competitive enough to know that subterfuge, trickeration, diplomacy and playing dumb are necessary when outside the lines. I get the sense he loathes that PR part of the job, but knows it’s a necessary evil.
Tomorrow two of my biggest questions will get somewhat answered: Roman / Harbaugh’s play calling and the new design of their plays, and Fangio’s blitzing. It’s all been Vanilla, baby, up to this point. About this time tomorrow, we’re gonna find out just how much Fangio likes to bring the pain and if he’ll do it after getting burned. We’ll also find out whether a short, WCO can keep the pass rush from planting Alex. We get to see Frank Gore, Vernon Davis, maybe Crabtree, all on the field at once, running not vanilla offensive preseason plays, but some of the plays Bill Walsh designed twenty years ago. We get to see up-temp, hurry up offense, with good communication between coaches and players on both sides of the ball. Harbaugh and Roman will be calling the plays, and Harbaugh (through the advent of technology), will be in Smith’s ear hole between plays for a short period of time – coaching him up, telling him what formations to look for. I can’t tell you how invaluable that is. I bet right now Alex Smith is really, really nervous. I bet he sees that if he can just play faster and control his emotions while making good decisions that he could play well enough to stick around here for a while…. or at least he thinks that. However, when Alex Smith gets nervous, this is what he’ll hear in his ear hole, and he’ll use about as much touch as Billy Madison when delivering short yardage passes to Gore, Walker and the baby-faced killer, Kyle Williams.
All ‘n all, there are a lot of story lines, but the two questions I want answered are how often Fangio blitzes and I just want to see new offensive plays with some fuckin’ good play calling. Good play calling. Good play calling, and oh yeah, some creative plays to go along with good play calling. I wanna see the stretch play, play action, trickeration, spread ’em out, draws, screens, bootlegs and more. I want to see those plays called when I don’t even expect it. You get me sayin’, “I sure didn’t see that one comin’,” and you’ve done somethin’ there brother. ‘Cause I see it all. I see it all …
….except the bitch wearin’ the wire, talkin’ dirty ……
Oh, and one more thing….. remember Abroyo Franklin? Well, he’s been replaced by “Navaro” Bowman. I know it’s spelled Navorro, but I’m changing the spelling of his name, just to fuckin’ drive Del completely insane.
Already there, Spit. already there…
Too bad I didn’t run into Susan Powter. She might have been able to help me, “Stop the Insanity!”
Hey, Chuck. Any chance your blog could show the last comment shown on the right-hand side with the person’s avatar a la Flav’s blog? I really find that option most helpful when trying to see the latest comment, and if I’d like to respond to said comment.
Thanks,
your pal Skippy
Chuck, you should just give Spit and Denny editor status and get as far away from this blog as possible. You have friends who will put you and the family up. Spit and Del will eventually and simultaneously choke each other to death, than you can return.
They went and got a room.
Finally.
I think V is bringing them breakfast in bed.
Last time I let them run free, you saw what happened.
Oh well. Like flies to shit, I guess.
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