So, Harbaugh did in game one what it took Singletary 6 weeks to do last year, and that was win game one. Next on Harbaugh’s bucket list is to win on the road. Since last year’s Denver gasme was technically a home game (London? Right), Singletary didn’t win a road game til week 12 in AZ. Yes, Cincinnati is a bottom-feeder in the NFL, but home field is a pretty big equalizer. Just ask Dallas. They barely escaped an 0-2 start, while the Niners would have been included in the list of surprising 2-0 teams (Washington, Detroit, Buffalo, and Texas). Anyhow, 1-1 is fine for now. However, if this team is going to be thought of as making progress, they need to beat the crappier teams in the league. And Cincinnati certainly falls into that realm. Gingerbread man Andy Dalton notwithstanding.
Raggedy Andy has put up decent numbers (37/56, 413 yds, 3 TDs 0 picks, 105 QBR) against a couple of bad defenses in Cleveland and Denver. He’s hitting a lot of underneath stuff (7.4 yds/completion), so this may not bode well for the 49ers. Dallas killed the Niners in the 4th quarter with underneath stuff after harassing Romo most of the day. Their pass pro is decent enough (5 sacks in 2 games) but one can hope we bring the pressure more than Cleve and Denver.
As far as our offense goes? I can’t even hazard a guess. The Niners played as good a 1st half as they could have offensively. They followed it up in the 2nd half with a strategy that let Dallas right back into the game. one hopes that they’ll keep the offensive flow going throughoout the entire game on Sunday, and not try to force the run at all costs.
Forty Niners Forever 
Cincy is not a good football team. Improving yes, but still not that good. Throw in the added distractions this week courtesy of Simpson’s weed bust and Benson’s suspension ( he’s appealing and will play) and disorder usually ensues. If nothing else, the Bengals must already be sick and tired of answering those same questions over and over again. Lose this game Sunday, and I’ll start the “Fire Jimbo!” petition on Monday.
Side note: I p/u Simpson in both our fantasy leagues the day before he got busted for the weed arriving at his house. So much for my DEA inside info…
Del,
I recently moved over to Humboldt county and upon arrival I had to meet with the DEA to address a number of concerns my previous county had with my inhabitance. We agreed in this county I wouldn’t go within a five mile radius of any school, within a 2 mile radius of any old folks’ home, or within a mile of any pet cemetery. After that awkward conversation our talk turned to the booming weed market over here and he said they were currently investigating some NFL players. I immediately assumed he meant former Cowboy, Nate Newton, but he said they were current players so considering the recent rumors that Al Davis was going to relocate his Raiders to Humboldt for the uh, “climate,” coupled with the teams life-long history of false start penalties, I assumed he was referring to the entire Raider organization. He saw that I was inquisitive, and hinted, “Let’s put it this way – A tiger doesn’t change his stripes.” That’s when it all started to make sense to me. If I had a god given gift to play in the NFL and my number was called by fuck tard owner, Mike Brown, I’d be higher than the Mars Rover. I’d request the entire turf be made of a hybrid – part Kentucky Bluegrass, part Featherbed Bent, and part Northern California Sensimilla. See, the great thing about that would be, you could play four quarters on it in the afternoon and then take it home and get stoned to the bejesus belt in the evening. Needless to say, because of the news, I steered clear of all Bengals on my FF team. Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t love Cedrick Benson, even with a three game suspension. My team needs some running back help pronto. But that’s what happens when you draft out of the 9 hole. Silly me.
My position that injury not be wished on a player has been lifted after watching ESPN all week- it is perfectly acceptable to prefer that Tony Romo had broken his fucking neck. Based on the coverage, I thought Sammy Baugh was up from his grave and playing in a body cast this week..
Trust me, wishing for injury doesn’t work. If it did, Alex would have been pushing up daisies long ago…
And Alex can only dream about as being as tough and heroic as Tony Romo. If Alex had broken a rib and punctured a lung, he woulda asked VD to tell the coach to get him outta there so fast that even Vernon wouldn’t have stuck up for his sorry ass this time.
You went a little beyond wishing for an injury, Death Threat Denny. BTW, no one’s buying the hip story- how did the thiamine replacement go?
lol
Seeing as my Crocodile Crocs have Team Spitblood this week I’m wishing not for injury but that coach Spit was befuddled by ingesting / inhaling too much of the Humboldt good shit when he was filling out his lineup card. Us Crocs we’ll take any edge we can find…
Your edge is that Arian Foster is being an idiot with his hamstring. He needs to completely sit out this game and stop forcing the issue. I’ll take another loss to you to get a healthy Foster back in the lineup, but him practicing, then completely fucking my team over with his “maybe I am, maybe I’m not,” bullshit – and then playing, getting me four points and re-injuring his hammy all over again is only going to force me to fly to Houston on Tuesday to kick the ever-loving piss outta Foster and Kubiac’s. I don’t want to do that. I’m a racist….. I mean pacifist.
I’ll leave it to my grammar / spell checker, Del, to tell me my apostrophe s on the end of Kubiac was unnecessary.
