Coming down to the wire here. There’s a lot on the line for both sides. Seattle has little chance to win the West, but they are fighting for their playoff lives. If Seattle IS to win the West, they need this game plus help. If the Niners want to get the 1st week bye, THEY need this game. Green Bay is playing the Tennessee Tuxedos, so they will most assuredly go to 11-4. Seattle has some depth problems in the defensive backfield. CBs Thurmond and Trufant are questionable, No decision has been down regarding Richard Sherman, so he’s apparently cleared to play, but Brandon Browner is still serving his suspension. I’m sure Jim Harbaugh knows this, so I see the Niners opening up early on the deep passing attack again.
The Niners D of course has to worry about Marshawn Lynch and Russell Wilson. I think the defense come out of the nickel they played a lot of last week. The Niners need to focus on Lynch more than they had to with NE. Lynch is a beast, and he looks to tear the Niners up if they go light on the line. But Wilson brings a big run threat as well as his passing game. They use the read option, and have been slowly running it more and more. So who decides this game? The crowd? The weather? The coaches? Turnovers?
Yeah, could be all of the above. This will be the 6th nationally televised game for the Niners, and they are a gaudy 5-0 so far. There’s a shitload of talk regarding the freshman class of quarterback who are tearing up the league. From Griffin to Luck to Wilson, they are gathering all the press. Colin Kaepernick. For all he did in his few chances, there’s not a hell of a lot of notice about him, other than his tattoos and how he got the starting job. A few out there are taking notice, but as of now, he’s still pretty much under the radar. Frankly, that works in the Niners favor, but in the end it doesn’t really mean much.
Seattle’s a young team making waves, but I think the Niners are the stronger team, and they will prevail. Also, I’m gone all day, so play nice…..
San Francisco 49ers Forever 
we have to take this game away from seattle , their fans , and the refs ! go 9ers !
We just cannot play three good games in a row this year. No way we win a Super Bowl with that problem. We will need to win four in a row in the playoffs after tonight. NOT going to happen.
RJ Francois is not as good as the Cowboy…
Almost no one is.
Bleep this
This sucks! No D, no O, no anything!!
I need another drink…
we need a seven
Worst overall half of football in the Harbaugh “era”, easily…
This team lost all hope of winning the Super Bowl when Peyton Manning signed with the Broncos. You know it. I know it. I just had the guts to say it, repeat it and regurgitate it ad nauseam until the cows came home.
“Farms in Berkeley? Mooooooooooo”
We have, IMHO, the most inconsistent team in the NFL right now. We’ve had games like tonight, and games like Buffalo and Chicago, and everything in between.
Was clear from the start, wasn’t going to be their night
Blowing the two TOs early hurts now…
A couple good plays in a row, and then we blow one. Loss of 13.
Is there a middle screen or any screen in the play book? Use it….
I think we ran two early – they didn’t work. The Seahawks were sitting on them.
NOW he makes one. Where was that in the first Rams game?…
Wow, they had better make some adjustments during the half!! The Seattle D looks way better than anything the Niners have on the field!!
Super Bowl 27. Troy Aikman (MVP), 4 TDs
Super Bowl 28. Troy Aikman (Emmitt Smith), O TDs
Super Bowl 29. Steve Young (MVP), 6 TDs
Super Bowl 30. Troy Aikman (Larry Brown), 1 TD
Super Bowl 31. Brett Favre (Desmond Howard), 2 TDs
Super Bowl 32. John Elway (Terrell Davis), 0 TDs
Super Bowl 33. John Elway (MVP), 1 TD
Super Bowl 34. Kurt Warner (MVP), 2 TDs
Super Bowl 35. Trent Dilfer (Ray Lewis), 1 TD
Super Bowl 36. Tom Brady (MVP), 1 TD
Super Bowl 37. Brad Johnson (Dexter Jackson), 2 TDs
Super Bowl 38. Tom Brady (MVP), 3 TDs
Super Bowl 39. Tom Brady (Deion Branch), 2 TDs
Super Bowl 40. Ben Roethlisberger (Hines Ward), 0 TDs
Super Bowl 41. Peyton Manning (MVP), 1 TD
Super Bowl 42. Eli Manning (MVP), 2 TDs
Super Bowl 43: Ben Roethlisberger (Santonio Holmes), 1 TD
Super Bowl 44: Drew Brees (MVP), 2 TDs
Super Bowl 45: Aaron Rogers (MVP), 3TDs
Super Bowl 46: Eli Manning (MVP), 1 TD
You wanna bet your life on another Dilfer/Brad Johnson miracle?
