So far we’ve lost players, games, and the backing of the police. Think the Chipster is maybe rethinking his job choices? Hey, it’s a paying gig, and really, if he can get something out of this team resembling decent football his stock will rise pretty high. But as it stands now, the team still looks like a clusterfuck nightmare. There’s no apparent front office turmoil, and they haven’t weighed in on the Kappy deal other than to say it’s within his rights as an American to sit for the anthem, but there is still a swirling miasma of unanswered questions about the team, why the front office has been ignoring the QB position in the draft, the WR position in the draft, and basically sat on its thumbs while having scads of cash available to sign free agents. Signing a backup guard is hardly ground breaking stuff.
Whatever the anthem fallout is, Chip is saying Kappy is still part of the team, and still part of the QB race. Granted, I think Kappy has two blown tires and is leaking oil at an alarming rate, but who the fuck knows? A bad performance against San Diego’s Walmart brigade could spell the end for Kaepernick here or anywhere. A good performance? Well, there are teams like Dallas and Denver who at this point are dealing with major uncertainty at the QB spot. So, a trade is a possibility I suppose. Jerry Jerk-off loves him some craziness so he could very well trade for him. Elway? Well, I think the water has cooled significantly on that one. Even with Denver looking like they may implode themselves.
Beyond that, the game tonight will be a picture of ugly Americans lashing out at someone going out on a limb. The mob mentality will prevail and the potential for a lot of ugliness exists. I have no problem with the military or supporting the job they do, but I also think there are systemic problems with the police in this country.
Forty Niners Forever 
This game probably will tell everyone very little. The scrubs will play and except for the coaches this game is a waste of time. Kap will play probably not well and this media stuff about his anthem protest hopefully is forgotten. I hope everyone just sticks to football. Keep it simple……play football.
Maybe we should try having a society without police and see how that works out. If I get going on this subject there will be some who wish I never showed up. I am trying to remain silent.
I’m absolutely with you, Berger. So many vilify cops until they need them. Then it’s, “What took you so long!” These guys think quarterbacking is hard? Try being a cop for a week.
I’m pro police, no doubt about it. I can’t say there aren’t problems. I saw a video of an older black guy who got stopped for a broken tail light get shot in the back multiple times, murdered, and the cop drop his taser next to the not quite dead victim. There are other video’s too.
The cop that did it was arrested, and is awaiting trial for murder, conviction a certainty.
Its a new day for law enforcement. Everybody has a camera ready to go 24/7. Body cameras are spreading to all forces. The chances of being caught on camera are dramatically higher than in previous times, so whatever few back cops are on each force will get winnowed out over time and new cops coming through the academies are very well aware of this new paradigm. They know the risk of jail time is substantial for being caught on camera. Not that I’m suggesting the fear of being caught is why cops will follow the law, I am discussing the very few bad character guys that slip through, which is inevitable.
Cops are taking a beating from the media and BLM activists. Caps socks are funny, pigs in uniform, except they aren’t. Its his statement as a walking billboard with national media focus. Those same pigs are keeping him from getting his dumb head torn off going into the Seahawks stadium as in his Beats commercial, and its true.
Nobody is saying there aren’t issues, perhaps even systemic ones although I don’t see enough evidence of that.
Kap’s message, whatever it is, is now lost in the fury he created in ordinary people. He himself has become the issue, a lightning rod for anger by showing absolute disrespect for this country.
As Berger said, his BLM activist girlfriend appears to have found a perfect bullhorn for her cause, a dip shit mouthpiece, Crapernick.
Yes he has the right to do it, but the ingrate shouldn’t.
Well said, 12th.
Good for you, Bergs. Stand ready for Sock-gate. Coming soon to a hyperbolic screen near you.
Kap is just a dumb ass speaking for his girlfriend. She is leading, he is following. There is nothing he can do now to look less than a leader. But I’ll guarantee there are those listening. He is counting on that while he has respect of Rae Carruth by those who would be hiring him.
Socks, a Malcolm X shirt and hat, what’s next, black panther attire? He is a QB on the SF 49ers isn’t he? Is everything allowed?
Chuck, my man; miasma…word of the day.
I’m so ready for the preseason to end. I have some issues with Kelly’s handling of these games, namely why is Ellington returning punts in the third preseason game? They don’t already know his abilities as a returner? And Hyde, why is he still out there in the second quarter of the second game? Result: concussion. Save these guys for the regular season!
Gore would barely sniff the field until the last game, when he’d get about one series. You have to protect these skill guys, especially when they’re thin at these positions, like the Niners are.
As for trying to focus on the good picks Baalke has made, and he’s made some good ones, including this year’s class, it is indeed baffling about the receivers. This has been a positional deficiency for a long time now and barely a move’s been made. Now Ellington is down and the situation is even worse. Stupid, if you ask me, especially considering you don’t have to spend a high draft pick to end up with a good receiver.
Speaking of which, I haven’t heard word one about Smelter and I don’t recall seeing him in any of the games. I’ve seen photos of him on the practice field, so I know he’s there, but nothing else. I hope he starts playing this season because he needs to start going through the inevitable (steep) learning curve.
WR is such a critical position these days. It’s boneheaded when your best wideout in the last 5 years is A.J. Jenkins.
Saw them at the Cow Palace back in the day.
Smelter has a hammy problem. He may get IRed.
http://www.ninersnation.com/2016/8/15/12490704/deandre-smelter-week-to-week-with-leg-injury
We are definitely running a circus on 4949 street. All I can do is sit back and wait for the next show.
