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Post of the Day
blade3colorado says:Hurts pass incomplete short middle to A.Brown was a gift . . . The only way this guy’s name would ever be in lights is if his parents had named him EXIT.
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All-Time Post of Forever (#1)
NJ49er
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September 7, 2011 at 7:40 pm (Edit)
I see this Season starting with lots of motion and ground attack.
Our OL is going to take time to adjust to the new system, however, a WCO should help them once Alex and the WRs get into the necessary rhythm.
Game 1, lots of Gore and Hunter, 9ers win a close one. I do expect Harbaugh to take some deep shots though, VD and Braylon will be a nice duo.
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2026 Draft
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#27 - Round: 1 Pick: 27
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#58 - Round: 2 Pick: 26
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#92 - Round: 3 Pick: 28
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#127 - Round: 4 Pick: 27
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#133 - Round: 4 Pick: 33
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#138 - Round: 4 Pick: 38
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#171 - Round: 5 Pick: 33
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2025 Schedule
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13 - 5
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1 – 9/7 SF 17 - Sea 13
2 – 9/14 SF 26 - NO 21
3 – 9/21 SF 16 - AZ 15
4 – 9/28 Jax 26 - SF 21
5 – 10/2 SF 26 - LA 23
6 – 10-12 TB 30 - SF 19
7 – 10/19 SF 20 - Atl 10
8 – 10/26 Hou 26 - SF 15
9 – 11/2 SF 34 - NYG 24
10 – 11/9 Rams 42 - SF 26
11 – 11/16 SF 41 - AZ 22
12 – 11/24 SF 20 - Carol 9
13 – 11/30 SF 26 - Cle 8
14 – 12/7 - BYE
15 – SF 37 - Tenn 24
16 –SF 48 - Indy 27
17 – 12/28 SF 42 - Chi 38
18 – 1/4 Sea 13 - SF 3 -
19 - SF 23 - Philly 19
20 - Sea 110 - SF 6 -
2025 Draft
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1-Mykel Williams DE - GA
2-Alfred Collins DT - TX
3-Nick Martin - LB OK ST
3-Upton Stout - CB WKY
4-CJ West - DT Indy
4-Jordan Watkins - WR Miss
5-Jordan James - RB Ore
5-Marques Sigle - S K State
7-Kurtis Rourke - QB Indy
7-Conner Colby OL Iowa
7-Junior Bergen - WR Mt -
UDFAs
LB Stone Blanton, Mississippi State
RB Corey Kiner, Cincinnati
OL Drew Moss, Colorado
WR Isaiah Neyor, Nebraska
CB Jakob Robinson, BYU
DL Sebastian Valdez, Washington -
Regular Season
6-11 -
1 · SF 32 - NYJ 19
2 · Minn 23 - SF 17
3 · LA 27 - SF 24
4 · SF 30 - NE 13
5 · AZ 24 - SF 23
6 · SF 36 - Sea 24
7 · KC 28 - SF 18
8 · SF 30 - Dal 24 -
WEEK 9 BYE
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10 · SF 23 - TB 20
11 · Sea 20 - SF 17
12 · GB 38 - SF 10
13 · Buff 35 - SF 10
14 · SF 38 - Chi 13
15 · LAR 12 - SF sux
16 · Miami 29 - SF 17
17 · Deet 40 - SF 34
18 · AZ 47 - SF 24 -
2024 Draft
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- 1 (31) Rickey Persall WR, Fla
- 2 (64) R Green CB, Fl St
- 3 (86) Dom Puni OL, Kan
- 4 (124) Mustapha, S Wak For
- 4 (129) RB Guerendo, L'ville
- 4 (135) WR Cowing, AZ
- 6 (215) G J Kingston, USC
- 7 (251) LB Bethune, Fl St
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UDFA
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Cody Schrader, RB, Mo
Drake Nugent, C, Mich
Evan Anderson, DL, FAU
Mason Pline, TE, Furman
Tanner Mordecai, QB, Wis
Terique Owens, WR, Miss St -
2023 Schedule
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14-6
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1 - SF 30 - Pitts 7
2 - SF 30 - LAR 23
3 – SF 30 - NYG 12
4 – SF 35 - AZ 16
5 – SF 42 - Dal 10 - fuck yeah!
