Game one of the Jim Harbaugh era was a resounding success for the nascent head coach and the revamped coaching staff. I was especially surprised at the defense’s consistent pressure from a fairly basic set. The Niners didn’t blitz much, and therefore had good downfield coverage for the most part. The DBs were solid most of the time as well, and Rogers had a nice breakup in the end zone. Seattle, though, started going downfield more in the 2nd half, and they moved the ball much better in the 2nd half rather than the 1st. To the tune of outscoring the Niners 17-3 on offense. Fangio has spent enough time in the NFL to know his way around a defense, and he had to be happy with the results. Seattle has a very young line, and the Niners had their way with them.
The offense on the other hand was restrained to say the least. Seattle was intent on not letting Gore beat them, and they held him in check all day, minus a couple good runs. The passing game was dinks and dunks most of the time, and the red zone offense was bland to say the least. No mistakes by Young Sir Alex, but one TD in five trips to the red zone isn’t the way to dominate opponents. The one thing Smith has shown in his career is his taking care of the ball in the red zone. To the tune of 30 TDs to one pick.
The return game? Well what can you say? Ginn scored 2 times and iced the game for the 49ers. The Niners gave up a punt return for a TD, but it was called back due to an illegal block in the back. One that actually sprung the return, so there you go. You take your chance and hope it doesn’t get called. The Ginn TD on the kickoff return was critical to the game as the Seahawks had cut the lead to 19-17, and the Niner offense had mustered only one decent 2nd half drive (for yet another FG). A bit galling was the 6 shots the offense had inside the 10 (due to a roughing the kicker call on a made FG) to score a TD, yet couldn’t. This team has too many weapons to not try things a little bit more risky than Gore left, Gore right, Gore up the middle. I understand getting the lead to two scores, but Seattle ended up getting a TD in about 45 seconds.
All in all a solid effort. Going forward, they need to get this offense up to a higher speed. Sure, they played it safe due to their opponent, but Dallas, while not a top-tier team, is better than Seattle in many different ways. This will be a truer test as to how far this team has progressed in this compressed timeframe. As The J-E-T-S showed, Dallas can be thrown on. VD should get some heavy action, as well as Braylon Edwards. So, bombs away . . .
Forty Niners Forever 
As I said it would, Chuckles, it’s getting right back to as it was. From Spitfuck:
“I want to see seven step drops. Know why? They get your qb killed. Maybe we can borrow Mike Martz for a month.”
Dallas has a young offensive line just like Seattle. I can’t think of many members of the Jets’ front seven. I think they got Cullen Jenkins from the Pack and I know they have Michigan’s David Harris as an ILB, but I don’t know many other players on their front seven, so to me, that means their front seven isn’t very good. Don’t they have an often injured linebacker from the Cardinals also? Anyway, point being the stars of the Jets’ D are in the secondary and it’s possible we have a better front seven than the Jets. I’ve love nothing more than for Bowman and Aldon to make a romo sandwich and end his career. And talk about your simultaneous victories – it would also destroy Del’s fantasy team.
Just ignore Twinfan. He’ll go away.
I think you’ll be gone long before I am, punk. You still want that address? I hope, for your sake, you are extremely adept at driving in reverse at high speeds.
Twin, you’re what, 64? You seriously are starting another internet tough guy dick-measuring contest with a guy less than half your age? Dude. I expect Spit to be immature. You have far less excuse.
The fact that “Someone is WRONG on the internet!” does not mean you need to go Clint Eastwood. *rme is always the appropriate response.
Stay the fuck out of it. The motherfucker threatened me. And all of you acted like a bunch of jackals. I’ve posted entirely reasonably and gotten a boatload of shit simply because it’s a minority opinion here.
Boys, boys. And what does your post suggest, Mike?
Read the 11:51 post, Mike. It has to do with football. Let’s try to keep it that way.
Alex Smith is the worst quarterback in San Francisco 49ers history. Easily. Go find me another qb who has been lucky enough to find a front office this jacked up that allows him to continue to showcase his anemic wears for this long. Find me another qb with this many loses, and this many turnovers. Alex Smith is the worst quarterback in San Francisco 49er history. By far. It’s not even close.
