Christ, this feels like March. The Niners haven’t played a game in seemingly 2 months, and and were apparently off for a month before that lone Arizona game. But, after long last and much anxiety, we are back to playing football. The St. Louis Rams come to town, not to conquer, but to crumble. After a promising 3-2 start, including division wins ver Sea and AZ, the Rams have lost 3 in a row. Sure, GB and NE were likely pegged as losses, but Miami? Ouch. That one had to sting.
Sure, it’s early in the tenure of Jeff Fisher, but the Rams don’t seem to be doing anything particularly well. 28th in points scored and 20th in points allowed. Sam Bradford has been derailed on his way to elite status among the crop of young QBs in the league. He has been grinding through the Alex Smith school of new coaching staffs and offenses and players on a yearly basis kind of thing. After his rookie year of doing well (3500 yards, 18 TDs, 15 picks, and a near-miss at the playoffs at 7-9), he struggled through an injury-plagued season last year (1700 yards, 6 TDs, 6 picks). This year? Well, pretty much the same numbers he put up last year in 10 games. 1800 yards, 8 TDs, 7 picks. Erstwhile workhorse RB Steven Jackson has finally had it with the organization, and is on his way out after carrying the team for years and being the only bright spot for 6 seasons. WR Danny Amendola is probable for the game, so they may get one of their weapons back, but Bradford has been sacked 23 times in 8 games, so his protection isn’t all that.
The Niners? Well, we saw how they did after their mini-break. They dismantled AZ pretty easily. I foresee much the same this weekend. Gone were the drive-killing Cappy Capperson plays. The Niners ran at will, and thus were able to throw all night off play-action, and chew up big chunks of yards. AZ has a terrible line, and Red Skelton was pressured all night. Again, I see the same thing happening this weekend.
31-10, Niners.
Forty Niners Forever 
Reposted from above to NF:
NF I dragged this topic in here, not anyone else, when I said ruefully ” Blew the Romney call”. But I do agree with everything you’ve said politically. Still this is a Niners blog and for one I’m very glad you came over here NF.
Sooo…you got a call for us on the Slaughter of the Lambs?
Ditto for RT BTW; RT?, RT?
Nipper? Where the fuck is da nip?
Oh, NoFear. The military vote isn’t 90-10 split like Mississippi was. I’m sure it’s in the 53-47 range. It wouldn’t swing anything.
Grump, exactly. If Romney wanted to win, he shouldn’t have gone all tea-party about immigration. Bush got 45% of the Latino vote by pretty much ignoring immigration. He had his version of the dream act to get the vote. Romney sealed his doom by going hard-line in the primary re immigration. Latinos are religious and fiscally conservative for the most part, and they are sudden;y in play. Boner is crooning to them as we speak.
The split is not the point, is it? You get upset if illegals and dead guys can’t vote but the military not getting a vote is no big deal because you have a feel for the split?
I’ll give you one thing though, if the country can re-elect a guy for a second term in this economy after seeing four years of his feckless leadership and endless attempts at subverting the Constitution it seems more than a little out of place to worry about the vote of folks signing up to defend it.
He’s doing a helluva job on Sandy, thanks for the just-in-time photo op. Maybe some of that stimulus trillion could have helped bury that fragile power grid out there. But that wouldn’t have bought enough votes.
Wow, you don’t miss a trick on the Fox talking points, do you NoFear?
Voter fraud is a non-issue. 10 cases in 14 years? Please. It’s bullshit and you know it. I can find 6,000 wbesites now about how Obama bought the election through massive fraud. Right, and the liberal media won’t report it. And Obama’s shooting down planes filled with absentee ballots strictly earmarked as Romney’s. Blah bah blah. It’s all a massive conspiracy. Fodder for the tinfoil hat crowd. Criminy.
Obama did OK for his first term. Did he live up to all his promises in 2008? Well, he did on some, he didn’t on others. Pretty much the same as all the other presiidents. Did Nixon get us off foreign oil in 10 years as promised? No. Every pres since has said we’d get off the foreign oil tit. None have delivered. Obama coninued about 75% of Bush’s policies, but he’s a Socialist Muslim who will have us all speaking Arabic in 2 years. You really spooked by all this, NoFear? Really?