6 – Cleve 19 - SF 17 - fuck no!
7 – Minn 22 - SF 17 *gulp*
8 – Cincy 31 - SF 17 *freefallin'*
9 – BYE
10 – SF 34 - Jax 3 boooooom!
11 – SF 27 - TB 14 boom
12 – SF 31 - Sea 13 - fuck Pete!
13 – SF 42 - Philly 19 - FUCK YES!
14 – SF 28 - Sea 16 - SQUALK!
15 – SF 45 - AZ 29 - Tweet! BOOM!
16 – Balt 33 - SF 19 - Thuuuuud!!
17 – SF 27 - Wash 10
18 – LA 21 - SF 20 -
PLAYOFFS
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SF 21 - GB 17 @ SF - Squeeeeeek!
SF 34 - Deet 31 0ooheartattack! -
SUPER BOWL!!!!!!! -
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2023 Draft Picks
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3: 87-S Ji’Ayir Brown, Penn St
3: 99-K Jake Moody, Mich
3: 101-TE Cameron Latu, Ala
5: 155-CB Darrell Luter Jr., S Ala
5: 173-DL Robert Beal Jr., Ga
6: 216-LB Dee Winters, TCU
7: 247-TE Brayden Willis, Okla
7: 253-WR Ronnie Bell, Mich
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49ers 2022 Season
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All games Pacific time
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15-5
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1 Chi 19 - SF 10
2 SF 27 - Sea 7
3 Den 11 - SF 10
4 SF 24 - LA 9
5 SF 37 - Carol 15
6 Atl 28 - SF 14
7 KC 44 - SF 23
8 SF 31 - LA 14
9 - BYE -
10 SF 22 - SD 16
11 SF 38 - AZ 10
12 SF 13 - NO 0
13 SF 33 - Miami 17
14 SF 35 - TB 7
15 SF 21 - Sea 13
16 SF 37 - Wash 20
17 SF 37 - LV 34
18 SF 38 - AZ 13 -
Playoffs
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SF 41 - Sea 23
SF 19 - Dall 12
Fuck the Eagles -
2022 Draft
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- 2-61 DL Drake Jackson, USC
- 3-93 RB Tyrion Davis-Price, LSU
- 3-105 WR Danny Gray, SMU
- 4-134 OL Spencer Burford, UTSA
- 5-172 CB Samuel Womack, Toledo
- 5-187 OL Nick Zakelj, Fordham
- 6-220- DL Kalia Davis, UCF
- 6-221 DB Tariq Castro-Fields, Penn State
- 7-262 QB Brock Purdy, Iowa State
2021 Season
12-8
1: SF 41 – Det 33
2: SF 17 – Phi 11
3: GB 30- SF 28
4: Sea 28 – SF 21
5: AZ 17 – SF 10
6: Bye
7: Indy 30 – SF 18
8: SF 33 – Chi 22
9: AZ 31 – SF 17
10: SF 31 – LA 10
11: SF 30 – Jax 10
12: SF 34 – Minn 26
13: Sea 30 – SF 23
14: SF 26 – Cincy 23
15: SF 31 – Atl 13
16: Tenn 20 – SF 17
17: SF 23 – Hou 7
18: SF 27 – LAR 24PLAYOFFS
SF 23 – Dal 17
SF 13 – GB 10NFC Championship Game
LA 20 – SF 17
Fuck this
2021 Draft
7 picks
- Round 1, pick 3 – Trey Lance, QB, North Dakota State
- R 2, 48 (from LV) – Aaron Banks, G, Notre Dame
- R 3, 88 (from LAR) – Trey Sermon, RB, Ohio St
- R 3, 102 – Ambry Thomas, CB, Michigan
- R 5, 155 – Jaylon Moore, OG, Western Michigan
- R 5, 172 – Deommodore Lenoir, CB, Oregon