In his seventh season, he passed for 124 yards, threw no touchdowns, went 0-9 on his first 9 3rd down attempts, and only got the offense to score 3 points in the second half after Pete Carroll made his adjustments.
The Alex Smith legacy? “Worst Quarterback in 49er History.”
That should read ” In the debut of his seventh season…..”
This prick wanted my address because I posted something positive about Smith. I’m simply saying if he did come to my home, he’d want to leave. Fast. Don’t fucking accuse me of shit, Chuckles. Demanding my address was a fucking threat, pal. And you tolerate this cocksucker and call ME out. Don’t do that.
I think we should get some stats on Alex Smith. I think we should compare Alex to the really, really futile Niner qbs of old. I’m no Niner historian, but I’ll collect the Alex Smith data and we should find qbs with a tenure this long and compare the numbers.
You can have terrible qbs, but they don’t last long. Alex Smith is an anomaly because of his length of tenure. We need stats on older terrible qbs who’ve lasted this long. I want to make the case for WORST QUARTERBACK IN 49er HISTORY!
Here are the Alex Smith stats:
He’s played in 55 games. He’s completed 57% of his check downs (I mean passes). He’s thrown more interceptions in his career than TDs (shocking) 53 INTS to 51 TDs. And his lifetime qb rating is 72.4%. I’m looking up his wins verse his losses.
Now I don’t know the really bad qbs in Niner history who’ve gotten to start 55 games because of a front office vacuum, but I’ll do the research to support my claim ALEX SMITH IS THE WORST QB IN NINER HISTORY, but how about pointing me in the direction of some other long term qb stinkers? Grump? Unca? Any suggestions?
Are you really going to put up with this piece of shit, Chuckles? He’s back to wishing a fatal injury to the QB, he’s previously threratened to kill him, he’s threatened other posters… If you want to abide by this bullshit, fine, but he will wreck this blog just as he did the last one. I’m perfectly willing to engage in reasonable discussion but I’m more than capable of going head to head with the bullshit, as well. Again, he’s one who is pissed because his private Hating Zone has been violated, and his Hate Zone is your website.
Read MY 11:48, that’s keeping it to football? And now the intentionally inflammatory posts on Smith? Bullfuckingshit.
Stay tuned for my new article titled, “Alex Smith: Worst QB in 49er History!”
Try to keep it clean, Tyler.
I may subtitle the article: “Stats to drive a man insane.”
You’re already there, Tyler. Or perhaps it’s just Denny’s unfortunate affliction, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. If so, I apologize for any cruel words I may have spoken to you.
i think i want CHUCK’S address …
so i can go pick up his alex smith jersey !
or i can just send along mine so you can mail it here !
now all we need is for harbaugh to help him become the pretty good QB i thought he’d be !
That’s a bit of a drive from Florida for a uniform, don’t you think?
Spit,
Alex’s record through his first 50 starts is 19-31.
John Brodie’s record through 50 starts: 23-26-1.
Steve Young 24-26 (includes TB).
Y.A. Tittle 24-25-1. (Includes Balt.).
Jeff Garcia 26-24.
Joe Montana 29-21.
Some guys who had less than 50 starts:
Steve DeBerg 7-28.
Steve Spurrier 13-12-1.
Frankie Albert 13-16-1.
Jim Plunkett 11-15.
The guy he most closely resembles is Brodie, including the negative TD:INT ratio.
Of course, Brodie was better the rest of his career. Which is the kind of career trajectory Smith is now hoping for.
Oh… data source here: http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/sfo/career-passing.htm
A great site for stats and historical data.
WOW…. look at these stats I’m collecting to drive a man insane….
My criteria, just so you know, for consideration of the title, “WORST QUARTERBACK IN 49ER HISTORY,” Is that you have to have been the starter for at least three years. This weeds out the Norm Sneads, Steve Spurriers, etc. Those with at least 3 years as the Niners’ starting qb going back all the way to 1946 are …..
Frankie Albert
YA Tittle
John Brodie
Steve Deberg (debatable if he got three years as starter, let alone seven. Just imagine 7 years of Deberg…. the horror, the horror).
