Here we sit on the eve of training camp, and the blogosphere is abuzz with the impeding doom of the San Francisco 49ers. The national media has gone from laughing and pointing to basically laughing at every next domino that falls to drive another nail into the coffin that is the 2015 season.
Well, fuck that. The national media had the 2012 Eagles being a juggernaut due to their free agent acquisitions, and look what it got them. Shit, the 2007 Niners were turning a corner under Nolan, and the 2010 team was poised to be great under Singletary. All turned gold into shit. Yeah, we’ve lost a bunch of players and coaches. Shit, the year he got here no one gave the Niners chance.
Point being, the national media doesn’t follow the team like the local fans. Even then, look at the bullshit flying around. Sue, laugh, point, ands ridicule all you want, but I think the team will come out of this in better shape than if Harbaugh had stuck around. One more year of Harbaugh would have been another year of the Roman offense. One more year of a front office and a head coach that didn’t communicate. One more year of Harbaugh being Harbaugh. A driven coach who drives everyone else crazy. Bear in mind he hasn’t lasted anywhere longer than 4 years. This appears to be his shelf life.
Anyhow, gone are Patrick Willis, Frank Gore, Michael Crabtree, Justin Smith, Perrish Cox, Chris Culliver, Anthony Davis, Andy Lee, and Chris Borland. Beyond that, revolving door Jonathan Martin and Stevie (Good for a moment) Johnson were cut. As daunting as this appears to the uninformed eye, and yes, vet presence is a thing, the only ones that hurt are Cox and Davis, in my mind.
Crabs and Cully had their bags packed before the AZ game and were not expected to stay. Willis and Borland were retirement surprises in that no one expected them to retire as they did. Willis was slowed at the start of the year, and was lost or 2/3 of it. This allowed Borland to shine, but he left as well citing his health. AD waited too long to announce his retirement, but whatever. He did what he felt was necessary. I figured the Niners would focus on Cox to stay, and I didn’t like the decision to let him go. Gore? Well, he took the money. 3 years beats one every time. Good luck, Frank. Justin Smith was basically the same. He was not himself these past couple years, and therefore isn’t a big loss. Lee? He needed a change of scenery due to his tragedy so the team did him a favor by sending him closer to his hometown. J Mart? No there there. Stevie? Meh.
Forty Niners Forever 
Yeah, that album is by far the weirdest psychedelia that Floyd did. A lot of Syd Barrett in the live sides. A total shame what happened to Syd.
Speaking of those slow on the up-take, V tried posting under about 20 different names and they all got caught in the spam filter.
Good work, Skippy. Don’t worry bro, your brethren on Skeebie’s, blog will take you and your bat-shit craziness in . . . How’s the Pinto, BTW??
There’s crazy and then there’s V crazy. A special kind of lunacy.
This ism for Del:
A duck was about to cross the road, when a chicken came running & said
“No don’t do it! You’ll never hear the bloody end of it”
Quack!
Is that a duck or a chicken ism?
Mallard
Cluck cluck!
NoFear, I banned V (and Dennis) for racist comments. Simply that. Soitty? He pushed his nonsensical bullshit over and over and I waned him 15 times, yet he kept it up. The reason I mentioned V as not backing me at Skeebs site is because he SAID he backed me in about 45 posts that were caught by my spam filter.
I still stand behind my assertion that the only reason I was banned from Skeebs site is because he couldn’t take hearing a different point of view. Fucking Bullit is the worst example of a baiting troll but since he is on the side of most everyone over there, Skeebs lets it go. His prerogative, but really, look at how you guys give winder shit for not bowing to the prevailing sentiment. Spitty rides NJ all the time, yet you call it civil over there? Gimme a fucking break. As usual, since the wind is blowing your way you feel free to be an asshole and support everyone else who does the same.
NJ gets one drunken night from Bergs and you get all bent out of shape over it? At least when I ban people its for due cause. EVERYONE I banned, I warned. 10 times over. Skeebs? Nope.
You want to get all high and mighty about it, go for it but don’t play the martyr’s advocate.
BTW, I’m waiting for my apology for you not noting the fact that I told Bergs to shut up about his screed.
Like that’ll happen.
Show me where you told Bergs to shut up.
“Bergs was drinking last night, NJ.” “So, easy on the shit-flinging.”
Such a stinging rebuke! How did I miss that!
Good for you! You really stuck your neck out there and showed everyone you will not tolerate anyone kicking other posters off your blog. Except, Flavor, Twinfan and Berger when he’s drunk. Wow!