- R 5, 180 – Talanoa Hufanga, S, USC
- R 6, 194 – Elijah Mitchell, RB, Louisiana
2020 Season
6 – 10
1 AZ 24 – SF 20
2 SF 31 – NYJ 13
3 SF 36 – NYG 9
4 Philly 25 – SF 20
5 Miami 43 – SF 17
6 SF 24 – LAR 16
7 SF 33 – NE 6
8 Sea 37 – SF 27
9 GB 34 – SF 17
10 NO 27 – SF 13
11 – BYE
12 SF 23 – LAR 20
13 Buff 34 – SF 24
14 Wash 23 – SF 15
15 Dal – 41 – SF 33
16 SF 20 – AZ 12
17 Sea 26 – SF 232020 draft
1: 14th (from Bucs)
DT Javon Kinlaw, SCar1: 25th (from Vikes)
WR Brandon Aiyuk, AZ State5: 153rd (from Miami)
OL Colton McKivitz, WVa6: 190th (from Eagles)
TE Charlie Woerner, GA7: 217th (from Lions)
WR Jauan Jennings, Tennessee49ers 2019 Season
15 – 3
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1: SF 31 – TB 17
2: SF 41 – Cincy 17
3: SF 24 – Pitts 20
4: Bye week
5: SF 31 – Cle 3
6: SF 20 – LAR 7
7: SF 9 – Wash 0
8: SF 51 – Car 13
9: SF 28 – AZ 25
10: Sea 27 – SF 24
11: SF 36 – AZ 26
12: SF 37 – GB 8
13: Balt 20 – SF 17
14: SF 48 – NO 46
15: Atl 29 – SF 22 ooops
16: SF 34 – LA 31
17: SF 26 – Sea 21 de ja vu!Div: SF 27 – Minn 10
NFC: SF 37 – GB 20
SB: KC 31 – SF 20
FUUUUUUUUUCK2019 Niner Draft Picks
49ers 2018 Season (4 – 12 [BDN 3-5])
1 Minn 24 – SF 16
2 SF 30 – Det 27
3 KC 34 – SF 28
4 SD 29 – SF 27
5 AZ 28 – SF 18
6 GB 33 – SF 30
7 Rams 39 – SF 10
8 Cards 18 – SF 15
9 49ers 34 – Oak 3
10 NYG 27 – SF 23
11 – BYE –
12 TB 27 – SF 09
13 Sea 43 – SF 16
14 SF 20 – Den 14
15 SF 26 – Sea 23
16 Chi 14 – SF 9
17 LAR 48 – SF 32Pffffffffffffffffft
2018 Niner Draft
1 (9) Mike McGlinchey, OT, ND
2 (44) Dante Pettis, WR, Wash
3 (70) Fred Warner, OLB, BYU
3 (95) Tarv. Moore, S, S Miss
4 (128) Kent. Street, DE, NC St
5, (142) D.J. Reed, DB, K State
6 (184) Marcell Harris, DB, Fla
7 (223) Jul. Taylor, DT Temple
7 (240) Rick James, WR M Ten St2017 Season
Regular Season (6-10)
Garoppolo 5-0Sept. 10 Carol 23 – SF 3
Sept. 17 Sea 12 – SF 9
Sept. 21 LA 41 – SF 39
Oct. 1 AZ 18 – SF 12 (OT)
Oct. 8 Indy 26 – SF 23 (OT)
Oct. 15 Wa 26 – SF 24
Oct. 22 Dall 40 – SF 10
Oct. 29 Phi 40 – SF 13
Nov. 5 AZ 20 – SF 10
Nov. 12 SF 31 – NYG 21
Sunday, Nov. 19 Bye
Nov. 26 Sea 33 – SF 13
Dec. 3 SF 15 – Chi 14
Dec. 10 SF 26 – Hou 16
Dec. 17 SF 25 – Tenn 23
Dec. 24 SF 44 – Jax 33
Dec. 31 SF 33 – LA 132017 Draft
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3. Solomon Thomas, DE Snodfart
31. Reuben Foster, LB Alabama
66. Ahkelo Witherspoon, CB Colo
104. C.J. Beathard, QB Iowa
121. Joe Williams, RB Utah
146. George Kittle, TE Iowa
177. Trent Taylor, WR Louisiana Tech
198. D.J. Jones, DT Mississippi
202. Pita Taumoepenu, LB Utah
229. Adrian Colbert, CB Miami2016 Season
2 – 14 (We OWN the Rams!!)