Joe Montana
Steve Young
Jeff Garcia
Alex Smith
Wow. I’m sure Frankie Albert’s numbers aren’t relevant because of leather helmets and they hadn’t invented the forward pass yet. Actually, maybe that’s when Alex Smith would have shined as a qb, before the forward pass? My bad, he can’t run either.
So, let’s see…. The championship title fight for the coveted and prized title of “Worst QB in 49ers History is between Alex Smith, Steve Deberg and I’ll take a peak at Brodie and Tittle stats just to be fair. But I think it’s between Deberg and Smith.
DeBerg is clearly worse on record alone. (7-28)
As Harbaugh attempted to poiint out to you people, those are the *team* records. By your alternate reasoning, Alex Smith is clearly superior to Archie Manning,
Yeah, Grump, I’m gettin’ there, but you’ve gotta spend the time to frame the debate. You can’t just declare someone WORST QUARTERBACK IN 49ER HISTORY. You have to create the criteria for acceptance into the debate, then select the relevant categories. It’s a process to drive a man insane. You don’t drive someone completely fuckin’ bonkers overnight. You must be thorough in your work. You know this…..
Yeah, but Grump, that’s the heart of the issue. Deberg didn’t start all three years. Alex has started seven fuckin’ miserable years. The idea is if you have a stinker of a qb, it shouldn’t take anyone this long to realize it and move in another direction.
7-28 is only two years. Not enough starts to qualify for my competition. He does, however, receive honorable mention.
“Alex has started seven fuckin’ miserable years”
Three plus, liar.
What clearly shows a hate monger’s bias is that they point to Smith’s career QB rating, weighted down by the rookie and injury seasons, yet disregard his 90+ rating since Raye left ,a far more relevant number to TODAY.
The criteria for competition in the fight for WORST QUARTERBACK IN 49ER HISTORY is that you must have at least 48 starts, or three years under your belt.
Then we are going to compare wins and loses, TDs, INTs, and completion percentage.
What else is relevant? I’m throwing out qb rating because that’s only been around for a while, and total passing yards isn’t fair because some guys played longer than others. I’m not getting into comparing certain years of productivity. It’s everything, baby.
The contestants are…… drum role, please…….
Alex Smith
Jeff Garcia
Steve Young
Joe Montana
John Brodie
YA Tittle
These are you qbs who’ve been deemed by the brass good enough to start at qb without replacement for over three years.
The categories again, wins and loses, TDs, INTs and completion percentage. Clean and simple.
Your stupidest post ever, and there’s plenty of competition.
Spewing out multiple irrelevant posts just to annoy one poster is truly juvenile, Tyler. Compounding the ignorance here is the suggestion that Brodie was ever a bad QB. He was a good QB on some bad teams. That you people still don’t understand that the QB is not only the most important player but also the one most dependent on the others, is indicative of your lack of knowledge of the game.
Since Spit’s posts are clearly irrelevant, untruthful, intended to incite ,and ignorant, I think I’ll turn our attention to a serious issue, the aforementioned. Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. Part One of 24:
“Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome is a brain disorder due to thiamine deficiency.
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Wernicke’s encephalopathy and Korsakoff syndrome are different conditions that are both due to brain damage caused by a lack of vitamin B1 (thiamine).
A lack of vitamin B1 is common in people with alcoholism. It is also common in persons whose bodies do not absorb food properly (malabsorption), such as sometimes occurs after obesity surgery.
Korsakoff syndrome, or Korsakoff psychosis, tends to develop as Wernicke’s symptoms go away. Wernicke’s encephalopathy causes brain damage in lower parts of the brain called the thalamus and hypothalamus. Korsakoff psychosis results from damage to areas of the brain involved with memory.”
The important thing that we all must realize in this competition is that a true 49er qb has to start long enough to be considered a true Niner. Jim Plunkett only started two years, but he’s more associated with the Raiders. Deberg was terrible, but he was a journeyman who also started two years. Deberg was a Chief and a Buc. Those guys are stop gaps or transition qbs. To be in this competition, and consideration for worst qb in 49er history title, the forty niner front office has to have made a commitment to you for at least 3 years (I’m certainly not advocating seven years). If the winner was here for seven years, those are stats to drive a man insane.