EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Here’s the live blog for the 49ers Week 4 game against the New York Jets. I’ll update this frequently with analysis from the press box.
8:34 The 49ers inactives are Scott Tolzien, A.J. Jenkins, Isaac Sopoaga, Brandon Jacobs, LaMichael James, Trenton Robinson and Joe Looney.
The 49ers do not have a single 2012 draft pick suited for this game. Darcel McBath seems to have passed rookie Trenton Robinson on the safety depth chart.
Sopoaga is not playing because he injured his knee and ankle last week, so Ricky Jean Francois will start at nose tackle. Ian Williams is suited up for a change, and he’ll back up Jean Francois.
Ted Ginn Jr. is active for the first time this season. I assume he’ll play and return kicks and punts.
Undrafted rookie Garrett Celek is suited up for the first time this season as well. Perhaps Greg Roman has some three-tight end sets in the game plan.
WR Stephen Hill and TE Dustin Keller are inactive for the Jets.
9:03 According to the NFL Network, this season the Jets defense has given up a 38.2 passer rating with Darrelle Revis in the lineup and a 107.4 passer rating without Revis.
9:49 A commentator on Jets radio just predicted the 49ers will win 23-22. In addition, he said it will be a close game in the fourth quarter, “but can the Jets pull it out?”
9:57 A Jets commentator just called the 49ers, “Arguably the class of the NFC.”
10:01 Already I’ve gotten a prediction wrong. The Niners won the toss and chose to receive the ball. I expected them to defer.
10:03 Kyle Williams returns the opening kickoff to Niners 20. Maybe Ted Ginn won’t play today.
10:06 After a defensive pass interference penalty on the Jets, the Niners go three and out. On third and four, Anthony Davis gave up pressure, Alex Smith threw the ball to Crabtree who couldn’t hold on to the ball. Jets ball at their 25.
10:13 Mark Sanchez converts a third and 15 but cannot convert and third and 2 – Aldon Smith sacked him as Sanchez tried to step up in the pocket. The Jets punt and the Niners take over at their own 8.
10:21 The Niners’ drive ends when Alex Smith overthrows Mario Manningham down the left sideline on third and 7. Colin Kaepernick played 2 snaps on the drive. On his first play, he ran the option for an 18 yard gain. On his second play, he threw deep to Randy Moss in the end zone, but he was double covered and the pass was broken up. The Jets have absolutely no pass rush. They don’t tackle well, either.
10:25 The Jets go three and out. On third and four Mark Sanchez threw to Santonio Holmes’ outside shoulder, but he was open on the inside shoulder. Terrible throw.
10:27 The Niners start their third drive at their own 32 because Anthony Dixon was flagged for an illegal block in the back on Ted Ginn Jr.’s punt return.
10:32 The Niners’ running game is dominating their fourth drive. Mario Manningham just slipped three tackles on a 30-yard gain off of a reverse. Kendall Hunter followed that with an 11-yard gain. First and 10 and the Jets’ 11.
SECOND QUARTER
10:38 Colin Kaepernick takes a snap from the shotgun and runs 7 yards untouched around the left end for a touchdown. 7-0 Niners. They completed one pass for five yards on the drive. Greg Roman has managed to stick to the run without over-working Gore.
10:48 Shonn Greene converts the Jets’ first third and 1 on this drive. Tim Tebow is the quarterback on their second third and 1. He faked a handoff, then faked a run up the middle, then he threw to Dedrick Epps. Epps caught the ball, then took a huge hit from Dashon Goldson to the knee and fumbled. Niners ball at the Jets’ 47.
10:56 David Akers misses a 57-yard field goal wide right. Alex Smith took back-to-back sacks to push the 49ers way back. On the first sack, Smith chose not to throw to Garrett Celek who was wide open in the middle of the field.
11:02 The Jets go three and out when Mark Sanchez gets sacked by Ahmad Brooks on third and 1. The Jets look terrible.
11:08 Andy Lee boots a bad punt from his own end zone. The Jets get the ball at the Niners 47. On third and eight, Alex Smith overthrew Crabtree deep, and Anthony Davis was flagged for a personal foul. Bad play.
11:11 The 49ers force the Jets to go three and out, but Aldon Smith throws a player to the ground after the third down play and is flagged for a 15 yard penalty. First and 10 for the Jets at the Niners 28. The Niners are letting the Jets get back in the game with these dead-ball penalties.
11:16 On third and 7 Mark Sanchez shuffles frantically in the pocket and Justin Smith forces him to fumble. Sanchez is atrocious. Niners ball at their own 26.
11:22 Alex Smith leads the Niners 56 yards in a minute to set up a 36-yard David Akers field goal. 10-0 Niners. Smith was four-for-four on the drive. Three of the four passes resulted in first downs. The Jets defense was playing a soft prevent, receivers were wide open and Alex Smith hit them.
The Niners had the ball at the Jets’ 21 yard line with 30 seconds left. Harbaugh decided to let the clock run out and go for the field goal. Very conservative. He must not have much respect for the Jets’ offense or he doesn’t have faith in his own offense.
HALFTIME
The Niners attempted 17 runs and 16 passes in the first half, and they outgained the Jets 210 yards to 83.
THIRD QUARTER
11:40 Sanchez makes two nice first-down passes in a row, but then he gets a screen pass tipped by Ray McDonald and Patrick Willis picks it off at the SF 41. Sanchez bungles a simple play.
11:40 On third and three from the Jets’ 22, Alex Smith fires a 1-yard pass off Delanie Walker’s helmet. Incomplete. The Niners are 1-for-6 on third down.
11:44 David Akers misses a 40-yarder. That’s his second miss of the game. The Jets have been awful, but they’re still in the game.
11:47 Sanchez throws a pass right to Bowman but he drops it. Then he sails a pass over Holmes’ head on third and long. Jets’ fans boo Sanchez. He has to be the worst quarterback in the NFL. The Jets should bench him and bring in Tim Tebow.
11:54 Kendall Hunter easily gains 8 yards on third and 4. Three plays later – third and 13 – Alex Smith slightly overthrows Mario Manningham deep. Manningham was open and he only could get one hand on the pass. Andy Lee punts and pins the Jets at their 2 yard line.
11:58 The Jets go three-and-out again, and the fans boo Sanchez again. He’s 7-for-17 passing. It escapes me why he’s still in the game. The Jets punt a short one. Niners ball at the Jets’ 48.
12:05 The Niners drive it all the way down to the Jets 2 yard line. On third and goal, Gore is stuffed on a run up the middle. The offense goes for it on fourth down, Alex Boone pulls and clears a path from Gore to score. 17-0 Niners with 2:49 left in the third quarter. That was probably the knockout punch.