SF 28 – LA 0
Panthers 46 – SF 28
Sea 37 – SF 18
Dal 24 – SF 17
AZ 33 – SF 21
Buff 45 – SF 16
TB 34 – SF 17
NO 87 – SF 20
AZ 23 – SF 20
NE 30 – SF 17
Miami 31 – SF 24
Chi 26 – SF 6
NYJ 23 – SF 17
Atl 473 – SF 13
SF 22 – LA 21
Sea 25 – SF 232016 Draft
1: 7 – Ore DL DeForest Buckner
1: 28 - Stanford G Joshua Garnett
3: 68 – Miss State CB Will Redmond
4: 133 - LSU CB Rashard Robinson
5: 142 – App State DL Ronald Blair
5: 145 – Georgia OL John Theus
5: 174 – Ole Miss OL Fahn Cooper
6: 207 – Louisiana QB Jeff Driskel
6: 211 – Florida RB Kelvin Taylor
6: 213 – Mich St WR Aaron Burbridge
7: 249 – W Ky CB Prince Charles Iworah2015 Season
5 – 11? Fuuuuuck1 SF 20 – Minn 3
2 Pitt 43 – SF 18
3 AZ 47 – SF 7 –
4 GB 21 – SF 6
5 NYG 30 – SF 27
6 SF 25 – Balt 20
7 Sea 20 – SF 3
8 StL 27 – SF 6
9 SF 17 – Atl 16
10 Bye Week
11 Sea 29 – SF 13
12 AZ 19 – SF 13
13 SF 26 – Chi 20
14 Cle 24 – SF 10
15 Cincy 24 – SF 14
16 Det 32 – SF 17
17 SF 19 – StL 162015 Draft
1 (17). Arik Armstead, DL, Ore
2 (14). Jaquiski Tartt, S, Samford
3 (15). Eli Harold, OLB, Virginia
4 (18). Blake Bell, TE, Oklahoma
4 (27). Mike Davis, RB, SCar
4 (33). DeAndre Smelter, WR, GT
5 (29). Bradley Pinion, P, Clemson
6 (14). Ian Silberman, OL, BC
7 (27). Trenton Brown, OL, Florida
7 (37). Rory Anderson, TE, SCar2014 Season
8-8
1 9-7 SF 28 – Alice 17
2 9-14 Chi 28 – SF 20
3 9-21 AZ 23 – SF 14
4 9-28 SF 26 – Iggles 21
5 10-5 SF 22 – KC 17
6 10-13 SF 31 – StL 17
7 10-19 Den 72 – SF 3
8 BYE WEEK
9 11-2 StL 13 – SF 10
10 11-9 SF 27 – NO 24
11 11-16 SF 16 – NYG 13
12 11-23 SF 17 – Wash 13
13 11-27 Sea 19 – SF 3
14 12-7 Oak 24 – SF 13
15 19-6 Squalks
16 30-27 SD – fuck, I don’t care
17 SF 20 – AZ 172014 Niner Draft
1 (30). Jimmie Ward db NlU
2 (57). Carlos Hyde rb Ohio St
3 (70). Marcus Martin c USC
3 (77). Chris Borland ilb Wisc
3 (100). Brandon Thomas ol Clem
4 (106). Bruce Ellington wr SCar
4 (129). Dontae Johnson cb NC St
5 (150). Aaron Lynch olb S Fla
5 (170). Keith Reaser cb Fla Atl
6 (180). Kenneth Ackercb SMU
7 (243). Kaleb Ramsey de BC
7 (245). Trey Millard fb Ok49ers Season (14-5)
PRE 8/08 Donkeys 10 – SF 6
PRE 8/16 SF 15 – Chefs 13
PRE 8/25 SF 34 – Vikes 14
PRE 8/29 SF 41 SanDawgs 6
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01 9/08 SF 34 – GB 28
02 9/15 Sea 29 – SF 3
03 9/22 Indy 27 – SF 7
04 9/26 SF 35 – StL 11
05 10/06 SF 34 – Hou 3
06 10/13 SF 32 – AZ 20
07 10/20 SF 31 – Tenn 17
08 10/27 SF 42 – Jax 10
09 Bye Week
10 11/10 Carol 10 – SF 9
11 11/17 NO 23 – SF 20
12 11/25 SF 27 – Skins 6
13 12/01 SF 23 – Rams 13
14 12/08 SF 19 – Sea 17!!
