“Raise your hand if you think this was the best preseason ever. . . . No raised hands.” To paraphrase Jimbo there, what a trainwreck this offseason has been. Just when you think the Seahawks would get all fat and happy, run for the money, and lose their focus, it turns out the 49ers were the team to shoot themselves in the feet about 15 times since February.
I won’t even start with the myriad distractions, fuckups, and arrests, but it’s safe to say the issue with the 49ers isn’t very much about on-field issues. Yes, we have a young secondary, and yes, our D line has taken a hit, along with the linebackers, but now there’s news that Michael Crabtree has a calf injury. Not sure of the prognosis yet, but hey, at least he didn’t give his leg a molly and try to bang it.
And, in what should be a very rousing start to the NFL season, we have Green Bay and their All Universe QB, Chico’s own Aaron Rodgers going up against the Legion of Boom in the great white Northwest. This game will surely be a test for Green Bay’s maligned defense, as well as an early test for Seattle’s vaunted D.
This season can’t get started fast enough. Bring it on.
Forty Niners Forever 
I hope Ray McDonald starts on Sunday. I think he’s the real victim.
Wow. How long did it take to come up with that gem?
That musta hurt your head.
And you wonder why you don’t get invited anywhere, skippy.
Niners injury report includes Crabs with his calf, Anthony Davis with a hammy issue, and Marcus Martin and his knee.
For all the babying around Crabs these days, dude can’t stop from getting hurt. Christ, hard to make the big score when you spend 2/3 of the season cooling your heels.
“And you wonder why you don’t get invited anywhere, skippy.” What are you talking about? You better check your med dose again. Are you implying this entire blog goes out and does stuff together? Because I’m not interested in going to the monster truck rallies with you, or going to the comic-con with NJ or Survival Awareness Week / War rallies with NoFear. I might go to the ponies with Del, but maybe once a year, not twice a day.
Chuck… don’t let this blow your mind, but McDonald should play on Sunday. In America we’re innocent until proven guilty. And this is still America. The rest of your morons clamoring for McDonald’s head can go kick rocks.
If he’s convicted, cut him. Until then…. play him. And that’s in no way a Harbaugh contradiction although the whoopleheads won’t get that. Cry for Harbaugh’s head when McDonald plays Sunday. It’ll make me laugh that much more.
And, in news of the weird, Josh Gordon, recently suspended from the Brown for the year, will go to work as a car salesman.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/josh-gordon-will-spend-his-year-off-of-football-as-a-car-salesman-160458452.html
Bullshit, spitty. teachers, doctors, lawyers, cops, etc. are routinely suspended (with pay) pending investigations of this type. Key word there is pending, skippy.
Harbaugh comes across as a major hypocrite in hiding behind due process. Even you have to see that. He rails on his bro for welcoming Ray Rice back, and then 3 days later hides behind due process when it one of his guys? Chickenshit. Utter pussery. Jimbo needs to shut his pie-hole because every time he opens his yap, he ends up shoveling his feet into it.
Even if Baalke decides to let Happy Meal play, Harbaugh can still park his ass on the sidelines. Which is what he should do. Otherwise, we become the Jail Blazers.
Yes… and those teams, organizations and government entities also routinely run their own investigations to “hedge” their bets if it looks like their employee is going to walk.
The difference between you and I, Chuck, is I’m under no illusions regarding the what drives businesses. You think it’s ethics. I used to feel that way. Now I’m more cynical and just think it’s the almighty dollar.
Ray Rice scores a few touchdowns and everyone forgets Ray dragging his “soon to be” through the lobby…
Wow. Really? Money drives business, Skippy? There’s a Pulitzer in your future. Unfortunately for you it’ll be going up your ass in care of this award-winning blog.
The point is, Harbaugh is the one belaboring the zero tolerance stance. Riiiight up until the point that it its one of his guys. Now it’s ‘due diligence!’
Like you keep saying pigs get slaughtered. This will be yet another indication that these guys will keep playing by a different set of rules.
Not that I expect these guys to be saints, but holy shit, strangling chicks, punching them in the face, and the band played on. . . .
Did you hear the DA today said no charges pressed “at this time.” Doesn’t mean there won’t be, but right now there’s not enough to warrant charges, which to me, following what Snnark wrote earlier, means the DA doesn’t see an easy conviction.
Maybe you need to take some law classes, or maybe lower your medication dosage. I’m not a doctor or a lawyer, but you’re hysterical. Not hysterical, ha ha. We all know you aren’t funny. Hysterical like crazy – bananas, bonkers. You don’t know what Ray McDonald did. And you’re jumping to the conclusion that he’s “strangling chicks, punching them in the face.”
Maybe you’re confusing Ray Rice with Ray McDonald. We all know what Rice did because it was caught on camera. We don’t know what McDonald did and this is why you’re hysterical….. and again, not the funny kind.
Until the facts are sorted out, what you’re asking the 49ers to do is take a symbolic stand against domestic violence just because Harbaugh has stated previously he’s against DV. But who isn’t? The 49ers aren’t obligated to take any kind of ceremonial stand just because you want the team to clean up its image. Kick rocks.
Well, Harbaugh comes off looking like a hypocrite. And I’m referring to the NFL in general. Sorry the nuance escapes you. . . .
Then again, that probably went over your head as well . . .
