Withdraw, Sir Jed. I’ll help you to a quarterback.
Comedy or tragedy? Only Bill knows for sure.
Funny how the world loves the backup QB. Nate Davis was poised to save the day. Troy Smith was poised to revive a stumbling team. Shaun Hill. Tim Rattay, Elvis Grbac, Steve Spurrier, Steve Young (oops), Jim Plunkett, Drunkenfucker, Shaun Hill, and countless others, even Colin Kaepernick, were either thrust into starting jobs due to injury or by crappiness by the king, uh, starting QB. Thing is, the backup is the savior until given the shot to go. Then things get dicey. Matt Cassel and Matt Flynn both built careers of ineffectiveness out of being a backup on a great team. Tom Brady famously took over for a hurt Drew Bledsoe and the rest was history. 35 year old (!) Shaun Hill is back with the Vikes and helping the Niners in his own little way after coming in for injured Teddy Bridgewater and beating the Rams.
Point being, where are we with Colin Kaepernick? Most of the fans (and the idiots who booed him the other day) are of a mind to cut their losses and move forward with Blaine Gabbert. After that, well? The concensus appears to be that Jared Goff will be on the board should the Niners land in the top 10. Goff of course is the next Cal QB the Niners have a shot at. Aaron Rodgers of course being the other one we whiffed on back in 2005. I suppose they’ll keep Gabbert as the nominal starter and wait for him to get hurt or suck and throw Goff into the fray. I mean, it worked so well with Alex Smith.
I have no problem with these guys drafting a QB, but I do have a problem with them moving away from Colin Kaepernick. Trent Baalke is buying himself a year by blaming the team’s problems on him. The win by Gabbert, while impressive, mainly came at the feet of the defense. They played outstanding against a powerful offense. Atlanta’s defense however, is not very good. 31st in sacks and they’ve played the dregs of the league. So what happens next? Well, Jim Tomsula tweeted (seriously??) that Gabbert is starting vs Seattle. If I wasn’t so cynical, I’d think the team is stacking the deck in Gabbert’s favor to make the switch when they did. To think that Kaepernick couldn’t have done the same vs Atl’s soft defense is looking through shit-colored glasses.
The proof lies in the next couple games. Seattle and AZ have MUCH better defenses than Atl (or Minnesota even). Infer, people. Can Gabbert weather the storm? He looked pretty good, but then so did Kappy against the lesser defenses of Minn, NYG, and Balt. To disavow his body of work is ludicrous. To blame the team’s problems solely on him is stupid as well. He has won big games in hostile environments. Like all QBs, he needs a decent line and pass catchers and a cogent offense.
Thing is, Gabbert will probably get blasted by this leaky line, and Kappy will get back in there anyway. And struggle. If this team ditches Kaepernick and keeps Baalke, I fear a long-term downturn. Jed will likely take the path of least resistance and keep his GM as the talent falls away from the team that Scotty built.
Forty Niners Forever 
Bullitt still is the stupidest fuck on Earth. I point out that Michigan has an easy schedule and he infers that I think Harbaugh hand-picked the schedule.
The best part of Bullitt ran down the crack of his mom’s ass. He wants to post here so bad, but can’t. I’m sure he’s loobying Skeebers to let me post.
Sorry, skippy. Unrequited love on your part. Hyuk! Fuck off and die, you ignorant fuck.
lol, even the Lions and Chargers have scored more points than us. In fact every team in the league has scored more points than us. That stat is pretty sad, Trent must be a fantastic backpeddler.
BLEEP Trent! His drafts suck.
Seattle commits a safety – blatantly – and refs don’t call it. Freakin’ amazing how many of these incredibly bad, game-changing calls go the Seahawks way.
It’s called a home field advantage.
Good. Some justice. An AZ FG and then another Seattle safety. Only this time it was so obvious the refs couldn’t “miss” the call.
Iaputi being hauled off the field in an ambulance. He tried to block Cam Chancellor by spearing and Cam stuffed his head down his neck. Iaputi’s been a good part of AZ’s offensive success this year.
AZ long pass for TD – ref calls him out of bounds on the 2. No, he’s not on the take. After all the call was only right in front of him. Geez, the NFL becoming more like the WWE every year it seems. At least this one is reviewable and obvious.
That’s 9 pts. already the refs have tried to steal from the Cards. They succeeded to steal 2.
Hawks are pathetic at home. Damn this is a brave new world.
I never thought I’d live to see the day when I was cheering on the Cards, let alone actually yelling for them. Brave new world indeed.
Every week more weird shit happens . There are 12 teams with winning records now. And 2 of them, GB and Denver, look like complete dogshit. Along with about 22 other teams.
ots amazing how QBs in the league are sucking without support. From RW on down,
Can Bewton is about the only one playing well behind a fair to dhitty line.
Manning a numbers were amazing in their awfulness. Ironic he breaks the yardage record on huge worst day of his life. Well,2nd worst. I’d have to say his recent Super Bowl was his worst.
They depend too much on Manning. Lack of a good running game hurts a lot of teams including Denver. Blaming the QB is futile. Greatness can carry one only so far. Then reality bites. Ouch!
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The way it’s looking I don’t think Kappy will get to many more chances to show himself to the team and even though his playing has been subpar it’s pissing me off that Baalke will probably get another shot. This is his baby from the O-line on and even though we are better than a few teams out there we are not playing 49er football. We are now a young team but we pile up injuries like it’s nothing and we don’t have backups that can really compete. I don’t blame Baalke for the injuries but for backup depth it’s on him.Like I said in an earlier post I give him a .230 batting average at best for all his drafts. And, I don’t see him upping that even with a higher pick this coming draft. We need a fresh pair of eyes and some alternative knowledge to make this team a contender again.