15 12/15 SF 33 – TB 14
16 12/23 SF 34 – Atl 24
17 12/29 SF 23 – AZ 20PLAYOFFS (2-1)
1/5/14 SF 23 – GB 20
1/12/14 SF 23 – Carolina 10
1/19/14 Sea 23 – SF 17
Not again!2013 Draft
1 – Eric Reid – LSU – S
2 – Tank Carradine – Fla St – DE
2 – V McDonald – Rice – TE
3 – Corey Lemonier – Aub – DE
4 – Quinton Patton – La Te – WR
4 – Marcus Lattimore – SCr – RB
5 – Quinton Dial – Bama – DE
6 – Nick Moody – OLB – Fla
7 – B. J. Daniels – So Fla – QB
7 – Carter Bykowski – Iowa S – OT
7 – Marcus Cooper – Ruts – CB49ers 2012 Season (13-5-1)
W Sun 9/9 SF 30 – GB 22
W Sun 9/16 SF 27 – Det 19
L Sun 9/23 Minn 24 – SF 13
W Sun 9/30 SF 34 – NYJ 0
W Sun 10/7 SF 45 – Buff 3
L Sun 10/14 NY 26 – SF 3
W Thu 10/18 SF 13 – Sea 6
W Mon 10/29 SF 24 – AZ 3
. . . . . . . . . . . Bye . . . . . . . . .
T Sun 11/11 SF 24 – StL 24
W Mon 11/19 SF 32 – Chi 7
W Sun 11/25 SF 31 – NO 21
L Sun 12/2 StL 16 – SF 13
W Sun 12/9 SF 27 – Mia 13
W Sun 12/16 SF 41 – NE 34
L Sun 12/23 Sea 100 – SF 3
W Sun 12/30 SF 27 – AZ 13Playoffs
W Sat 1/12 SF 45 – GB 31
W Sun 1/20 SF 28 – Atl 24Super Bowl
Sun 2/3 Balt 34 – SF 31
The horror. The horror . . .All time PST
2012 Draft Picks
1: WR A.J. Jenkins — Illini
2: RB LaMichael James — Ore
4: OL Joe Looney — Wake Forest
5: LB Darius Fleming — ND
6: S Trenton Robinson — Mich St
6: OL Jason Slowey — W Ore
7: DE Cam Johnson — VaBlog Stats
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San Francisco 49ers Forever 
DC talking about that “chop block” penalty that negated our long TD to Ginn. They wouldn’t have called that shit 10 yrs ago. I’m sick and goddamn tired of this “looking out for player safety” BS. Fans aren’t concerned about player safety. We want to see players get hit, and get hit hard. And after that, hit ’em again just for good measure.
Bring the NFL back to the gladiators and the lion’s den. We’re all savages at heart.