Every other guy is a sure-fie HOFer.
I’ll ask again, Did we sign Peyton Manning yet?
Merry Christmas.
SUPER BOWL 47 ALEX SMITH 14-27 189 YDS 2 TDS WE WIN 24 – 21 !!!!
Defensive line sucks tonight. Coverage sucks. ST sucks. Offensive line has sucked.
We’re lucky it’s only 22 points.
we need to score 7 to start the half ! we get em’ to a three and out and take it for a TD !
5 Seattle drives. Three TDs, one kneel down, one pick by Willis. Plus we gave up a TD on ST.
NO punts by Seattle. We cannot get them off the field.
Harbaugh is to blame for this loss for a lot of different reasons. There’s a lag between the transition from Smith to Kaep. If (and it’s obvious to me he did), Harbaugh wanted Kaep to be ready for the playoffs, Harbaugh should have started Kaep week one. That way Kaep wouldn’t have had problems with the snap or getting his team up to the line in the final weeks of the season. In addition, Harbaugh and Roman would have had more plays designed for Kaep that allowed Kaep to play from behind. Right now, Roman and Harbaugh are playing an Alex Smith game. They have guys like Manningham and Moss, and they have Kaep, but they’re still playing an Alex Smith game dinking and dunking short. That’s on Harbaugh. The 49ers would have had a very real chance at winning the Super Bowl if Harbaugh had started Kaep week 1. So let me get this straight: Marvin Lewis, Pete Carroll, Mike Shannahan, Chuck Pagano and others can start rookie qbs but Jim Harbaugh couldn’t start a second year qb? That’s horseshit. Jim Harbaugh is at fault for not getting Kaep ready earlier. And don’t tell me hindsight is 20/20. I was kicked off of facebook for saying this (with extreme prejudice). But, all is not lost. We’ll win the division, and I’m writing this at halftime. But there’s a real chance we just lost the second seed, and now we’re looking at Lambeau.
And we start off the 2nd half by missing tackles. Fuck this.
Those “great” half-time adjustments that Tafoya said Harbaugh is making woudl have been great from the get-go. Did we really have to fall behind three plus TDs for him to think of it?
IMHO it might be time for lamichael james to take over on punt returns .
I love Bowman. I remember when we drafted him out of Penn St. and word came out that he was charged with hitting someone on campus. I said he’s my kinda of guy…HIT SOMEBODY!!!
Crabtree has the best set of hands on our team and it’s not even close for the place.
Nice throw by Kap…
more bullshit !
Season is over
Well, sing it, boys: “Turn off the lights, the party’s over…”
The announcers are in the bag for Seattle why not the zebras, too?
Well, A.J. Jenkins will be seeing the field next week I guess.
Harbaugh comes out throwing the ball down field in the second half which is exactly the right thing to do. Moss should have gotten a PI penalty in the end zone, but whatever. But the minute Harbaugh starts playing Alex Smith ball with Kaep is the minute Harbaugh loses Mario Manningham for the season. That’s on Harbaugh. Receivers are designed to run down field. They aren’t designed to catch the ball underneath and take a beating. Run routes down field and get the receivers out of bounds. It gets the defense on it’s heals and winds the pass rushers. No more Hunter, Williams and Manningham for the rest of the season. Harbaugh still doesn’t know how to use Kaep. And I don’t care that Harbaugh had Luck at Stanford. Harbaugh simply doesn’t know how to go after big chucks that keeps the defense on its heals.
Lynch: 85 yards rushing, 19 receiving.
Gore: 10 yards on 5 carries, since early 2nd quarter.
There’s your game.
All that’s left is Carroll going for two in the fourth quarter.
That wouldn’t surprise me, actually.
Ways things are going, they’d make it, too.
Let’s talk about the bright spots and guys who have had good games for the 49ers tonight.
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Well, that didn’t take long.
Cornerbacks are wide Recievers who cannot catch!
So, uh, Carlos Rogers??? ……. You, uh, don’t like it in the hands? WTF? Rogers, you pussy. If I have to see that stupid ass look on Carlos Rogers’ face again I’m going to ship his ass back to Washington.
Rogers had one good year for us. He’s back to what he always was.
Where the hell is the RB James????
limping into the playoffs..they won’t stand a chance.
They’ll win next week, then crush their opponent in round one.
