Something like that. Hey you never know. AZ is coming off 2 impressive wins, but at the expense of 2 of he worst defenses in the NFL in Chicago and New Orleans. The Niners on the other hand beat a Minnesota team that shut down the Detroit Lions pretty handily last week. Course we were folded, spindled and Rothlisbergered last week in Pittsburgh. No shame there. It just got away fast.
Which brings us to AZ. For all their recent success (sort of), they haven’t made much noise in the playoffs recently. Lots of bridesmaid shit. They have a decent defense and a fairly solid offense, if they can keep Carson Palmer upright. Kappy? Well, he’s 4-1 as a starter vs AZ with 9 TDs and only 1 pick. Seeing as AZs pass defense is Whaley, I see a continuation of the deep passing game.
As usual though this game will be decided in the trenches. Get a strong ass rush on Palmer and the DBs will be fine. No pressure means Palmer going deep. And as we saw last week, even the safeties got beat over he top. Over and over. Open up some running lanes and give Kappy time to throw and I think we get the offense rolling.
31-17 Niners.
Forty Niners Forever 
Niners will win. The “other” blog will be pissed. Bullit will be crying about the past.
I saw the reason explained why we got torched deep. IIRC, the explanation came from Eric Reid. He said we were disguising a run D look by bringing up the safeties and the Steelers were just too fast for us to get back in cover two. He called it learning a new defense.
I’ll buy that to a certain extent. They should have adjusted by the 3rd quarter. I think the short week played a big part in that.
Still and all, the AZ game is much more important than the Pittsburgh game. Winning division games is paramount.
Well imo if we thought playing good run D was paramount vs Pissburgh and big Ben then something is wrong here.
My prediction
24 – 20 for the bad guys
Oops just reread Reid’s comments. Bummer there imo we tried to get a little too smart for our own good there
Hope we do better going forward
Yeah, hard to think that Pittsburgh wouldn’t go after our corners.
Yup CHUCK
The Steelers played to the their strengths vs us. No surprise there.
Still think the pass rush was biggest problem
Still like our secondary.
Yeah, it is t as bad as it looked, but Jesus, Ben hit every deep ball.
Yeah the pass rush plays into it, but they should have dropped a safety by the 3rd quarter. We didn’t change our strategy and they kept up with the deep balls. If what Reid says is true.
Yup
Nofear put a lot on the safeties too.
Too bad for us. I still say going to Pissburgh on a short week with them having extra time to prepare was a little steep.
Jesus, bullit spends more time talking about this blog han anything else.
What a fucking chickenshit pussy. Grow a pair, skippy.
Funny that skeebs shut me down over there and this is supposedly where differing opinions are not tolerated. Never understood how the mental midgets reconciled that one.
Hmmm, buwwitt? Since you want to wimp out and hide behind skeebs, what say you?
ROB, the thing is, no pressure = toasted corners. No matter who they are.
Which is why we need to find a way to get pressure on Palmer. He’s not as good as Big Ben, but he can shred with the best of them given protection.
100 % right CHUCK
I hope we can at least get some pressure on Palmer.
If not it could be another long day for us.
Rob’s right and I would like to thank unca_chuck for writing such an inspirational thread he’s a great service to the organization and the bay area community. God bless him and his family and may God help our 49ers with a victory of the team to beat in our division.
I would like to thank Jed for handling himself and this organization with the utmost class, people are hard on him but we’re so blessed to have him and it always could be worst. He was just like baby Jesus a few years ago now he’s grown big physically and spiritually.
Kappy progression has took everyone including the league by surprise and we can thank the holy spirit for taking away his immoral influences to show they are sinful, having fallen short of God’s standards. Thank you God for making him see the light of the lord. He is the source of the new birth and brings out the nature of Christ in the individual that was lost in Kappy. Lets hope the spirit helps him to deliver the ball to the right place so that we can beat the Devil’s Cards.
Let’s also pray for Tomsula to see the light and for God to grant him the wisdom of Walsh if it’s possible. This process can be at times painful and a learning experience depending how much the team cooperate with him along the way. Let’s pray they cooperate with him and gives him all the time he needs.
I have a spiritual feeling that the 49ers might win.
Tomsula is a devout Catholic, so he got that going for him.
Gunga la gunga.
V, you are nothing if not entertaining.
I just read some comments on the cancer blog for the first time in a week or more. The dumb ass North Korean, Bullit (sic), is trying to be like me. How cute. He is using ‘sic’ but using it incorrectly. He’s a moron but at least he tries to run with the big dogs. Kim Jung Un would probably execute him if he were back home for being a dumb ass, even for North Korean standards. It is so cute when he refers to us as his homeland. He is obviously homesick.
I tried to set the DVR a new way this last week and it didn’t record the game. I would comment if I saw the game but I didn’t. Probably a good thing. I’ll go back to recording with the old settings this coming week.
I wonder how many more retirements and defections we would have had to deal with this year if Harbaugh would have stayed? Maiooco said a month ago that last year’s team was lacking smiles more than any team he had ever covered. Last year’s team obviously did not enjoy the game anymore. I have absolutely no doubt we would be 0-2 if Harby were still here.
I remember Nolan’s Big Nickel. It worked fairly well at times. I did not care for Nolan as coach but he was very good with DB schemes. Problem was he wouldn’t attack the QB. We got Manusky and started to go after the QB and then suddenly we stopped being so aggressive. When Manusky went to SD he said he “was just spinning his wheels in San Francisco.” That lead me to believe Nolan was not allowing him to be aggressive. It would also explain why I liked Manusky in the beginning and not near the end of his tenure in SF.
Actually, I think it was Singletary who wasn’t allowing him to be aggressive. I’m pretty sure Manusky started with Nolan and ended with Sing. Nolan’s passive D used to frustrate the heck out of me until Manusky showed up. And then Manusky ended up going passive. Sheesh.
Timtebo
Thank god for you sir
At least you figured it out
And I quote
“Rob’s right”
Now just get used to that and be ready to keep posting that and you’ll be OK
28-24 SF
USE the TEs/RBs.
Short game helps the OL.
It’s all about the pressure. AZ’s line has been varying shades of shakey, so the Niners need to exploit that. Otherwise it’s a problem. Shootouts are fine if we can get into the goddamn end zone.
It’s all about gameplan and execution. We baffled the Vikes and we should be able to keep AZ on their heels. We all know their OL is better than ours there is nothing we can really do about it. We can attack at their weakest area’s and try to stay away from their strengths. This one could turn out to be special.
The biggest problem with Arizona is their coach. Arians is a really good coach. He’ll have a good game plan that the players will be able to carry out. Hopefully not well enough to win. QBs never play well when they are on their backs. There is no game plan for that unless the run game is doing well enough to compensate.
Hey nofear, nationally, who picked rge Niners to beat Mnn?
Exactly. You think like a sheep.
Baaaaah!
The dumb ass North Korean, Bullit (sic), said the Raiders don’t want to paint the 50 yd line gold because that is 49er colors. Wrong. He tries very hard to denigrate the 49ers but his hatred for Jed has him giving us bad info. The Raiders owner Davis said he will paint it gold as soon as the dirt from the A’s is covered with grass.
He misspells your name and rips you and Chuck continuously.
Education quality lags in North Korea. I’d like to feel bad for the dumb ass North Korean, Bullit (sic), but his attacks make that not possible.