A funny thing happened on the way to Colin Kaepernick’s ascendancy to the upper echelon of the young guns of the NFL. he pitched a ball 15 yards toward his own end zone, thus giving the Rams 8 points and new life. This of course came after retreating 24 yards only to throw an intentionally grounded pass from his own end zone for a safety. Kappy scored 8 for ther Rams, and 13 for the Niners. The Rams earned 5 on their own for the win.
Belaboring the conervative play calling may not be anyone’s idea of fun, but it has to play a part in this team trying to reach the promised land. yes, you change your look to what the defense is showing, but the Rams had the line packed most of the game, and the Niners still tried to run into in, to no avail. this game was so much a Noloan/Singletary game. With the exception that those guys may have WON this one.
Harbaugh called an option pitch from his own 17 yard line with 3:31 remaining in a game where the StL offense had scored zero points. The snap was low, and Kappy hurried the pitch, and it skipped to the 2 yard line, where Ted (Allen Rossum) Ginn pretended to try and get the ball. At best he should have knocked it OB, kicked it OB, fallen on it, or something other than the lame-ass attempt to get it that he did. Janorious Jenkins recovered the fumble on the 2 yard line. Inexplicably, and with Ginn sitting on Jenkins’ helmet after the recovery, Jenkins wasn’t ruled down by contact and was allowed to roll into the end zone for a score. Hometown call but whatever. StL converted the 2 pt conversion for the tie. The rest we all saw. Bradford scampers for a couple 1st downs with the obligatory stupid fuckup by Dashon Goldson on the hit to Bradford. For as good as he is, he continues to make some boenheaded plays at the worst possible times.
Anyhow, back to the play calling. As much as Kappy wants to pin this game on himself, and there is a large amount of resposibility that falls on his shoulders, you have to really question what Harbaugh/Roman are thinking. All game the Niners ARE playing it fairly conservative. Gore had one big run surrounded by a bunch of one yard runs. The passing game consisted of the kind of short shit that everyone blamed on Alex Smith’s limitations, not the desire of a head coach to play it safe. Kappy was supposed to assume the starting role because he brings more downfield striking ability to the table. Well, it was rarely shown all game despite the Rams packing the line and daring the Niners to go deep. They didn’t until the 3rd quarter. Again, VD was eerily silent. Walker dropped a sure TD, but there were very few downfield shots taken. Moss? He gets his 1 or 2 12 yard outs. He’s gotten I think ONE deep pass all year. It’s insane.
All that being said, the approach WAS working. The Niners had an 8 point lead with 4 minutes remaining. The D was stopping everything the Rams had. Then the fateful pitch play. If ever there WAS a time to play it conservative, it was then. Instead, Harbaugh wanted to go fucking college gimmick look-at-me-I’m-so-cool play, and boom, a gift 8 points for the Rams. Kappy did make another mistake, but it came after his 50 yard run to set up the late lead. He should not have gone OB on his 10 yard run to set up Akers’ 33 yard FG. A quibble? Maybe, but it would have forced StL to use their last time out before their last drive.
After trading punts in OT, Hekker boomed one 14 yards to give the Niners the ball at the 50. Now HERE’S where you DON’T go conservative. After converting a 3rd down to StL’s 37, the Niners ran right 2 tims for 4 yards. They tried to get the ball to the left hash mark, but the pass to Crabs was incomplete. Still and all, you don’t really want to leave your struggling kicker with a 51 yarder. Even indoors. Take at least one shot downfield. a nice mid-range pass or something. I know they were worried about a sack, but being conservative pretty much sealed their fate. I think about 95% of the Niner fans out there knew what was coming.
Forty Niners Forever 
I find it hard to believe and the search yields spotty results but Jim Hart is said to have thrown a pass 98.3 yards in the air.
It was intercepted.
I got 83 yards. . . . Dandy Don to Bullet Bob
“How far was the longest pass in the NFL (not counting the run), and
who threw and caught it?
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User comments
The statistic is in the NFL record book. The longest pass in
the air was 83 yards thrown by Don Meridith to Bob Hays”
http://www.answerbag.com/c_view.php/1619?#q_1367
The date of this pass was November 13, 1966, when Meredith
threw to Hayes for “95 yards” (this is the conventional statistic
including yards gained after the catch).