FOURTH QUARTER
12:16 On second and 12, Sanchez completes a pass to Holmes in the flat. He slips to the ground and laterals the ball to Carlos Rogers, who runs it all the way to the end zone for a 49ers touchdown. That was generous of Holmes. 24-0 Niners.
12:17 Holmes is carried off the field. He can’t put weight on his left leg. It appears he hurt his left knee. The Jets lost their best player – Darrelle Revis – last week, and they just lost their second best player. Now, the Jets may be the worst team in the NFL.
12:20 This has been a shameful performance by the Jets. Good grief.
12:24 The Jets go three-and-out again and punt.
12:32 The Niners just took a timeout. They’ve driven roughly 50 yards on seven run plays. Eight different Niners have attempted runs.
12:36 After the seven successful runs, Greg Roman calls back-to-back passes to Crabtree and Cromartie knocks both away. Akers kicks a field goal. 27-0 Niners.
12:41 The Jets offense reaches a new low. Another three-and-out. Three errant Sanchez passes.
12:42 Now the Jets’ special teams allows a blocked punt. Larry Grant blocked it. Niners ball at the Jets’ 4.
12:45 Hunter punches it in from a yard out. 34-0, and there are 6 minutes left.
12:46 It seems like only Niners fans remain. Lots of red jerseys, lots of let’s-go-Niners chants. The Jets fans are leaving.
12:51 This time the Jets go three-and-out against the Niners backup defenders.
12:53 Going down to the field. Back at you later.
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Grant I’m in the end zone in a sea of Red watching our boys warm up.
Awesome! I prey you emerge victorious from the field of battle.
You bought an Andy Lee jersey? I’m not seeing you.
There you are. Not an Andy Lee jersey, a Harbaugh jersey.
Bay if you get a chance yell at smith that 23 Jordan is pulling for him to have a big day. :-) lol
Md,
That’s right!!!!
Lol J23 I thought you would like that. Cheers brotha! Gonna be a good day.
Upside of a good day is that J23 disappears for the week! : )
Grant, Mr. Celek is active. Is this an indication that VDs’ back might be bothering him more than anticipated?
Wearing a #4 white jersey
- Give em hell #4
Had to set my DVR, can’t live blog today damnit. Kid has bb game @10am. Hofer, I played “Voodoo child” for luck earlier. :-)
Sanchez
Sanchez must go down 3-4 times!
I’ll be looking for you
You ‘da man’ Bay! Our boys are going to give you a lot to cheer about today.
I’ll be looking for you (#4) when we score on your endzone bud.
Has VD come out for warm-ups? How about TGJr?
Enjoy the game and keep it real Bay!
Don’t see 85 in the warn ups. What’s up with Davis, grant?
Nevermind. I see him now.
Whew!
No draft picks suited up. Come on now.
Wait until later in the season when it really pays off, they’ll know the playbook better and be up to speed. We’re stacked we don’t need immediate impact, that’s the first time i’ve said that about our team in almost decade haha
Hoping the passing game can “Rev” up today. Be nice to see Moss and Manningham doing what they do best.
Having been a sideline photographer at 49ers games for more than 20 years (76-99) I am not in any way envious of those of you in the stands. I’m happy to have my arse on the couch, watching HDTV and having coffee, bacon and eggs for breakfast. YES, BACON!!!
Bay,
What’s your road record? Will you bring good or bad luck today?? If the 9ers lose it’s on YOU!!! LOL
It’s not good bud. But today we will turn it around.
My record is awful as well, mainly due to the fact I saw my bulk of games from 2004-now. Did go 3-0 last year tho.
Welcome to N.Y. $6.50 for a diet Pepsi.
bay give those jets fan hell!!!
That’s what you get for ordering a diet pepsi.
+1 for grant. First problem it’s not a beer. Second is its Pepsi. Wheew. No wonder your raid record is horrible. Lol
Bay. Let me know how the NY fans compare to the cali fans at the game. Have a blast brotha
The third problem: It’s diet.
I’m still oozing alcohol from all the over endulging while taking in NY
Did you stay a couple of nights in Manhattan?
Yes stayed in Midtown. It was fantastic. How about you Grant. Where did you stay?
let go 49ers!!! every day all day!!!!!!
49ers are still caught up in their own hype. Lose today 24-17.
Rumpelstiltskin
Hey Maxwell House,
You were close, maybe get out of the prediction game.
coffee: So what else do you think you know.
♪♪♪ “Are ya ready for some football ?” ♪♪♪ Let’s go!!!!
I see a low scoring game and NY finding it’s pass rush. They (Jets) will bring pressure and lots of it. TE’s and Both RBs will be kept in to pass protect Smith meaning minimal gains in the passing game. I think the final score is 10-6 or 13-6. It’s 10-6 if SF wins. It’s 13-6 if NYJ wins.
I picked SF to win this week.
You were close.
Didn’t Harbaugh address the media and say AJ Jenkins was going to be “really good really soon” or somethin along those lines ? He’s yet to even suit up.
Adam707,
Jenkins suited up for the opener. He is going to be really good….eventually…
Adam707: We are not the Jets ,we don’t need him now.Jets need everthing especially a QB.
Interesting stat I saw the other day. The panthers are 6-0 when Cam has 0 turnovers and 1-12 in games where he has at least one. Looks like turnovers are huge, maybe a 0 turnover game is more important than a 300 passing…..
Matt Stafford would disagree with you. So would Michael Vick. Turnovers are definitely a handicap.
Lets go niners. Niner time babbbyyyyy
I want to see sharpness!! good play calling, execution and dominance
J-E-T-S
suck!
suck!
suck!
Love it. First play took the shot.
we took the ball first.hmmm trying to instill confidence in our offense?
I don’t like those plays. Can you say screen?
VD wide open. Slant was late.
Hit him in the hands gotta catch it!
I wouldn’t call VD wide open. A LB was in zone in the middle of the field right in front of him.
What’s new??
Not you!
Gotta give him a little break, he’s got ‘Kaepernick’ spelled correctly now. That’s new.
Spillman spilled one.
Well Crabtree, glad you got your gamely drop out of your system early.
Gotta catch that Crabs!
they’re testing out RJF
I like how Shonn Greene gets up like he’s going to start some sh$% until he realizes that it was the Cowboy that just tossed him like a rag doll.
He was past the line of scrimmage!!! wtf??
They shouldve challenged it. OH WELL. ALDON!
We missed Sanchez over the line???
Yeah, he was definitely over.
Aldon needs to work on his sack dance, it’s kind of ugly-yet beautiful at the same time.