The turkeys certainly think so today…
remember , our 0-line still has a lot of growing to do !
alex smith played a good game today in spite of all the pressure
Under that pressure, he was excellent . What was the graphic? Besides the sacks, I think he was hit 10 times and hurried a few more. He might have had three or four throws unmolested. But I’ve decided to attribute it to the short week and forget about it. Denny, maybe that shrink can help you with that, also. Has he said that it might help if you got rid of Smith’s old underwear ? It’s just not a good look when guests see that on the walls..
calm down you guys … we’re a top ten NFL team and we’re only going to get better !
Yeah, you’re right. Agree
The Gore thing was was curious. Fricking Hunter was money on the one drive he was in. Gore slipped and fell like 5 times w/o contact. Ginn I just don’t get. It really pisses me off he can’t catch. Not that they would have won, but christ, catch the fucking ball.
We threw what one slant? No rollouts.
I guess some of this can be attributed to the short turnaround. The line looked asleep.
Actually both sides on the line were asleep. No huddle worked to close the half. Wish we would have tried that at some point in the 2nd half. Flacco played a clean game and was untouched. Smith was sacked 8 times. Ergo, they win. Lost it in the trenches.
Plus those ticky tack penalties really bit it.
It’s a wake up call alright. Not the QBs fault but we had a pretty poor receiving corps today, drops. Some from too much pressure on the QB
Yeah, I’ll chalk most of it up to the short week. But, if losing Snyder causes that much of an apocalypse on the O-line. that is a little scary. Rachal is as bad as we remember. He gotta go in the offseason. Don’t get why Niners did not blitz. Flacco isn’t that good to let him sit back there — Aldon Smith and Brooks were not factors…
Maybe they thought they were playing AZ again? But no,the Ravens did to AS what we should have done to them- sack the fuck outta Flake-0
I believe the consensus is finally coming around to what I was bitchin’ and moanin’ bout since the 2nd quarter…Fangio lost the hair on his sack tonight. He did nothing. Worse yet, he tried nothing. The old axiom, “no guts no glory” couldn’t have been more prophetic tonight. Fangio’s defensive game plan was more cowardly than Bert Lahr’s performance in “The Wizard of Oz.”
LOL, agree
And WTF is Alex still wearing that SF Giants cap? Ever since he’s donned that cap neither the Giants nor the Niners can score. Coincidence? I think not. Take off that fucking hat you stoopid mook.
Picky picky…
Alex is one of the classiest athletes He never points fingers, even by inference. He stands up to every question every week- and did in the hard times as well. Geez, I wanted to go easy on you,DTD, because I know you’re not all there anymore, but your comments are so consistently ignorant, it’s difficult to ignore. I’ll try again though..
As far as I can tell so far, no Niners got badly hurt. That’s a plus…
Snyder and maybe Gore are pretty beat down; hope we get them back up to speed. We’re thin and don’t have much room for injuries true that
Refresh my memory. Who was it that said, “on paper our huge edge is QB play” prior to tonight’s game? Ah, yes. That would be our esteemed colleague and venerable blogger, TF.
Huge edge in QB play. Right you are. Our QB can take his huge edge and take a flying leap off my huge ledge.
The same pressure on Flacco and he turns it over 4 or 5 times. DTD, take your own advice- it will only hurt for like 1 second.
Niners seemingly cannot scheme a good screen pass on offense.
Have not for a long time now. Tonight would have been a good time to break out a ton of screens, and draws…
We did have a huge edge- clearly, and that hasn’t changed. Everyone here knows the problem tonight was our OL, not our QB.
And the winner of the score guessing game is….barleyfreaks @ 17-9 Ravens. Del woulda come in 2nd if he had left his original score at Ravens -5 BUT NO he got the big Christmas bonus from the Niner front office and had to do something special like change the line to Ravs -21.
Yeah, DTD is now 2-9..
I hadn’t thought of it that way, good one. And no pick sixes from Alex either.
