Well, we are getting closer to a real game I suppose. Maybe the Rams mailed it in and were shocked by our intensity. Maybe we continue our pattern of playing well at home and like high schoolers on the road. Maybe it was sunspots. Who knows?
The point being, we are flying across the country to play the defending NFC champs. Across 3 time zones. For the early game, no less. But that is how it goes in today’s NFL. You are perceived as a lower-echelon team, you get fucked right in the schedule.
Anyhow, the rumor mill has been turned on by Jed and Co once again regarding our current backup, and once and (possibly) future starting quarterback, Colin Kaepernick. The rub now is that the kneeling during the National anthem is causing a rift among the teammates. Despite the fact that Daniel Kilgore and Torrey Smith have stated that they don’t have a problem with his protest. Both were leery at first, but get where he is coming from after players-only meeting on Aug 29th to address just that.
Or you can believe Lowell Cohn’s discharge, Grant Cohn, and his second-hand accounting of a passing comment by an unnamed lineman in the locker room when passing by the knot of unchickenshit reporters gathered around CK after last week’s game. You know, the usual innuendo and obfuscation that this front office is so good at fomenting and promoting. Much like Trent Dilfer’s comments regarding CK. Funny Dilfer made his comments before the game, and he’s surprised at the knot of reporters looking for a comment after the game about what he himself started. Kind of a self-perpetuating myth there, Trent. Dilfer of course said that a backup quarterback has no right to express his opinion. He should just sit in the back of the bus and be quiet, like a good boy. That’s one way to take it, anyway. You can take it also to mean that Kaepernick is disputing the team dynamic. Certainly this possibility exists, but this is happening at a lot of games now, and isn’t just the 49ers dealing with it. Which means SOMETHING.
Back to Dilfer, though, there are reports now that Trent Baalke wants to get rid of Kaepernick. And also that Baalke and Dilfer are good friends. In other words, Baalke uses Dilfer as his mouthpiece to float negative things about Kaepernick to get the word out. Of course neither guy is in the locker room on any regular basis, but the team is obviously once again floating innuendo and bullshit through outside sources. The hope is that Chip Kelly, who is apparently firmly on CK’s side, gets to keep CK on the team. Beyond the fact it would be a bad look to cut the backup who also happens to be generating social discourse, it would also leave us very thin at QB. Unless Mark Snachez floats your boat.
Point being, this should be a football decision, not some kind of witch hunt from the front office. Again. Baalke keeps winning these behind-the-scenes battles. Just ask Jim Harbaugh and Paraage Marathe. And Crabs, and any number of players and staff.
Forty Niners Forever 
Just a little history for fun.
See above.
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Chuck please take one of them off, thanks
Damn. Girl’s got some pipes.
Yeah, she also looks like a girl I used to run around with years ago. Pretty close to 9 years we went back and forth. Always was a sucker for little blonds with a nice rack.
I don’t know how the end came for me either. I hope it was an interesting story at least.
Everyone is so quick to comment that they support Kaepernick’s right to spit on the flag and any other symbol of the country from which he’s taken so much, always citing his freedom of speech to say what he wants. But where is that support for Dennis who gets blasted relentlessly and banned for the same thing? Seems like, for some, it’s only free speech when it’s politically correct speech.
As an aside, “free speech” is only the protection from the federal government’s punishment, not private citizens or private enterprises.
Either way, I’m not getting out my wallet or out of my chair to support a bunch of overpaid crybabies and their chosen form of black power in your face gestures.
This s a blog, NoFear. Get it? I can ban who I see fit. V was banned for years of inanity. He was warned and then banned. Dennis spouted racist bullshit, He was warned and banned.
You served for what, NoFear? So you can push your ideas on the rest of us? We should bow to what the military thinks is respectful behavior? There are plenty of soldiers, current and retired who are saying they fought for exactly what Kaepernick is doing. And that is peacefully protesting. You don’t have to agree with what he’s doing, but you HAVE to understand it is completely within his right.
Racist comments are taken down, NoFear. If you equate the two then I can’t help you and your misguided views. You are like Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino. The guys is a racist xenophobe who has to be beaten over the head repeatedly to clue in to the fact that other people suffer the same problems and issues as him. Maybe even more than he.
Hey, if you want to espouse your racist views go for it. I just won’t allow it here. If you think this si some kind of free speech forum, well, think again.
NF, my post on Skeebs didn’t appear so I’ll repeat it here. It’s great to see the rumors of your demise were premature.
Yeah, a lot more to that free speech thing than trotting it out only to support your PC causes.
Like the stolen valor law that the courts want to strike down citing it violates free speech. So I can say I’m a judge a police officer or feebee and it’s the same as you saying you’re a decorated veteran. Free speech, right?
The entire league can take a knee for all I care. It ain’t changing anything. Just letting these entitled chumps who all get special treatment as pro athletes cry and whine about everybody else not getting it?
The federal policies are the most un-biased of any. Wrong target.
The right targets for black lives matter are planned parenthood and other black males not the police and certainly not the flag or anthem. Low intelligence priviledged assholes. Want to make a statement? Refuse to play!
Nobody fought and died for what Kaepernick is doing. ie: taking a no-effort no-cost opportunity to promote himself. The idea you’re searching for is the government is prevented from taking punitive action against someone speaking out against it. Not the NFL or the 49ers. The league didn’t have a problem shutting down memorial tributes to 9/11 victims or police killed in ambush. Where’s your outrage?
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Thanks, Pat. I think so, too.
There aren’t many blacks in Albuquerque, yet the PD was so notorious for shooting unarmed civilians that the FBI had to come in and retrain the entire police force.
It’s not an academic issue when it’s in your own backyard.
I’ve called out the NFL on plenty of issues. NoFear. Mainly their abject greed at every turn. The breast cancer awareness thing is a prime example. DeAnglo Williams wants to wear pink for the whole season to honor his mom who died of breast cancer. The NFL say you will be fined. Wear pink when we tell you to wear pink.
CK may be wrong and/or stupid in everyone’s eyes. That doesn’t mean he should be vilified for makng a stand. Criminals, rapists, and convicted felons get less animosity than this. Ray Rice was cheered when he returned from his suspension. I find that rather sickening. But this is the society we live in. Beat up your chick, or kid? That’s best left at home. Kneel for a song? Get hung from the yardarm. It’s insane.
I was the one saying RayMac should be suspended. Why? Because the girl had strangle marks on her throat according to the police. That’s enough evidence. You don’t believe them in that case? But all he shootings are justified? Got it.
Planned parenthood? Com down out of your ivory tower, NoFear.
Off topic- There is a burrito made with spiced beef/beef jerkey and for the life of me I can’t remember the name of it. Throw in some rice, cheese and beans, peppers and it is a delight. Anyone know what it’s called?
Could this be it Winder?
Burritos de Machaca
http://www.rickbayless.com/recipe/burritos-with-spicy-shredded-jerky/
Spicy beef burrito.
Hey, new thread is up.
For NoFear.
http://www.businessinsider.com/veterans-support-colin-kaepernick-2016-8