Made it through Thanksgiving, fatter, slower, and safely parked on the couch. I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving as well. As far as the 49ers go, last I heard, from Greg Roman, is that there has been no decision made, and both guys are getting resp as the starter. And Smith still hasn’t been cleared to play.
In other words, same as it ever was . . .
So, what do you guys think? Go with Alex if cleared? Go with Cappy for one game? Go with Cappy til he fails?
I still feel the same. Give Smith one more game off. Go with Smith going forward.
Forty Niners Forever 
Oh poor Twinnie. You against the world. In your mind. I’m for Cappy getting this start. I’m sure cooler heads will prevail and it goes back to Smith next weekend. As bad as NOs defense is supposed to be, they present a lot of problems for whoever QBs tomorrow.
Is Harbaugh playing games? Uh, yeah. But if you want to jump at all the shadows flying around, so be it. Tilt away, Don Quixote. No one else out there wants Alex to play but you . . .
Eat it, Chuckles. Jumping on my comments is getting old, dude. If you think I’m out of line, delete my comments or ban me.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Poor baby.
No, Twin, I think you overreact at times. You want to paint shit to be you against the world. You against the unwashed masses. Touching but wrong. Who here is dead set against Alex?
People ain’t fully on board with Smith, so you paint them as ‘haters’ so you can engage in the hyperbole you think others use against you.
I don’t care either way, just don’t cry foul when you get called out on it.
Actually, poor Chuckie, I’m only pointing out facts for you. But saying I’m the only one who thinks Alex should play if healthy is yet another lie. Perhaps it’s true with the blog potatoes that Colin should start but there’s hardly a consensus among football people.Look, if all dem numbers confuse you, as they do in baseball, I’m always glad to help.
Well, I ain’t the one flipping out over every tweet flung out there by mis (or un) informed journalists and players.
Twaddle on, skippy. The blog world needs people like you.
Maybe you should use your powers as the Blog Maestro to correct fabrications like those regularly put out by Fear. See, the blog world does need folks who call out the fabricators. Try it.
Jaworski’s always been kind to Alex. He said this after our last game, and after reading my game comments.
“… I think clearly Kaeperneck’s ability to get the ball down the field scares the hell out of defenses.
Alex Smith is a terrific quarterback, but you don’t have the vertical game that you have, with Alex Smith in there, that you have with Colin Kaeperneck.”
Vernon Davis said it felt like they took the handcuffs off him with Kaepernick.
Translation: Alex’s game is a short passing game. He deals in safe, high percentage throws. He’s become efficient in a game plan requiring 20 or fewer passes.
“Vernon Davis said it felt like they took the handcuffs off him with Kaepernick”
See, he never said that. He said he felt the handcuffs were off, never said “with Kaepernick” . As VD and Harbaugh have both said- Vernon had been doubled, teams had played to stop him. Davis said he ran his routes and wasn’t open. The Bears played single coverage and packed the box- voila-he was open. Try to be factual, Fear,
You’re right Twin that is what VD said but he also said on a given specific play that with Alex the TE never gets the pass thrown to him but that Kap threw it to him and did so in a tight window like Brady does.
Also, although he didn’t add “with Kaepernick” regarding the handcuffs comment I think it’s fair to assume that’s who he was talking about since Kap was the only QB playing.
I don’t mean to be rude Twin, but your comments after the Bears game and the consistency of the posts since show your bias pretty clearly. You accuse everyone else of bias against Alex but in my opinion you are showing more bias than anyone else for Alex.
Kap is probably starting Sunday and may or may not be the starter going forward, either way this is less a condemnation of Alex who is playing well, than a chance for the team to improve upon that level of play. We will see how it works out.
Vernon Davis: “Kaepernick played last night and happened to do a good job but Alex (Smith) is still the man, no question”.. a real quote, not one fabricated to suggest something that Davis never meant..
Bias? You bet, pal. I’m demonstating, with numbers that can’t be argued (as much as you want your “sniff test” to trump all facts) that Smith should be the QB.
I’ve said may many times that Colin did a fine job- I’ve also pointed out some facts about the defense he faced, facts originally pointed out by Dilfer- and easy to check.