Harbaugh doesn’t look like a hypocrite to anyone who has half a clue about the law.
All the rush to judgment and cries for RayMac to be suspended is nothing more than fans rooting for a cause they think provides some sort of proof they are “good” people, no matter the leaps in logic required or who or how many are left under that bus.
I don’t remember this reaction to Kaepernick and friends being accused of misconduct. How many wanted Kaepernick off the team when the accusations were leveled?
If RayMac has done something that warrants punishment I’m sure he’ll get it. What’s the benefit to such an over-reaction? To show we hate wife beaters as much as dog abusers?
When murderers take the field on a weekly basis and you pay good money to participate in the experience you should get over the notion that the NFL will act with a conscience and become the long arm of the law for its fans enjoyment.
Exactly.
Hey Hysterical Chuck: Did you see the Ravens just put a statue of Ray Lewis up in front of their stadium. He was apart of a murder… and now he has a statue up in front of his stadium. And you want McDonald to sit for a few bruises? Up your dosage.
Don’t pretend to know anything. One of you lives in a bunker with 10,000 Asian porn DVDs, and the other lives in his mom’s basement.
Kaep’s supposed crime was partying with an ex-girlfriend, not strangling her.
I know, foreplay to you.
You might be the stupidest 49er fan ever. TMZ reported sexual assault with Kaep. That’s not partying. Is minimizing or fabricating the truth your basic debate strategy?
“I know, foreplay to you.” Did you hit your head this afternoon? Do we all need secret decoder rings to hand you your ass each debate? Is incoherence your self-defense mechanism? It’s a good one.
Again, nimrod, this is about Harbaugh and HIS comments. Not the court system and not the NFL.
Get it? No. You’d rather rant on the lib media and the black helicopters.
Chuck –
Lets get together at a Firing Range somewhere and practice with our Uzis. Maybe Chuck and Spit end up shooting at each others feet. Throw in football, some right-wing politics and some alcohol imbibing and perhaps a boozing Dennis it should be a good time for all.
Can’t hit Spitty’s head. It’s planted firmly up his ass.
I’m all for this. I like it when my team or whatever I’m apart of is “the most expensive.” However… it only works if the product on the field is one of the best in football. If Harbaugh has one foot out the door, I smell George Bush economics (two wars + tax cuts + tax surplus refunds + zero wall street regulation =’s great recession). You try to charge 49er fans this much with Jim Tomsula as your HC and Levi Stadium will implode with a quickness.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11465929/san-francisco-49ers-game-costs-family-four-nfl-high-average-641
The master of the ad hominem argument! And even for that lack of basis in facts you have to resort to building a straw man. You prove yourself to be on the wrong side of this one.
You compare Kaepernick’s situation to RayMac’s but conveniently try to ignore the actual comparison and make up your own. Kaepernick was ACCUSED of sexual assault. Rape. Is that less heinous to you than a girlfriend with marks on her neck?
You pretend to be upset that Harbaugh may be a liar? So effin’ what? We all know he’s a liar. You care what he lies about now?
If and when RayRay is actually indicted for a crime, let’s have this discussion again. We will know a ton more about this case on the 15th.
Ray McDonald is guilty. Wes Welker is guilty. Jim Irsay is guilty. Josh Gordon is guilty. Bell and Blount are guilty. And so too is Aldon Smith. Everybody is fucking guilty. I don’t need to wait for any goddamn “due process” to come to those conclusions.
So help me Jesus H. Fucking Christ. If Ray McDonald is allowed to play Sunday, I will openly root for him to break is his fucking neck and be carried out on a stretcher. I will also root for Jed York, Trent Baalke, Jim Tomsula, and last, but certainly not least, Jim Harbaugh to fall down a flight of stairs and break theirs. I want wants coming and what’s deserved.
I’m sick and goddamn tired of *my* once classy and proud organization conducting themselves in these abhorrent and gutter-lined off-the-field manners. It would be one thing if we acted like filth and actually won a goddamn Super Bowl or two these last three years. But we can’t even be pond scum like Seattle and win the damn thing. We’re the fucking worst. Nothing but second-rate criminals who blow the big heist and get caught without the garnering the jewels. Nothing to show for but empty trophy cases, guilt and shame.
How bout dem Cowboys!
And on a light note, football is back! Go Seapack! I dunno.
Pack running the hurry-upon their first drive vs SEA.
What a concept. That sure in the hell isn’t in our vernacular.
The concept was fine. The payoff was a passing yardage loss. Think the ‘Hawks were ready for a hurry-up attack?
Pack starting a C that’s never snapped the ball to Rodgers in a live game.
Welcome to the NFL.
I believe I started Percy Harvin in our FFL. Go Percy! Have Faith, especially with his orchestra. I had a really bad drinking stretch back in my mid 20’s to mid 30’s (go figure) and “Theme From A Summer Place” by Percy Faith and his Orchestra was one of my favorite drunk play on the bar jukebox songs. Drove patrons nuts that I played it incessantly. Good thing you guys didn’t know me back then. Hell, not much better that you have to deal with me now.
Seattle givin’ away freebies with PR gaffes…can GB capitalize?
GOOOO Gordy! I got him.
Rodgers on that last 3rd dn convo, was, well, Aaron Rodgers. Beauty.