I think we all know this, but Jimmy pretty much confirmed what we all know. I’ve given Grant Cohn a ton of shit (rightly, IMO) regarding his interactions with the team and some of the players he makes a living on ragging, but he was asking Jimmy G about the game last week and said:
COHN: After the game, you said it felt like 2017 again. You really were pushing the ball downfield in that game more than you had the past couple seasons. Is that something you want to do this season — push the ball downfield more?
GAROPPOLO: I love that, yeah. There’s a lot of things that go with that obviously, but yeah, I love doing that stuff. In ’17, there was a freedom, where me and the receivers and the tight ends, we had a good chemistry going. When you get that with offensive skill players and quarterback, it makes for a tough offense.
COHN: Do you feel you had that freedom last week just because you were coming off the bench or do you anticipate having it the rest of the season?
GAROPPOLO: I don’t know. That’s a fair question. I think we’ll see that as we go forward. The more freedom you have as a quarterback, you’ll play better, you’re more confident and good things will happen.
Pretty open about having to play in the system that Shanahan is pushing, which is run the ball and low-risk passes, little downfield action, and pretty much a snoozefest that results in little scoring in the 2nd half. As we all know all too well.
Granted, Garoppolo is rarely perfectly healthy like he is now, and he’s susceptible to bumps and bruises that throw him off pretty badly, so this will be a fluid situation. But, hey, if Jimmy can get Shanny to wrestle his foot off the motherfucking brakes and hit the gas, I’m all for it.
Forty Niners Forever 
Don’t know if you’ve seen this, Bergs, but any footage (this is from ’66) with Syd Barrett at the height of his powers is an amazing treat.
That is amazing. Thanks
No, they weren’t psychedelic! LOL! Syd started the craze, but they would have never been the Pink Floyd we came to know if he stayed. Can you even begin to imagine Syd playing some of the all-time classic guitar leads that Gilmour threw down?
Pass blocking is much different than drive blocking. What bothers me is we never seem to have our blocking backs in position to block.
Dark Side of the Moo came out in 1973 I think. Done by someone who used their previous name (Screaming Abdabs) to get it produced. Very good quality, and I don’t know if Scream Thy Last Scream is on any other album. The other songs are rarities that were only released in England.
This doc I have never seen before, butRoger Waters mentions something I have heard other places in that he said that the people Syd was living with in early 1967 were spiking his coffee every morning with upwards of 2000 micrograms of LSD every morning, unknown to him, for what turned out to be 7-8 months. Don’t know how much of this is true, but there’s likely no one on earth who has gone through that before.
There is no way you wouldn’t know with that much acid. You build up a resistance with it pretty quickly if you do it everyday but still you would know. Usually you have to knock it off after about 3 days just to take a rest and bombard your system with vitamin B’s.
I think he was pretty lost in his mental health issues when this started happening so there’s no saying what went on in his head. But Syd deteriorated pretty fast between the 1st album and the 2nd.
Yeah, pretty sure whatever was going on with him the acid didn’t help.
Yeah, did a fair bit of it back in the day but never over more than a day. Doubling up would just be what, 28 hours of tripping? Shit, that would be pretty taxing on the brain cells.
The video where they were playing with Zappa, they are ALL tripping balls.