Sounds like there are a lot of 9er fans there
That was a bad no call on the fair carch
I’m amazed by the number of niner fans here. Many many more than I’ve ever seen at a giants game.
I was amazed by the number of niner fans here. Many many more than I’ve ever seen at a giants game.
nice run, Kaep!
Nice play call and run by CK
What did I tell you guys!!! WARM KAP UP!
Ck7!!!!
Gore!!
Give AS time and he’s lights out!
NIIIICE!!!!!
open it out!!
Smith throwing the ball downfield! Lol
nice to see the downfield play…and from Kaep, will make DC’s think
moss played defense there
Moss, catch that!!
dont blame RM …it was a bad throw
Triple coverage but he had a chance to catch that.
Shoulda used Smith
Wheeeew. I like giving moss a chance but damn Kap. Lol
Come on Flag!
Wow wheres the PI
C’mon smith!!!!!
holding!!!!
Manningham was open. Gotta fl
Gotta float that one.
3 guys on moss and you’re telling me someone else wasn’t open on that play?
Wasted play in a series that they were moving the chains. The offense is either conservative or too cute!
The pass to Manningham was a wasted play as well, if Smith was able to throw the ball like CK they probably wouldn’t have taken him out for the play.
It was a shot play. Don’t blame that on Kaep blame that on Harbaugh/Roman.
my gawd we go long once in 3 games, and people are complaining
Maybe Kap reads this blog and does’nt want to be known as a checkdown qb.
He was put in there specifically to wing that down the field.
Andy Lee, best punter in the league!!
We have more energy this week, it looks to me.
A 3 and out would be huge here
yep
Kap throwing it deep. This is our future. Cant wait till 2013. But for now ull enjoy our present n watch gore still bring it. for all of u that said he was done, look at him now
lol
love the surprises by Roman today!
Yeah they’ve really worked! He’s trying to be too cute…
He’s sending a message: We will throw it deep.
yes and no, mixing it up but now let get back to meat and potatoes.
Nice. Penalties are worrying me. Right when I type this. Damn
Ugh Dixon just let him go he wasnt gonna make the play.
Too many damn penalties!!!
Dumb penalty puts the 9ers in the hole again.
BAY…. Hows the XONE OF RED??? Hope ur havin a blast. i plan on goin to niners rams. Go Niners
There you go smith. Still needs to settle down a bit. The line is give ing him time so far
Md,
Tell your boy not to panic!! He always thinks he doesn’t have protection.
Hof.. Those cute plays are gaining yards. not to bad. good play mario
Fantastic end-around run there.
Blocking was almost perfect on that play.
Wheeeew he got moves like jagar.
More MM. That’s what we need!
Nice play call!!!!!
celek is #81
Run that ball!!!!!!
on this drive, the Niner offense looks like the Michigan offense from about 1990
that’s the 49ers strength – Harbaugh/Schembechler ball
Keep those chains moving!
That was the fastest first quarter that I can remember.
Running game is working. Keep it up. Especially the way Alex is playing so far
So jealous…no TV here….so I’m living by your play by play!!!! Go NINeRs!!!
I think we’ve already thrown more down field in this game than last week.
Even though the niners offense haven’t scored- I LOVE the mix of the playcalling and them being aggressive.
Even with the first pass- Alex Smith probably overthrew it a bit but the team still got the pass interference call and it gave them a 15 yard game. The rules of modern day football rewards teams that throw down the field- even when well covered.
good throw away smith
Still gotta throw that away a little sooner
williams slipped
Gotta get 7 here
Did anybody see MC TD that first drive? Lots of free space if he made that catch.
Get lost. Did you see the MM td that smith missed? Hater
md
Get a grip.
TD is a bit of a stretch but without a doubt a drop. They are looking his way alot tho.
DW has had a terrible year to date!
Delaney is on meds this year. He’s horrible!
+1… I like walker too, but so far he’s playing like boo boo
Kaep in the red zone – money.
The future!
Kaep looked like a man among boys
YES!!!! KAEP IS A WEAPON!!!!
Hey Jordan, we talked about that last week right?
Adam707,
I told you Kap was playing this week. Look how much faster that offense is with him in the game!!
Kaepernick for the TD! Alex could not have made that run.
Why not?
Too slow, too indecisive.
Kind of like that playoff game last year, err… oh wait.
CK for the TD! Was that a bad play call, Hofer?
When it works they’re all good! LOL
Lol, the kid is a talent. It’s fun to watch him play and develop.
Smith generated that sack and took them out of FG range
Wheeeew. There you go CK… Nice call. That defense is confused
Ladies n Gents, OUR FUTURE
TD ck7 take some of your own medicine
What did I tell you Smithers!!! WARM KAP UP!
I told you he was playing this week and the rest of the year!!!!!
Smiths days are numbered!!
I thought JJ was suppose to be starting by now?
Get ready for the changing of the guard. Which team will you be rooting for when Alex is gone next year??
I’m sure JJ will be back any game now. :P
I really hope they just continue the A. SMith/ Kaep thing through the season. Use both QBs throughout the game- that is going to be hell for teams to game plan against. And when we have a sizeable lead- Smith can bring it home.
PERFECT!
I just love that they are developing CK and giving him some opportunities to make plays.
Were there any passes on that drive? Looked like Harbaugh told Roman to stop being pass happy and pound the rock.
The first play. Alex Smith completed a short pass to Gore.
I wonder if Alex Smith just got jealous because he saw Harbaugh hug Kap…. Hmmm
genuine happiness on JH’s face to CK7. The QB fraternity is great and that’s the difference in coach’s past.
Bay… Scream go Niners. We could probably hear you right now. Lol
looking for a pick here, sanchez looks flustered
Why are the Jets not guessing CK run with him in there? I thought Ryan was supposed to be a good defensive HC.
My guess ds would be they practice with a 1 tier qb in tebow. Kaep can actually throw n play the game. u cant just guess that
steel
With CK in the game I’m thinking 2 things
1 CK run/option
2. Deep pass. That RM pass was not his best.
So, as a defender, I’m embarrassed by allowing him to do that.
Is this bit of success with CK in there making you nervous?
They are guessing it, stopping it is another issue.
DS,
How do you know that the Jets didn’t know CK7 was running?
Looks like they just couldn’t make a play.
Great blocking and excellent speed by CK makes the TD happen.
CK was just block from going for long a TD earlier as well.
DS, the verdict is in: Get used to seeing more of CK7 bud.
Goldson is now under arrest for attempted murder.
Mugging in New Joyzy!!
Wheeeew! Meet mr goldson. Drop another 7 here boys
bang!!!! boooooooooooom!!! arghhhhhhhh!!! thats how I feel!!
