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 
Here’s some shit to ponder from David Fucillo of Super Bowl Nation
http://www.ninersnation.com/2016/9/13/12908244/trent-dilfer-protest-comments-trent-baalke-mouthpiece
Another take on the human centipede that is Trents Baalke and Dilfer
http://www.csnbayarea.com/49ers/dilfer-kaepernick-war-words-not-good-look-trent-baalke
From the miserable scribulist or whatever the fuck he’s called.
Great start to the Bills-Jets game. Jets hold the ball for 8 1/2 minutes, drive all the way down the field deep inside the 10 and stall for a FG. Bills go -1 yd,, -2 yds, 83 for a TD (they had 160 yds. offense all last game). Had the ball less than minute. Football is so weird and Revis is toast.
Bill had the ball 1:25 to be accurate.
Dilfer is a big mouth ass. A lousy player lucky to be on a Super Bowl winner.
Yeah I know that’s his job at ESPN being a big mouth opinion ass-h***
I’ve got to admit a hard, honest truth. The First Step is admitting you have a problem. I love My Man Rex. He gives the best, funniest pressers in the league. But… he is Jeff Fisher. Now how Rex can be in two places at once on any given Sunday is anybody’s guess. His makeup people need awards of some kind. But they are the same guy.
After laying an egg against the Niners, the Rams give HC Jeff Fisher a 3 year contract extension.
LOL – Kroenke strikes again!
“Same old Sorry Ass Rams.”
I hope they go back to their old blue and yellow uniforms because that dark blue and gold just doesn’t look right. I guess Goff still isn’t ready to be thrown to the lions. I think when he finally arrives they should have a pretty good air attack.
Serously? Fisher gets an extension? I thought Jed was daft. They are of the same mind of getting a stadium and not giving a fuck.
No, the Rams will be nothing until they go back to the navy and white unis. The Deacon Jones Merln Olson unis. I hated the Rams but those unis were the best unis until they changed. Then the chargers powder blue unis passéd them.
Goff may never be ready for prime time. I was high on him but time will tell. He could be Blaine Gabbert
My God that’s our QB! What happened to Joe, John, Frankie, Y.A. and Steve?
Gabbert is our latest but sadly not in the class of the above pantheon of heroes.
Fisher will end up as the losingest coach in NFL history by the end of this season.
With about 250 less games coached then as Shula and co.
Maybe chuck but I don’t think Gabby threw the ball like Goff. Goff is a pure passer. Whether he can do it in the NFL is another story.
Did you know the Panthers have a Spanish language broadcast? They’re so popular they have lots of fans even in Texas!
I learned that on KNBR’s second station today. They interviewed their broadcaster. The man has some pipes!
Let’s recall GRo is OC in Buffalo.
Red Zone troubles?
Hmmm..
Fisher a USC Alum?
Hmmm..
Some things just go beyond reason I guess?
Well, let’s give Chip a chance.
Look on the bright side at least he’s not Fisher.
I figured Fisher to get fired and coach USC at some point.
I was boycotting this thread because Unca’s support for the player calling cops murderers and Chuck going communist on our anthem and flag is making me barf. But this news is just too precious.
Buffalo just fired Greg Roman. The cancer blog’s favorite OC of all time. The cancer blog will be in mourning.
Back to the boycott.
It will be like Alex Smith all over again…
Adios,. You little puppy. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out. Skeebs has a warm spot in the playpen for you. Good to see you can’t discuss things like an adult. Boo boo. That would be giving you too much credit I suppose.
He’s in the Men’s Room “barfing.”
Oh Phil. I know you guys just can’t wait to see what I post. It gives you a position to be contrarian on. All I need to hear now is that you refuse to be disappointed by last week’s victory.
A quick recap
Looks like just about everyone was having fun. Except the stinkin Rams
Greggie is out??? Wonder what Rex thought about Rob’s defense?
Political views like religious views are not so absolute. I don’t like people that kill cops but I don’t like cops that kill innocent people either. What I don’t like is our country being blamed for isolated city and state problems. The flag has nothing to do with crooked cops or with the people that kill cops in retaliation. Grandstanding in the way that Kap’s doing does absolutely no good. What it will do is incite people who will do more damage and hurt many more innocent people. And I think it’s bad for our team.
The flag has nothing to do with anything. the flag is supposed to represent the freedoms allowed by our country. Like the freedom to protest the very idea of what is or isn’t representing. Unlike the rebel flag and what that represents. Jackie Robinson spoke up against anthem, as did John Carlos and Tommie Smith. Jesse Owens as well. They weren’t praised for their stances, and neither is CK.
Adding ‘under God’ to the pledge of alliegance, and to our money was a knee-jerk reaction to the ‘Godless Communists’ running around the country in the 50s. Did it change anything? No. Pablum to make the masses feel better about themselves. Like extreme vetting, it is merely a bullshit phrase to try to make things appear different than they are.
I don’t particularly agree with what Kappy is doing, but I wholeheartedly agree with him having the right to do it. And I really don’t think that is is tearing up the locker room.
The thing is, Jed, CK, and Eric Reid donated collectively $3 million to inner city charities. So whatever he is doing is doing some good. Which I guess is a sidebar plus. If it is tearing the team apart, then they are a bunch of 12 year olds. Some people can discuss things rationally, and some people can’t. See below for the playpen version.
chuck I don’t agree with the ‘under God’ either, politics and religion should be separate if we plan to keep our freedoms. Most of the people you mentioned did their protests in a completely different time. Some long before the civil right act of 1964. As far as Kap’s protest goes it has everything to do with the flag the National Anthem and the pledge of allegiance are directly related to our flag. The civil rights laws are in place, they are fair and just, getting everyone to abide by them is another story all together.
Do you think it was coincidence that Kapy looked just like Angela Davis only with a mustache and goat.
You got to grow it out before you can braid it.