The 49ers got back on track by drubbing the hapless Jets Sunday, but they likely lost any chance at being a SB contender this year when all-world DE Nick Bosa tore his ACL and will be out for the season. The…
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49ers 31, Jets 13
Tagged with: 49ers, Dante Pettis, George Kittle, Jerick McKinnon, Jets, Jimmy Garoppolo, Jordan Reed, Kendrick Bourne, Mohamed Sanu, Nick Bosa, Raheem Mostert, Solomon Thomas
Posted in Post Game Spread
Posted in Post Game Spread
Cardinals 24, 49ers 20
The 49ers tried to play a 21st century football game with no wide receivers. Fail. Kendrick Bourne: 2 receptions. Dante Pettis: zero. AZ secondary: smoke break. DC Robert Saleh had an entire offseason to figure out how to defend against squirt-ball QBs. Fail. Kyler…
Tagged with: 49ers, Arik Armstead, Brandon Aiyuk, Cardinals, Dante Pettis, Deebo Samuel, Deforest Buckner, Jimmy Garoppolo, Jordan Reed, Kendrick Bourne, Kyle Shanahan, Robert Saleh, Trent Taylor
Posted in Post Game Spread
Posted in Post Game Spread
And Away We Go
The defending NFC Champion San Francisco 49ers kick off their 2020 season next Sunday afternoon at home against the division rival Arizona Cardinals. These pesky assholes gave the Niners a scare in both games last season, but clutch fourth quarter…
Tagged with: 49ers, DeAndre Hopkins, DJ Jones, Fred Warner, George Kittle, Javon Kinlaw, Jerick McKinnon, Jimmy Garoppolo, Jordan Reed, Kyler Murray, Larry Fitzgerald, Russell Wilson, Trent Taylor
Posted in Game Previews
Posted in Game Previews
The Turk Man Cometh
The NFL cutdown day is next Saturday afternoon. Final roster size remains the usual 53 players, but the practice squad has been expanded from ten players to 16, with six of those players able to be veterans who would not…
Halfway to Maybe
A week and a half into training camp and the bodies are falling left and right. Probably a normal occurrence, but each year it seems worse than the previous year. Short term memory loss. Bodies were no doubt falling at…
Knocking the Rust Off
Our loveable brutes strapped on the pads last Saturday. Now they have about three weeks to get ready for the season opener against the Cardinals. Jalen Hurd took the opportunity of the first practice to tear his ACL, which will put him…
Bubble World Blabber
Most of the news lately has been which players are opting out of the 2020 season. That all ended, presumably, at last Thursday’s 1pm deadline. At this point, you’re either in or you’re out. Sixty-seven players took the out. For…
Tagged with: 49ers, Jake Brendel, Jerick McKinnon, Kyle Shanahan, Matt Breida, Raheem Mostert, Shon Coleman, Travis Benjamin
Posted in Training Camp
Posted in Training Camp
Testing the Water
The NFL is tiptoeing back to work this week. Although “work” might be stretching the concept a bit. All the players will be doing this week is sitting for a virus probe, waiting in isolation for a couple of days,…
The Football Panacea
One more week until Training Camp opens. Maybe. With the restrictions imposed by the governor of California, it’s hard to see the 49ers training in Santa Clara without some sort of dispensation. Arizona and Nevada are the most likely possible…
Tagged with: 49ers, Brandon Aijuk, Javon Kinlaw, Jerick McKinnon, Trent Taylor
Posted in FOS Speculation
Posted in FOS Speculation
Eras Come, Eras Go
The retirement of Joe Staley closed the books on all the players drafted from the Mike Nolan/Scot McCloughan era. In fact, only two players from those years are still on NFL rosters – Alex Smith and Frank Gore. If Michael Crabtree finds a team sometime this…
Tagged with: 49ers, Alex Smith, Dan Marino, Frank Gore, Fred Warner, George Kittle, Jeff Garcia, Jimmie Ward, Jimmy Garoppolo, Joe Montana, Joe Staley, Michael Crabtree, Mike McGlinchey, Mike Nolan, Nick Bosa, Scot McCloughan, Steve Young
Posted in Vacant Observations
Posted in Vacant Observations
Luck of the Draw
It looks like everyone pretty much agrees that, barring any weird shit, the 49ers will once again be contenders this year. In the NFC, the list of possible contenders is not daunting. There’s the Eagles and Cowboys, Bucs and Saints,…
