This game will be a very good indicator of the talent of this team. In the preseason, the Niners were easily handled by the likes of NO and Hou. This is the real thing, though, and whether taht makes a difference remains to be seen. All we have heard about so far is what the Niners have supposedly kept under wraps, not what they accomplished last week. The O was vanilla. And even blander in the red zone. The D was straight up for the most part, and didn’t do much blitzing or trying to fool anyone. In other words, this was a Singletary game. However, it was a game that Sing usually lost. So, that alone is a plus for Harbaugh.
Truth be told though, hearing what these guys will do in an upcoming game is also a Singletary thing that I couldn’t stand. Show it. Don’t talk about it. Hearing how well practice went, or how well Smith hit deep balls on the practice field usually makes me throw up in my mouth. Show it, and shut up about it. Harbaugh, to his credit, doesn’t talk much about anything regarding practice, injuries, or anything that could even mildly be construed as something the opponents can use against them, or the writers can write about.
So, another excersize in vanilla ice cream, or will Harbaugh unleash a bit of a down field passing attack? It would be nice to see the run game go as well, but you, me, and the watercooler all know Dallas will come out and crowd the line to force Smith to beat their D with some mid-range passes. Bubble screens, smoke routes, and runs up the middle won’t work until the Niners hit a few passes longer than 5 yards. Pass blocking is essential. Somethng that was a problem in the preseason. DeMarcus WHERE? is the key for the O line. Slow him down, and let Smith hit some passes, and the line should be able to get the run game going.
Beating Dallas, a good but flawed team, would be a big feather in Harbaugh’s cap. It would give the Niners confidence, and the fans a little hope, and hopefully swing the momentum for this team going forward.
San Francisco 49ers Forever 
Great penetration by MacDonald… next time make the damned tackle though.
Giving Kitna too much time to throw. He’s a journeyman, but if you give him all day he’s going to hurt you.
Romo is out, what a wuss.
Wassup?
Kitna gave us a gift there.
Alex needs to get a good drive going, get some momentum back now.
Kitna=fail
Don’t like the first down call there.
Bad pass by Alex – rushed it and didn’t see the DB.
Damnit Smith,
Big third down here. Got to hold them to a FG at worst if we can.
So maybe the 3rd Q just isn’t his thing, lol
Romo is out? That kills BOTH my fantasy teams. Like I’ve been saying all along, God hates me. Well, you know what? I hate him back twice as much back. Fuck him and his first born child, Jesus H. Christ.
Jesus H. Christ.
Wow, Alex with a horrible pass. Let’s hope he can recover from that horeshit play.
That’s what you get for taking Romo, Dennis. Traitor. Eat shit and die motherfucker.
Alex needs to get his shit together in a fucking hurry.
Or we need to run.
Time to suck it up and start pounding that Cowgirl line..
You can’t sit on a lead and get too conservative this early. I don’t like harbaugh’s play calling in the second half so far.
Alex has good field position after the return, got to do something with it now.
Nice INT by YOUR guys QB, Alex, that led to the tying TD by Jon Kitna.
If we lose to the Jon Kitna, I won’t allow Rob to sell another tree in Florida…
Bonsai!
Big series for Alex here – he HAS to get the game back in his control. With Romo out, this is winnable if he executes.
ST to the rescue.
Smith is waiting too long there.
Three and out – wasted field position and did not get it done.
The announcer just called it, no explosive plays, no passes down the field!! Throw the Fing ball down the field!!!
This is on the play calling!!
Right, the play calling induced that throw from Alex right to the Dallas DB.
At least he was throwing it down the field!!
we can still win this guys
Still waiting for Alex to have that complete game – he looks good for a couple of quarters, and then, it’s back to not-so-SuperAlex.
Okay, nice pick by Brock, NOW we need to get some points. Alex HAS to get it done NOW, no excuses.
And there you go… TD.
Spencer blew that coverage… he needed to get a solid chuck on Walker before he got out of the backfield.
Here comes Romo… his option, but you have to go for his ribs here.
Oh here you all are. Ok Del here comes your boy Romo to try to save the Cows
Romo is back, busted ribs and all. Smack that fucker..