Has the English language lost all meaning for you? Just define words as you wish?
Winder and NJ49er post nothing but different POVs. They aren’t banned. Must be a flaw in your logic somewhere.
Dennis is the only one left here with a different POV. Go look how you welcome different opinions. Or ask bakkentom.
Maybe try your bullshit on someone who hasn’t been around here so long.
You don’t like my rebuke. Well at least you acknowledged it as such. Still no apology though. Typical pablum from you. Yertle the turtle. Afraid of casting a shadow? If you can’t see tag bakkentom is someone else, then there’s no hope for you. Jesus.
No one on earth makes the jump from here to there in an hour without foreknowledge. A couple mild posts besides. Poor little bakkentom. Tell him to come back. I didn’t say anything to him besides.
Show me where he gets railed.
How about you start a blog? Then you ca tell me how to run mine. Otherwise shut it. Gawd what a baby you are.
So in summation Chuck, the blog is either all of one opinion or when you allow other opinions you are an asshole.
Got it.
I like to touch myself.
He should ban you because you’re boring as fuck.
V- I can’t stand the Liberals either but this is a 49er football sight. You stand a better chance of sticking if you stick to telling us how Kappy sucks instead of poilics.
He would have a better chance of sticking if he lowered his “I know better than you” stance to that of ordinary egomaniac and stopped bludgeoning us with his massive missives. Winder said he stops reading V and Spitty if its more than a paragraph. I do the same. It’s one long ego stroke, boring as fuck, oh I said that already.
I don’t read them either when they get too long.
Getting drunk and blogging is fun! NJ got called out for questioning ownership, management and the QB on one sight and acting all positive here. He also threatened to the leave the 49ers as a fan, ala the way he showed the Mets and left them. NJ is my favorite poster. I love the guy but he needs to quit trying to make everybody happy. Politician acting people never get much favor from me. If I’m drinking I’m a bit blunt. Saying one thing there and another here is going need clarification. That’s all. I’d still rather post with NJ than any other poster here or there. There, how’s that for kissing ass. Fuck you NJ! LOL!
I told Spitty, NJ is worth a hundred of him.
NJ is a solid Niner fan who see’s the pro and con of most situations. I get where you are coming from Berger but NJ is good in my book.
As are you even when you are an asshole.
Thanks 12th. The advantage of drinking and blogging is my inner ass hole comes out sometimes! Rob usually calls when I get drunk. It seems to entertain him! Rob is cool.
Its all good Berger.
Spitty, V, Skeebs, NF et al are bearable. Bullit is an Olympic standard asshole, just worthless.
I never had a problem with Bullit until we started to disagree. I then found out why people would rather go to a different blog than to put up with the dick of all blogs. He is worse than Chuck about needing to have the last word.
Berger I get into the conversation on occasion between sites.
At times, there are topics shared, regarding an article of interest perhaps, that sparks debate.
While it may appear that I waffle, I simply accept a dissenting POV at times to further the debate.
For example, the reports of Gase being pursued by Baalke made sense to me.
What struck me as odd in that scenario, were the reports that Jed squashed it.
For that reason, I asked why?
Meddling could be defined in those terms and, under that scenario, no?
You asked me awhile back to declare if I thought Jed was meddling.
I answered no.
But, in the Gase example, I sure would/did ask the question.
As for being blunt when you’re wasted?
The term obnoxious A$$hole comes to mind.
And, fuck you too 😀
It’s all good.
Someday, if/when I get out there, it would be fun to get together as a Blog Group, and perhaps, have our own form of a Festivus Reunion.
We can all enjoy a few adult beverages, and, have an airing of grievances perhaps?
We’ll gather around the Festivus Pole, partake in some Festivus Games and, have some 9er related fun.
I doubt Jed had anything to do with the Gase situation except when it came to the pay. I would expect that from an owner. Who knows, maybe that is where it broke down?
The bigger headscratcher for me with Gase is, our collective agreement for the need of more Offense.
Gase working with Kaep seemed like a novel idea at the time.
To choose Tomsula over Gase simply raised questions for me, that’s all.
I’ve joked about the NFLE connection conspiracy theory I harbor.
Dr Daddy + Jim Tomsula + Lawrence Okoye + Jarryd Hayne + Roger Goodell + London games, etc just makes me go..Hmmmmmm?