Tagged with: 49ers, Aiyuk, Brandon, Dante Pettis, Jalen Hurd, Javon Kinlaw, Trent Taylor
Posted in FOS Speculation
Posted in FOS Speculation
Virtually the Same
Well, that was a pretty weird draft for the 49ers. Fairly effective overall, but decidedly lacking in fan appeal. There’s an old saying that if you aren’t getting better, you’re getting worse. In the Niner’s case, however, staying pretty much…
Tagged with: 49ers, Brandon Aiyuk, Deforest Buckner, Emmanuel Sanders, Javon Kinlaw, Joe Staley, Marquise Goodwin, Matt Breida, Trent Williams
Posted in Draft Reaction
Posted in Draft Reaction
Seven Days to the Clock
One of the enduring screen shots of the Super Bowl was John Lynch frantically signaling for a Time Out from his sky box while down on the field Kyle Shanahan calmly let the clock run out shortly before halftime, even though there…
The Virtual Draft
The NFL Draft appears to be on schedule near the end of the month. It won’t have any of the first round players on hand, but Mel Kiper will still be hyperventilating at the camera and you can bet the…
It Can’t Happen Here
Lots of bodies flying off the shelves last week. The 49ers didn’t acquire any of them, and they lost Emmanuel Sanders and traded Deforest Buckner for the 13th pick in this Draft. Weaker on offense and defense. For now. Not much to fault…
Tagged with: 49ers, Arik Armstead, Deforest Buckner, Emmanuel Sanders, George Kittle
Posted in FOS Speculation
Posted in FOS Speculation
Thumb Twiddling
Looks like we’ll be getting a 17 game season in a year or two, with an extra wild card team in each conference. And only the top seeded team in each conference will get a BYE week in the playoffs.…
Tagged with: 49ers, Bill Belichick, Drew Brees, Jed York, Kyle Shanahan, Sean Payton
Posted in Mindless Drivel
Posted in Mindless Drivel
Segwe to 2020
The 2020 Combine is coming up later this month, which will get hearts fluttering with excitement for the draftniks among us. And for complete football junkies, the XFL is making another effort at forming a viable alternative to the NFL.…
Perspective Detective
Last week was hard to digest. Tough for us 49er fans, and no doubt tougher for the team and coaches. But they get paid for their grief, and we don’t. Kyle Shanahan has been roasted a bit, while Andy Reid has…
Tagged with: 49ers, Andy Reid, Ben Roethlisberger, Brett Farve, Jimmy Garpppolo, John Elway, Kyle Shanahan, Kyler Murray, Matt Ryan, Peyton Manning, Russell Wilson, Tom Brady
Posted in Delusional Therapy
Posted in Delusional Therapy
Chiefs 31, 49ers 20
The 49ers’ fairy tale season came to an ignominious end Sunday night in Miami, crushed to death at the fifty yard line as Jimmy Garoppolo stood motionless, unable or unwilling to throw the ball on fourth and ten with the season…
Tagged with: 49ers, Andy Reid, Chiefs, Jimmy Garoppolo, Joe Montana, Kyle Shanahan
Posted in Post Game Spread
Posted in Post Game Spread
Defense, Defense, Defense!
It’s blah, blah, blah week while we wait for next Sunday’s Super Bowl game. While it’s nice that the Niners and Chiefs are doing the yapping, and not some other team from the East Coast, it’s still a lot of…
Tagged with: 49ers, Chiefs, Dan Marino, Dee Ford, Jimmy Garoppolo, Patrick Mahomes
Posted in Game Previews
Posted in Game Previews
49ers 37, Packers 20
The 49ers made it look easy Sunday night, pounding their way to a 27-0 halftime lead and cruising to the finish line. There wasn’t a moment of real anxiety the entire game. The most laughable and yet telling stat of…
Tagged with: 49ers, Deebo Samuels, Emmanuel Sanders, George Kittle, Jimmie Ward, Jimmy Garoppolo, Kendrick Bourne, Kyle Shanahan, Nick Bosa, Packers, Patrick Mahomes, Raheem Mostert
Posted in Post Game Spread
Posted in Post Game Spread
Gloat Sandwich
The 49ers and Packers had a pretty good rivalry in the late ’90s, albeit a bit one sided. Brett Farve had their number and knocked them out of the playoffs in 1995, 1996, and 1997. The Niners finally beat him in…
Tagged with: 49ers, Aaron Rodgers, Brett Farve, Dickhead Sherman, Garrison Hearst, Jerry Rice, Packers, Pete Carroll, Russell Wilson, Seahawks, Terrell Owens
Posted in Game Previews
Posted in Game Previews