Half the 49er season is already over. Sigh. If only the offseason moved this quickly. At this time of the year, we’re normally finishing the autopsy and preparing a eulogy, so this is uncharted territory. A perfect half season. Zounds!…
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Four Part Harmony
The first part of the offseason deals with hopes and needs (FA and the Draft). The second part features high (or low) expectations (a whole lot of bullshit). Then there’s part three, Training Camp and Preseason, when expectations are diluted…
There’s a Bar Up Above
Five more weeks of the offseason before we begin to see if Kyle Shanahan can emulate Jim Harbaugh by taking a 6-10 team and turning it into a 13-3 playoff team. Some might say that’s not a fair contest, since…
Tagged with: 49ers, Alex Smith, Bill Walsh, Chip Kelley, George Seifert, Jim Harbaugh, Jim Tomsula, Jimmy Garoppolo, Kyle Shanahan, Mike Holmgren, Mike Shanahan, Robert Saleh, Vic Fangio
Posted in FOS Speculation
Posted in FOS Speculation
Lap Falling Syndrome
Well, it’s almost here. After the Super Bowl and the Presidential Election, the NFL Draft is probably the third most overhyped event in America. Apparently, the 49ers are going to take a linebacker, a cornerback, an offensive lineman, or trade…
Tagged with: Bill Belichick, Bill Walsh, Drew Brees, Joe Montana, John Lynch, Phil "Gag Me" Simms, Sam Darnold, San Francisco 49ers, Sean Payton, Tom Brady, Trent Baalke
Posted in Waltzing Matilda
Posted in Waltzing Matilda
Extreme Makeover
The 49ers have taken the term “cleaning house” to a level that would make an OCD housewife beam proudly. By the time Free Agency and the Draft have come and gone, the entire building will not have a clue who…
Tagged with: 49ers, Bill Walsh, Jed York, Jim Harbaugh, John Lynch, John Madden, Kyle Shanahan, Matt Millen, Norv Turner, Trent Baalke
Posted in Vacant Observations
Posted in Vacant Observations
49ers 22, Rams 21
Well, that was a bummer. A fat lump of coal right in the old stocking. The 49ers had a chance at the top pick in the draft and a stranglehold on the worst team in franchise history, but they settled…
Stepper Uppers Needed
Jed York checked his mouth into rehab after the owners’ meetings last week, so there has been some quiet time these days. Pity. What will we do for amusement? Poor young Jed. A year ago, he was the toast of…
Perception Vs Reality
The 49ers have finally introduced their new coaching staff. Most of them can now disappear into the fine print of the team’s hierarchy, until such time as we need to haul them out to blame them for one thing or…
Tagged with: Anquan Boldin, Bill Walsh, Eric Mangini, Geep Chryst, George Seifert, Jim Harbaugh, Jim Tomsula, Michael Crabtree, Mike Holmgren, San Francisco 49ers, Steve Young
Posted in FOS Speculation
Posted in FOS Speculation
As the QB Turns
The Super Bowl next Sunday will be a win-lose proposition for 49er fans. One of these despised franchises will have to lose the game, but one of them will have to win it, too. We’ll either see Bill Belichick and…
Tagged with: Bill Belichick, Bill Walsh, Colin Kaepernick, Frank Gore, Greg Roman, Joe Montana, San Franciscp 49ers, Steve Deberg, Tom Brady
Posted in FOS Speculation
Posted in FOS Speculation
On The Clock
It’s a New Year, and the 49ers are once again facing an uncertain future. And once again the dreaded sounds of snickering are echoing throughout the league. Sigh. It’ll be a week or two before the front office clowns trot…
Tagged with: Bill Walsh, Jed York, Paraag Marathe, Rex Ryan, San Francisco 49ers, Trent Baalke, Vic Fangio
Posted in Angst 101
Posted in Angst 101
Identity Crisis
The San Francisco 49er’s 2013 season is busy surrendering its weapons and checking into the prison of history this week, getting assigned to a cell in dangerous proximity to the 1990-1993 Buffalo Bills. Three straight trips to the NFC Championship…
Tagged with: Bill Cowher, Bill Walsh, Bo Schembechler, Cam Cameron, Jim Harbaugh, John Harbaugh, Marty Schottenheimer, San Francisco 49ers, Trent Baalke
Posted in FOS Speculation
Posted in FOS Speculation
And The Winner Is …
Recently, we’ve seen the Top 20 coaches of all time, the Top 100 players list, and the franchise Mt. Rushmore series dragged out over many weeks by Pro Football Talk. Here at the Outsider, we have two dogs circling a…