There is no conspiracy theory. At least I don’t see it. I have no problem with Tomsula. When Harby was fired I wanted Tomsula or Fangio for HC. I am 100% good with the 49ers decision. My concern is Geep for OC. He can’t be worse than RoBaugh. I’m hoping for much better than he can’t be worse. Since I don’t know much about his style I’ll just need to wait and see. I can’t be happy or bitch about him until I see what we are getting.
Simply gotta ask the question Berger, is John York collecting pieces for future expansion?
It’s all about the Benjamins….
I have no personal issues with Tomsula either.
All we can do now is wait and see what develops.
NJ, collecting pieces?
Yeh 12th, Okoye and Hayne for example?
2 guys that never played a down of NFL football, getting added to the SF roster, where a former NFLE HC (Tomsula) works for the Dr, he of NFLE Expansion Committee fame?
Me thinks it’s just a WEE bit coincidental.
I live in my grandma’s trailer.
So piss off somewhere else, or have you run out of options again?
Read your own writing much? You come off like a spoilt child.
I hate to break it to you V but believe it or not you are an uninteresting read. Opinionated, lacking in thoughtful content, spouting nonsense and rhetoric.
Yeah it’s all good. I just wish I could meet Bullit face to face.
No on can be such a weenie in real life, can they? Then again I can’t imagine how/ why NoFear is so sensitive aboit random things. I still profess I never started shit with anyone but I won’t take repeated flame jobs either. V, NoFear and Bullit have been the ones who consistently go after me year after year.
And they cry pussy when I return the favor? How chickenshit is that? They can fuck off sideways.
V ruined my last blog, and spitty did all he could to fuck with this one. He did more to drive people away than anyone. And NoFear defends his right to fuck with it? Bullshit on that.
NoFear himself said that is was a good blog on gameday.
What happened? Did I sabotage my own blog? No. Guys like v aznd spitty went crazy posting when I wasn’t around.
This can be fun, especially during game day but when I leave for a couple days and see racist rants from Dennis or 50 10000000 word diatribes from spitty/v it makes me wonder why I bother.
I’m thinking seriously about the need for a Festivus-type Reunion Event Chuck.
Maybe we all just need to shake hands, share a beverage and shoot the sh!t in a verbal environment?
No need for hard feelings here in the silent world of keyboarding IMO.
Sometimes the written word just isn’t accepted or construed as intended.
A good ‘ol Eff you is pretty clear but, you know, gets a little too extreme.
I’m in except if Bullit shows up, she is a pain in the arse.
Maybe we’d all feel differently if we did meet one another.
I’ve got no problems with Bullit.
He’s a passionate fan too.
I can respect that.
Now, if the venue was to have a cage match among fans, we’d want to drink heavily and meet in Philly for a 9er/Eagle game.
That’s where supporting OUR team would involve a good old fashioned rumble.
All that’s needed for a confrontation there is, to wear a jersey, a hat or something affiliated with the 9ers.
I’ll get sh!tfaced with Berger and the rest of you can join in.
It won’t take more than 5 minutes for some Philly moron to have something to say, guaranteed.
I don’t see any conspiracy either. I don’t see expansion into Europe either. If so, that will be the death knell ;of the NFL. That is a bridge too far.
Well maybe it’s just me then.
We seem to be the only team in the NFL with a collection of globally-oriented athletes.
The NFL has a long way to go to catch Soccer on the World Stage too.
They have a couple of players that are long shots to get on the game day roster and a 10 (8?) year line coach that was a 1 year HC in NFL Europe. That is a bit thin I reckon.
Sometimes I think just a little too much about conspiracies involved with the Marketing Plan of the NFL?
It’s the OLD salesman in my blood perhaps?
That, and memories of these sorts of articles….
http://tinyurl.com/olecsxu
Maybe the 1st strategy is the SB?
Guess no one caught the typo in that piece either.
Owner ‘Jason’ York?
Is there a ghost Owner involved?
Jed’s evil twin?
Grounds for another conspiracy theory brewing?
I just don’t see Europeans giving up their football ever. If that dipshit FIFA head keeps up the massive financial fraud and keeps scheduling World Cups in places like Qatar (hey, let’s put the Super Bowl and the World Series there next!) I expect Europe and South America to break off and form their own World Cup. Others like the U.S. and Mexico will beg to get in, as well as some of the better African teams, but it will be Euro/S.A. centric.
But for them to give up their football for American football? Never. American football as a novelty sure, just like I like watching Australian Rules Football.
Agree RT.
Soccer owns the World Stage and likely will for the foreseeable future.
Football requires way too much equipment and peripheral support.