Goldson is a beast
Ouch man dont want to go over the middle with Goldson,
look like his leg got stuck in the turf.
Manningham is good.
Nice throw smith, Manningham is balking!!
Is it me or is Mario becoming the top wide out?
I think its still Crabtree, but he has been quiet since that non-catch on teh first drive.
MM is playing like a #1.
He is today Hofe.
Nice throw smith, Manningham is balling!
If I was a defense I’d see one glaring problem with smiths audibles. Switch up late because the time the 49ers take to snap the ball is way to long. Better Start practicing some hurry up.
I agree. He needs to have more two plays to go to. Not just let it roll and the audible.
Staley is garbage!!!
Third bad game in a row for Staley. Gotta wonder if he’s hurt or just has diminishing skills…or pass rushers have just figured him out…or (and I think this likely), Alex is hanging onto the ball too damned long…AGAIN.
tight end wide open over middle!
Good coverage on that sack
81 WAS WIDE OPEN… WTF
Smith is a sack magnet!!!!
Yeah, you’re on his sack 24/7.
Alex holds onto the ball too long two plays in a row.
get that #11 outta here
Jesus – put Kaep back in there instead of Happy Feet. Wasted turnover.
Get rid of the ball Smith!!
He can’t, he fears the turnover. Throw the damn ball away!!
Maybe CK would have been a better option on the 3rd and long. Especially since we took a sack there and made the FG try much worse.
I agree, bring him in, make them think
if you’re going to miss a FG or two in the season, might as well be against the Jets. marking down our margin to 46-10
Need the defense to stop this momentum swing
Smith sacked us out of field goal range!! Stately needs to be moved to right tackle before Smith gets killed.
He made it farther but still in Ackers range.
I’d rather see CK than this garbage
Me, too.
2 sacks puts us put of FG range. Smith not playing well today at all.
Adam707,
What do you expect? He’s Alex Smith. Kap is on deck. Alex will never be the same. He will be looking over his shoulder until he is yanked and sat down!!!
1st down in the RZ always a run. I don’t know if it is FG or the run blocking. It affects 2nd down!
Play calling is one variable, the other is QB play
I’m talking about FG or run blocker – on first down it’s not working.
Give them 3 and get them out
I can almost see a sack is coming….smith is scared to pull the trigger…
Over 3 seconds on both sacks. That’s on the QB.
Put them back on the sidelines defense. 3 and out would be great
Didn’t you guys hear.. sacks aren’t that bad.
Grant, there’s at least 2-3 double posters on here!
Ok, go brooks!
@cuswin
I had him as one of my top 10 players list after week 2.
He is a beast!
YEEEESSSS!
Sanchez is squirming back there
Well that was a waste of a 1st down! Productivity on 1st down is atrocious!
CK7 at reciever!!!
Alex just keep running the ball
Kap should’ve kept that last one
Did I just see prior to the timeout that Kaepernick was lined up as a receiver?
A two yd route by ck?
Coooooome on smith!
Why didn’t he dive?
for what, for who ? the ball was 5 ft overthrown
Alex misses another deep throw. Can’t do it.
Never had it, never will.
Captain discount doublecheckdown for 2 yards to Crabtree. Overthrown to crabs again. Smith is done!!!!
cmon…he shuld have dove for the ball…….
dumb foul…..
How you doing?
:- )
It wasn’t a good throw!
for what, for who ? the ball was 15 ft overthrown
boot the ball!!
DS, there was another missed MC TD right there. It all balances.
Alex is horrible. Literally painful to watch right now. And this is against a terrible team…
Jesus now I’ve seen some bad throws but that was just a horrible throw under no pressure. Completely missed Crabtree who had more than a step on his man and a huge gain if not TD.
It looks like last year’s dead eye Smith..has regressed.
We must lead the league in 2-3yd completions…crabtree open n overthrown..either MC drops it or AS overthrows it…smh
Pretty soon? a penalty for hitting like a meany..I’m tellin ya..
OMG!! Alex AND THOSE DEEP BALL ISSUES!!
tons of mistakes, tons of penalties. luckily, we’re playing the Jets. against anyone good, our goose would be cooked
Truth
F. the replacement refs were better than this….
Personal Foul on Aldon Smith for shaking a guy off after a play.
BUll shhhhhh penalty!!!
When you throw a guy over your back after the whistle, you are going to get called every time. If that wasn’t enough, he ran into the guys face to make sure the ref saw it. Just stupid.
At least he caused the fumble to amend the penalty.
BS call on 99
So we dominate the half and we are up 7-0. Bad play from Smith and too many penalties.
BS is going to hit you with his purse.
Aldon Smith is sure looking like Suh these last two weeks. He doesn’t have the mental fortitude to be starting. He thinks he’s bigger than the team.
I just think he is young and immature.
+1
How did you act when you were 23 years old?
I think that’s unfair to Aldon. I had a stable family support growing up. At 23, I didn’t have a million dollars to get into trouble. I had a college degree and a family so I was pretty mellow.
You don’t need a million dollars to get into trouble. Young people do stupid things, they are immature. It’s part of life.
Where is the coaching this year. Bonehead play after bonehead play. Way to go Aldon. These are NOT the same 49ers as last season. Starting to worry a little
As usual-even under Sing- the 49er defense holding down the fort. But Smith is looking pretty bad. Anybody notice?
bad officiating, his arm was grabbed from behind. he didn’t swing it at anyone!!
It should be offsetting penalties.
Where are the Alexcuses this time? That was a low difficulty NFL throw. Zero pressure, he just pulled back and threw it several yards beyond the receiver who is running wide open. Wasn’t even close. At some point you have to question whether this guy belongs in this league consistently making throws like this.
Self destructing with stupid mistakes.
Really hope smith turns it around in the 2ND half. He is playing horribly. Deep throw inaccuracy is evident today
Let Smith hand off and bring in Kaep for the shot plays.
yeah, because they work(ed)! LOL
Were is C Balls and the rest of the clowns who kept saying Smith accurate on long throws?
*where
Played well on final drive of half. Hope it carries over.
There we go!!!
We got it
Defense!!!!!!!
#99 makes amends
Aldon Smith beasting out and making up for the earlier penalty.
Need to score right now, put them away!
we got it back…cmon Alex – just 3 points will be good
Great play!
Need a TD!
Put CK in please
Did they throw to VD yet in this game?
Yep..the D is alive.
Saw that strip coming. 7 we need 7!!!!!!
11-85!
Can we put 85 on every jersey? I just don’t get it.
VD was wide open by about 3-4 yards, it makes it easy.
alex is bad sanchez is horrible
Amateur hour for sure.