That was a good job by Alex to read the coverage to Walker there . . .
Redemption for the D AND Alex . . .
The touch down throw, down the field not some stupid drop off pass
Nice series by the Defense.
I hope JH does not go conservative here. Grab them by the throat and don’t let up.
One solid drive and it’s ballgame. . . .
Tony Romo = Aaron Rowand. He’s another “Gamer.” Plays like him, too…:P
Gotta love Harbaugh
Nice run by Alex but he is short.
Hope Harbaugh does not go conservative and just call running plays
I’d take the points here, too. Ten points sounds pretty good now. Make Crippled Romo or Kitna score twice.
Bit of a strange call, but the old adage is never take points off the board. Plus the D is killing Romo. Kitna was doing a better job.
Got to love AQkers so far. money from 55 . . .
Akers our all-world kicker. On track for my predicted 27-21 win
Good move keeping the points. Time for the Niners to turn the hounds loose
Hey Phil! Welcome aboard.
D gets a score here.
PASS RUSH!!!
Too much time though to go to the run only!! Pass the ball down the field!!!
Got to keep inflicting pain on Romo – don’t let him stand and throw.
That 55 yd FG made by David “Green Acres”, was the longest ever recorded at the ‘Stick.
And who told you that was, and should be out best FA pick up?
Your pal,
Joe Nedney’s calcified mass.
Hey Chuck, damn nail biting time! We got a horse race
Austin is killing them
Shhhh. He’s on my fantasy team, and he’s helping me beat the shit outta Chuck.
I better shut up then I don’t want to get banned my second game here
Sorry, but that was some serious fantasy pts right there…
This is why Harbaugh had better not go to just the run!!
This is why Harbaugh had better not call plays not to lose the game, call plays to win the game
Shit. Bad job by the D there.
Here we go. Can the Niners keep the ball out of Dallas’ hands?
Time for Alex to step up.
Did you guys hear the cheer after that last TD was confirmed? There’s a reason why the camera’s haven’t panned down into the stands…they’re littered with Cowboys’ fans.
Yeah it’s sickening
84 on a slant right there
Good start. Move the chains.
This is for Spit: If I were gay, I’d marry Tom Brady.
He’s my hero.
Nobody blocked Ware???!!! WTF!!!!!
Shit
Okay, we’re turning into the Sardine Can Offense of jimmy Raye right before our eyes.
So again the offense doesn’t get it done. It’s up to the tired D again.
Andy Lee may be their best defensive player
Andy Lee has been our MVP for the past three yrs at least.
I love our punter.
we can still do this
our defense is good
test tes
They’re going to score at this rate and leave no time for us.
Somebody on defense needs to make a big play to win this game.
Great play by Justin Smith…
47 yarder to tie ? BLOCK THAT SHIT
Goc Damnit. OT
Be a nice time for McDonald to block one.
Shit. OT.
We should have won this game. Now it’s sudden death, because of too many conservative play calls, a few blown coverages, a couple of O-line foul-ups and a couple of Alex mistakes, the pick being the big one.
That tails shit never works
Goddamnit, Alex, Harbaugh, make some plays and win this shit.
Goddamnit. Threw it short.
Ginn needs to know where the first down marker is, and so does Alex.
It’s always on the receiver to get to the marker,.
Goc DAMNIT, WTF kind of defense is that
Too many fucking stupid mistakes.
Whitner bit on the run. Should have stayed home in that down and distance.
Harbaugh’s play calling was the biggest reason we lost – helped in no small measure by Alex’s miscue, and lapses in pass protection.
Fuck. Defense wasn’t up to snuff in the 4th . . .
This sucks.
fox needs to get the camera off that loser praying on the sidelines. sheesh
later..
Whitner is a guy who looks for the big hit. He is vulnerable to being suckered like that. But in that situation… NF is right, gotta stay home. Stupid play.
Harbaugh either learns to stop this “play not to lose” shit, or he’ll be back in collge ball in two years.