Cowboys signed a QB….No not that one, can’t give him away.
I was beaten by the police. Some little Jackie Gleason dick fuck beat my ribs to a pulp while 15 other cops stood in a circle and watched. When I raised my fist to hit him every cop went for either their bully club or flashlight. I immediately put my hands behind my back and said take me in I’m not saying another word. Before that I had answered every question and put up zero resistance. I still want to beat that little fuckers ass to this day and that was from back in 1981.
Guess what, he was a bad cop. I respect the job they have to do and have disagreements with some of their tactics. I will also say that the people who are dissing them these days are doing it for politics. A lot more whites are shot by police than blacks. I know if did we did not have police we would live in communes with a lot of weapons.
These anti police people are misguided and funded with money outside the country. It was proven that the money that funded the Ferguson riots originated from George Soros. This is all part of the plan and some people either can’t see what is going on around or don’t want to see.
Since the people who don’t want to know that info never will want to, I would rather not talk about it here on a football site. Otherwise we will all just become polarized like Kap is doing to the rest of the sports world right now.
Yeah, got clubbed in the 1981 Super Bowl celebrations. Big fat lump on my head, but otherwise no big deal. As far as whites being shot by police, sure, more are killed in raw numbers, but there are 160 million more white people in America than blacks. I know, fuck the math, but 62% of the country is white. 13% is black. As of 1/1/2015, 732 white people were killed by cops. 381 were black (and 382 were ‘undetermined’ race). What does it mean? The blacks are much more likely to be killed by a cop. Throw in the ‘undetermined’ (read dark) and you have a 6x higher rate of being killed by a cop if you are darker than vanilla ice cream.
Soros is funding riots? Break out the tinfoil hat there, Bergs. Might as well call Trump Grand Wizard of the KKK for retweeting David Duke tweets.
Right now the tin foil hat is being used to hold your Kool-Aide.
IT’S THE TRILATERALISTS!!!! Please.
That sounds like team that laterals 3 times in one play.
I was wondering what a trilateralist was? Never heard of it.
He’s probably talking about Rockerfeller negotiating with Japan and some other country in the 70s.
I got the shit kicked out of me by two cops in 1971, I was drunk as a skunk and just didn’t give a shit about anything.They told me to move and I told them to fuck off. That was the last time I did that.
I gotta laugh about that stuff now and I actually remember it all. They really didn’t hurt me to bad when they had me on the ground. It was when they were putting me in the car that was rather painful. They had forgotten to open the car door and it took a few slams against the door for them to realize their mistake. Anyway, I had it coming, I don’t blame them for anything
Honest mistake on their part I’m sure lol.
Yeah, in my younger days I had a few scrapes with Johnny Law. Nothing major, just the usual bs.
Mine was minor too, it ended up being a drunk in public, they dropped the resisting arrest when I went to court because I had no record.
Yeah, there’s more whites than blacks, but blacks commit a disproportionate amount of the crimes and whites are still shot by cops at twice the rate of blacks. It’s all there on the FBI and DOJ websites, cold, hard facts. The whole idea that cops have it out for blacks is bullshit.
I don’t see it as particularly racist either. I do see a small percentage of cops abuse their power, get trigger happy etc, and that needs attending to but as I wrote up above, all the cameras around these days in itself will modify these errant behaviours.
Nothing in life is perfect, always will be a percentage that sits outside the norm in anything.
Facts? I showed you the numbers, John. 6 times higher for folks of color.
Yeah, you edited your post, Chuck. Didn’t see the second version. I’m guessing you checked those websites.
While blacks make up only 13% of the population, they commit more than half the total crimes. They get shot more (as a percentage) because they commit most of the crime. 6 times as many? By the numbers you posted, you’re more than twice as likely to get shot by a cop if you’re white. 9 out of 10
BTW, the vast majority of times these perps that are killed by cops are armed, usually with guns. The rest are armed with knives, impact weapons of some sort, etc. And then there’s the small percentage of unlawful shootings. They happen, like the cop in S.C. that shot the black guy in the back as he was running away. That dude is going to prison for a long time. So is the cop that shot the guy in the car in MN. That shit sucks.
There’s problems. Cops can be brutal, there’s more ex-military being recruited as cops than ever before, soldiers, not MP’s, and many have a soldiers mentality. You’re seeing more and more cops and police forces taking a military stance towards the public with the military style gear they wear, the weapons and the vehicles. A cop is supposed to a peace officer, not someone who ends a confrontation by gunning someone down. They also have a dangerous job. If you pull a gun on a cop, you are going to get shot, .regardless of your color
There’s problems, but they are minuscule compared to the good the police do. All of the above numbers are never mentioned by the media. They just fan the flames and foment violence and rioting. Most of what you hear from BLM and the national media regarding these matters is bullshit.
ESPN said they won’t be showing the National Anthem tonight as they never do. Well they changed their minds, and want to milk the spotlight. As I’m going to a bar to watch the game I’m sure to get some BS from Charger fans before the game gets started.
Thanks Crapernick.
3 months in county for the last transgression. Long time ago . . .
Well, it’s not like this is a new thing. Cops have been getting away with murder for decades now. If you think this is new then you are naive.
Of course ESPN want to show it. It garners ratings. They aren’t stupid. This will get higher ratings than the NBA playoffs.