No football this weekend. Normally this is a drag, as this seems to interrupt whatever momentum the team may be rolling on, but this year is a different story. The 49ers are beaten and battered. They have 5 defensive starters down, and just lost lineman Daniel Kilgore Trout to a broken leg. VD has been dinged up (and suffering from the dropsies), and the offense is in a bit of a quandary as they figure out how to use their new WR weapons.
But, as we saw last weekend, even though our D is still 2nd ranked in total defense, they were toasted by Peyton Manning and Co. to the tune of 419 yards. The good news is Patrick Willis is ready for the November 2nd game vs the Rams, and there’s the possibility that Aldon Smith could get a couple games shaved off his suspension for good behavior.
The injured DB corps (Cook, Cox, Culliver, Ward) should all be good to go. And the biggest missing piece, Navorro Bowman, is said to be in stage 3 of his rehab. He has been running for a few weeks, and is now starting to cut. Best case for Bowman is 4 more weeks. NT Glen Dorsey is also about 4 weeks away from his return.
Given all that, it’s pretty hard to gauge how good this team is. Defensively they are doing pretty well, until they aren’t. The coaching to me has been curious at best. In the Ram game, the Niners showed a bunch of stunts and blitzes and played up close on the Ram WRs. One would think to confuse Austin Davis. Come the Denver game, we abandoned all that. Strange, because this was the exact way the Niners played Peyton tough back in 2009. I thought they’d go hard after Manning and press the coverage as they love to throw quick underneath passes. Instead, we played soft on the outside guys, and tried to simply rush our 4 guys with little stunting. It sort of worked until the killer pick by Kappy.
The other losses have been ugly affairs that the 49ers had pretty good leads, and they succumbed to dumb penalties and mistakes. I get that some of this is due to installing a new offense, and the defense is hurting, but the coaches haven’t done all they could to get things right as well.
Still and all, given the current state of the team, I’m pretty good with where they are at. The Niners had a pretty tough opening set of games, and have handed Dallas and Philly their only losses this season. Losing in AZ isn’t a crime although that game was ugly. The worst loss to me was the Bears game, as they had no business coming back and beating us. However, I think this team will healthy up and get themselves in synch in time for a strong run down the stretch and hit the playoffs. Even if it is as a wild card. As the SF Giants proved, once you reach the playoffs, it’s a brand new season. This team has proven it can win on the road, and that’s the path to travel from the WC spot.
Forty Niners Forever 
Chuck, Davis made your shit list with a single commercial before the draft. I was here. It had nothing to do with any of those things you just tried to explain your dislike for him with. Everything VD did was a big deal complaint for you from before the day he was drafted.
No, I don’t like Rodgers doing his stupid celebration. Ten other guys and coaches do their job so you can look good just doing yours. STFU and just continue to do it.
Leviticus? It’s one of the law books supposed to be written by Moses for the Hebrews wandering in the desert. What does that have to do with anything? Are you just trying to show how PC you are and so intellectual you can make fun of others’ beliefs with the best of them? Good for you. Your moms are proud, I’m sure.
It started with Click-Clack and continued on until Singletary benched him. It took him 3+ years to get his head out of his ass. He missed a practice to wait for a 15′ painting of himself to be delivered to his house.
I don’t see those issues with Kaepernick. Get it? Of course not.
Tattoos? Lobsters? Leviticus? Jesus, for a Christian you don’t know shit about the Bible. Fuck. Do you need a map to find a clue?
RTF picked right up on that NoFear. Googling Leviticus won’t get you any Bible learnin’ there, pal.
In conclusion ……a hearty BLEEP!
Leviticus 20:15 ‘If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he is to be put to death, and you must kill the animal.”
I just wiped out the Appalachian Trail and the Ozarks. Both man and beast.
The real estate market is now open.
I just watched Damien knock Lee Remick over the banister while riding his little red tricycle on “The Omen” for the umpteenth time. That’s all you need to know about God in a nutshell right there.
I sure hope someone saved those poor little goldfish.
I wish you and your dumb and dumber brothers had the balls to bash Islam, Moslems, the Koran and Muhammad here. Your “I was made to go to Catholic School and instead of hating my mums who made me go hoping I’d grow up with some values, I hate God and Christians for it because I made some bad choices or had some unfortunate circumstances befall me and now my life sucks so I hate everything” schtick is getting as tired as Chuck’s keyboard tough guy act.
Here’s your first problem, you think no one gets it but you. Let me tell you, EVERYONE gets it, if you get it.
Your pathetic keyboard bully act is to try to bash and shout down everyone that doesn’t line up behind your stupidity of the day. Can you tell that no one, except your pet parrot, likes that? .Look at the number of participants here, talking about finding a clue.