He did praise that throw as Brady-ish, it was a great throw, that has absolutely nothing to with Alex and whether he could make the throw.VD absolutlely should have been praising the kid for good work. You think maybe VD kinda liked THIS throw- on a bigger stage, with bigger stakes? Oh wait, that was all VD, Smith had nothing to do with it….
Well Twin you keep demonstrating who should start and I will watch the game to see who is going to start.
Top 5 favorite punchlines to all-time favorite jokes…
5. $20. Same as downtown.
4. How do you think I rang the doorbell?
3. That’s not a bagpipe, but don’t stop playing.
2. All the genie gave me was a 12-inch pianist.
1. Alex Smith.
I’ve never seen a more unnecessary week of debate about something in the history of Bay Area sports. None of this needed to happen. This d-bag is replacing his QB who has run the team to a 20-6 record during his time as coach. JH is either the greatest coaching mind in the history of sports or a guy who’s about to toss a lit gas can on his team’s season. We’ll see. For the record, I’m totally against doing this at this point in the season…..
Well, nothing has really happened. Harbaugh couldhave stopped the blather, but I,m sure the players know what,s going on. Smith hasn,t been cleared yet. Cappy starts tomorrow. Maybe. The only people freaking out are the bloggers and reporters.
I,m with you that it makes o sense to switch abs midstream, but that hasn,t happened yet.
It’s obviously going to be Kap and it SHOULD BE Kap…for this game. I’ve got no problem at all with JH taking a look at Kap on the road and resting Alex’s brain one more week. But he should have just said he was doing this as soon as last week’s game ended. That was my point. This week of blather was avoidable. If he did the simple thing I said to do he gets his free look at Kap on the road AND THEN decides to make a move one way or the other.
I think Kap is going to take a few steps back in NO, btw…
then we get to see where Jimmy shops for his drawers…………..
I think he likes the drama
And twin, it ain’t,t my job to fact check others.
Good to know. I ‘ll take care of it, Chuckles.
Twinfan, confused by the concept of quotation marks? I added the ‘with Kaep’ so you’d know when he said what he said. I dropped the quotes so you’d know I added it.
You run away from your “brilliant” comments at the end of nearly every game last year and now you run away from your dismissive comments of Kaep’s performance last week where you summed it up with ‘zero defense’ and ‘impossible to be unsuccessful’ and try to pass yourself off as praising Kaep’s performance.
You keep screeching about fabrications while you’re doing all the fabricating and twisting.
If your position is so hard to defend maybe a reassessment of it is in order.
I’m going to say this one more time-you’re a fucking liar, pal.I called one pass “brilliant” in 2009. I’ve never “run away” from anything..
What’s hilarious is to say it’s a “bias” when it’s shown that Smith is 20-6-1, that he’s rated in the top ten by every rating system ,that he was player of the week the last full game he played ( against the #5 pass defense in the league)… I could go on.but it’s not “bias” to say that that should trump one good ballgame by his back up. It’s called common sense.Sound thinking ..
So why is Harbaugh doing this? Simple: he’s out of control. His pressers this week have been shockingly contemptuous of a press and fans who have adored him. Colin is probably going to be a fine QB in the NFL and he might be that now- but Harbaugh has a fine QB- one who has done nothing to lose his job. Harbaugh has chosen to humiliate him to further Jimbo’s rep as QB maker. They were going to the playooffs with Smith-only a cretin could deny that- and they’d be going to the playofs with the QB who had 5 TD passes and 100+ rating in last year’s postseason. The argument that Smith is out today to give him another week to heal doesn’t wash-he’s active and the back up today according to Branch.
Harbaugh has taken a bold but risky move and as Niner fan, I hope Kap does well- but as a knowledgeable fan, I have doubts -and as a human being I don’t like how a class person has been abused..
Twin, you are off the rails with this: ” Harbaugh has chosen to humiliate him to further Jimbo’s rep as QB maker.”
He is choosing to play Kap because he thinks it serves the teams best interests.
You are becoming unhinged about this.
The problem is, if Harbaugh wins, no one cares if he’s Jeffrey fucking Dalmer. If Cappy gets them SB #6, no one cares how he acts. Just get the Lombardi trophy. The Smith deal is not over by any stretch. I think Harbaugh just enjoys fucking with everyone. I think Smith starts next week regardless of how Cappy does. Unless it’s close to last week.
New thread is up.