Ck will score before half….
Harbaugh must have had a chat with Alex. He’s looking much more crisp on this drive.
What a dud
Prevent!
Smith is picking this prevent apart. Gonna get stiffer now. C’mon smith. I smell a RM td coming soon
-100000
Good pass! But it’s not consistent, along with our Oline. In fact I think Alex and the Oline mirror eachother.
plus 3 in turnovers and only up 7? AS is bad today….
the team doesnt seem to have faith in allowing Alex to take a shot when we have good field position. this is quite telling
So instead of taking a shot the 49ers settle for a FG? Even for Harbaugh that’s weak.
Not really.
23 seconds left on the 25 yard line? Complete lack of faith in the offense by the coaches.
No confidence in his offense for sure.
He wanted to shelter the Precious.
You need to change your name to Kool-Aid.
I don’t know why some here keep using the term “precious” as some sort of implied insult.
The OL are paid for doing exactly that. Protecting the QB. Or “precious”. You guys do know that, right?
Is this the same BS, that says AS would of won multiple Super Bowls if he had the same teams that Joe Montana had. Let me tell you something AS could not make that team.
Neal
Please refrain from being yourself. You ruin the blog for everybody else.
Thanks.
“I don’t know why some here keep using the term “precious””
Because they’re followers. No original commentary or analysis so they pick up what they think is popular.
Makes no difference.
Wasn’t a great day by Smith (even though he was still 20 points above average on the coveted ESPN ranking) but fortunately we won and now the team can go back and see what’s what. We need to get back to the magic of the first two games on offense. The play selection on these last two games has been… odd.
At least Manningham is now a go-to guy so we don’t have to rely solely on Davis.
Is this the same BS also known as Precious who says Fouts and Marino afre not elite QB’s and continues to compare AS with the great Joe Montana.
Wasn’t a great game really by any Niner offensive player. There were a lot of players who had good/average games. And we are good enough to beat just about anybody if our D/ST play like that. AS I think could have looked great in the 4th as the Jets were just winded and beaten by that point. But we did the smart thing and hardly threw the ball the whole 4th quarter so AS didn’t get to beat up on the Jets. KH and FG did.
MC didn’t have the best road trip. Neither did RM. MM though I think you may be onto something there Adam. But this offense can really get clicking if it can get MM and MC going (I don’t know about RM.) Because we know that we can run against anybody if they only have 7 in the box.
We don’t need to throw the ball deep like many want or think. Mood found a good article about deep passing, and Tom Brady last year was 1/15 on throws that were in the air for 40+ yards. Didn’t seem to hurt him at all. We just have to keep hitting the short/intermediate routes, run the ball well, not turn the ball over and we’ll win any game as long as our D does its job.
To conservitive no shots into the end zone with plenty of time.
Looked a little different with Smith running that play. Hahaha!
How do you get tackled by a guy on the damn ground? Now I agree with whoever said smith couldn’t do what ck did earlier. Wow and they let the time run out? Come back home 9ers. You left your thinking caps here. 10-0 ill take it, but it should and could be a blowout already.
You could have walked in on the CK run there was nobody there. Call it straight!
Oh, those excuses. CK would have stepped out of that weak tackle attempt. Alex went down like he’d been shot.
Hofer,
You have a problem with CK, you always have. You always look for the negative in his play. He does what he is asked to do. If the play was so easy to pull off, why did Harbaugh put CK in? It was a good play and he deserves credit.
BigP, they basically put CK in the game because the run game is stagnant. He isn’t passing except the one to RM in a crowd of 3 defenders. I don’t like to be an image of a losing team – the jets – alternating two QB’s has really worked for them. If CK is ready start him.
Hofer,
President of the Alex Smith protection unit. Can’t you see him
Being phased out of this offense. Slowly but surely. I told you Kap would play this week.
Possibly, we’ll see.
Hofer,
It seems like Harbaugh really does want to develop Kaepernick. He is inserting him into the game during certain situations and building his confidence. He has scored the only TD today, right? Nothing negative about that!
Can the coaches get any more conservative?
Unbelievable
You really have to love the run game, I think, to appreciate this offense. It is a bit dull but a W is a W.
Don’t like that 2nd down play. Throw it in the endzone. Chances of scoring a TD run there running was minimal.
But a fine drive after that fumble. A swing of 6 points more than likely.
I believe the play was suppose to end with Smith running out of bounds to stop the clock. Then they could take a shot at the endzone. However, Smith self destructed again.
Why not take the pass shot there? You can still throw it again if Inc. Some self-destruct driving the team down. Please try again.
The Jets are hanging their heads with their all-pro corner out. They’re laying an egg out there on defense but our QB is not taking advantage when given the big play opportunities.
He can’t. He’s Alex Smith. Overthrows Crabtree regularly.
Don’t like that 2nd down play. Throw it in the endzone. Chances of scoring a TD via run there running was minimal.
But a fine drive after that fumble. A swing of 6 points more than likely.
I’d like to see ck get a chance on an entire possession. He’s earned it
I’m not sure we’re there just yet but I agree with mixing him in more and more to see if he can eventually take over and provide us big play capability from the position.
Agree 100%…give him a quarter see what he does…we know what we got in AS…HARBAUGH doesn’t want to hurt AS so he’s our QB till he gets hurt…SMH
Its not like he cant just hand the ball off like theyre having Smith do
They should of had CK go for that run, AS needed to get out of bounds
San Diego is killing the Chiefs. Did Norv get fired when I wasn’t looking?
I like my score prediction of 10-6. I have zero Faith in Alex Smith on an empty field let alone a field that has a defender on it. He can’t even run the ball.
This should be a fun week of excuses by DS and Adam and Prime.
Man alive! the negativity in here is astounding! anyone would think we are losing! talk about arrogance.
Going on the remarks i’m reading I would say that for most of you guys anything less than 45-0 is basically failure.
You must be one of those guys at work that’s satisfied just to be doing enough to stay on payroll.
+1
+2
+100
49er fans here expect the team to play to their capabilities. It’s that simple.
+2
Whatever you say chaps, I just don’t see the interest in spending the evening ripping on the team.
They’d rather rip a certain player every chance they get, than celebrate the team success.
Smith has good games, he has bad ones. This wasn’t a good game for him. Hopefully we’ll be able to discuss a variety of topics throughout the week, but I doubt it.
It’s always like this.
D Clark
Expect a weeks worth of absolute crap on the team that shut out the opponent at their home.
You remember last year, right? The week of posts following the TB victory (largest margin since JM) was horrendous. Expect the AS sucks stuff to be more prevalent now than it was last week.