See this listing of the Cowboys’ longest plays:
“95 – Don Meredith to Bob Hayes @ Washington, Nov. 13, 1966 (TD).”
http://texnews.com/cowboys/longestplays.html
PFF has Kap as the leagues highest rated passer the last 3 games and the Rams game was not his worst:
http://49ers.pressdemocrat.com/2012/12/inside-the-49ers/kaepernick-pro-football-focus-highest-rated-passer/
Cosell on the Rams game:
http://49ers.pressdemocrat.com/2012/12/inside-the-49ers/cosell-says-kaepernick-did-not-play-poorly-by-any-stretch-against-the-rams-on-sunday/
Saw that. Always good to know. Alex wants a raise..
(put the smiley fuck here>>>)
Saw which? Kap highest rated passer in the league since he became a starter or the good game Kap had against the Rams comments from Cosell?
You mean Total QBR ? Doesn’t penalize 20 yard dashes to your own end zone, lovely air throw to the big boobed blonde in row 3, running OB to make dead certain the opponent has time to score, thnking Ted is a Lab and leading him perfectly with a birch branch? That rating?
Ah Twin, ever turning things to suit your purpose. Started out as Kap played poorly according to you, when actually as a passer he played well, which is incidentally what I said. As a running QB I think he did well in that category too. Other than the 3 errors, one of which is on the coach, Kap played well and certainly well enough to win the game twice over. What was that phrase you used when I said exactly that? It escapes me right now. It wasn’t a win so the dimmer light bulbs only see the gloom.
“Other than the three errors..” Good stuff. We remember the query to Mrs. Lincohn, do we not? And sorry- Jimbo didn’t air mail the pitch..
As a passer, his rating was a mediocre 83.9. Total QBR also credits his running- very Douglass like, I must say. Neither penalize the bone head plays. Now as much as I enjoy seeing you again, I reallly must get some sleep. Cheers!
So a question for tomorrow then! What do you think this PFF league leading thingy that Kap has means? And why is Kap’s PFF average QB thingy so much higher than Alex’s?
Get some rest Twin, chat soon.
Well, that’s what I mean by spotty. This says Hart, I’ve seen Testaverde listed, Chuckie’s seems to come up the most.
. http://www.reference.com/motif/sports/longest-football-throw
Speaking of throwing, this *is* funny, and Zeke would absolutely do this- trying to get a statue to throw a stick..
Sort of cool to be in bed for bedtime. Well, some would say “degenerate” but I pay no attention those people.
Chuckles, see if you can get the Hanger here, Phil needs someone to talk to when it’s 4:00 A.M. here..
As a math exercise Alex has a .49 rating through 9 games and Kap has a 3.56 through 3 games. Does this qualify as a defining stat for who is playing QB at a higher level?
You rounded off the wrong way .It’s 8 and 4. ..
The other numbers? Silly man.That’s how many yards each has overthrown a guy standing next to him.
Goodnight, 12.
I used your rounding off Twin. Chat soon.
Something bothersome that I haven’t seen mentioned too much are all the penalties. The Niners have lost a lot of big plays to penalties. They are 29th in the league. TRHis was supposed to be a disciplined team.
They weren’t nearly this bad last year.
I think some of that is switching QB, they have to adapt to what Kap is doing and his snap count etc. They also played 2 games in really loud domes, that ups the ante. Your larger point is right though, even allowing for the above it seems they keep finding new and exotic ways to commit a dumb penalty especially in critical times.
I don;t have a game to game breakdown, but they’ve been getting nailed all year. D III refs or no.
88 penalties in 12 games.
Almost Raiderlike.
Bobby Douglass? Yeah, he might challenge V Young for low score on the wonderlic.
Great pass to Dick Butkis on the botched FG . . .
Kap wins the Miami game all will be forgiven for a week. Harbaugh will even look a little brighter. Lose and the mild and gentlemanly 200+ posts here after the last game will swell to 400+ venom filled screeds. I will be good for 25 of them castigating the ‘offensive’ coaching.
