Like most of you, I’m sitting here watching to see how this whole thing plays out. The various sports entities are plunging ahead like they are sure there will be a new season, while the various medical entities are doubting…
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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
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Howdy Doodle Time
Last year at this time, the Rams were favored to win the NFC West, and they did precisely that. The 49ers were favored to provide a spirited chase, which might possibly land them a playoff berth. They did precisely not…
Combine Week
The NFL Combine kicks off this week, which means GM John Lynch will have to come out of hiding and discuss/spin the Reuben Foster debacle. Up to now, he’s been all smiles and good cheer. So this will be his…
Tagged with: 49ers, John Lynch, Reuben Foster, Solomon Thomas, Trent Baalke
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Light It Up
Happy Independence Day, fellow citizens. In honor of this day, we will consume 150 million hot dogs, 71% of them covered with mustard. We will also spend $800 million on fireworks while decreasing the air quality by 42%. This day…
Trent Watch
Pretty dead out there in the land of football yappity-yap. The great dead zone of February is upon us. New HC Chip Kelly probably can’t believe his luck. Hounded out of Philadelphia at the end of the 2015 season, considered…
Tagged with: 49ers, Chip Kelly, Jed York, Jim Harbaugh, Jim Tomsula, Tom Gamble, Trent Baalke
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Chip and the Dip
Chip Kelly introduced himself to the Bay Area media Wednesday. It went well. None of the grunting, mumbling, sweating, stammering, furtive and incoherent rambling made notorious by his inept predecessor Jim Tomsula. Crisp, witty, intelligent. Terrific. If this was 2011,…
Tagged with: 49ers, Chip Kelly, Dennis Erickson, Jed York, Jim Harbaugh, Jim Tomsula, Mike Nolan, Mike Singletary, Steve Mariucci
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Halfway House
How nice of the NFL to give the Niners a BYE week so the Bay Area can concentrate on rooting for the Giants to win the World Series. It’s been a strange beginning to the 2014 season. The new stadium…
Tagged with: Aaron Lynch, Ahmad Brooks, Aldon Smith, Brandon Lloyd, Jim Harbaugh, Michael Crabtree, Navorro Bowman, Ray McDonald, San Francisco 49ers, Stevie Johnson, Tank Carradine
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Changing of the Guard
By all accounts, Aldon Smith is having a superman TC so far. That’s the good news. The bad news is multiple reports are predicting a six to eight game suspension for the 2014 season. The silver lining news is that…
Tagged with: Aldon Smith, Alex Boone, Antoine Bethea, Bill Ring, Bruce Ellington, Carlos Hyde, Chris Borland, Chris Culliver, Colin Kaepernick, Eric Reid, Frank Gore, Jimmie Ward, Joe Looney, Joe Staley, Justin Smith, Michael Crabtree, Patrick Willis, Peyton Manning, Quinton Dial, Quinton Patton, Ray McDonald, San Francisco 49ers, Scot McCloughan, Tank Carradine, Trent Baalke, Vernon Davis
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Semper Ubi Sub Ubi
OTAs continue this week, I think. And seven more weeks until Training Camp opens. So it’s probably as good a time as any for the annual farting column. Just kidding. We could do the annual mocking the Raiders column, but…
Tagged with: Dennis Allen, Jim Harbaugh, Mark Davis, Reggie McKenzie, San Francisco 49ers
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OTA Lift Off
The news out of camp from the year’s first OTA practices was mostly good. The best news was Michael Crabtree has not yet broken or maimed any part of his tootsies. In five years, he’s only started a season healthy…
Tagged with: Aldon Smith, Alex Boone, Colin Kaepernick, Jim Harbaugh, Johnny Manziel, Michael Crabtree, San Francisco 49ers, Vernon Davis
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Dead Air
The NFL has finally grunted out the 2014 schedule, giving starved football fans something tangible to munch on. (Ed note: not sure this image is suitable for children) The 49ers are an 11 to 13 win team, no matter who’s…
Tagged with: Aldon Smith, Jim Harbaugh, Mike Nolan, Mike Singletary, San Francisco 49ers, Steve Mariucci, Vernon Davis
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Plenty of Nothing
Four weeks into Free Agency and the 49ers have done just about nothing, except re-signing some of their own players and picking up some table scraps from other teams. The only FA starter signed was SS Antoine Bethea. He replaced…
Tagged with: AJ Jenkins, Aldon Smith, Anthony Davis, Antoine Bethea, DeSean Jackson, Donte Whitner, Eric Reid, Jed York, Jim Harbaugh, Pete Carroll, Randy Moss, San Francisco 49ers, Terrell Owens, Trent Baalke
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Slow Weekend
Not much happening at 49er HQ this week. That is all. Just kidding. I have some more words to throw around here, if I can just find them. Not sure why the team is dribbling out the player activations. Tank…
Tagged with: Aldon Smith, Andy Dalton, Anquan Boldin, Colin Kaepernick, Frank Gore, Geno Atkins, Mario Manningham, Michael Crabtree, San Francisco 49ers, Tank Carradine, Vance McDonald, Vernon Davis
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Roster Massage
Six games into the season and nine teams are spinning their wheels at 3-3. That’s good enough for first place in the NFC East now and maybe even all season long. Two teams are a perfect 6-0, Denver and Kansas…
The Downward Spiral
The longest day of the year slipped through town last Friday and Saturday morning the earth began its long, slow journey into darkness. I mention this for the benefit of all you squirrel worshippers out there, as a reminder to…
For Their Eyes Only
We’re half way through the offseason. And less than a week away from the resumption of football related activity. Rookie minicamp begins this Friday, May 10th, and lasts three days. A week and a half later, on May 21, the…
Tagged with: Aaron Rodgers, Cam Newton, Craig Dahl, Donte Whitner, Drew Brees, Eric Reid, Jim Harbaugh, Matt Ryan, Peyton Manning, Russell Wilson, Sam Bradford, San Francisco 49ers, Vance McDonald, Vernon Davis
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April Love
Folklore maintains that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb, as the last cold blasts of winter give way to the Pat Boone days of spring. Folklore is buttressed, astrologically speaking, by the constellation of…
Tagged with: Craig Dahl, John Jenkins, Pat Boone, Randy Moss, San Francisco 49ers, Ted Ginn, Trent Baalke
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Yawn If You Missed It
It’s been three weeks since the 49ers blew the Super Bowl and it’s still two weeks until the March 12th kickoff to free agency, the trading period, and the new league year. The team is primed to be a contender…
Tagged with: Alex Smith, Colin Kaepernick, Dashon Goldson, Jim Harbaugh, Josh Boyce, Kenny Stills, Marquise Goodwin, RGIII, Ryan Swope, San Francisco 49ers, Tavon Austin
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A Few Good Fat Guys
The 2013 Draft doesn’t have much buzz to it this year. Not only are there no superstar QBs in the draft, the top player might be an offensive guard! You can’t get much unsexier than that unless you attended a…
Tagged with: Demarcus Dobbs, Ian Williams, Isaac Sopoaga, LaMichael James, Ricky Jean Francois, San Francisco 49ers, Trent Baalke, Will Tukuafu
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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
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