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 
NJ- I’m not asking you to be loyal to one blog or another. I’m asking you to declare an opinion of whether we are better or worse than lastyear Obviously your balls are lacking.
Not sure who left you in charge of Balldom Berger but guess what?
I don’t need to declare anything more than I share here and elsewhere.
If Fandom requires ball size, at the expense of acceptance, maybe I don’t need to measure up to your expectations.
Admire your balls, just don’t confuse them for brains, I don’t.
I’ll continue to critique my 9ers as I see fit.
Whether we’re better off this year is yet to be seen.
Regardless of the record, I’ll be following the team, like I have been since the late 70s.
Kaep can improve. Whether you choose to put that on Harbaugh, Roman or, me for that matter, is your business.
I’m seeking improvement just like the rest of you are.
Unfortunately, I can’t control 1 single second of what happens on the field.
I’m a lemming of sorts, just like you.
If I get tired of the product that goes on the field, just as I did with the Mets years ago, I’ll find something else to do with my time.
I also think I’ve made my position pretty clear on Christie too.
He’s a worthless hack.
He belongs in The Mob.
He doesn’t do squat for me, or most of the other taxpayers in NJ.
Like most Politicians, he’s all about the contributors,, and what they can get from him, for their money.
So let’s be clear on that score.
He sucks.
I vote no on suckatude of all sorts. Crooked, greedy politicians are normality at its worst.
NJ- I feel like I am being patronized. You ask if Jed is a meddler but then won’t say if he is. You threaten to leave as a fan like you did with the Mets but say you are here to the end. I don’t care what your opinions are, just give them instead of only instigating. The one opinion you have given is that Baalke has done a good job. I agree with that. If you are going to bring it up state your point of view. I don’t need facts like Bullit demands, I just need an opinion if you are going to stir it up. Opinions are good, it is why blogs exist. Aren’t we all experts? LOL!
Bergs was drinking last night, NJ. You rode the fence for 6 years on Smith, so I don’t think you get to be any arbiter of fence-riding with the amount of splinters in your ass. I said for years he needed better coaching, but I also said he would run from this team as fast as he could when given the opportunity. He didn’t twice. Whatever.
So, easy on the shit-flinging. We are in uncharted territory here. Whether Jed is a meddler has little to do with how this season progresses, barring a coaching change mid-season or some other ludicrous scenario. Of course it won’t be perceived that way by the media or the fans. That’s just the nature of superficial reactions by an uninformed fan base. I’ve said for years that fans are basically stupid, and this plays into that. The mob mentality around Alex Smith was insane. Even among old-time fans who should know better. Watching games live tells a lot about how fans react to things. Like Smith intentionally throwing an incomplete pass on a screen that would have lost 6 yards. The fans booed mercilessly as it was the first drive. Why? Because its the mob mentality. Of course the next play was a 15 yard crossing route that VD took to the end zone, Smith didn’t hear any more boos that day as the Niners beat Seattle pretty soundly like 41-24.
But point out a game 2 years later where the CB is playing 15 yards off Moss every play and the Niners threw to him 3 times in a row and never again. I’m screaming “Go to Moss!” and the people around me are like “huh?” A game that we could have put away early was instead a long slogging affair tht wa the usual 3 long drives in the 1st half result in 6 points. Miami has one play net a 65 yard TD and suddenly the Niners are behind. If not for a 50 yard bootleg by Kappy, the game would have been in doubt.
And this is why I stopped likling Harbaugh. He rarely took advantage of game-day matchups. In other words I think they thought Miami would double Moss and therefore didn’t target him while infact he was ingle-covered by a guy playing 12 yards off him. A smart OC would throw that way until Miami stopped it. We did it a few time and then stopped of our own volition. Stupid.
Ann (Niner hater) Killion has another inane article in the Chron this morning. I bet Bullit is jjizzing himself reading it.
Best part is the line that Harbaugh was the de-facto QB coach. If so, then he wears a big part of the Kappy regression. Funny how the injuires only affected the head coach and not the starting QB.