Then they’ll look like this in round two. One and done. “W-W-L” to the bitter end.
Well, this has been a thorough beat down. And, Manningham’s injury looks not good, to say the least. If he’s out for the playoffs, things are not looking to promising. I’ll say this, if Justin Smith is out for the playoffs, Niners have no shot at the NFC title game. Beaten in all phases of the game tonight. Only issue is how bad Carroll wants to put the beat down on Harbaugh. He won’t let up on the gas pedal. Playing like this, the Niners may not even win their first playoff game…
Better to be lucky than good
I didn’t recognize today’s game plan. Was this the game we were going to win on S/T, just to stick it to Carroll?
Even down by 4 TDs, we only have 180 yards passing by Kaepernick. This offense cannot open it up, even when it needs to – and that’s on the coaching.
We can’t stop the run without Justin Smith in there. Lynch is over a hundred.
176 rushing tonight for Seattle.
Well, NoFear, Petey’s chance at that rub-it-in two-pointer looks to be coming up soon here.
Ah, well. Not enough drama in the after the game handshake already.
Hey Chuck, better luck with the post title next week.
Looks like plenty of BLEEP in Seattle to me.
At least we can still beat one team in our division, maybe, if we catch ’em on a good day.
Pete Carroll is embarrassing Jim Harbaugh. I honestly hope Pete Carroll runs the score up on Harbaugh. It’ll make Harbaugh’s head explode, and then maybe Harbaugh will pull his head out of his ass with his pussy-ass Alex Smith play calling. Hey Jim – you do know you have Kaep in there, right?
When a Harbaugh team gives up 42 points and nearly 200 yards on the ground, they’re screwed.
A Harbaugh team might score a lot of points with balanced running-passing, and controlling the TOP. Throwing the ball in a shootout? No way.
There’s Delanie’s Drop O’ The Day.
Damn the stats. You can’t be in the top defense discussion with let downs like tonight’s.
We were HORRIBLE on third down. Seattle had converted 8 of 9 at one point, and I think it got worse after that.
ONE third down stop in a game is not a Super Bowl defense.
Justin had better heal quickly.
Seattle finished 11 of 12 on third down.
Also, 6 extra points and no FGs is terrible for a supposedly pretty good defense. There wasn’t even an instance where they had a decision to make or a gamble. Way too easy.
This game was a total beat down? Worst than the Minn, Giants and St Lois game combined!!
fuck seattle
Pete the Cheat took Julio down to the schoolyard and gave him a whoopin’.
Just got back. What’d I miss?
Not much Chuck: we came out flat and conservative on O and were immediately stopped. D couldn’t stop either the run or the pass. Wash, rinse, repeat X 5. Our losses tend to show themselves right at the get go and this was a classic of bad coaching and no Cowboy. We stunk in repeating our 2W-1L pattern.
I’m calling our 3rd game hence a LOSS right now…
Flavor’s crystal ball had only one flaw = it wasn’t pessimistic enough. Seattle by 10? Freakin’ optimist! And he’s the winnah by a mile…Barley, snarkk and Del Mar of course all picked SEA to win
I listened to the game driving back home. What the fuck was the 3rd down problem?
Criminy. I’, watchng the 2nd drive, and I’ve seen 3 holding calls that they refs missed, and the Niners are getting dinged on bs calls.
For once in my life, I want to see multple WR formations. Hey, they used one and got a 1st down on 3rd and 11.
Wow. That was a hit on VD. Not a penalty, but what a hit.
Lots to discuss here. First off, who do the 49ers now play in the playoffs? The division winners will be the 49ers, Redskins, Packers and Falcons. Seattle is clearly a wildcard. Who’s the other wildcard? The Bears? It’s not the Cowboys, Vikings or Giants. I think the 49ers are the third seed, playing the sixth seed. And I think the sixth seed will be the Bears. If that’s the case, I’m not worried about that game, or more injuries.
Now onto tonight’s game. First off, the defense. Obviously it was hurt by the loss of Justin Smith. Lynch ran all over the 49ers and that speaks to Cowboy’s greatness. But the rest of the defense play terrible football. Carlos Rogers is awful. The 49er secondary is suspect. The safeties are awesome, but the cornerbacks are terrible. Rogers and Brown need to be replaced, and I hope the 49ers find a pair of corners in the upcoming draft. Brooks was embarrassed all game long by both the read option and Russell Wilson’s scrambling and escapability. And Aldon Smith is terrible against the run. He’s awful. Losing Parys Haralson in the preseason hurts because Aldon shouldn’t be in there on run downs.
