It’s tough shaking this one off. The Super Bowl loss is not that hard to cope with, but the cloud it casts over the 2013 season is another matter. Only one team — the 1971 Miami Dolphins — has ever…
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Mission Improbable
Tagged with: AJ Jenkins, Alex Smith, Colin Kaepernick, Frank Gore, Jim Harbaugh, Justin Smith, Patrick Willis, San Francisco 49ers, Trent Baalke
Posted in Delusional Therapy
Posted in Delusional Therapy
OTA Week III of IV
The boys will be back at it again today, whatever “it” is. A closely guarded state secret, mostly. Then again, what’s there to reveal about practices? They got the blocking sleds, the little pads and cones that guys do the…
Tagged with: Abrayo Franklin, Braylon Edwards, Jose Canseco, Mike Nolan, Mike Singletary, Patrick Willis, San Francisco 49ers, Taylor Mays, Terrell Owens, Trent Baalke
Posted in Mindless Drivel
Posted in Mindless Drivel
Oh, My Darling
Today’s topic is Patrick Willis. He’s great. He’s awesome. Everybody agrees. Next up, the NFC West now has the 2010 (Sam Bradford), 2011 (Kevin Kolb), and 2012 (Matt Flynn) QB debutante darlings. And nobody’s darling, Alex Smith. Looks like the…
Tagged with: Alex Smith, Colin Kaepernick, Drew Brees, Jim Harbaugh, John Skelton, Kevin Kolb, Matt Flynn, Patrick Willis, Sam Bradford, San Francisco 49ers, Tarvaris Jackson
Posted in The Usual Suspects
Posted in The Usual Suspects
Comings and Goings
The 2012 Free Agency period roared into action Tuesday afternoon, as it usually does. What was not usual was the 49ers being among the early roarers. Last year, they waited till all the roaring had subsided before picking through the…
Tagged with: Aaron Rodgers, Alex Smith, Brandon Lloyd, Carlos Rogers, Chaz Schilens, Drew Brees, Eli Manning, Jay Cutler, Jim Harbaugh, Josh Morgan, Matthew Stafford, Patrick Willis, Perrish Cox, Peyton Manning, Randy Moss, San Francisco 49ers, Tom Brady, Tramaine Brock, Trent Baalke
Posted in Around the League
Posted in Around the League
Hangin’ Round the Ink Well
Ink flowing is not normally as fascinating to observe as is paint drying, grass growing, or televised Combine events, but this could change in the next two weeks. The 49ers have until March 13th to re-sign currently held players or…
Tagged with: Adam Snyder, Alex Smith, Blake Costanzo, Brett Swain, Carl Nicks, Chilo Rachal, Dashon Goldson, Jim Harb, Josh MorganCarlos Rogers, Justin Peelle, Larry Grant, Madieu Williams, Marques Colston, Patrick Willis, Peyton Manning, Reggie Smith, San Francisco 49ers, Tavares Gooden, Ted Ginn, Tramaine Brock, Will Tukuafu
Posted in Vacant Observations
Posted in Vacant Observations
Milk Carton Man
Most of the time, disappearing acts and football are not a good combination. Ask Michael Crabtree, who vanished during the playoffs. But someone else dropped off the radar screen in 2011, too, and it was a very good thing. One…
Tagged with: Adam Snyder, Alex Smith, Anthony Davis, Chilo Rachal, Dashon Goldson, Eli Manning, Josh Morgan, Justin Smith, Larry Grant, Mario Manningham, Michael Crabtree, Mike Nolan, Patrick Willis, Ray McDonald, Reggie Smith, San Francisco 49ers, Scot McCloughan, Tarell Brown
Posted in Waltzing Matilda
Posted in Waltzing Matilda
Auld Lang Syne
The Catch happened 30 years ago this week, launching a 49er empire, and there is a lot of nostalgia floating around Centennial Blvd. these days. Montana, Lott, Rice, Craig, and Clark were all onstage Tuesday night for some sort of…
Tagged with: Dwight Clark, Frank Gore, Jed York, Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, Justin Smith, New Orleans Saints, Patrick Willis, Ray McDonald, Roger Craig, Ronnie Lott, San Francisco 49ers
Posted in Waltzing Matilda
Posted in Waltzing Matilda
Mensa Members Only
The Outsider likes to spoof former 49er head coach Mike Nolan because it’s fun and it always riled up the Igloo Man who has evidently departed the premises. But, with Tuesday’s Pro Bowl announcements, Nolan’s last draft here, the 2007…
Against All Odds
Poise. Good teams have it. Bad teams don’t. The 2010 49ers did not have it. The 2011 team most surely does. The 49ers completed a season sweep of the Seahawks Saturday in a game reminiscent of their victory over Detroit…
R-E-S-P-E-C-T (just a little bit)
Harbaugh vs Harbaugh, Lewis vs Willis, Gore vs Rice, and Ravens D vs Niners D. These will be the story angles that will be beaten to death by the time Thursday’s game kicks off. We do not intend to flog…
Tagged with: Alex Smith, Andy Lee, Baltimore Ravens, David Akers, Frank Gore, Jim Harbaugh, Joe Flacco, John Harbaugh, Patrick Willis, Ray Lewis, Ray Rice, San Francisco 49ers, Torrey Smith
Posted in Game Previews
Posted in Game Previews
Trading Places
20-16, 24-9, 27-6, 38-7. Those are the scores of the past four Cardinals/49ers games — all San Francisco victories. The first one anyway. The last three were more like stompings. Is there likely to be a reversal of Arizona fortunes…