Photo op or not, Obama got off his ass and did something. Chris Christie was appreciative of it. What’s the spin on that? What did Bush do during Katrina? Read a book to children? Oh yeah, that was his other major fuck-up.
Yeah, if only those lost 14,000,000 votes for Romney could just be found . . . Must be fun living in perpetual denial of reality.
OK — here it is, written in stone:
The Return of The Vernon,
Big day for Davis — 2 TD’s
Akers is 3 for 3
Justin Smith gets his 1st sack of the year. In the end zone.
Rams only score once, but with their defense.
25-7, Niners.
Got it barley, will add
Thanks Phil. I think the Rams getting Amendola back might be able to move the ball with Jackson being a threat on the ground we can’t ignore. I also think we should have been able to come up with some plays to get the ball to Vernon this week if that was the problem. My only worry is their pass rushing DEs. But I think we attack the Rams mostly on the ground since our o-line’s run blocking and Gore can’t be stopped. 3 TDs, 3 FGs and a safety just to make things interesting. 2 TDs and a FG for the Rams. 32-17 49ers.
Check
Damn Barley, great minds….
Random comment by ESPN’s John Clayton:
“3. Falling stars of NFC East: Either the Dallas Cowboys or the Philadelphia Eagles are going to leave Sunday’s game with a 3-6 record. That’s amazing when you think about it.”
No John actually, it isn’t. What is amazing is that so many pontificating pundits continue to think that the Jerry Jones Clusterfuck Cowboys will be any good, or that Michael Vick will lead the Smeagols to the playoffs.
I should have read farther. Here’s another nugget, just a few lines down:
“The Cowboys simply frustrate you.”
Laughing!
What’s amazing, is that either of those teams could actually have three wins. They both excel at choking.
I’m tellin’ ya, those photo ops of politicians doing their jobs piss me off no end. Anyone have photos of the Romney volunteers buying canned food to give to other volunteers to give to Romney for the “relief effort”? The volunteers were asked to wait to drop the goods until Romney arrived to create his photo op of Mitt doing *his* job- politicizing a disaster. As the goods were handed to Mitt, a biographical video was aired. Even Romney strategist Stuart Stevens, a Republican ad man ( ad men were big in the Romney camp) agreed that the video blurred the line between storm relief & politicking. He said “”Some volunteer just pressed play, I guess.”
The Red Cross was asking for donations and volunteers, BTW. Not evaporated milk.
The kicker: where did the supplies go? New York? New Jersey? Nope- they were sent to swing states Mitt thought he could win-Virginia, North Carolina, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania …
That’s a well-worn liberal tactic, Twinfan. Demonize the other guy to the point your idiot doesn’t look so stupid. How does any of what you wrote absolve BHO?
Well your hero just cashiered his CIA boss. Just after the election and just before the under-oath testimony on the fiasco that protected Muslims and sacrificed Americans. What a guy you’ve put in charge again.
A well-worn liberal tactic? Really? How about fiddling while New Orleans drowned?
Go on thinking Obama’s born in Kenya, and is a Socialist, and is trying to turn the US into a 3rd world country. Don’t forget your tinfoil hat.
Oh Goodie! Another consipracy!
Do tell, NoFear! It wasn’t Patraeus swinging his dick around? Obama fucking appointed him CIA director. What’s the nefarious plot behind this?
Well, you would call it demonizing, I call it exposing. Whatever. Next time, which won’t come until 2024 as the next 8 years after Obama are Hillary’s for the taking, you fellas need to either understand that the demographic that got your guys elected in the past will never be again- or you need to prop up a slicker salesman..
Hillary will be 69 in 2016. 77 in 2024. I have a hard time believing she is both willing at this point and can avoid being labeled as too old. The Presidency ages people; I’d hate to see her at 77 after 8 years of that. Better that we find someone younger, no matter the party.
Geez, she’s alreading leading prospective candidates in polling for the Iowa caucuses. We’ll see, but it’s hers if she wants it, there’s very little disagreement on that.
As for Petraeus:
Petraeus’ resignation letter, quoted by several news outlets, centered on his personal behavior.
“Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position as D/CIA. After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours,” he said. “This afternoon, the President graciously accepted my resignation.”
