1. Never trust the 49ers at 10 am on Sunday.
2. Alex Smith (No. 11…see a theme?) isn’t a bust, it’s just that he only has the ability to complete passes that travel longer than 15 yards in the air in the second half on the road in games where the 49ers are down by 20 points at halftime.
3. Fox definitely leads the league in technical-difficulties-to-replays ratio. They’re good for at least 3 times per game where the view either switches from hi-def to standard definition or simply pauses all together, and at least 6 times where instead of showing a replay everyone would like to see they focus on some gum-chomping coach on the sidelines.
4. I was definitely not wrong about the value of at least attempting one long pass to Michael Crabtree every game.
5. Crabtree already has the respect of everyone in the NFL. Not only was he consistently covered by Al Harris (the Packers’ best cover corner), he got the benefit of the doubt from the official when he pushed off on his first career touchdown grab. The 49ers need to throw deep to Crabtree in the first quarter of every game, just to see if they can get a cheap pass interference call.
6. Josh Morgan needs to return every punt and kickoff for the rest of the season.
7. Aaron Rodgers is a much better runner than Alex Smith, and he’s superior at throwing every type of pass, too (except for 20-yard lobs down the middle to your tight end when your team is down 20).
8. The most annoying thing Niners’ defense does: allow more 3rd-and-long conversions per game than Stanford did yesterday against Cal.
9. Some offenses just aren’t built for the Wildcat. Including the 49ers.
10. The latest NFL “Ascent” sideline fleeces and hats (with the colors graduating from light to dark as you go down the garment, as pictured above) is the worst merchandising idea the NFL has forced upon the players and coaches since Zubaz pants.
11. Risking your last timeout with a replay-challenge, when the best you can do is change the Packers’ situation from 3rd-and-inches to 3rd-and-12-more-inches, is never a good idea. And since it’s almost impossible to choose one player to blame for the 49ers’ not-quite-good-enough performance today, it’s time to start looking a little more closely at the coaching staff than Mike Singletary would probably like us too since the 49ers have about a 0.5% chance of making the playoffs now.
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Whens draft day?
I don’t know, but it’s looking more and more like the Niners’ first round pick is going to be higher than the one they get from Carolina.
Hey BASG, What up with some raider news? The team that pulled the upset this past sunday does’nt get any props on your website? I guess your just another niner fan that when shit hits the fan…you wanna be there talking down on the raiders,right? Just call yourself the frisco fan guy because there is no love for bay area teams unless there’s an SF on the hat.
I’m sorry, I live in San Francisco. That means I didn’t see the game between the Raiders and Bengals.
Yay Raiders, way to screw up your draft position.
As for Raiders info, I’m hoping “The Man In White” can speak on behalf of the Silvah and Black, since he’s in Bakersfield and was probably able to watch the game that less than 35,000 people attended.
hey, dont be sorry about living in SF thats not the problem. the problem is you call yourself “bay area sports guy” then you should cover bay area sports teams,right? search the web and give us some news of the raiders, a’s , cal, stanford, sharks, sjsu, earthquakes and so forth. you only post niners, giants and warriors stuff. Get on the ball dude or re-name your webite “49ers and giants with occasional warriors guy!”
Haha, right. I just wrote about Stanford last week, and there’s no way I’m going to write about the Earthquakes or SJSU. Or the Raiders if they aren’t on TV. That’s like expecting me to write about all the local high schools, the California Redwoods, USF and Levi Leipheimer. There’s a recipe for a winning sports blog.
I’d care more about the Sharks, but I never played hockey.
My goal is to keep the audience interested. Even including the Sharks, not much interest in the teams you mentioned.
oh yeah, Bailey from the oakland a’s wins AL rookie of the year and you did’nt even mention that, what a “bay area” sports guy. Hey dude, there are other teams in oakland besides the warriors.
Bobby Crosby won the AL Rookie of the Year, too.
No ROY award in any sport has less importance nowadays than the ones handed out in Major League Baseball every year. The best rookies get called up in August and play too much over the last couple of months to qualify for the award in their first full seasons.
Chris Coghlan, anyone? Anyone?
You can redeem yourself, BASG, by writing something appropriately effusive about Cal’s upset victory Saturday night.
Harbaugh has a little Belichick in him, doesn’t he? I still have no idea why he only gave Toby Gerhart 20 carries when Cal had no answer for him.