Good game so far… who know’s what is coming up 2nd half
Lol Rams ran the same fake field goal play we ran against them for a touchdown.
If the niners don’t score on their first possession the jets will respond, and punch us in the mouth.
Tbow and the jets just got tbaggd by the 49ers
49ers 0-6 on third down this game.
How very Alex-like.
The fact the Niners didnt take a shot at the endzone at end of half shows Harbaugh/Roman dont believe in Alex cashing in a TD. I’ll take the 3 i guess.
Pretty sure they just wanted to make sure they went up by 2 scores. That’s all. Greater chance of a sack/fumble or pick (with any qb) than a td in that scenario.
Very creative offense. Using Kaep and attacking all levels of the field. This will definitely cause opponents to have to game plan for every contingency. Not great results but better than last week.
Not sure if anyone noticed but that play that the Jets blew a timeout in the 2nd quarter was due to CK being lined up out wide completely uncovered. CK ran a play and then when Alex came in for the next play CK acted like he was running off and then lined up on the sidelines. It was a 2nd & 11 and the 9ers ran a tight lineup with the exception of CK who was all alone. Great try by the 9ers and great catch by the Jets coaching staff to call that timeout.
3rd downs still an issue, and the jets are the worst 3 rd down defense.
Yes!
Harbaugh not enough confidence to even take a shot at the endzone there. Terrible.
Hey, if Alex wasn’t such a great QB, we wouldn’t be up by so many points. (LOL).
Sanchez missed a wide open receiver downfield there.
Adam its about points dude take a rip and relax the niners are winning winning
Hahahaha! Sanchez to the rescue.
Nice
Patrick Willis!
There you go defense. Good to know you’re back.
Defense!!!
Now its up to the O to do something good
Hunter is looking better this week – a lot better
Whew… Sanchez’s game: terrible.
One of the few starting QBs in this league
Adam
I’m quite happy with it.
One of the few starting QBs in this league I would NOT want over Alex.
There’s more than a few.
Ok Adam
4 QB’s then.
:- )
Monster D!!!
Play action Here
Ok, in the red zone. Get Kaep back in there.
Damn, 2 and 6 was a perfect down to take a shot
Those Vikings are reminding me of a certain team from last season.
Ugh… the revenge of Singletary!
Vikings look like us from last year.
3rd & 2, 1 yard pass.
$%#!@@^&#!
That was a terrible formation for that down and yardage.
Some of the play calls look awfully reminiscent of the (not so) old days. Maybe Jimmy Raye is on retainer.
Delanie Walker drops everything.
Love seeing the Loins losing hope they keep it up.
D. Walker is not that good catching the ball
It was thrown at his helmet behind him and harder than it needed to be. Let’s keep the blame where it should be.
The helmet?
The blame is on the WR if the ball hits him in the hands/helmet. Had DW had his hands up ready for the quick pass, it wouldn’t have hit his helmet. A type of catch MC is good at making. Maybe DW should take some pointers from him.
Wtf Akers.
+1
I told you guys its time for smith to go. Helmet high and behind to walker!! Bad pass.
Yes all passes that hit players in the head are off target.
That ball was thrown to fast and not in front of the reciever. No touch. He’s gotta put some touch on that pass
blown up at the line by MC’s man. Just a bad formation there…
Akers is not on today.
And we still dominated the Jets. Guess that theory that if Akers has a bad day, we lose the game deal lost a lot of momentum after this game.
Man, Akers is just off today. I guess even great players are allowed to have one bad game. Just wish it would have come last week for Akers and not this week.
That drive was on Roman. Terrible play calling.
Agreed
Another wasted turnover. Ugh.
I would have called play action and taken a shot either on 1st or 2nd down after Hunters big run
Conservative play callibg, typical Alex play and Akers having and off day = letting the Jets hang around. If the 49ers were playing a better offense than the Jets, they’d be getting killed.
Bring in CK7!!!!!
+1
Agree with some of that but the Jets were never “hanging around”.
Anyone else tired of this 3rd down Bull? CONVERT something please. Just pathetic, all around. Walker has been awful this whole season. Weird considering hes in a contract year.
Conservative play calling, typical Alex play and Akers having and off day = letting the Jets hang around. If the 49ers were playing a better offense than the Jets, they’d be getting killed.
Bring in CK7!!!!!
We need a real place kicker!!!
(since everyone here is into overreaction)
Hahaha. Well said!
Well done.
Preserving my 10-6 prediction.
Shhhh. 34-13 lol
Oh oh.
Nothing but the defends is working.
The Offense will have to get more aggressive or we are going to be in trouble.
Why run a play to Walker?? The man has dropped everything near him this year!
Horrible…offense w/o CK is looking pathetic
Bring Nedney out of retirement. Christ, Akers is doing his best Philly/Green Bay immitation where he missed 3 field goals and won the game for the Packers. TERRIBLE.
3 points off 3 turnovers. 2 of which gave us the ball on the +50, COME ON
I would think Sanchez is on a short leash.
Oh s*** gonna start hearing tebow chants
Could be. Sanchez doesn’t look Good.
Did I accidentally click on an Eagles blog today? This is crazy haha.
We should be up by 16 points if not 20, Akers has lost that loving feeling, it is gone today
Wow. Sanchez looks alot like Alex Smith. 10 yards over the head of an open receiver. That was ugly.
On the bright side, Sanchez is even worse than Smith.
Smith is better than Sanchez. Tebow will be coming out soon
Give CK7 this entire series. Lets out this game away.
Thank God we don’t have Sanchez at QB. I guess it could be much worse as a 49ers fan. How many years do the Jets have invested in Sanchez again?
Sanchez had the first down on the check down. The guy was uncovered but he went after Bowman instead.
I want to see real drive. running, passing not trick plays, followed by a TD
It really is a debate-who’s worse Alex or Mark?
Jesus, that’s like a choice between drinking water in Big Spring, TX or New Delhi, India. One kills you with sulfur, the other with e coli. Either way, you’re dead.
Same With Smith and Sanchez.
Td is coming faithful. Soon to be 17-0.
Great Andy Lee punt but you don ‘t get any points for that. Care to try for two out of three?
Tired of this conservative offense. This screams playing to lose, then playing to win. Either they trust Smith or they don’t. Can’t let the Jets hang around.
Harbaugh doesn’t play to win. He didn’t at Stanford, he doesn’t here. He plays not to lose.
What is this, the Delanie Walker hour?
Watching Sanchez is certainly making me feel better about Alex Smith.
Alex needs to stop audibling out of runs. Just hand it off Alex.
There we go.
Finally a good run.
Good audible smith
2nd and 12!! a RUN?