Fisher has JHs number and Carroll is wetting his panties looking for our visit. Season’s on the brink…
Maybe not quite on the brink Phil, we are up 1.5 games with 4 to play, but it sure got more interesting.
On to more important things. How was the cyclone for you? Did the forest make it?
Man, I don’t follow the inanities over at Skeebwads (that cocksucker) but if as you say it’s true that NoFear came over here because of Skeebs pet-boy bullit then I’m grateful to bullit/touchdown tommy or whoever the fuck done it. But the good ones get run off over
there one way or another. Exceept Reno but he’s the exception
Phil I don’t know what the beef is you have with Skeebs but speaking for myself I don’t have an issue with him. Berger made a comment a couple of times that NF was run off Skeebs blog by Bullit’s bleating. Bergs was trying to get a rise out of NF or me or both. I have zero respect for Bullit in all his guises and now Bullit says he will “unleash hell” on me for calling him out for what he is. Honestly I literally laughed out loud when I read that. This guy is off his rocker. He is the little wizard behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz or as NF called him Toto. It’s hysterical when he makes these “do I have to remind you what you said on this date” statements. He goes back into archive stuff to make some point or other. The guy has no life, funny shit I tell ya.
Berger is ok in my book, he is a bit overblown in his opinions but that’s blogging.
NF, the short answer is he can’t. Berger meant it in the way Bullshit hounds people until they get tired of him and just move on. This is apparently something laudable.
Phil, if that puts me on your list of “the good ones” I ‘pre shade it.
How does bullit run me or anyone off a blog? If you mean it in the sense of bullit making that a much less pleasant place, yes he always has. I try to skip his crap when I read there and I find the impulse to grab someone by the throat and choke the everlovin’ shit out of them is greatly reduced because of it.
Berger was just putting words to his farts.
So how did Skeebers so endear himself to you?
Lol bullit is a joke, we’ve seen that here.
As Chuck said Skeebs loves to blindside people on his blog prolly when he thinks they’re getting too much attention (?) Pulled that shit with me once too many times and that was enough.
I was just reading that typhoon killed 200 people out in Phil’s hood.
I know Phil said it was coming but I thought it was due to hit Sunday. Not sure of Phil’s coordinates out there but since it hadn’t cut his comms I figured it passed without much damage.
Kaepernick the highest rated Quarterback in the last three games in the NFL?
If the scale awards bonus points for every vowel in your last name it might be true.
Look at RGIII’s last three games and you know somebody is dealing in horseshit here.
Robert Griffin III 46 completions 63 attempts 664 yards 9 Touchdowns 194 yards rushing.
This PFF metric is a farce for the football challenged wannabes.
It’s a paid site so I don’t know what the rating is based on, what is it exactly?
Why are you asking when you posted this to begin with?
Do you just blindly abide what suits you?
There is something terribly wrong with the PFF assertion that Kaepernick is the highest rated QB knowing how on fire Robert Griffin III has been.
Why? Because PFF, a respected source that tracks players and teams has Kap as the best passer in the league. I would ask what you base your “This PFF metric is a farce for the football challenged wannabes.” is based on if you don’t know what that metric is.
Phil, you OK out there? You posted last night (our time) so I think you made it, but just checking . . .
Yeah it was a farce this super-storm. All we lost was our power.’net for 20 hours. I’ll post about it on the new thread, thanks
Of the WR the Niners have, why would they decide to throw a toss to Ginn? Not exactly sure handed and looks contact averse. Nobody was catching what Kap threw but why risk it to Ginn?
My man from SLO (Ramses Barden) mighta been able to get it. He’s 6′ 6″. Sadly the Giants (hyuk) drafted him. Ginn has been used on similar plays before, and with KW and MM out, they weren’t going to use Moss. Crabs? Not really the speed burner type that play is designed for. AJ? Too raw for that play? I hated the feeble effort to do anything about the horrendous pitch by Ginn (knock it OB, shit knock it through the end zone for a safety), but the whole thing was terrible. Cost them the game.
The bigger question, as usual, is why run such a risky play in the 1st place? You are already down 2 WRs due to injury, and you are setting up another for a big hit.
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New thread is up . . .
Yup….Ginn, naw make that a gin bartenda