I’ll be back in a minute. I gotta go take Frank for walk outside. Shit. Vernon just said that the Ravens “gave more effort than us.” Did he mean physical, emotional or mental effort? Regardless, my ledge accepts all failures be it physical, emotional or mental.
Remember. You’re not such a loser after all.Well, that’s what my doctor keeps telling me. But I think she’s just placating me to keep me off the ledge. “I’m not such a loser after all.” Sounds like sumthin’ the Winter Warlock would say…
I’m delighted to hear what you just said, DTD. I’m sure you’re not a loser., you just seem to have low self esteem and and project it onto the fucking 49er QB. I’m glad you have Frank, be good to him, Zeke is my best friend, I don’t know what I’d do without him.. If it weren’t for the Obama/gun sight thing I would never have been on your case. I’ll try to ignore the Smith spiels, it’s on me that they annoy me so much. Goodnight, good luck.
WELL SAID, APPLAUD!
By da both a youse, gol dang it!
Thanks for sharing!
Posted earlier on Grant’s blog:
Joshua Morgan being out hurts. We are thin at WR and today we saw that hurt us. Also the OL hurt us where we are woefully thin, the game plan and lack of adjustments hurt us. Gore is hurting. Edwards is too.
QB can’t overcome all that. Thankfully Crabtree and Smith are connecting so we can see some bright spots for the future. However we are thin and hurting at key positions.
We’ll get the Ravens again at our place, hopefully on a short week after we continue to beef up. Jim will learn from this and then look out.
The worst score prediction of the day? Del Mar? Naw he was only off by 11. Gotta admire the stones Grant C showed calling for 30-3 Niner blow out. But that’s a 37 point swing from the reality we got. Posted the following on Grant’s blog earlier: (you guys are all asleep getting your desperately needed beauty sleep so you won’t mind getting sloppy seconds, right?):
Love ya Grant but your prediction of 30-3 was far worse than any player on the Niners including Rachal.
(John Wayne voice): “Put down the Kool-aid son and step away from the table there Pilgrim”
Our offensive issues caught up to us in this game. Our WRs are banged up – Crabs has his foot, Braylon has not been healthy all year and seems to not really believe he should be out there, Morgan is gone for the year, and Ginn as a WR is a pretty good kick returner with hands of stone.
So no one is getting open very well, and then you have our line, with neither Chilo nor Snyder the real answer at right guiard, Davis still learning, and Staley still Staley (YES, Joe, you DO suck, at times).
So no big surprise that Alex spent the night running for his life and eating turf. The good news is, two years ago with Singleneuron, we would have lost 48-3. The bad news is, with the playoffs looming, it will be tough to solve these problems without at least another off-season.
Still, the first order of business is just not to suck. Harbaugh has at least succeeded there, where others failed. We’re still 9-2, still bound for the playoffs, and still playing (for the most part) sound entertaining football. Harbaugh is still, again for the most part, making chicken salad out of chicken shit. Enjoy the ride. Look forward to another draft or two.
The Ravens are 6-0 at home and turned “Big Ben” into Littlle Bengi, I just would not make too big a deal of this loss unless they don’t rebound quickly. Flacco is no Aaron Rogers but he’s no John Skelton either, a decent QB was going to burn our DBs unless we got more pressure on the QB. My only guess as to why Vic didn’t bring more than 4 is because the game was close and he didn’t want to get burned by a cheapie TD while blitzing. On the other side of the ball, I noted weeks ago that it was a mirage about the OL improving in protection- Harbaugh and Roman just weren’t calling plays that took time to develop.Now with the sudden disappearance of Walker, they’re down to two consistent receivers- VD and, lo and behold, Crabs. No idea what happened with Kyle last light, I didn’t even notice if he played. They’re getting nothing from the backs in the pass game, I didn’t see one called rollout for Alex, no screens to the backs, just the two bubble screens seem to be all they did to counter the rush. Alex seemed to take some responsibility for that, saying he called some poor plays, I presume he audibled into some disasters. But whatever- last night no play calling was going to help when there were 4 and 5 rushers on top of Smith all night. It could be a good thing that issues everyone should have been aware of were exposed now rather in the playoffs. Pittsburgh shoud be a pretty good test to see if they’ve done their homework.