God, I hate games like this. The pass pro failed in the end. Couldn’t run in the end. Harbaugh got too cute in the end. Play action for an 8 yard sack after the 7 yard run. Where’s the blocking? Howe doe DeMarcus come unblocked in ANY situation? One fucking slant that went for 15 yards. Smith with his brain fart. But the biggest fail was the defense. They let Romo out of too many 3rd and long plays. Two scoring drives with the 10 pint lead.
Big fail. Folks will now second guess the decision to take the points on the 55 yard FG.
They left it up to the defense, and they didn’t do the job.
They never were able to run, Chuck. Not just at the end. This was a tough, well played game.I don’t know that I ‘d try so hard to find fault.
Tip your cap if you must. I hate the fucking shit. I was hoping the D would play that stretch a little better. The Niners were overpowered in the end by Dallas’ line.
When you get beat by the very guys you know they are going to, it makes it all the more bad. Even with the pressure, 427 yards in the air is flat terrible. 3 guys with 100 recieveing yards? Blehhh.
I like their attitude.We’ll see as the season wears on but I see them as much better than last year. But they need to get Gore going or get a change of pace there.
Well, they have to protect their QB and they have to get to the other QB.
It goes without saying. As much as I hate to say it, Tony Romo is a winner, Alex Smith is not.. That fucker came back with bruised/broken ribs and beat our ass with the 2:00 drive to tie the score. Seriously, if any of you would take Alex Smith over Tony Romo? You need to see the shrink twice as much as I do.
Yards passing: 427 vs 132. I don’t need to tell ya which goes where…
Romo played great, but 420 + yards is on the defense. Smith also played well, 99 QB rating. Diff was pass rush. Now go the Dallas blog, trolliot…
Fuck God Damn.
I knew the yardage was lopsided, but 472 to 206?
The D wasn’t very good today. Again, they left themselves vulnerable to big plays. The D line did pretty well for the most part, but the DBs got toasted with regularity. Witten got WAY too open WAY too many times. Same with Austin.
Harbaugh needs to learn the lesson of his predecessors. Play it safe, and you get burned in the end.
God, I hate Dallas. I still don’t like so many Gore up the middle calls they were ready for em. This one really hurts.
I’m not gonna rail on AS for throwing a pick. It’s what you do AFTER that makes or break a QB. After is winning. Our OL played good in the first half, and our play calling/execution in the 2nd sucked big time. I want to be good, but truth is we’re not. We’re mediocre. Truth hurts. I think we’re better than last year — but much of that is a coaching upgrade and strangely enough — the coaching has much to learn.
400 yards. Sheesh. Our pass did NOT set up the run. I can only surmise that either the OL, and the play calls, are seroiusly sucking on the run plays, or are “pass” is still just not scaring anyone. By hook or crook, until it does, I see more of same.
*our* — I’m so pissed I can’t even use the English language.
I don’t see much to be pissed about. The team played tough but came up short against a good team. They’re not crushed- they know they can play.
Easy. I thought we were going to win. Against Dallas. Whom I hate. With a fervor of epic proportions. Would I be less pissed if it was any other team? Yes. End of story.
Well, don’t hurt yourself.
It’s the latter, Barley. The niners need to show more downfield passing, IMO. Until that happens, the run game goes nowhere. VD has been very quiet so far. Williams needs to be used more on deep routes. What sucks is the game was there for the taking. The D didn’t hold Dallas at all in the 2nd half. The offense didn’t get much going until the pick/TD to Walker. The blocking failed in the end. The Niners got worn down on bith sides of the ball.
Chalk it up to the Niners not being all that good, I guess. The coaching needs to learn on the fly as much as the players do. The play at the end of the 1st half was a KILLER. There is NO WAY a guy should get that clear and be able to score with the time left in the 1st half. The play in OT as well. Those 2 plays were colossal failures on the defense’s part.
Link to the gamebook: http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/gamecenter/55190/SF_Gamebook.pdf
The offense did not execute. Seven drives after halftime, one TD on the long pass, two first downs. About ten minutes of possession in the second half to Dallas’s twenty.
Leave your D on the field all day, and they wear down.
You cannot go conservative with 30 minutes left and think you’re going to win. This ain’t college, and it ain’t Stanford, JH.
Test
Good game, The Cowboys just made less mistakes at the end