Tagged with: Bill Walsh, Clint Eastwood, Frank Gore, Jack Palance, Joe Montana, Richard Boone, San Francisco 49ers, Sergio Leone
Posted in Waltzing Matilda
Posted in Waltzing Matilda
The Third Year
For those of us with fertile imaginations or ravenous little children, Peter Cottontail will be hop, hop, hopping into view this weekend, and I’m sure we all breathlessly await his arrival. In keeping with the Tradition perversion fetish of the…
Tagged with: Bill Walsh, Dennis Erickson, George Seifert, Jesus Christ, Jim Harbaugh, Mike Nolan, Mike Singletary, Peter Cottontail, San Francisco 49ers, Steve Marriucci
Posted in Waltzing Matilda
Posted in Waltzing Matilda
All Quiet On The Western Front
I’m having trouble deciding whether the current 49er team is a group of over-achievers or a group of under-achievers. If it’s the over, then we just need more good players and/or more maturity. But if it’s under, then we need…
Tagged with: Bill Walsh, Jim Harbaugh, San Francisco 49ers, Steve Mariucci
Posted in Mindless Drivel
Posted in Mindless Drivel
The Coma Before the Storm
For the past eighteen years, the last two weeks in January have been reserved for denial, anger, depression, avoidance — all the classic pysche tricks to deal with another disappointing end to the 49ers’ season. I was still a young…
Tagged with: Aaron Rodgers, Baltimore Ravens, Bill Walsh, Colin Kaepernick, George Seifert, Jim Harbaugh, Joe Flacco, Joe Staley, Matt Ryan, OJ Simpson, Peyton Manning, Ray Lewis, San Francisco 49ers, Tom Brady
Posted in Mindless Drivel
Posted in Mindless Drivel
Back to Business
The Rams come to Candlestick on Sunday with a chance to tie up their all time series with the 49ers, who currently lead 62-61-2. The chances the Rams will do so? Squat. I probably shouldn’t be so cavalier about their…
Tagged with: Bill Walsh, Danny Amendola, Delanie Walker, Mario Manningham, Michael Crabtree, Sam Bradford, San Francisco 49ers, St. Louis Rams, Vernon Davis
Posted in Game Previews
Posted in Game Previews
Pay Back Time
Sunday’s game against the Giants is an NFC bragging rights game, but it’s also a game that will tell us how legitimate the 49ers’ new and explosive offense really is. And whether the defense can handle a legitimate QB or…
Tagged with: Bill Walsh, Greg Roman, New York, Rex Ryan, San Francisco 49ers, Tom Coughlin
Posted in Game Previews
Posted in Game Previews
Retread Trips
Training Camp is still five weeks in the future, which means there’s not much 49er news to gnaw on these days. If this was the Donner Party blog, we’d be looking at each other with lustful teeth. The Bounty scandal…
Tagged with: Bill Walsh, Charlie Whitehurst, Dan Snyder, George Seifert, Jed York, Jim Harbaugh, John Elway, Matt Flynn, Mike Holmgren, Mike Shanahan, Pete Carroll, Robert Griffin III, San Francisco 49ers
Posted in Vacant Observations
Posted in Vacant Observations
Genius At Work
For fifty-one months weeks of each year, the 49er spotlight shines almost exclusively on Jim Harbaugh. But this week, that light casts it’s bald gaze on Trent Baalke. From Thursday through Saturday, Harbaugh will mostly be a nervous wreck, waving…
Tagged with: Bill Walsh, Jeff Ireland, Jerry Rice, Jim Harbaugh, Joe Montana, San Francisco 49ers, Trent Baalke
Posted in History 01100101
Posted in History 01100101
Mild, Mild West
Thanks in large part to the resurgent 49ers, the NFC West lost its distinction last year as the worst Division in the NFL. Thanks in large part to the catastrophic collapse of the Colts, the AFC South assumed that dunce…
Tagged with: Andrew Luck, Arizona Cardinals, Bill Belichick, Bill Walsh, Charlie Whitehurst, Jeff Fisher, Jim Harbaugh, Ken Whisenhunt, Kevin Kolb, Kurt Warner, Larry Fitzgerald, Matt Leinhart, Mike Nolan, Pete Carroll, Robert Griffin III, San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, St. Louis Rams
Posted in FOS Speculation
Posted in FOS Speculation
Upside Down Future
The 49ers have been gathering players from the top of the Draft for seven of the past eight years. Those plumb pickings will not be seen again for many, many years. I’d like to say they’ll never be seen again,…