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 
Confused? I’m not the one who watched Steve Young and Joe Montana on and off the football field and now sees no real problem with a thug behind center. Super Bowl Winners Tom Brady, Roethlisberger, Peyton Manning, Eli Manning, Drew Brees, Aaron Rodgers, Joe Flacco, all have one thing in common and that’s CLASS!
Franchise QB’s need the intelligence to think on their feet, evaluate all of their options and understand the impact their actions will have on the outcome of the game. Any stout defense will put an end to Kappy’s dream every time. Kaepernick is just a wannabe Star that the media hyped up after he did absolutely nothing but tarnish our Super Bowl record and he’ll do it again if given the opportunity. All this hoopla did was fuel this self-centered, it’s all about me, the world is mine, gangster. The down fall for Harbaugh is he had the team, they were ready to win it all but he had no winner behind center. He put his faith in Kappy and his window is almost slammed shut now.
Harbaugh wasted our time with Alex Smith and now with Kaepernick while the Andrew Luck’s of the world go to other teams. Oh I’m a 49er fan all right but I refuse to watch my football team turn into a bunch of thugs.
Pretty sure Harbaugh Drafted that thug Rex.
Pretty sure the same HC taught him everything he knows to this point in his career too.
Heck, even the game plans come from the same HC.
Maybe Harbaugh cultivated a thug?
Let’s also go over that list of SB winning QBs you cited above.
One common denominator?
All are pocket passers.
Hmmm?
Harbaugh hasn’t gotten that message through to Kaepernick the thug just yet perhaps?
Or maybe, just maybe, Harbaugh is too busy playing conservative ground and pound while that window you elude to continues to close.
Teach Kaepernick the finer points of a passing game and things should improve dramatically.
Assuming of course Harbaugh has it in his bag of tricks.
Fuck, Flying V. You pick now to come back? Your ip address was banned previously, but Ill let you post for old times sake.
What a fucking laugh riot.
Thing is, Flying V. You’ve always liked the bad boys. You’d let Kappy fuck you sideways.
Russell Wilson’s an admitted abuser and bully. But he sure looks sweet!!
You could just eat him up> Right V? Get a fucking life.
Geez –
The fun never ends over here Chuck.
” Oh I’m a 49er fan all right but I refuse to watch my football team turn into a bunch of thugs.”
Lol, Stop watching then since that’s all you can do anyway.
Lets have a moment of silence for the Raiders……..may they rest in peace.
Lets hope they are still resting when the Niners play them Nipper.
….snoring sound…loudly….
That damn AZ keeps on winning! Dammit!
Yeah, both those games could have gone our way, but Chip and Co. made the cardinal mistake of giving up a big play with under 2 mins left. Palmer is actually impressing me. I seriously didn’t think he’d do this well.
Seattle’s offense looks like they took our playbook from 2009.
Flying V, pointing at Ben Worthlessberger as a shining beacon of exemplary behavior shows your stupidity. But that was never in question.
The central scriutinizing eye of the national media has found a new team to badger. The Seattle Seahawks. Amid reports of Percy Harvin’s fighting with teammates before the Super Bowl to the locker room talk that their star quarterback is an ass-kissing management lackey, there’s a new report that Marshawn Lynch hates Pete Carroll, and will be out of Seattle after this season.
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/marshawn-lynch-doesnt-talk-pete-134700710.html
Far be it from me to gloat over their travails, but their smugness over the tornado of innuendo swirling around the Niners earlier this year is, well, just desserts.
I just don’t understand the language here. My parents are from New Orleans and as a family we never use bad language like what I’ve read here. Seems someone is trying to act big and bad and using this site as a platform to act tough because they want to be in control.
Getting back to football. I hear a lot of fans here talking about the Raiders, you know the team with the bad image because they had a history of picking up thugs on teams around the league who didn’t want these players ruining their image. Remember these same thug fans and their legendary embarrassing acts? Well Sometimes we find ourselves in a situation that will make us seem great or better than we really are. This once ran true here with the 49ers but no longer can anyone make these false statements. Yes thanks to our transparent organization this no longer holds true. Yes nowadays we find ourselves bagging on teams we hated because of their thug image when now we’re just as bad as they are or even worst.
I don’t see the Raiders with Kaepernick the original gangsta on their team or the classless group of criminals Harbaugh has assembled. The image that you hated with the Raiders you now find yourself embracing with the 49ers. Players and fans are at the Raiders level and just don’t realize it. This is what happens when an organization is run loosely and standards, tradition, class is no longer a priority.
The very sad part is not only this happening but the fans who should care no longer do.
You write prettty well for a 10 year old.
The world is filled with bad people. Do you ever leave mom’s basement?
New thread is up. So long Rex. We hardly knew ye.