And here’s the big problem: Harbaugh didn’t give Kaep enough time to get ready for the playoffs. Kaep is still having trouble getting the team up to the line and making adjustments before the play clock expires. Kaep is still having problems with the snap (although he didn’t this week). But the even bigger issue is that Harbaugh and Roman don’t have a down field passing game to play from behind. Harbaugh doesn’t know how to score quick. Harbaugh and Roman must learn how to use Kaep in come from behind situations – especially going into this year’s playoffs.
No Hunter, Haralson, Williams and now Manningham for the playoffs. Smaller guys do not need to be used underneath because eventually they have to challenge safeties and linebackers. Smaller guys like Manningham need to be able to escape out of bounds. Not every guy can have “steel in his spine,” like Harbaugh wants.
Delanie Walker suck. I’ve always hated that guy. I hope Tom Celek’s younger brother gets more playing time. He needs to spend more time with Huggins and learn to drive the Lambo while wearing dolphins shorts. He’s a keeper. Delanie’s a stinker. And sure, it keep Delanie out of the game and Delanie creates deception with his utility, but if he can’t catch the football the 49ers are better served going with straight plays that aren’t designed to deceive.
Randy Moss: Kaep needs to throw the ball higher to Moss. Period. No exceptions. Kaep is trying to stick it in there into Moss’ chest, and Moss’ strength is up high. KAEP: THROW THE BALL UP TO MOSS.
Harbaugh just got embarrassed by Carroll’s squad. Here’s to hoping it makes Jimbo think more about his offense. Jimbo is too conservative on offense. It’s almost like if Jimbo doesn’t have the lead, he doesn’t know how to coach. When you play from behind you pass, pass, and pass some more. The only thing that kept Kaep from scoring was Jimbo’s play calling. Pass the ball and set-up the run with the pass. Jimbo needs to channel his inner Walsh more-so than his inner Bo Schembeckler. There’s a time and a place for the fullback and the nasty tight end. There’s a time and place for four wides and letting the qb let it rip.
For my money, the 49ers’ only chance to win the Super Bowl is Harbaugh and Roman getting Jenkins up to speed with a quickness and the 49ers going vertical with the football a lot more often. Jenkins needs to be a big part of the Cardinals game, and Kaep needs to throw the ball early, often and more oftener. Pass the fuckin’ ball, Harbaugh. You are no longer handcuffed to Alex Smith.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaand the block. Let’s fucking hope Richerd Sherman gets suspended for the next 4. Looks like he singlehandedley won this for Seattle.
This play calling is just too conservative. Once we fell behind the coaching did little to nothing to make up the ground. One would think coming out in the second half there would be a “wing it” mentality but no, still throwing underneath.
Kap looked bemused today, as though he is playing a gameplan he is not comfortable with and when the play breaks down he didn’t know what to do.
Harbaugh needs to go back to how Kap plays naturally and stop trying to drive a square peg into a round hole. It ain’t working, Kap is not Alex.
Defense = Justin Smith and Carlos is looking worse each week.
Rogers was lights out on Welker last week.
And his last good week was? He is not the player he was last year and today he gotvhis ass kicked all over the field even dropping a gift INT.
No one is optimistic about the playoff now. How could they be with the piss poor coaching on O and D really hurting w/o Cowboy. Seattle is tough at home = undefeated but I guess they got a lot of calls too
They did get a lot of calls and non calls Phil, but nothing to change the overall outcome of the game.
Wow. This red zone offense is brutal. Too much bunched up shit. The formations beg teams to play us tight and it works.
SCO is not the way to use Kap. Makes no sense.
The failure was systemic. Complete and total. If Harbaugh doesn’t take the blame for this one he doesn’t have a hair on his ass.
No game plan. If there was one it was laughable.
No preparation. The Seahawks are pretty good at home and it’s noisy there. Surprise!?
The execution matched, but as I mentioned it was across the entire team. Harbaugh and staff let the team down on this one.