The one thing you had going for you is the game day blog. It was especially good when Grumpy was here doing his commentary. But now you’ve got a collection of 49er haters destroying it because that’s all you’ll allow to offer an opinion because they do it here for the sake of the argument. And that’s you Chuck.
BTW, I didn’t have to google Leviticus. Everyone’s not as shallow as you are.
I had to Google this, but AMEN.
Chuck a bully? Nah! Lets all yell out a loud BLEEP!
Mr. Fear, Sorry I don’t consider myself a 49er hater, I love my football Team and that’s what makes me a concerned fan I guess. I mean what kind of society do we live in when people like the guy running this site expects everyone to stay quiet and just go along with the any direction our football team heads in.
Our Society now tells us to embrace people like Kaepernick a thug and calls you a racist if you say anything about him or Obama. What’s alarming is this has nothing to do with these men’s color. Russell Wilson like Martin Luther King are respectable, Intellectual men with values and that’s the difference.
One should not be judged by his color but by his character.
We want winners not characters!
Especially faux characters.
Rex who Drafted Kaepernick?
The Owner, GM or HC?
Tattoos are pretty hard to avoid in Sports these days.
Who really cares anyway?
Character and talent is also a hard line to balance, when so many of these kids get coddled in College.
The ‘on-demand’ world we live in today, is light years removed from the NFL of the 80’s, in terms of what the media gets their hands on too.
Well, NoFear, then why did you completely misunderstand the Leviticus reference? You missed the point entirely. Why? The rest of your shit is just the rest of your usual shit. I question Rex’s desire to see Harbaugh fired during the break. Is that terrible to question?
No.
What are blogs for? Expressing opinions. Right? I offered a different point of view.
You don’t like it? Boo hoo. Cry me a fucking river.
I feel real bad that you can’t take anything that doesn’t exactly line up with your myopic view of the world.
Rex, should I stay quiet while you question the heart of the QB because he doesn’t look like you want him to? Sorry. I prefer to determine players by how they play, not by their fashion choices.
What direction is that Rex? You were happy with the Nolan Years? The Singletary years?
What exactly do you want to happen? Fire Harbaugh. Trade Kappy. Get rid of Aldon Smith, Ray McDonald, and Chris Culliver. Anyone of remotely questionable character goes. Hello 5-11. But hey, we’re all a bunch of choir boys out here.
And we have what? Spitblood trying to be a cutie pie? Oh joy.
Safe to assume Rex thinks Baalke sucks and Harbaugh Drafted Kaepernick Chuck?
Why is Kaepernick a thug, Rex? What has he done? Is it his charities that piss you off? Is it his adoption? Is it his color?
Why does Society tell you to like him? How does it tell you to like him? Why do you listen? Are you a 12 year old girl?
Not being facetious here. I just wonder how you form opinions when you let Society make your choices. Beyond that, what is the alternative?
And on a final note here, after reading NoFear’s midsguided attempt at Bible studies, I had to look up Leviticus according to Wikipedia, and it was NoFear’s post pretty much verbatim. It talks about the rules for priests, common folk, and others in Society, but anyone who has read the Bible goes to the inane laws like no seafood unless it has fins, no tattoos, and no mixing fabrics in your clothes
, and a bunch of other stuff.
No wonder you didn’t get it. Hyuk!
I can explain it further if you’d like.
Leviticus 19:28 suggests no tattoos.
Ergo, I’m going to H3LL.
But, then again, I am NOT The Lord.
Ergo, you’re sounding like as big an idiot as Chuck. Despite Chuck’s newfound expertise in all things Christian by reading a paragraph or two in Wikipedia his ridiculous assumptions are not correct and neither are yours. But don’t let that stop you from jumping on the crazy train and trashing Christians, it’s all the rage now.
Why not try bashing Islam, Moslems, the Koran and its followers? Maybe Chuck can do a quick Wikipedia search and explain it first.
NoFear49er I’m a Christian that has taken to the tattoo shop.
No offense intended.
To each his own.
To the simple search definition, I merely confessed to that which apparently offended ‘Rex’ regarding inking one’s body.
I see nothing wrong with it, Christianity, or one’s ability to play professional football or, to be a good disciple, regardless of appearance or religious following.
Do unto others…….
As a kid, with an Army Dad, long hair and bell bottoms pissed him off to no end.
Battled my way through it with him.
Had to convince him that judging a book by it’s cover isn’t always prudent.
Took him a long time to admit he should have given me more credit for living my life in the moment.
He and I don’t see eye to eye on everything but, there’s no reason to squabble about our differences, we now find common ground and realize life is about sharing and caring.
He’s a good man and I’m his Son.
That’s all that matters in life.