Rob (apostrophe) s squirrel could have told you that.
King me, bitch!
Official injury report: WR Edwards, FB Norris are out. WR Crabtree (foot), QB Alex Smith (concussion), CB Tramaine Brock (hand) are probable.
uh oh
Spitblood says:
” I recently moved over to Humboldt county ”
so is it just me , or is anybody else feeling REAL sorry for humboldt county right about now ! ?
I’m wondering why his hard drives weren’t seized.
because they felt sorry for him and knowing him like we do , they know that nothing else about him that’s hard has ever been ‘seized ‘ either !
Ouch, u guys are brutal. Hey, I thought this was a football blog. I was really hoping we would put Romo out of the game but we played the F-up prevent and they shoved that pill right where the sun don’t shine. Just another reason for revenge when the time comes.
LOL, good one
Rob – Don’t you think it’s time you stop spending so much time on E Harmony? I know you and your squirrel scroll endlessly through profiles looking for man love with a squirrel option. I bet your profile name is …. “looking_for_cream_of_sum_young_guy.”
I think last year’s first and second round picks were so fuckin’ terrible it pisses me off endlessly. End-less-ly. If we had a talent evaluator anywhere near SF, we could have Earl Thomas.
There are certain positions you just don’t pick in the first round: FB, OG, Center, DE (in a 3/4), OLB (in a 4/3) and so on. What Mike Singletary essentially did last year was draft two offensive guards in the first round, and one, Mike Iupati, can’t pass protect and he can’t get his pads low enough to be a good short yardage run blocker. Fuckin’ terrible. Two offensive guards in the first round. No wonder that fucker is now a linebacker coach…. for life. High water mark, San Francisco. And Anthony Davis can’t pass block either. In both games this season Davis was beatin’ like a rented mule, or Harbaugh and Roman gave him help with a TE. Davis isn’t a tackle. What the Niners need to do with both of these guys is trade Iupati and try Anthony Davis at strong side guard for a year. Make the switch now. What’s gonna happen? We gonna get Alex Smith killed? That’s unacceptable.
I just watched the next crop of OTs Matt Kalil, Stanford’s Jonathan Martin, Riley Reiff, Andrew Datko and Levi Adcock on Youtube. Scouts Inc has them ranked the way I wrote them out. The dude that jumped out at me was Iowa’s Riley Reiff. But for my money, Kalil, Reiff and Datko are all interchangeable and they’d all need time at ROT before sliding over to left OT. I did not like Jim Harbaugh’s Stanford boy, Jonathan Martin. He has slow feet and was routinely beaten to the inside on passing downs. Riley Reiff engaged his man early, kept his ass down (something Iupati can’t do), and in the Youtube video I found, he held his own against Aldon Smith. The one area of concern I had about OT Riley Reiff was that he sometimes played with a really wide base – meaning his feet were really wide apart. I don’t know if that’s a negative or a positive. In the pros he might get knocked on his ass. But, like I said, he held his own against Aldon Smith.
Depending on what happens this year, if Riley Reiff was on the board when the Niners pick in 2012, I’d draft him with a plan to play him at ROT for a year, then switch with Staley. ‘Cause what I’m seeing from Anthony Davis – he’s a guard (if that).
Staley, Davis, Goodwin, Kilgore, Reiff in 2012, with a plan to switch Reiff and Staley in a year or two. Trade Rachal and Iupati right now for draft picks. Do not wait until the off season. The longer it takes to act, the longer this team will be a dinosaur.
All right….. I already have two potential first round draft picks for the Niners next year – OT Riley Reiff or CB Dre Kirkpatrick. Watching the ‘Bama / Ark game right now. Love Kirkpatrick. He’s tall, he hits and he plays bump and run for Saban.
Iowa’s Riley Reiff or Alabama’s Dre Kirkpatrick. If both are there, it’s a toss up who you take – depends on if you can trade Iupati and / or Rachal.
Dennis,
I know your drunk ass is out there somewhere, watching the ‘Bama / Ark game right now. Are you watching this kid Dre Kirkpatrick? Fuckin’ guy’s awesome. He’s the best corner in the draft. No question. Blows Janoris Jenkins, Morris Claiborne and Alfonzo Dennard out of the water. Out. of. the. water. The only other guy close to Dre Kirkpatrick is Oregon’s Cliff Harris, who plays very soft, is much shorter, isn’t a hitter but what Cliff Harris does well is locate the ball in the air – think it’s because he plays off the ball so far. But Saban has Kirkpatrick playing up tight. Love Kirkpatrick.
I’m watching the kid play QB like you should be doing also. Leave the DBs and OTs to Baalke. That’s his area of expertise to fuck it up. Leave the fucking up of QBs to those who know what the hell they’re doing.
What the hell you talking about? We need to draft one position in the 1st rd next year, and one position only — QB. Remember that Sando quote from last year? “The 49ers should draft a QB in the 1st rd until they get it right.” Well, swing and a miss last yr with the mook from Nevada.
