Super Bowl bound! 4-12? Shit, who am I kidding. I have no clue how this season turns out. Despite the naysayers and those that laugh and predict doom for jettisoning St. Jim the Wolverine, the team still has talent and the offense will hopefully move out of the 70s.
The defense? Well, shit should be fine, if not a little thin in the defensive backfield. Which leads me to believe we will be a little more aggressive with the pass rush. Ahmad Brooks still remains a 49er, albeit that depends on the charges brought forth by the woman who brought down RayMac. Cutting him at this point would only save $1.5 mill against the cap, so he’ll probably stick around if these charges go away.
If anything, both Ahmad Brooks, and his bookend OLB Aldon Smith have a lot to prove with their recent travails and issues. The defensive line should still be fairly stout as Justin Smith hasn’t been himself the last couple years, and the rest of the crew, plus Darnell Dockett should be good to go. These OLBs (Lunch included) can wreak some havoc if the D line takes care of business. Eli Harold has been seen as a high-value pick where we got him. Arik Armstead? He’s got the ‘potential’ tag laid all over him. The positive being Jim Tomsula has done very well as a D line coach with a lot less than AA.
Inside LB? Well, there’s the rub. Bowman is by all intents coming along just fine, but his injury was horrific and he is a question. Wilhoite has shown decent game, but his ceiling isn’t very high. Moody and the rest? Ehh. Have to wonder if someone will fall off a team after cut-down time.
The secondary is thin as well. Even with the signing of Jaquaski Tartt, heir apparent to Antoine Bethea. The only question is when. The corners were left thin by the Cully and COX departures, but Brock should be healthy. Johnson came on very well last year, but he’s a question as a starter and Shareece Wright isn’t all that. They did sign UDFA Mylan Hicks (Mich St) to a 3 year deal so they see something there.
As far as the coaches go, they have a lot of guys with a lot of time in the game. What does it mean? Little to nothing in itself, but Mangini is on the right side of the line now at least.
Forty Niners Forever 
Don’t concern yourselves with mis-quoting, mis-interpreting, mis-stating and mis-characterizing my post. That seems to be a favorite of liberals.
You do of course realize that The Veterans Equal Access Act was bi-partisan from authorship to support of co-sponsors.
And you do of course realize that since the ‘veterans dying on waiting lists’ scandal the VA is seeing ZERO more patients who need medical attention. Good fix there ZERO. Speech of lies, sweep it under the rug and stonewall as per usual.
Just what the VA system needs now is tens of thousands more swamping it with paid-for marijuana.
How about they spend some money and medical professional’s time on treating and fixing the problems from service instead of just creating the most over-medicated population of patients ever, which is what they do best.
I know you must think the PTSD created by having responsibility to plan drone missions is worthy of a lifetime ticket to free pot for a lifelong stoner before service but I disagree.
Please don’t try to tell me the intoxication isn’t the attraction. The biggest problem I have with the legalization is the increased availability to kids. Their health, lungs and brains, will suffer for it and when/where legal they will be assured by its implication that it’s harmless.
Personally I lean toward the decriminalizing of it. I don’t want to jail potheads. Adults can smoke whatever the hell they want as long as it doesn’t affect me. That doesn’t mean I think it’s “cool”.
Maybe quit trying to pigeonhole everything. It’s not always about politics.
So tens of thousands of veterans will suddenly appear to get MJ approved for PTSD when in fact they just want free weed to get high. So much for pigeonholing everything.
Here’s a short advocacy blurb. Note that the recent 80% in PTSD claims is NOT because of weed, since the VA will not approve it:
http://www.veteransformedicalmarijuana.org/content/ptsd
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Who is advocating legalizing MJ for kids? How has increased availability decreased the use of MJ in minors in Portugal and Colorado? Personally I don’t believe the published statistics for MJ, though I do for Portugal, which has a much longer timeframe as the base. Nevertheless, I don’t think it will result in an increase in the long term, and even if it did, if MJ was replacing alcohol use in kids, that would be a terrific thing. My architect, high school department head, and computer friends (many) and I who smoked pot as kids seemed to turn out all right. The alkies didn’t fare so well.
