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 
Unca- You bet I’m out but that wasn’t the door that hit me in the ass, it was your face. When I stood up your nose got wedged between my butt cheeks. I farted to try and jettison your face but all that did was to get you humming the old Campbells Soup song, mmm good. So I bent over to dislodge your nose and ran across the street where I saw a flag pole with a US flag flying on it. I figured I would be safe there because when you see it you would sit or kneel. It isn’t safe around you because when you do move you are busy trying to give everybody who will listen a Colinoscopy.
Like I said, playpen material. Jesus.
Reno, do you remember that NF and Spitty are over at Skeebs’? I suppose you can post on 49erwebzone. It’s mostly a fan site which doesn’t tolerate anything or anybody critical of the Niners, but they get some pretty good flame wars going.
Flame wars lol
See ya berger wish you were not going because you had some good insight on the Niners.
Like Roman out in Buffalo !
Some people are just narrow minded. Can’t think outside the rigid precepts that they live by. Right or wrong.
“Can’t we all just get along?”
Apparently not. Some people . . .
Berger apparently can’t take different points of view. Much like the playpen. Why don’t you crawl back there with your tail between your legs, pup? They’ll welcome you with open arms, a la Ray Rice. If you can’t take the fact that America was founded on the exact things that Kappy is doing, then you don’t know what freedom is. Freedom to conform to someone else’s idea of the way to act isn’t freedom. It’s control.
Where’s the anger and vitriol for Bruce Miller? Are people boycotting the NFL for the myriad spousal abusers and steroid clowns? Naah. Well, maybe some. Beating your girlfriend is the American way. Drinking and taking boner pills as well. So are scantily clad cheerleaders. But God forbid Janet Jackson exposes herself. Throw in the NFL’s active policies in burying concussion evidence and shafting the older players dying in the streets, you have a lot of reasons to not like the NFL. If you get bent over a guy not standing for the national anthem, then you are a 10 year old child.
And by the way, Niners win 62-0.
Hah!
And in more exciting news, Skeebs doesn’t want the team to improve. He wants it to suck so he can carry on with his diatribe over poor Alex Smith.
Yeah, Skeebs has gone downhill. Racist crap from Bakken, politics from Bakken after Skeebs claimed he stopped it and warned me, calling me a Communist – those are fine.
I get banned apparently (most posts don’t appear and I’m not going to go back and read to find out).
Wanting to use force to shut Kappy up is de rigeur over there. But then the Reichwingers pull a Trump and claim it’s LIBRALLS who wish to suppress free speech.
I hope the Niners are up to playing the Panthers. You know give a good account of themselves. As for Kap’s knee and just don’t give a damn.
Sorry…… As for Kap’s knee, I just don’t give a damn.
Have any of you read “Gulag Archipelago” by Solzhenitsyn? There’s a long story of a Communist Party official speech in a large auditorium. At the conclusion of the speech, the Party stooges in the audience stand up and applaud and keep applauding. Knowing it would be dangerous not to do so, the remainder of the audience does the same.
Solzhenitsyn gives a grim account of must have been going on in the people’s minds as the applause continued, three minutes, four minutes… The first person to stop applauding and try to leave would be hauled away, never to be seen again. Everyone knew that. Five minutes, ten minutes, finally someone stopped applauding. He was hauled away. Then it was safe for the rest to go home.
That was the USSR. That’s why I defend Kappy’s action, whether I agree with it or not. Firing him for kneeling during the National Anthem, really? A lesser degree of the USSR, but severe punishment nonetheless.
I was going to drop this before Reno’s rant today. Now I’ll drop it again; I want to talk football.
Alright I’m going 13-10 Niners. But I still say Kap looked like Angela Davis with a mustache and goat. And as Tower of power used to say “Tower to the People” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNWYHSbaFBs
Lets face it, we’re here to share stuff about football not concern ourselves with someone sitting or taking a knee before the national anthem. The story has gotten tiresome. The media has found the latest story to obsess over. Perhaps they’ll go back to covering Trump and Hillary going at it. Ouch! Those people are mean! Our future leaders? Ouch!
RT’s story was the perfect metaphor for what is happening here. I didn’t say I’m boycotting this site I said I’m boycotting this thread. I’m done clapping even if it gets me carted off. I can handle the kneeling but I refuse to stand and clap with people who support some jack ass calling cops murderers.
So you folks just keep clapping. When you decide to quit clapping and talk football I’ll come back. Just not on this thread.
BTW, I’m doing a terrible job of boycotting! LOL!
Yeah, Bergs brings it up and runs away. Didn’t think he was that superficial.
WInder going for the win? Ballsy. I think we can, esp based on how Denver beat them, but I don’t think we will given the short week and travel
24-20 Panthers.
TOP is one of my favorite local bands. Best horn section ever.
Sorry if this offends you, Bergs.
NoFear, back from the dead, resumes his curmudgeonly ways. Stop on by, dude.
Happy to hear NFL is still amongst us. Don’t know where it came from that he died.
I’ve had enough of the anthem story too.
I can’t bring myself to believe the Niners can get a win in Carolina, just a hope they maybe have a punches chance, Buster Douglas style.
21-17 Panthers.
Wrote NF. Damn Auto correct, what idiot invented it anyway…
Some are, Bergs. That’s the reality. There’s enough tape out there to see it with your own eyes. That you refuse to believe it is your problem.
Unless you think shooting an unarmed guy running away from you is a threat. Or the countless other cases.
Talking of idiots, where is Dennis? You banned him again Chuck?
Yeah, unlike skeebs, I ban racist trolls.
Don’t know if I did this one here before, but I really like this version and thought you guys might too.