This is on Harbaugh, no doubt. He had to know Lynch would run wild without Cowboy and that Kaep would have to score points. I knew it. But there was no passing attack. Kaep isn’t holding Harbaugh back, Harbaugh is holding Kaep back. The 49ers need to attack deep into secondaries and Harbaugh needs to trust Kaep’s arm and smarts. Harbaugh, plan and simple, needs to pass to set-up the run. It’s that simple. Harbaugh needs to learn to pass more to set-up the run. Harbaugh needs to get Jenkins, Crabtree, Moss, Tom Celek, Vernon and whomever else is on the roster to run downfield routes. That’s where the 49ers must attack. Kaep has the arm and the escapability to bring a very real down field game to SF, but Harbaugh either doesn’t trust Kaep or Harbaugh and Roman can’t change their stripes. If that’s the case, and Harbaugh and Roman are too slow to realize they need more down field, vertical passing, the 49ers’ playoff run will be short lived. Jenkins needs to come on now in a big, big way.
And another note. If Harbaugh wants to run those underneath passing routes that are quick hitters from Kaep on the outside (not underneath over the middle), Harbaugh needs to do that with bigger receivers. Mohamed Sanu would have been a great receiver for just that play (the one that just ended Manningham’s season) because Sanu is big and powerful. But Manningham is smaller – quick and fast.
Harbaugh’s play calling is starting to get suspect and stale. And even though Harbaugh has a better head to head record than Pete Carroll, Carroll won championships in college – Jim Harbaugh did not. It’s my feeling that Jim Harbaugh needs to learn to change and change quickly. I made the case long ago that Harbaugh cannot keep starting Alex Smith because Smith couldn’t win a Super Bowl and because Harbaugh owes it to his veterans to see what Kaep had (I made that case last off season). But to me it doesn’t look like SF has what it takes to win the Super Bowl, so now, to beat Carroll, Harbaugh needs to not only get more aggressive with Kaep in the years to come (which Harbaugh will), but Harbaugh’s legacy will also have a lot to do with how Trent Baalke drafts because Cowboy and Gore…. even Soap, Rogers and Moss will need to be replace this off season. And no, that doesn’t mean Cowboy and Gore should be dumped next year but it does mean their replacements should be on the sidelines with the team next season.
Harbaugh clearly doesn’t want rookies starting, but I think that’s foolish. Look at the success Kendal Hunter had last year. Jenkins, James and Kaep should have played earlier because of exactly the scenario we have now: key injuries with little depth. I question Harbaugh’s policy of not starting rookies unless totally necessary. These guys should have gotten more time in garbage games like Miami and other games. Bill Walsh was a great at giving backups playing time in games. It was a different era of haves and have nots, where teams weren’t very good and Walsh could crush ’em and plan to start or play backups earlier. But Harbaugh’s way of not starting or even suiting up his rookies is about to kick Harbaugh in the dick. All is not lost, but Harbaugh got out of the gate early and he’s coming up against some adversity. Let’s see how he faces that adversity after Pete just embarrassed him on national television. And don’t give me this, “Sometimes it’s harder to bounce back after a big win.” The good teams overcome all adversity. That’s how you win championships. If Harbaugh wants to give us excuses, then Harbaugh isn’t who we thought. And remember, Jim Harbaugh has never won a championship – not at any level.
I’m not sure about the passing game at this point. I see Kaep looking deep but I’m not sure what he’s seeing. Could be there isn’t anyone open deep so he goes to Crabs or Manningham or Walker short. His throw to Moss in the end zone into three defenders probably would have been picked if not put out of reach even by Moss and that throw to Vernon in the corner should not have been such a looper. If Davis could have caught that on a rope he might have scored instead of had his bell rung jumping for the ball. I’m thinking Kaep has not totally adjusted his decisions to the speed of the pro backs.
Totally different from Alex just fixing on his short guy most of the time. I think the options are there for Kaep, but not sure what was keeping things short for the most part.
Maybe we should have thrown more but I have to wait until the coaches film comes out, usually Tuesdays, maybe later this week, and see what was going on downfield.
Well, all this does is make next week’s game hugely inmportant. But the Niners should be able to beat AZ at our house.
What the fuck? When are penalties disregarded? Culliver’s penalty is BS.
Well, there sure wasn’t the intensity of last week, that’s for sure.
Wow, another missed holding call.
Harbaugh said after the game that sometimes it’s harder to come back from a huge win than it is a big loss.
If so, then yeah, it’s on Harbaugh.
Fuck. these 3rd downs are terrible. Leak a guy out and he get’s open evey time. nd the play clock was at 0
Harder to come back from a huge win? That sounds like a load of jive turkey gobble gobble. Most coaches would kill for a great win to build momentum from. Anyway, you don’t come back from a win, you just keep doing that.