BTW, THC (the part that gets you high) IS the part of MJ that medical studies have shown to be apparently effective for treating PTSD. So much for the no-fun big government, big spending nanny staters.
*statistics for minors in CO – typo in first post
CO minor use has DECREASED, according to government published statistics. That is the stat I don’t believe.
Trump for dog catcher! Oh I forgot they call them animal control officers now. Trump would scare the hell out of the pooches.
The VA has been a cluster duck nightmare sine the Revolutionary War.
Yeah, the problems started 7 years ago. As per usual with the rose-colored revisionists, the country was in perfect shape til The Muslim took over.
Millions of jobs and and a thriving economy later, we’re heading for hell. Damn those gays!!!
The reason I would legalize MJ is no one is not doing it now because it is illegal. What a farce. We are just giving drug dealers an extra profit maker. Why not make it legal and tax it. Let us tax payers get a little something out of this. I repeat, I do not know anyone who is not smoking pot because it is illegal. Again, what a farce.
Unca- The country took a dump when the Dems took over the House and Senate in 2007. Go look it up. Since the GOP took over the House we started improving. Look for us to take off now that the GOP has the Senate too. You can already see the it. The time line from 2007 is right there to see.
Considering all the low-level pot-heads in jail for meaningless shit, and the stupidity of the drug war in general, you’d think someone would learn from throwing trillions away on something that is fairly harmless in the grand scheme of things fucked up in this country. Like I said earlier, hundreds of thousand more have died from the effects of alcohol, and many thousands more die on legal (and illegal) opiates than would ever happen if it was legalized.
How many jobs have the Republicans created? How many jobs bills did they block? 0 to 38. Right, Bergs. The economy turned around when the republicans got the senate. Sure you ain’t toking? Sounds like you are one toke over the line.
Talk about unclear on the concept.
And just for s’s and g’s
The Giants get swept by the freakin Marlins. The Marlins! They’ve already been swept at home by the Diamondbacks. They really, really need the Dodgers to come around to turn around their slump, but they don’t play again till Aug. 31. Perhaps they could bribe the league to change the schedule?
The Giants usually suck on this east coast Marlins/Nats swing. I ain’t thinking this roadie gets much better for them. They get one, I’ll be happy.
Peavy tomorrow? He was getting shelled in AAA. Gulp . . .
All this talk of getting plays off in time. Funny how Alex Smith had thousands of them under Nolan Sing and Harbaugh. Kappy takes over, and viola, delay of game penalties. Smith stopped getting delay of game penalties once he went to KC. Couldn’t be the coaches.
The agenda of hate is really getting ridiculous. Revisionist history strikes again.
Eight DoG penalties in 2014. Two of which were on Andy Lee. Half of the remaining six were in the game against Oakland, in week 14, all on third and longs. And two of the other three were in the game against Philadelphia.
How’s that obviously on coaching? More likely on the idiot you worship telling the world the 49ers suck the week before, thereby destroying what little confidence the coaches managed to instill in the struggling Kaepernick.
Un-revising revisonist history.
Are you denying we had a problem with getting the ball snapped on time?
He is placing the blame on Kap. Absurd.
The idiot I worship? Satan? I always thought he was a sharp cookie.
How many wasted time outs, Skippy? 40? Can you sit there and tell me this hasn’t been happening? Jesus, you really have to stick to the narrative, don’t you? Wasting timeouts and delay of games have been a problem for 7 years, NoFear. Please deny that. It has preceded the QB, the head coaches, and even the GMs. Ol’ Norv didn’t have a problem with it, IIRC.
Who was the last QB to take this team to the Super Bowl?
The answer isn’t St. Jim the Pious.
just found this one
I guess they don’t want you to see it. sorry. pretty good stuff though. Just punch in: brian ferry live at lyons on you tube.
bryan
In conclusion to this thread………BURP!
Berger, go find Big James for some Blues.
Dude can mix Funk & Blues better than most.
NJ- Try this one out. Wild Weekend by Tinsley Ellis!
Belch!