But yes, it’s Marketable and, that’s all the Owners need to hear.
CHA-Ching…..
The whole FIFA Organization is corrupt.
Watched a piece recently about how the Qatar facility is being constructed.
They’ve lost hundreds of lives on that project due to the excessive heat and, many of these workers are basically interned there as slaves.
The DOJ has several of these guys already under the microscope too.
Sepp Blatter won’t step outside his comfort zone either, for fear of arrest.
Quite the Enterprise, that FIFA.
Every coffeehouse in Europe, it seems, has their own club. It’s ingrained in the culture. I don’t know, outside of some cheap bucks,, what Goodie hopes out of it. I don’t see Euros breaking the bank to buy Andrew Luck jerseys.
Most of the new Brazilian World Cup venues now look like just a step up from the Roman Colisseum and are used about as often.
If Tomsula spins straw into Gold with Okoye look out RT.
He’s an identifiable commodity across the Pond.
It’s all about exposure certainly.
Couple of NFL games a year opens the money flow for the Owners.
Mo Money, Mo Money.
Hey, it’s possible. But it’s at least 10 years off. I see a Super Boewl before e team over there. It would be a logistical nightmare to fly a team from there. Whoever’s division they were in wpuld be at a supreme disadvantage.
Although the Niners used to play NFC ‘West’ teams Atlanta and New Orleans. They always racked up a shitload of miles.
Exactly Chuck.
Who flew more miles than the 9ers back in those days?
At least they finally worked out the geographic challenges of putting the West in the West.
Now, if they’d just give the West teams some consideration for 1PM ET games, we might level the playing field a bit more.
I did like the changes Harbaugh made to the travel scheduling with B2B East Coast games.
Hanging out in OH breaks up the jet lag.
Made complete sense to me.
The team voted against that last year, NJ. Something to do with Harbs possibly.
Steve Young weighs in on the Niners.
http://www.mercurynews.com/49ers/ci_28500484/hall-famer-steve-young-49ers-have-major-perception?source=most_viewed
The perception game is all well and good, but in the end it amounts to nothing. Like I wrote in the thread, Perception doesn’t win games. Ask the 2012 Eagles dream team.
They cite Dilffer and Staley again as people who think the change may do them good.
It’s possible. As hard as that may be to swallow for some.
That’s the reality of Media speculation Chuck.
Everyone, (here included), has an opinion on the 9ers.
Believe or not, we’re still one of the more traveled, and supported teams, in the League.
I’ve joked often about being the only 9er Fan in NJ for years.
However, when we attended the NYJ game here a couple of year ago, I found out afterward that Finnerty’s sponsored a few bus loads of 9er fans for that game.
By the time that game ended, 9er fans were about the only fans in attendance, as the majority of NYJ fans cleared out.
I’ve got my concerns about the team from time to time but, that’s part of being a fan.
We’re fanatics. It comes with the territory I guess?
Jeff Lurie, Eagles Owner, has handed the keys to Chip.
Many wanted the same arrangement made for Harbaugh.
We’ll see how it plays out in due time.
As always is the case in this game, once you secure a Franchise QB, the rest almost becomes irrelevant.
Carmen Policy and John McVeigh looked like geniuses, once Walsh and Montana got things rolling in SF too.
McVay, not McVeigh, apologies,
Here’s a good Blues Number for you –
Javier Vargas with Larry Thurston – Riding High…..
Nice, works real good with the morning coffee.
Good stuff, NJ. Guy looked like Stevie Ray for a split-second.
Saw this guy in ’87. Incredible.
How dare you, Winder. Don’t you know Bullit is the arbiter of everything? There;s no topic that can pass him by without his pronouncements and his gravitas. Nothing is done until he says it is. I mean really. Bullit and NJ are fine. But Bullit must weigh in on it for the next month. Because that’s how he rolls.
He tried to convince me for 6 years how wonderful Michael Crabtree was. A guy with 1 1,000+ season. A guy who held out, dissed his QB, and wore his Dallas shoes while playing for the Niners.
Turns out he was wrong about Crabs, but that never stops the prince of profligate prodigal pablum. He’ll defend that point until, well, no one gives a flying fuck. As NO ONE DOES, Bullit.
In the end Crabtree turned out to be a wasted pick.
I wouldn’t call Crabs a wasted pick, but he sure isn’t what he thought he was. He put up good numbers for a 2, but he’ll never be a #1 WR. He wasn’t before the achilles injury. Now, he’s even slower.
New thread is up.