Everybody likes to give Carroll shit, and I dunno I guess he deserves it, but I respect the guy for his mastery of the defense he runs. They were ready for us. We couldn’t do shit against them and worse we evidently weren’t ready for the fight. Like we thought they’d cower and lay down when the Niners came to town after whippin’ up on the the mighty Pats.
We could have at least practiced an opening possession or two and run from a script with minimal adjustments. I’m sure we have a couple dozen plays we know usually work against Carroll 4-3 defense. Move the ball and score. We started with a bomb and then we were done. WTF?
What’s disheartening is that we keep going away from what’s working during the games and we simply do not prepare what has been working every third week. It’s sickening. So I’m calling our 2nd playoff game a definite LOSS right now. It’s systemic and it’s
predictable. You’re watching the JimBO version of the SCO
Say what you will about the play calls, Kappy missed guys with regularity.
Fair enough. No audio OR video here as predicted.
Bad day all around. At least it’s a short flight home. This team is very consistent in it’s inconsistency.
Chalk it up and move the fuck on. This ain;t the end of the world. What I’m noticing on these red zone plays is every guy that goes out for a pass has 2 guys on him.
Wow. Kappy with the horrible throw in the end zone. 2nd time he made that bad decision.
What’s disconcerting is Seattle is down to their 3rd/4th string DBs and they are blanketing our guys. None of them are very fast, but you’d think they’d get open once in a while.
The problem is, we’re getting dinged up at the exact wrong time.
Boy. we’re getting chippy now.
We were so outmatched today it was really painful to watch. I thought we were better.
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Congrats RT, it was a fun year.
Wow. The gift calls keep coming.
On the FortyNiner first possession of the second half they did open it up.
Kaepernick moved from their own 20 to the Seattle 32 on passes of 13 yards to Moss and 35 yards to Crabtree. Manningham then caught the pass and fumbled when he was hurt.
Moving 48 yards in 2 plays is IMHO opening it up and going downfield.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand 42 . . . . ……………………
Burn the tape . . ……………………….
The biggest problem was red zone ineptitude. The Niners got down there 6 times? 2 FGs and a garbage TD ain’t cutting it. Kappy had his worst game by far passing. The D was really missing J Smith, but these guys got manhandled all night on both sides of the ball. No run game, and no one getting open. The few times the Niners got pressure, Wilson easily escaped for gains.
Losing Manningham sucks. Losing VD sucks. This game could really cost the team with all the injuries.
I guess the big hope is that the Minn beats GB next week.
YES, GB falls to Minn, BUT rally we are toast with our dumbshit coaching on O especially.
Fuckwads
You got to think that game last week took a lot out of this defense.
Like I said before dat: “Maybe this is our Super Bowl so let’s win it”.
Gentlemen, we will not win 3 in a row this year
Fuckwads (= coaches)
Did we fire Jim Harbaugh yet? After you kindly answer me that question, you can tell me if we’ve ever gotten around to signing Peyton Manning yet.
Merry Christmas
Has dennis been banned yet? What an annoying twit.
If you’re going to take the time and effort to take a crack at me, at least have the common courtesy to capitalize my name please. We annoying twits have earned that right and respect.
You fucking mook.
You Bronco-loving, Manning-licking troll. Get over it. It’s just one game and you’re celebrating your supposed team’s loss. I doubt you’re even really a 9er fan and I hope to God you’re not really a Raiders fan.
Well, better to see how Kappy and the coaching staff handle pressure now rather than the playoffs.Kappy did fare, coaches get a big fat raspberry. IMO i don’t think they get very far without J Smith.
Harbaugh is beginning to give me an uncomfortable Marty Schottenheimer vibe. Good enough for 11-5 and the playoffs; not good enough to win three or four in a row when he gets there.
Yeah my expectations are dropping like muffed punts
Dennis is fucked in the head. Good bad or indifferent, he’ll whine. He still doesn’t believe the Giants won the world series 2x in the past 3 years.
Lol. But he’s got the DVD.
Not time to panic. Yet. Win this game, and hope Minn takes care of biz.
The injuries are becoming an issue. AJ may finally hit the field. :Let’s hope he’s ready
Whats up with Twin?
He left.
Well that won’t do at all. Twin stop pouting and come back.
Merry Christmas all.
Same at you Winder
Merry Christmas to all, even Scrooge.