Sanchez’s receivers are getting open. Sanchez is just missing them. If SF doesn’t score another TD, I expect to see them lose.
Wtf? A handoff on 2nd and 12????? Raye is that you?
A jumbo package run on 2nd and 12 isn’t going to fool anyone.
3rd and 13 is Kaep territory
That time I think Manningham should have caught it.
WTF was that. Why is MM trying to one hand it?
wow
Nice throw, catch that ball MM
it’s like he slowed down. Use two hands!
Not sure. MM should have caught that. Lack of effort there
Nick
It was ball that a top flight WR makes. Who was the WR in the Atalanta game who caught that 60 yarder. Nice throw, but the WR made sure it was worth while.
Other than that one play though, Manningham looks a lot better now than he did in week 1. He and AS look to be building something.
Not the best week of AS to MC. They just looked out of sync the whole game.
Good pass, Manningham dropped that one.
Thats on Manningham, Two hands!!! That is a catchable ball. Make the Effing play
I agree. I think Manningham lost the ball until the very end though. No excuse. An NFL receiver’s job is to catch that ball.
Agree. That was Smth’s best throw of the day. MM has to go 2 hands on that one.
Smith should have thrown that sideline pass to Walker much higher and further out front so Walker could have used his speed to beat that d lineman. As it was thr0wn, it made it impossible for Walker to make that catch in bounds.
Walker ain’t that much taller than the defender. If the ball is thrown any higher, nobody catches it. The defender was right with him with no real separation.
Wow smith blows another long ball and another 3rd down conversion.
Eh I think Kyle Wilson tied him up a little on that one. Shouldve been illegal contact imo.
where Jerry? how I miss thee
Joe not jerry :-)
Wow. Lee! No more predictions for me. My boys aren’t helping me. That was a td for sure. It’s there they just aren’t taking it
I wonder when the next time is we will ever complete a downfield pass of more than 15 yards. We are going to keep jagging around with this team until the Jets turn it into a close game. Unbelievable.
It’s looking like Andy Lee will be the Offensive MVP again this year.
Good thing Bay has that Andy Lee # 4 jersey on. He’ll be a hero at the Sportsbar later tonight in New York! Lol.
loooooooooooooooooooooool at any bar!!
MM was too worried about getting the flag. Focus on the ball.
A little too much hand checking but I think MM turns out to be the signing of the off season.
If we don’t hit on a play at some point the Jets are going to wake up, gain some confidence and all hell may break loose.
If its not one thing its another. Week to week they have no continuity, and everyone is making mistakes. Coaching on down. The chemistry of te team is off. These niners need to ring the alarm and make some serious changes before its too late.
Tebow tebow tebow. Lol
Bad offense all around!
Sanchez looking so terrible takes away from the Niner’s offensive ineptitude today.
Sanchez is the 49ers MVP today
TG gets caught by a LB? Takes him a while to wind up to get in top gear..
Ok. We will NOT score on this next drive. ;-/
reverse jinxology? lol
Okay time to hit on a big play to VD here and put the Jets to bed.
The Rams are ahead of the Seattle Midgets so far
Whats the score?
16-7
If our offense doesn’t get going, the Seahawks defense will make us look like high school players.
Mark Sanchez ASPIRES to be alex Smith. Which is scary! YOUCH!
LOL
I can’t stand siragousa
He is the worst.
Delanie Walker caught one!
Finally Walker catches something!
Red Zone – bring in the Kaepper
How you like walker now??? I think he’s getting warmed up. Wheeew
If he dropped that I would have vomited.
RZ and two runs AGAIN!
Please play for the TD here and not another FG!!!!
Jumbo is not working
That’s on GR – ridiculous. FG isn’t running well today anyway!
Roman has more faith in Gore than he does in Alex. Why are you surprised?
where’s boobie?
Frank the Tank!
Told you we wouldn’t score . Lol
reverse jinxology?
Lol. My prediction were there earlier, but our boys wouldn’t take them. So it’s plan b time. Lol
Gore
TD!!!!!!
Finally, Harbaugh takes a risk…it was a run, but at least he went for it on 4th down.
not a real risk. the way the game is going and where they were.
GORE!!
There we go, Alex 2-2 that drive, good play call. Thank you harbaugh for going for it on 4th.
Only did it cause he knows they can’t score.
The 9ers winning ugly…jets are just uglier!
Right Hofe. But nothing looks better then a big W (lol).
Run blocking is punking the Jets at the moment.
Love me some ‘ugly ball!’
The run game was pretty solid looking. Manningham I think will be the real deal going down the stretch. He’s a better option than Crabs, in my opinion. Gets better separation before and after the catch.
Defense looks like they bounced back nicely.
Offensive play calling was a bit suspect. Sometimes I just wonder if Roman tosses a coin. This thing, if the guys in the box were right, was Roman’s idea of playing the Jets with the Jets’ playbook, option tosses, CK playing Tebow, etc. Kind of a weird game.
Hard to tell whether we made any real progress though, the Jets look awful.
C’mon I need the 21 sf. And a shut out would be great too. Gotta feeling I’m gonna be bitter at Akers for awhile.
Both of us, I’ll take a shut out and some more defensive scores or sacks.
we’re going to have to step it up if we’re going to make my prediction of 49-10.
without Revis, the Jets totally suck.
Looks like Rex is gonna be filing for unemployment at the end of the season.
I KNEW if I walked away to tie my shoes..they would score. Superstitious? Who?
Lovin’ me some Mr. Gore!!! Feeling bad for Jets fans….seriously…why is Tebow not in? At least give them hope. I want to be in the reel room as they watch this weeks game and review……JH, you’re the man…..
Yes!!!!!
NICE PLAY!
Great play by Goldson.
Buffalo beat New England
Beating… NFL Redzone is great
Hell of a play by Goldson!
I’ve been hard on Goldson, but that was one of the best pass defenses I’ve ever seen.
Pay Goldson!
We Need him!
They will and they will place the franchise on bowman
Good.
Goldson!
Wheeew. The red and gold jet. DEE Nied!!!
that was TOO close. I need a drink.
I know FG scored the second attempt but I would like to see ADixon run the heavy package. He seems to have improved his game in the offseason but hasn’t had a carry this season. I think as the bigger back he would be better suited for the fourth and inches carries if he wasn’t fooling us in tge preseason?
I agree, but it looks like he’s in the dog house.
well i understand this game after the penalty on the kickoff, but its something i have been wondering everytime i see the heavy package not work. Do you think he has been in the dog house all season or were you just saying that for this particular time?