Flacco is very inconsistent and has a few good games a year, and a few inexplicable throws in most of the rest.
Part of our problem was, he picked last night to bring his “A” game.
That and our O-line allowing Alex Smith to get the hell beaten out of him.
Pretty hard to win when your QB is pulling grass out of his mouth after every G-D-d play.
Yeah, having 3 days and a 6 hour plane ride to scheme for Balt’s defense is a tough challenge. Still and all, I’d think slants were in order, and screens as well. Hard to say if this is a blip or a harbinger of things to come. 2 games before Pissburgh. 2 games to work out the O line problems and get Snyder healthy. The ESPN wonks wer asking, are these guys a flash in the pan, like Buff and Detroit? Thankfully, someone said, no, they are 4-1 on the east coast. No mean feat.
Just chalk this one up to a tough set of circumstances and move on. For all the shitty play, the 2 penalties wiped out 150 yards of territory, and would have provided a different outcome.
Reality check, we still can’t walk on water. Props to Alex for being a very tough football player, he got hammered. Kinda like that timex watch, “takes a lickin and keeps on tickin.” We did not adjust to the Ravens D and it cost us dearly, and what’s up with a 3 man rush? From my seat in the peanut gallery it sure looked like we were very muchly outcoached.
The only plausible explanation for no blitzing by Niners was the Flacco penchant for hitting deep balls now and again. Coaches knew if you gave up a cheapie or two, they were toast because this offense could not score 20+ on the Ravens at home, unless they got handed some turnovers. Which brings me to that — no turnovers for the Niner D. That’s a real equalizer given the limp nature of the Niner offense that really can use a short field to score, including from the boot of Akers…
Yeah. Flacco played well strictly underneath. You’d have thunk on a couple of those 3rd down plays Fangio would have dialed up pressure. As it was there was 3 men coming on most of those.
Same thing happened with Dallas. We had Romo on the ropes, and let him off . . .
Niners most glaring weakness? Clearly the receiver corps.
Nobody can really get separation on long patterns on a consistent basis.
Edwards is either still really hurt, or is nearly done as an effective wide out.
Crabby is improving, but won’t make anybody forget John Stallworth.
Williams must not have confidence of coaches — did he even get a snap last night?
Ginn is a close relation of Edward Scissorhands.
VD is overrated. Very good blocker, but has below average hands. Often looks like he’s clueless in the pattern — where he should be, whether he was actually a option in the pattern or even if he was the hot receiver on the blitz. Used to be Alex’ fav, what happened?
Throws to backs in the flat or over the middle or screens have not been in the repertoire, for whatever reason, for most of the season. The TD to Miller a coupla weeks back is the only significant one I remember. That part of the playbook needs to be dialed up…
They threw one swing pass that Williams couldn’t reach. That was all I saw from KW. Not having Miller was readily apparent. They continue to run Ginn out there, and the guy gets open, but he just can’t catch. That last pass he’s GOT to use his hands. This isn’t sandlot football.
That being said, there’s enough time to get shit right. I would like to see Kilgore Trout in there some. They need more and better options than Chilo.
And Person . . .
All we need to do is stitch together Ginn’s legs, the Crab’s hands, and Morgan’s head, and we’d have one great NFL WR.
Yes and we used to have one like that: name of Jerry Rice
Unfortunately, he’s gone on to be one of the least gracious studio analysts ever..
My theory is that it’s very difficult for a guy with that kind of HoF talent to be a good coach or analyst. They cannot ever quite get their head around the fact that not everyone has that talent or drive.
Well, Jerry’s never been the most articulate guy out there. He gives stiff and stilted a run for their money. Not sure why he waited 7 years to pick up his announcing career, but he’s a here-and-gone type. Ronnie Lott was good. Not sure what happened with him.
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