Those at home and those away from home.
http://bit.ly/10e5VTH
I had impure Charlotte Church thoughts when she was only fourteen. Fourteen or not, she truly has the voice of an angel. I really should be locked up for thinking like that. But since it’s Christmas they let everyone out for the day. And being it Christmas, I’d like to wish everyone here a very Merry Christmas to you and yours. And one less lump of coal in Chuck’s stocking for all his time, effort and dedication to his blog. You made Santa’s “Nice” list. But watch your ass, mister.
Merry Christmas
I’m the biggest Disneyland fan/supporter there is. Have been my entire life. But their Christmas special this morning left a lot to be desired. The on-air talent was B-rate at best. I didn’t recognize half of the music performers. And the one’s I did were past their prime and hackneyed. The production value was sub-standard and it lacked direction. It amounted to nothing more than a two-hour commercial for their Magic Kingdom. Who in the hell is running that Mickey Mouse organization anyway?
Well, I know yer fucking Goofy . . .
Merry Christmas one and all. Even you, Twin.
I hope that characterization was meant to be a proper noun and not a transitive verb.
Well, it WAS capitalized.
Goofy is transgendered? Scary that
And a Merry Christmas and Happy Psychotic Venom to all!
I was hoping for a dementia love fest in my stocking today….
It’s a day of good will towards men. Even for us crazed jackals.
Merry Christmas bloggeritti.
Same at you Man
I had to drive up to Tahoe to pick a relative up who needed help. Left Sun at 10am to be sure I’d catch the Niner game when i got there. It took me 10 hours to drive from Palo Alto to Tahoe—and I have snow tires, didn’t need to put chains on. Multiple fatalities, people that don’t know how to drive in the snow and were literally stranded on the summit. Unreal. 10 hours. Anyway, I missed almost all of that shit-fest so the trip wasn’t a total bummer…..
Look, Seattle is probably the hardest place for a visitor to venture these days. I’m not sweating that loss one fuck, in fact I kinda figured we’d lose. I want to get back to the Super Bowl as much as the next Niner fan but if we don’t get a bye or all of our playoff games at home, big deal. A little adversity is a good thing.
Along with Chuck, I AM worried about these injuries popping up at precisely the wrong time of the season.
But unless we lose to Arizona, we are in great position to go all the way this year. Perfect position? No. But having to go on the road to beat a playoff team in their house, if we manage to do it, will make the Super Bowl that much sweeter…….
Merry Christmas, ‘Forever’s…..
Just to keep it in perspective, the 49ers have won just two road games in the playoffs, in their ENTIRE history.
One was the Chicago game where Joe wiped the floor with Buddy Ryan’s 46 defense while it was a gazillion degrees below zero, as Bob McKittrick went into hypothermia in his short sleeves.
The other was another almost equally cold day in Bloomington, Minnesota, with a QB named Brodie.
The fact that there are only two, in our long and storied history, should give you a inkling of the challenge involved. Yes it can be done. And no, it will not be easy. The Vikings could help us a whole lot by upsetting the Packers Sunday.
Win a playoff game on the road? Too ambitious. How about winning 3 in a row anywhere this season? That’s a reasonable goal.
Since we’ve come up empty five times after winning two, perhaps it is not as reasonable as we might hope.
Sadly you are correct Grump
I can save you guys a bunch of time, trouble and effort…
1. ATL
2. GB
3. SF
4. DAL
5. SEA
6. CHI
SF > CHI
DAL > SEA
GB > SF
ATL > DAL
GB > ATL
Now you can get back to your festivities while cursing my name under your breath and thinking I don’t know WTF I’m talking about. In other words, Christmas is just like any other day…
I think the Vikings beat Green bay and Redskins beat Cowboys.
The Gate has Alex to the JETS, I hope not for his sake: http://www.sfgate.com/sports/ostler/article/QB-Alex-Smith-should-land-with-Jets-4141389.php
It’s beyond idiotic to use the franchise record as an indicator of how we would potentially play on the road this year in the playoffs. Without looking it up, I’m assuming the Niners had home field advantage in all of their super bowl wins. If not, I stand corrected. So only winning 2 road playoff games in their history is a dumb thing to highlight since they almost never play road playoff games. In fact, how many road playoff games have they played since The Walsh Era? I’m not looking it up, I’m just throwing it out there.
And Dennis, no one gives a flying fuck about your predictions. You also said that Brees would wipe Alex off the field in the playoffs last year. How’d that dumbfuck prediction work out for you?
Thanks for the vote of confidence there, but really, you should look stuff up or at least read before you post. OBVIOUSLY we did not have home field advantage in 1988, if we played the Bears at Soldier Field. Very, very obvious, I would think. I’ll blame too much Christmas cheer, if you like.