It’s all about context, NJ49er. Tattoos don’t offend me. Don’t assume everything you read from Chuck is based on, well, anything.
Sacrifices were big and the basics of hygiene not so much at the time Leviticus was written. The descendants of Levi were the priests. Leviticus instructs the priests more than anything. And in regards to the Jews surviving their wandering in the desert at the time.
Chuck’s purpose is to ridicule all things he doesn’t agree with or understand. Context or knowledge is not important if ridicule is your only purpose.
So, if one calls oneself a Christian, one:
1) is protected from all criticism as it pertains to ones belief and actions under that belief, under penalty of derision and abuse at least; and
2) may believe or do anything, so long as one can refer to the Bible and claim “context or knowledge”.
That’s a very pretty arrangement which explains The Crusades, slavery of Africans (mark of Cain) and The Wars of Reformation and The Thirty Years War (heresy of disbelieving the Pope’s infallibility, amongst many other theological reasons).
That’s some pretty fancy and phony reasoning there, RT. Sounds like you brought a lot of that baggage with you ready to claim some moral high ground for having developed your hatred in school.
If your criticism depends on such straw men maybe it needs more work.
The book I’m reading now is The Reformation” by Diarmaid McCulloch. You clearly don’t know the first thing about Christianity or its history. It’s sad you cloak your profound hatred in its banner.
Good time to talk football guys?
Okay. I don’t own Gronk in any fantasy league but he’s making me some money in the dailies. I do own Emmanuel Sanders and benched him this week in favor of Michael Floyd. I wish I had some 49ers to root for or bitch about this week.
Watching the Eagles Cards game, piss poor officiating again.
Roughing the passer penalties are a joke.
That seems to be the favored game on the RedZone channel this afternoon, too. Didn’t expect the defensive battle from the Eagles and the you’re right about the zebras. Time for the QB skirts they’ve been threatening.
Despite the shitty refs inserting themselves into the game this is a nail biter.
* “as it pertains to that moniker”, under 1)
Twelve years of Catholic school, I’m bloody well qualified to mock hypocrites and frauds under any names including “Christian”.
Rumor that Lemonier could be on the trading block.
http://www.csnbayarea.com/49ers/49ers-lb-lemonier-could-draw-trade-interest
BLEEP the BYE WEEK!
Someone actually reads a book on this blog? Damn that’s mind blowing!
I’m no Eagles fan….Ordinarily…
Cards doing everything but covering Maclin. Might as well take it down to the last tick.
Shit
Going to be tough to catch the Cards
Last game of the season may be shaping up to be a big one.
We need to handle our own business at this point.
Whether we manage to steal the Division or not, a WC slot is isn’t the end of the world.
Harbaugh has his work cut out for him now.
We’re 2-0 vs the NFC East leaders which could come into play later on.
We have little margin for error now.
A Rookie Center will be a huge transition for us.
I hate to say it but just maybe Arizona is for real. I doubt they keep up this pace of winning all season but as you say, the Niners have little room left for error now.
Well it’s now obvious that most 49er fans would sadly back anyone who puts on our uniform. Some forgot that there once was a thing called class at the QB position, remember a player that use to represent your brand, the face of your franchise. A QB needs to be an intellect with class and intelligence and that is a must in the NFL. These qualities Kaepernick doesn’t possess, he’s just one of these wannabe cocky, superstar kids out there wearing their hats with straight bills and tags, kissing his biceps, getting 15-yard penalties for cussing. Parting, hanging with other thugs and living a gangster life. Did you ever see any of our former QB’s do this kind of thing? I understand its part of our popular culture that has now been sadly accepted. Again this has nothing to do with color if Vanilla Ice was our starting QB I’d be saying the same thing.
Steve Young, Joe Montana, Russell Wilson, Bret Farve, Aaron Rodgers, Manning, Staubach, Luck, Kelly the list goes on and on, it use to be an unspoken rule of class and dignity when given this great opportunity.
Remember before reviewing this, remember we went from Steve Young and Joe Montana to this and some of you who call yourselves true 49er fans just don’t seem to care.
I think Rex is a geneous!
I think Rex is confused too.
He thinks we give a sh!t about the Seahawks and which QB is the more respectable individual too.
Silly Rex.
This is a 49er Blog, he must be lost.
Once Russell gets his divorce, the anticipated Contract extension will be all his to enjoy.
Think of all the charity offerings he can finance then.
Jettison the wife first then, open a soup kitchen?
Geneous!
Oh the angst I bear worrying about which QB is cleaner cut juxtaposed to which is the 49ers QB, such a dilemma for the average non 49er fan.
How about we ignore the feigned arguments “Rex” is trying to create that are just as big a waste of time as the last bunch of horseshit he trotted out?
What say you Mr. Fear?