And I fucking love it. Football is still my favorite sport to watch, no matter how hard they fuck with it. Kickoffs are still a mystery to me. And I bemoan the loss of the onside kick. That being said, just watched my first NFL Network season kickoff show, and the 49ers have fallen off the radar. Which to me is excellent news.
All the talk of course is about an old and washed Aaron Rodgers in Pittsburgh. He has got all the wonks wet in their chairs. Guess what? They will still suck. Rodgers is no answer to Pittsburgh’s offensive problems. Sure, Tomlin just might reach 9-8 to preserve that blessed winning season streak, but the fact remains they haven’t won a playoff game in 9 seasons. For whatever reason, their offense stinks on ice, and once they fall behind, they are doomed. Kenny Pickett? Russell Wilson? Justin Fields? Mason Rudolph? Nopes across the board. They are looking like the Bears of the last, oh 110 years in their desperate search for a quarterback.
The other orgasm-fest is the trade of Micah Parsons from Dallas to Green Bay. The talking heads all jizz over how this now puts Green Bay over the top and they are SERIOUS Super Bowl contenders now. Please. They wont even win their division. If ever a trade hurt both teams involved, it’s this one. Green Bay WAY overpaid for a guy who is 3/5 hype, and 2/5 talent. Generational guy? Ehhhhhhh. Parsons is a good solid pass rusher. Run defender? Nope. Can he drop and cover? Nope. 0 picks in 4 seasons. Consistent? Nope. The bigger the game, the smaller the output. Green Bay’s defense has been notoriously soft, and adding an end that provides no run support doesn’t help the cause. Jordan Love will spend most games on the sideline hoping he sees the ball eventually.
Dallas on the other hand has to do something with the two 1st round picks. But for now they are toast on a biscuit. Prescott is getting ungodly money to be a fairly pedestrian guy, and Jerry is Jerry, so nothing good comes from them this year. Except the relentless hype coming out of the media and Jerry Jerk-off.
It’ll be fun as fuck to see Philly beat the living shit out of Dallas. No love for the Eagles and the Sirianni Experience of dumb luck, but the made me happy beating the fucking Chiefs, and it’ll make me laugh to see Dallas go down in flames amid the perpetual hype machine that is Jerry Jones. _________________________________
Anyhow, here we are on the cusp of the season. What do you guys think? We have most of our team back from injuries. hild-outs, and offseason signings. JJ is in the house. The only big piece missing is Brandon Aiyuk. Ricky Pearsall looks to shine, and CMC is healthy, so there’s no excuse for this offense to be flat.
Purdy stands to look a hell of a lot better not having to chase the scoreboard all game. I mean we had better improve from 28th in points allowed. Right
I have us at what I originally thought a couple weeks ago.
12-5.
Our time is now. I think the Rams fall of the table, and I also think Deetroit does as well.
San Francisco 49ers Forever 
Can we beat Philly? Sure. I think this is the year Buffalo finally makes it back to the Super Bowl. ANd in Chris Berman’s dream it is the 49etrs and the Bills.
Niners win.
Just reported CMC hurt limited in practice
I think our rookies do well. Collins will be OK but he won’t be the stud we need until next year. The others are ready to roll. I especially want to see Williams and Stout. If Winters has arrived, this defense should be really good. Of course, with rookies you never really know until they play.
My Prediction: 11-7.
Thank you for noticing that. I’m going 11-6.
we play a 17 game season. You saying one and done in the playoffs?
Good to see Philly shoot themselves in the feet to start the season
fucking Dallas kicker just routinely nails 50+ yardrrs
same with the Philly guy.
Jesus. A calf injury? Oh well. So much for 12-5.
My concern is staying healthy.
Last place schedule is likely going to be a huge benefit with the amount of rookie talent we have. I can see our division being the toughest segment of the schedule.
Going to predict 12-5 and win the West.
Put me down for 11-6 and winning the West.
Cee Dee Lamb drops 3 critical passes to blow the game for Dallas.
funny how well the run D was without Micah in the end.
Even with the weak schedule I think our division is gonna be pretty strong. 10-7 with a playoff. Unless we lose McCaffrey then we are screwed.
Looks like Carter Bradley was waived to get Gage back to the PS. MVS protection move complete.
That Brian Robinson Move is looking big now, in light of the CMC report.
Going with 12-5. Too much talent still on this team.
Take this with the 700 trillion metric tons of salt.
“No worries!”
Exactly what they said last year at this point.
https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/calf-injury-49ers-mccaffrey-reporting-caveats-21032968.php
If he does miss games again for ostensibly the same injury he’s probably done.
Fingers crossed its just a strain but I don’t think the 9ers are very honest about their players injuries. How did it go from he’s 90 mins from playing in game 1 to IR last year, that’s a drastic jump that beggars belief they were blindsided.
Which is why the B Robinson signing carries a little more weight. Their contingency plan. As if this was a known entity even back then.
Huh. A lot of optimism here. I think it is warranted.
But I can’t say I’m thrilled about this calf injury development.
I think a better defense fixes many of the Shanahan play calling issues.
Mainly because we were chasing the scoreboard in a lot of games.
Even though we blew a lot of 4th quarter leads, we let so many teams back into games.
Christian McCaffrey: I feel great, focused on playing Seattle on Sunday – NBC Sports https://share.google/wblHdMF1gRUF6MabH
One of my big wonders for this season is, does KC suffer the Super Bowl Loser hangover that so many teams have been hit with?
If any team is due a fall, it’s the Chiefs. Maybe Harbaugh and the Chargers break on through to the other side.
hah! Buttker misses the XP!
what is it 70-30 Chiefs fans?
oh shit. It’s in Brazil!!!
huh did t know k Allen is back with the chargers.
still pissed we didn’t draft him.
Hah! KC gonna lose giving up a 19 yard run to Herbert on 3rd and 14. Fitting end to the game.
KC gonna lose a lot of games like this with that defense.
Chris Jones and Tranquill getting into it.
Here we go, predictions on a running back for next year
https://apple.news/A3DYJKZa9RGKS5pHYd5wBYA
Pretty dumb seeing as we got Brian Robinson.
New thread is up