Franchise record in playoff games on the road: 2-10. Winning percentage of .167 by my math. But go ahead and check me on my division, I’m only an idiot, LOL.
http://www.pro-football-reference.com/teams/sfo/playoffs.htm
Oh and right… “Since the Walsh Era.”
That would be 0-5. Winning percentage of .000 I do believe. 🙂
So you’re saying 5 games, played over the course of the last 30+ years. Is actually going to dictate how we do in 2013 in a road playoff game? Nice. How many road playoff games did the Giahts win last year? And Green Bay the year before that? Playing a road game and getting your panties rung up over the prospects of a loss is absurd.
0-5 since Walsh on the road in the playoffs. 12-4 at home.
Gee. I think we’re more likely to win at home. 🙂 But then that’s what we like to call, ‘blindingly obvious.”
Wtf r u even talking about? Since the Walsh era we’re 0-5? You pointed out yourself that we won in Chicago– that is “since the Walsh era started”. And I don’t give a fuck about what we did 25 years ago on the road.
Grump, you’re obviously not a stat guy if you are taking such a small sample size (not even computing it correctly) and willingly assigning a prediction based off that to a road playoff gm we might play in jan ’13.
The sf giants hadn’t won a gm 7 in their sf history, right? Doomed them this year, right. Whoops.
Most people would read “since the Walsh era” as after he retired. Not quite the same thing as “since the Walsh era started.” But:
Since the Walsh era started, we are 1-8 on the road in the playoffs. 18-5 at home.
So, still, I’d rather be at home for the playoffs.
And as for the Giants winning a Game 7 this year – it snowed in Texas today, too. That hardly means Global Warming is incorrect. One data point means nothing. If you’re a ‘stat guy’, or a scientist, like I am, you understand that. 🙂
well no shit, I’d rather be at home, too. I’m just saying that going on the road isn’t a death sentence (with the Giants and the Packers as two recent examples of super bowl winners who won multiple road games to get there).
And my point, which you missed, is that a small sample size means NOTHING in terms of predicting an outcome for this team. The only way I’d look at a small sample, and I’m talking about barely giving it credit, is if the numbers were associated with the current team—all of the games you’re talking about happened 20-30+ years ago.–totally meaningless……..
LMAO. Like: “Yes it can be done. And no, it will not be easy. ” Some death sentence, there. Strawman much?
And losing playoff games on the road in 2001 and 2002 was not exactly 20 or 30 years ago. Not by my math, anyway.
It’s best not to talk out of your ass without actually doing the research.
So are any of those players from those loser road games still on the team? You don’t get this and I’ll stop trying to educate you. This is old dog/new trick territory.
Flav why so ah, grumpy? I realize you had to drive through frozen hell to rescue a family member BUT you’ve just won yer 3rd Scoring Championship Challenge.
Okay this ties you with Dennis but still…just askin’
We suck on the road in the playoffs that’s obvious but hey I’m no scientist or some kinda grumpy flavor of a stat guy. We also suck every third game we play this year. Also obvious, right?
If by some Christmas miracle Minn beats the Pack well good. Personally I don’t see us going to Lambeau and beating them in January OR at the Stick. Or anyone else “Anywhere” else. Why, why Chief Gadfly Phil do you say such a thing? Why indeed?
Simple. Look it up: every third game is a turd floating in this fan’s punchbowl. Oh and the Chief Turd Layers are the HC, O and D coaches on the 2012 SF Forty Niners. That crew does not have 3 good game plans in a row in ’em.
Gents we won’t win 3 games in a row this year (or in January). Bet on it.
We’re the most inconsistent team in the league. We’ve had games like Buffalo and Chicago and the first half of New England, where we can score as fast as we get the ball and shut the other guys out. We’ve had other games, on that every three week schedule, where we shit all over ourselves. Not just at QB or on offense either – our defense and ST were the biggest turds floating in that bowl Sunday. When we suck, we suck in every way.
As much as I *want* to see it, I cannot see us going all the way this year either. I’ll root for the team to the bitter end, but this just feels like ’85 or ’92… close, but not nearly close enough.
Yup grump, I just don’t see any reason to believe anymore this year…I’m sorry to say my friend
“We’re the most inconsistent team in the league.” Uh huh, true, proven fact
It’s simple. Forget road or home. Without Justin Smith they are toast.
I took like seven shits this morning.