Great thing is, this is a short work week. And countdown to kickoff has begun. In exactly 118 hours, the 2012 fotball season will start for your San Francisco 49ers.
Granted, this has been a bit of a curious preseason. All we heard about were the amazingly crisp passes from Young Sir Alex to all the new weapons on the team, from LaMichael James to AJ Jenkins to Super Mario to Randy (traffic cop) Moss to Michael (Softshell) Crabtree. Come (practice) game time, little to nothing was shown to the opponents, or worse yet, the fans. Sure, there are reasons for this, but still and all throwing 4 yard outs to Crabs has pretty much been established. Running on 1st and 20 has been shown. Playing it safe in the red zone. Been there done that. The run game looked goosd in a couple games (Minn, SD), and bad in a couple (Hou, Indy). The defense pretty much followed suit. A couple good games, a couple ehh ones. Indy being the worst. Although they were hampered by injury and the blandness of the schemes Fangio was running.
Still and all, these games are tune-ups and there is little to take from these. Lest we forget the stellar 4-0 record Singletary amassed in 2010. He wasn’t about moral victories. Just meaningless ones.
Anyhow, buckle your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy ride . . .
Forty Niners Forever 
Lets go NINERS! BLEEP the opposition and the frozen tundra!
Nothing frozen about it in September Nipper! Traffic cop Moss lol, he got away with it didn’t he?
At least GREEN BAY is a unique place to play.
Warm in Wisc in Sept, high school there for me. Pack my first team in the 60’s. Now? Screw them.
Moss, we’re gonna see, huh?
Where’s reddog?
Taking a leak? Behind a tree?
Reading the imaginary disses of poor Alex?
Niners are lucky to have Alex. There’s a lot of lousy QBs rattling around the NFL.
Dennis will have to learn and appreciate!
Yeah, and only MOST of them are in our division.
It’s a good thing.
Speaking of lousy QBs, JJ hasn’t been signed by anyone yet. I’m little surprised.
Michael Crabtree: Oblivious Jackass, or Clueless Dunce?
“Man, I learn so much from him,” Crabtree said about Moss. “That’s my dude. (He makes) me feel like I can be myself. Seeing an old guy like that, and he’s been himself for so long that you . . . I’m going to be myself and go out and play. You can learn from a guy like that. You don’t have to change for nobody.”
I’m not so sure our little Mikey is taking the right lesson from Moss’s yearlong vacation from NFL-Land and his last ditch attempt to restart his career here.
Being yourself is fine, if you’re productive, and not a jackass. When you don’t even bother turning around and looking for passes when the defense is blitzing, not so much.
Sounds like he is going to play his way regardless of what he’s told. Let’s hope that’s not what he meant.
That was great Grump- My two cats liked it too.
I think we play the Pack real tough, weather not being a factor we are just as fast if not faster than GB. I think we take this one, they have no running game to speak of and if Aldon is healthy we should be in Rogers face all day.
Sounds good to me.
Like it winder: we win b/c Cowboy harasses Rodgers all day.
See: http://www.ninersnation.com/2012/9/4/3289654/49ers-vs-packers-preview-justin-smith-marshall-newhouse-mismatch
The Clamp gonna go on Rodgers head my friends.
Moss and Crabs to be starting receivers, I guess Moss really has played well in practice cause nothing happened in pre-season.
I’m really lookin forward to seeing Moss in action. I don’t think Harbaugh is one to keep a player if he didn’t earn it
Me too, 1st and 10 a 45 yd TD to Moss would make me a happy camper!
Jeezus. The more Crabs talks, the more he sounds like a complete clueless moron.
“Be myself?” Who were you these past few seasons? Jerry Lewis?
Loved the cat thing.
Ginn, williams, LMJ as pr/kr in that order. Cox beat Brock in the battle of the backups behind Rogers
I’m suffering from a giddy overdose of psychotic venom, myself. Maybe suffering is not the right word. Enjoying the hell out if it?
Sounds like a good drink to me.
Damned near anything sounds like a good drink to me. I’ll drink to that!
Hell yeah gentlemen!
And you guys wanted to cut Ginn before last season. Hah! What you gonna make martinis with? Vodka??!!??
Psychotic Venom. Not a bad band name.
Beats Anthrax.
Spank me!!!
loved this scene.
Time for some psychotic venom.
Courtesy of the Post Toastie himself, Tommy Bolin.
Is GFinn back from his ankle injury?
Ask Harbaugh lol
Shit, the world is on a ‘need-to-know’ basis on these things.
Best answer so far is he is walking without a limp in the locker room.
Apparently not as he’s not on the depth chart for WRs. Haven’t really heard one way or the other though.
Which means KW is returning punts in not-so-frigid Green Bay.
By the end of the game it should be geting a little chilly though.
He’s listed 3rd string Chuck:
http://www.csnbayarea.com/football-san-francisco-niners/niners-talk/Depth-chart-Moss-listed-as-starter?blockID=767759&feedID=5936
Which means Williams is ahead of him as a WR
Yeah, the Green bay game comes down to our offense. Green Bay WILL score. Maybe not as much as they are used to, but the Niners have to be able to answer. And they are going to have to show some downfield passing. I remember the last time the Niners played GB, they were daring the Niners to do anything downfield. Often putting 9-10, even all 11 guys, 10 yards from the LOS.
However they do it, they need to strwetch out GBs defense. I don;t really know what they did this offfseason, but they were dead last in defense last year. I don;t think they did enough to change that too much.
Just looked some Reddog posts- are you sure he’s Bullit? They’re nothing remotely like he used to post on the Insider..
We did go downfield on Green Bay last time we played, BTW. And successfully, with deep throws for TDs to Crabtree and Davis. It was the game where Raye only passed 7 times in the first half. We went to the spread in the second half and nearly won- GB was NOT in a prevent, they just got burned.After pulling to within 6, Green Bay got the ball back on their own 9 with 6 minutes left and ran out the clock..
I can’t be accepted as reddog here as unca_chuck and his sidekicks are out to smear me.
In case you missed it phil fan said this
September 1, 2012 at 3:24 am
reddog is twinfan. Just ignore. Pay no attention to the smoke and mirrors. I recommend the same strategy with reddick as with my buddy Del Mar = let it go; not a serious discussion.
His buudy Irish Kevin = Flavor until proven otherwise. Same old tired game.