Tagged with: Alex Smith, Arizone Cardinals, Delanie Walker, Jim Harbaugh, John Skelton, Justin Smith, Ken Whisenhunt, Kevin Kolb, Mike Singletary, Patrick Willis, San Francisco 49ers, Tom Coughlin, Troy Smith
Posted in Vacant Observations
Posted in Vacant Observations
A Day at the Office
An excellent Defense is a fan’s best friend. The 2011 49ers have such a friend. As the team takes the field each week, we don’t know how well the offense is going to do, in terms of getting points on…
Tagged with: Cleveland Browns, Patrick Willis, Pete Carroll, San Francisco 49ers
Posted in Game Previews
Posted in Game Previews
The Signature Win
The San Francisco 49ers are back! Sunday’s dramatic come back win over the Philadelphia Eagles was no fluke, ladies and gentlemen. This was a win by a team that suddenly came of age. A team that believed in itself finally…
Tagged with: Aldon Smith, Alex Smith, Frank Gore, Jim Harbaugh, Joe Staley, Justin Smith, LeSean McCoy, Michael Vick, Navorro Bowman, Patrick Willis, Philadelphia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers
Posted in Post Game Spread
Posted in Post Game Spread
Here Comes the Judge
Two days till the 49ers open the 2011 season at home against the Seattle Seahawks. But a virtual Iron Curtain has been erected around 4949 Centennial Blvd. by new coach Jim Harbaugh and nobody has any idea what kind of…
Tagged with: 49ers, Alex Smith, Jim Harbaugh, Justin Smith, Parys Haralson, Patrick Willis
Posted in Game Previews
Posted in Game Previews
Spine Bottom Roulette
The 49ers’ Training Camp 2011 ended Thursday, and the players broke camp by checking out of their hotel rooms, I guess, because they don’t go anywhere for camp any more. With the new CBA banning two-a-days, you can’t call these…
Tagged with: 49ers, Adam Snyder, Ahmad Brooks, Aldon Smith, Alex Boone, Chilo Rachal, Jim Harbaugh, Parys Haralson, Patrick Willis, Tarell Brown, Tramaine Brock
Posted in Training Camp
Posted in Training Camp
FA Brake Down
There’s been a lot of early season jitters as the blogorama shakes off the rust of the long offseason and gets its tonsils game ready. But one week into the new season, the collective nerves seem to be settling down…
Tagged with: 49ers, Abrayo Franklin, Adam Snyder, Aldon Smith, Chilo Rachal, Dashon Goldson, David Baas, Isaac Sopagna, Jim Harbaugh, Manny Lawson, Nate Clements, Navorro Bowman, Patrick Willis, Takeo Spikes
Posted in Training Camp
Posted in Training Camp
2010 Season: Act II
Enough doom and gloom. The 49ers are not going to the play offs this year. They are, however, playing eleven more games. During the off season, fans are so starved for real football action that they go bonkers over an…
Tagged with: 49ers, Abrayo Franklin, Alex Smith, Dashon Goldson, David Baas, David Carr, Jed York, Manny Lawson, Mike Singletary, Nate Clements, Patrick Willis, Tarell Brown, Will James
Posted in Tuesday Morning Waterboy
Posted in Tuesday Morning Waterboy
2010 49ers: FAIL!
Now that we’ve dispensed with the football part of the 49er 2010 NFL season, fans can begin to focus once again on what has become the staple of the San Francisco 49ers in the twenty-first century: booing. Another year, another…
Tagged with: 49ers, Alex Smith, Frank Gore, Greg Manusky, Jed York, Jimmy Raye, Mike Singletary, Patrick Willis
Posted in Monday Morning Quarterback
Posted in Monday Morning Quarterback
Gimme Some of That Old Time Weird
Now that the problems with the offense have been exorcised, what about the defense? We’ve had two mediocre teams make the 2010 49er defense look a whole lot like the 2005 49er defense. El stinky poo poo. How is this…
Tagged with: 48ers, Matt Hasselbeck, Mike Johnson, Patrick Willis, Sebastian Janikowski, Shaun Hill
Posted in Wednesday Morning Game Plan
Posted in Wednesday Morning Game Plan
The Fateful Fifty-Three
Over the weekend, somewhere in the vicinity of 700 NFL players were laid off. 256 of them got hired back at much lower wages to fill out the practice squads around the league. All of these PS fellows are young…
Tagged with: 49ers, Curtis Taylor, Dashon Goldson, Diyral Briggs, Karl Paymah, Matt Wilhelm, Michael Lewis, Michael Robinson, Mike Singletary, Navorro Bowman, Patrick Willis, Takeo Spikes, Tramaine Brock, Travis LaBoy, Will James
Posted in Training Camp
Posted in Training Camp
49ers Win Scrub Bowl 17-14
The 49ers closed out the 2010 Exhibition Season by beating the Chargers 17-14 in a largely empty Candlestick Park stadium. There were no initial reports of any serious injuries. Whew!!! The emergence of Phillip Adams has got to be the…
Tagged with: 49ers, Anthony Davis, Anthony Dixon, Dominique Zeigler, Frank Gore, Kyle Williams, Mike Iupati, Nate Davis, Navorro Bowman, Patrick Willis, Phillip Adams, Takeo Spikes, Taylor Mays
Posted in Exhibition Season
Posted in Exhibition Season