Or, As the Ankle Turns. This guy’s a goddamn soap opera wrapped in a reality show wrapped in an ankle brace. For the 2nd time in 2 years, Michael (practice? PRACTICE?? We’re not talking GAME. Practice???) Crabtree hurt himself on the 1st day of practice. Year one of course was the Year of the Holdout. This guys is a walking Alan Iverson in shoulder pads. You know Crabtree. The guy who spent last offseason ignoring his quarterback, dissing his ass, and disappearing in the playoffs. He had a decent enough season, but he and Smith have about as much chemistry as do oil and water. Any route over 10 yards usually didn’t work.
I’m sure you guys are familiar with my misgivings about the guy. He can’t seem to understand how to read defenses. He rarely reacts to Smith being under pressure, and thus trying to get open. He for the life of him cannot run slants as he doesn’t turn his head fast enough to catch the slant. The few games I’ve seen live, and when they deign to show replays of routes, he never adjusts to Smith when protection breaks down, and he doesn’t turn for the ball if Smith breaks contain. All I hear is how wonderful he is. He’s a mean blocker. That’s all well and good, but I want my WRs to be able to catch a slant or improvise to help his QB.
I thnk the best thing to happen was for Randy Moss and Mario Manningham to come here, as it certainly knocks Crabs down off his esteemed position of being the automatic #1. He’ll fall even further if he remains on the sidelines.
Forty Niners Forever 
Yeah, I did that for a while with V myself. At some point you let it go. Plus, the Insider is pretty bad now anyway, so I don’t even bother reading that. The Giants Splash blog is MUCH worse. The only sites I really deal with are this, Skeebs, and a couple Giants blogs.Yeah, Bergs at least has a sense of humor. His drunken posts? Fuck ’em. He went off yesterday on another blog about how the Giants got fleeced by the Phillies and wouldn’t stop with the Nate bullshit after Pence didn’t hit 4 HRs in his Giants debut. The repetitive over-and-over shit gets annoying as hell.
Reno’s cool. As much shiite as we’ve thrown at each other over the years, I think half of it is just for the sake of thowing shiite at each other. No problems here.
Crabs would excel as a #2. That’s been my opinion for a long time and I’m sticking to it. As for #1, meh – JJ Stokes reincarnated.
Far as the WRs go it’s still a work in progress till we have some evidence things have changed. Caution aside, we should be greatly improved with Moss, Manningham and Maxi Pad battling it out for the #1 position with VD adding to the mix. Crabs a #1? Yeah in the injury dept.
Berger slept here!
Just lay off the booze, skippy.
Hey, now, that’s crazy talk, Skippy.
Without booze we’d just be a bunch of old farts arguing on the internet instead of the Rock n Roll Supercool dudes we are. ROTFLMAO.
Bergs is awright. I don’t get into the beesball shit so we have no quarrels. Funny is good and the drunken stuff, well I’ve been there too.
Skeebutt is another story. Fuck him
Speaking of dickwads, I had a sudden total recall the other day and remembered Schwarzenegger in Terminator II (I think) saying to the little kid “I’ll be back, Dickwad”.
Yes! I knew that fine expression had a great pedigree!
Maybe Del Mar can help us out and post the exact clip? Just askin’
Jenkins a bust? Maiocco takes a rational approach:
“It’s because of Manningham that I don’t see how rookie A.J. Jenkins can make much of an impact as a rookie. Jenkins has neither been outstanding or bad. And, as expected,
he does not appear ready to challenge Manningham, Crabtree or Moss for a spot within the team’s top three.”
“Q: Why is Mario Manningham being so overlooked this off-season? Wasn’t he a sneaky good pick up? (Alex Sawyer)
Whenever I write or talk about the 49ers’ receivers, I mention Mario Manningham, along with Michael Crabtree and Randy Moss, as the team’s top three receivers.