I got one for ya — Ryan Tannehill, Texas A&M. The kid’s still learning the position at the collegiate level. He just started the last 6 games for the Aggies as a Jr last yr and set the world on fire. Numbers all across the board are through the roof. Tannehill is a converted WR. I know what you’re thinking, Spit, but you’re wrong. The dude is a cracker.
You can watch him live on ABC at this very moment. Those Okie St. unis are god awful.
The first round in the draft is all about options and scenarios. Trust me, I was watching the Tannehill to Fuller connection. That kid can sling it and he has wheels like Locker. And Fuller ain’t too shabby either. The only way I’d take Tannehill, though, is if I thought he had HOF potential. In my opinion, Locker and Dalton both had HOF potential coming out of college (I thought Locker more so than Dalton coming out).
Right now, though, it doesn’t matter who we put behind center. You put Dalton or Kaep or anyone for that matter behind this O line and they’re gonna suck. The Niners must fix their O line first before drafting a qb, that’s why Sando is wrong. Fuck, Tolzien could be Dalton for all we know. And I haven’t given up on Kaep like you have.
You gotta watch OT Riley Reiff play for Iowa. And Dre Kirkpatrick will be better than Patrick Peterson. Kirkpatrick is fuckin’ solid. If you don’t see a HOF qb, or Riley Reiff isn’t there anymore when we select in the first, the Niners have got to take Dre Kirkpatrick.
The one concern I have with Tannehill (and don’t get me wrong, I love the kid) is that he’s skinny. What year is he? Locker and Newton can run because they’re bigger. Tannehill would get snapped like a twig in the pros right now – much like Ponder, Stanzi and Mallet. But Tannehill can sling it. I want a qb who can take a beating. I don’t know how Kaep is going to handle the hits.
Tannehill will be put to the test here now trailing by 4. Let’s see what he has…
an INT. I jinxed the poor bastard. never fucking fails.
That’s the #1 rated WR making a play only a fucking mook could appreciate.
Justin Blackmon: Mook of the Year.
Del,
If you follow my thinking….. the Niners have no chance at Luck. So the only other first round talent right now even close to being on the radar is OU’s qb, L Jones. He’s interesting, but there’s a lot of questions about him, and there’s no knowing if Tolzien and Kaep are just as good. So the verdict is still out there depending on how Jones plays this year. But if it not a qb in the first, the Niners have two areas of their team they need to address – O line and secondary. You gotta watch Alabama’s CB Dre Kirkpatrick and Iowa’s OT, Riley Reiff. They’re the best in their class.
Spit, don’t forget about SC’s, Matt Barkley. Many scouting services have him ranked ahead of L. Jones. My one question with him is his arm strength. It’s adequate. But I’m not sure it’s NFL adequate.
Andrew Luck is so head and shoulders better than those two it’s not even funny. Luck is like Secretariat at the Belmont — it’s a goddamn boat race.
And least not forget “my boy,” Nick Foles. That kid can play. But he is playing on a shit-ass Arizona team this year. It’s going to test his moxie. He has 1st rd talent. I just hope he doesn’t get tossed like a Raggedy Ann doll this yr and break him in two.
Shitty call by Tedford and just as shitty pass by Maynard on 4th dn with the game on the line.
Fuck Cal. Go Stanford.
you watching Stanford’s Jonathan Martin?
I’m with your qb thinking, but if it’s not realistic, or there isn’t a potential HOFer out there, you gotta look at other positions. And clearly, the Niners need CBs and OTs, and those are two positions first round worthy. I think the Niners have plenty of interior O linemen to sort it out. I don’t think, however, the Niners have OTs. There are plenty of OTs and CBs this year who could be available in the 2012 draft. Kirkpatrick and Reiff. Kirkpatrick and Reiff. Don’t tell anybody. Kirkpatrick and Reiff.
Del,
I’m re-watching the Niner / Cowboy game …… Media Williams and Reggie Smith lost that game for us. Even though Donte Whitner bit heavily on the play fake in overtime, Whitner isn’t just an in the box safety like you think. He has coverage and deep center field ball skills. He just needs a competent FS next to him. WIlliams and Smith should be playing in Canada. Too bad there aren’t any first round Earl Thomas or Eric Berry type safeties in this upcoming draft. We need a FS. I hope Goldson pulls his head out of his ass. If Dalton burns him like Kitna and Romo burned Williams and Smith, I’m gonna get drunker than Billy Bob in Bad Santa. My guess, and I saw your betting line stuff – Niners beat the Bengals by 21pts.
Another DB to keep an eye out for is Alfonzo Dennard, NEB. He played oppo of Prince and actually made more plays. BTW, how is the Prince doing in NY? Oh, that’s right. Prince Pussy is hurt. I’m sure as hell glad we didn’t draft that mook. Then again, I’m not too happy with the mook we took at #7 either.
Kid: I wished for a purple elephant, but now I want a pink elephant!
Bad Santa: Well, wish in one hand, shit in the other; see which one fills up first.
Are you saying you don’t like Aldon Smith? Are you listening to college football on the radio? ‘Cause you’re clearly blinded by the hate.