Sounds like a man who wants to focus on saving his marriage.
No, Grump. It was a secret directive by Obama to oust Patraeus because Patraeus is a closet Muslim. Look it up! It’s all over the internets!
But wait! Why would Obama dismiss a Muslim from his CIA directorship? Becasue that’s exactly what they think he wouldn’t do! He can be more sneaky from the outside!
Truth is, if Romney had gotten the Latino vote that Bush did in 2004, he would have won.
Sadly, Rmoney burned that bridge during the primaries when he ridiculed Rick Perry and his moderate immagration stance as governor of Texas, saying AZ is the model for the country. The Republican candidates all ran to the tea party to their ultimate doom.
Boner is now talking immigration reform that isn’t as draconian as it was 4 days ago. Funny how losing the election will change one’s perspective.
I think it should be Bill Richardson vs Chris Christie. Battle of the heavyweights.
They can start the Iowa caucus with a hotdog eating contest . . .
The bottom line here, NoFear, is the Republicans didn’t even want Romney as their nominee. Why would the country want him as president?
I’m waiting for NoFear to tie the ‘resignation’ to the Benghazi fiasco.
Because Benghazi = 9/11. No, it’s worse, somehow.
Anyhow, back to football.
You know Danny Amendola, their only WR weapon, will get Rogers and Goldson just about every route over 10 yards, but the Rams will take deep shots. Which means the once and future star Goldson has to stay at home and not bite on play-action or double moves.
Politics? Nothing a good spanking of the Rams won’t solve.
Well not that you bothered asking me Phil, and it hurt my feelings BTW, but here it is: Niners 28 Rams 21, lambs get fleeced.
Yeah Man I figgered you were taking a nap until the BS blew over. Ok gotcha
From politics, nah. I like politics. The extremists on either spectrum not so much. The attempt to place working people into servitude has failed as has the intent to control women.
In my humble opinion it serves this country best to have one party have the presidency and the other one of the house to temper a singular view such as baby Bush had for 6 of his 8 years. Likewise Obama in his first 2. Unfettered power to one party means one voice is heard. Republicans tried the squeeze play during the first term, opposing just about every bill and filibustering at an unprecedented rate in an effort to have Obama’s first term be as much a failure as possible in order to win a republican presidency. It didn’t work as a strategy.
Now we have a reset, Republicans have to become the party of yes in order to take credit for righting the country in the next 4 years. They must also become more inclusive to diversity. Hannity has already embraced immigration reform, something he has banged the drum against for years.
Democrats on the other hand have to recognize that there is not an unlimited supply of money to pander to every cause no matter how worthy it is deemed. To continue to increase the debt in the short term is ok, since austerity as a solution has failed in every country it has been tried. But to not address the debt in the long term view is irresponsible. It makes no difference now who started wars and didn’t pay for them or who made tax cuts and didn’t pay for them or who gave enormous bailouts to whom. Today we have an unmanageable and increasing debt that must be addressed. All solutions are on the table, taxes, defense budget, social programs, raising of revenue etc. No party got a mandate to say anything should not be on the table as a negotiating position, we the people deserve and demand government by the people for the people and that means ALL the people not the privleged few or the masses with their hand out. It is a crazy situation that almost half the adults pay no federal tax. It is a crazy situation that pay is comparatively so low to the cost of living that many can’t afford to live.
A prosperous United States needs manufacturing here, and it needs a working and middle class that can afford to spend money here at home within this economy. Allowing the uber rich or giant corporations to make unheard of profit margins and then turn around invest them overseas in China and India and send manufacturing there because of a better return on their investments does not help the U.S., it helps those individuals. China must be made to play by the rules and our companies here must be held accountable to this economy or no matter who is your political flavor we are all in a world of shit.
This nonsense of my party is better than your party and has the right answers is a shell game. Real policies are needed. The time for politicking is over. Now they must work together and they will if only for their own self interest in being elected next time.
Stump speech over!
The mistress has been identified as Paula Broadwell DCI Patreus’ biographer
Grumpy, looks like Chip Kelly might make it to the NFL after all: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/category/rumor-mill/
We get to see if his math is new math or good math.