Yes, Manningham was a very good pickup for the investment. He signed a two-year contract, and he is a starter-quality receiver. I’d expect Manningham to hold down the job as the No. 3 wideout, while also rotating into games as one of the top two guys on occasion.”
http://www.csnbayarea.com/football-san-francisco-niners/niners-talk/49ers-Mailbag-Kaepernick-slated-as-long-?blockID=750245&feedID=5936
Fucking Bullthead is a moron of epic proportions. he gets up a 6:30 in the morning to start the bullshit with Crabs up again.
Plus he’s a fucking lurker.
My favorite scene from T-1 is when Ahnuld is in some guy’s apartment, and the landlord knocks on the door. All these ‘acceptable’ replies scroll across his field of vision. He picks . . .
http://tinyurl.com/bptm4yl
Ah… “Fuck you, Asshole,” that was a goddamned classic, I remember it well.
Excellent! I’m going to have to review my Terminator education. Maybe right here…
The most emotional, at least to me, scene in the movie is when Sarah is sitting in her jeep at the gas station and looks at the Polaroid of herself. Talk about looking in the mirror and self-evaluating one’s entire life while you “fill it up.” That’s a shitload more than gas going into her tank. That hit home to me…
My college buddy and I being assholes, we always liked to ‘count down’ after the guy tells Sarah “not to worry, there are 30 cops in the building”.
30… 29… 28…. 27…
For a low budget flick, it was pretty decently done.
Yeah, they tried so hard to generate tag lines. I’ll be baack! Fuck you, asshole!
That movie actually put Arnold on the map. Mainly because it wasn’t a Conan movie. There was a little acting involved. His agent didn’t want him to do it because he was the bad guy. Arnold said fuck that, and rolled.
I have 2 friends that did special effects on that movie. They partied with Arnie quite a bit on set, said he was a fun guy to hang with.
Yeah, i met him when I lived in Colorado back in the 80s. Thought he was a hot-shot, but then again he was! Yeah, Nice. I beat him in the Aspen town downhill when I was a ski bum.
He even bought me a beer for my troubles.
He has/had a restaurant on main St between Venice and Santa Monica in So Cal, he greeted me and my then wife as we went inside. Funny thing was we didn’t even know he owned it. Small world Chuck.
Not much to report on, other than the fact that Michael Crabtree missed his 6th practice of the 2012 season, and is in danger of missing his 13th straight preseason game.
Michael, meet the bench.
So glad we paid this guy missions to loaf around, and talk shit about his QB. Can’t wait til he splits for Dallas, and Donte Whitner lays him out.
Chuck its annoying Crabs is following his established pre season routine again but I don’t see a benching unless Manningham, Williams, Napalm light it up big time. At the end of the day he does contribute and has skills, it would be an unexpected step for Harbaugh to sit him.
Personally speaking I think it might do him some good to sit a game or 2, just would be surprised if it happens.
Well, he’s missed enough practices to not be able to play in the 1st preseason game. That’s already decided, if you believe Maiocco. The problem has ALWAYS been Crabs and Smith rarely connect on anything other than comeback routes. Slants are a mystery. He rarely gets open quickly, and he cannot for the life of him get his head around to look for Smith if he breaks contain. Granted, up until this point, no one not named VD has been able to figure this dilemma out either. Now I have hope Mario or Moss can at least provide some ability to open up the underneath a little more so a guy like Crabs can get open. But, again, Crabs is not out there getting his reps. He’s in no hurry to get on the field. This is my opinion, but really, it’s annoying as hell that it seems that all he has time to do is dog his QB. His attitude screams ‘get me out of here.’
Harbaugh has little patience for shit like this. If he sits for the first 2 preseason games, then I think he misses a regular game or 2. In other words, if these other guys are making progress with Alex, then why waste a spot with Crabs? If he ain’t in synch, I think he’ll get sat. Shawntae Spencer was the #1 CB until competition was brought in, and he shot right to the bottom of the depth chart. It’s not like this hasn’t happened before.
Chuck thinks hardnose!
BLEEP for Crabs?
Florio over at PFT is making similar noises as you Chuck. He implies that much more TC missed can open the door to other WR to start opposite Moss who seems a lock to begin the season as the #1 at this point.
I wonder if its Florio’s opinion or if he’s hearing whispers?
Florio’s stealing my stuff.