Difference is I told you I was sitting on the fence until he gets better coaching. I was very clear that It was too hard to make a judgment on Alex until he had a coach with a clue. He did very well under Norv Turner and then had a shoulder injury that took him out for two years. Singletary made the infamous quote that the QB is just another player. That was enough to tell me that no QB was going to succeed under Singleneuron. Harbaugh was not very adept at offensive design but he did understand that the QB is the most important player on the field. That alone was a huge improvement for our QBs.
His coaching sucked and so did Alex. He got better with experience and took a step with slightly better coaching, remember, these are the same coaches we feel were holding back Kap.
Alex is efficient, uninspiring and unlikely to ever win the biggest of games with a couple of exceptions in his entire career. Niners made the right choice IMO.
Do you remember the one game Tomsula coached Alex at QB. He had one of his best games ever and was completing many long passes.
I do Berger, but temper that with the energy bounce of dumping Singleneuron on the whole team and that there was no film or history of scheme on Tomsula. I equate it to the backup QB syndrome where the backup is amazing for a few games until film catches up with him.
It’s the main reason why I think the Tomsula era will get off to a strong start, the team has talent but no scheme tendencies to study or defend. The league caught up to Harbaugh and they ran out of ideas, at least that’s my theory.
Splinters in one’s ass……..this not good. Fence sitting especially on a picket fence is painful. On a blog it is pitiful.
Unca- A little vodka and some whiskey and NJ got called out for patronizing. He didn’t crack. I still want some opinions. I want to know if he actually thinks Jed is a meddler. I don’t think he is.
I concur.
I think Jed is near invisible as an owner.
I don’t know much about history…..the Revolutionary War……who won?
New England. They got some good beer from it all. If you might try some Sam Adams you’ll know what I mean.
I’m thirsty as a matter of fact.
Killian and Cohn were leading the charge last year lambasting Joe Lacob for firing Mark Jackson. They were unmerciful. The Warriors turned out OK. Now they have the 49ers to get some ratings from. I guess it’s their jobs to wear the clown suits.
The clowns are on the “other” blog.
Yeah, but will you love me tomorrow.
Ah, the morning after.
fuck those playlists
to make the video work click the playlist in the upper left corner. Go figure
Sorry Winder, I’m busy. The Song Remains the Same on Encore right now. Ah, memories of high school and JC…
(Don’t ask me about the opening sequence – who the hell knows???)
rt- that’s the first time I saw that stuff.
Mine,too, Winder. I stumbled on that old movie on the boob tube today. I sure did listen to a lot of Zeppelin back in the day, though…
Back in the day meaning ever since… LOL
Dazed and Confused is a classic on this show.
Meanwhile the chamber music blares steadily in Geneoushire as the 12th Century lives on.
Chuck, I had no idea Andy Lee had a tragedy, then I looked it up after I read your thread. Tragedy indeed; very sorry to read about the loss of a child so young…
Yeah, very sad. I don’t know anything but I’m fairly sure he asked out of here to be closer to home.
Looks like its time to set the spam filter to kill. Poor little v is such a hypocrite. When he gets banned its an a affront to the USA. When I get banned he doesn’t make a sound. Then again, that’s an skeebs for not allowing differing points of view.
34 comments in the spam filter!!!
A new record, v !!! Aaaand, goodbye.
RTF, I saw song remains the same back in the day and I don’t remember that shit, Wonder if it was only in the English version. Tour dates? Too funny. WWTF with the gangters?
NoFear, I guess you didn’t read my 9:39 post. Figures, though. Ignore what you don’t like to read and proceed merrily along your narrow way. Why not post instead of whine? You accusing others of flaming posters is a laugh riot. You and Bullit are the worst. Your self-righteousness is very funny..
Any chance to play Pink Floyd though . . .
I know, NoFear. Hippie music.
Always a good move. This album reminds me of a red headed girl I was smitten with at the time.