Through 3 games and nearly 3 quarters the 9ers offense has 1 TD to a WR. Let’s break that stat wide open in the 4th quarter against the Jets. Let’s get Crabs, Manningham, and Moss into the endzone. Let’s go 9ers.
Bad call..invisible.
Lol out tebow is better than yours. Ha ha haaaa
rusty refs!!
Nice Aldon!!!
Does that count as a sack, essentially? I mean the scorer shouldn’t have to determine if the intention was a run or pass, right?
I believe that is considered a tackle for a loss of 2
Tebow, meet Aldon Smith.
YEAH!!! Rodgers!!!
Holy shiz!
Kaboom.
Unfortunate. But I’ll take it. Hope he recovers quickly because he’s done for the year. Rex take your fata$$ back to the sidelines
Turnover, TD for the 49ers and Holmes is down. Pretty brutal for the Jets.
Do you think that play will survive replay? I can’t tell if it was a complete pass or not.
Wow, what a play
OK safe to give ck some PT now!
Now are they going to rule that an attempted forward pass at the end of the run instead of a fumble?
Priority One: stay healthy.
this game is over. lets wrap it up with some power football and go home in one piece
Our d holding the fort!
They may bring that back because Holmes wasn’t trying to advance the ball. He gave up.
Ninermd !!! how about that!!
We look like the Dilferr lead ravens.
Nope, TD!!!
Do feel bad Holmes.
I am on the bandwagon for sitting Smith and letting Kaepernick finish the game.
Offense will be going in protect-the-lead mode now….heavy doses of runs coming up.
there goes Holmes!!! and my fanatasy player…but well worth it for my Niners!!
This one is over, put in the reserves.
24 point lead in the 4th…CK should play
Seems like an obvious decision to me. Looks like smith was headed back out though
Sanchez just out-Alex’d Alex. 3rd & 2, -2 yard pass.
Mojo is back for our defense.
Maybe bring in Kap rest of the game?
The defense is baaaaack.
have to pull Gore.
without Gore, our offense would go nowhere
And now Gore will finish what the defense started.
Yes get gore out of the friggin game good grief
Wow – Jets know the run is coming and they can’t stop it.
Kendall Hunter is really good. I think he should get 7-10 carries a game always.
Delaney does a hell of a job blocking though!
Time to rest Gore ; J. Smith and P. Willis.
Why did they have Alex throw another incompletion at this point in the game?
2 more incompletions.
Feels great to get the W. love these niners, but we have more work to do.
Raiders broncos, saints packers should be a great day on the couch!
Ck ck ck ck ck
That was pass interference. Why the hell are we throwing it anyway?? Run the damn ball.
Crabtree you have to catch that ball!
Nice game managing.
Glad to have been 100% wrong about the game, very glad.
Damn Fox switched games on me
Lol Bowman, Sanchez basically threw you the ball and instead you go for the hit.
My goodness… Sanchez looks like Smith in the “We Want Carr” game.
its ok. we know all QBs get 8 years to prove themselves…
he almost got knocked the f out!!
Lol, the Jets are having a horrible day. Blocked punt, ouch!
Ahh,the pretty Jets cheerleaders are unhappy. I hate that…
This got ugggggly.
Block!!
“Let’s go Niners!” You can hear the cheers!!! Lmao.
Dominant!!!
Score a td..do not settle for a FG.
I’m a broken record I know but ck needs to be in here
No let Smith stay out there, he should be the backup anyway.
Get CK7 out there for some practice.
Lol Will Tukuafu.
No,one of the cheerleaders is laughing….
tukafu was happy for a second…
Lmao at Goodwin spiking the ball for hunter
Go for 2!
Ok, go for two. :p
What’s your deal man?
Time to sit the starters. Got my 34 points and my 21 point blowout. Overestimated smith and the passing game and underestimated our defenses but ill take it! Wheeew. The sleeping Giant is awake again.
203 yards rushing. 134 yards passing.
The 49ers offense is more effective when it’s ugly.
I’m good too especially with that Defensive TD.
37 rushes, 22 passes today. Back to real Harbaugh football.
OK, time to warm up Kaepernick! lol
The defense won this game.
Offense needs to step up rest of the season. I think Roman should be on the hot seat. Dude needs to elevate his game planning.
He does well on some series and then he flops with 2 straight runs after a big turnover. His plays are there but the timing is suspect. But hey, it could be RR’s team !! LOL
I cant argue with that! I dumbfounded most of the time with the play calling!
Hey BAY, hey RIBICO
You guys partying?
It’s NFL Redzone time
Rams just sealed the win with an INT
Detroit driving with less than a minute left down 7
now there’s a headsup player. good move by Kaep
Wow – great move by CK7.
To play that poorly and win with a blowout is incredulous. Wow CK running again – he’s pretty leggy!
CK with the mercy slide
He wasn’t touched before he hit the endzone, was he?
Down as soon as he starts the slide.
Didn’t matter, he gave himself up.
Slide is a surrender.
Kap!!!!!!! Kap!!!!!!!!! Kap!!!!!!!
See ya later Smith!!
Minnesota may be for real and are 0:25 away from a win
Shouldve scored. Would rather rub it in the face of the Jets and the new york media.
it’s worse when you give them mercy
True dat.
I agree I wouldn’t want no damn mercy. That’s a bigger slap in the face, but it does show class from CK. I wouldn’t have been able to do it. Lol
Classy kappy
class!!!!
Wow, panthers beating Atlanta 28-27
Left 47 points out there today. Wow. To say that is miraculous. With a 34 point win.
They needed to score at least 15 of those for this to be considered an encouraging win.
Not enough passing game. The defense and ST saved the offense. Again. CK looking better and better, AS, eh, more of the same, a bust from the get go. Still a bust.
Maybe the 9ers should change CK to the Jets. They need some runners! jk lol
As long as Smith is 12-21 for 143 yards and 0 TD’s, I prefer that we keep him around.
AS may be replaced by ST – they’ll need to keep CK fresh for running duties when FG/KH aren’t clicking.
Look at the rams. Wheew
Not much to complain about after that 2nd half. Who needs to pass when you run game gets 250+. Jeez
They weren’t running well in the 1st 3 qtrs. They got most of the running yds in the 4th qtr trying to burn the clock. The play calling was again suspect. MC needs to catch the first slant and AS needs to hit on those two open passes to MM. They need the pass offense to step up.
Also missed MC on a huge gain/possible TD. Would like to see Alex make a big play once in awhile.
Your boy Alex is done Hofer. He will continue to overthrow guys until his arse is benched. Keep CK warmed up!!! Lol
Perhaps Jordo. FG may need to worry about leggy coming in to replace him in the RZ. It seems the other athletic running QB lost again today. Hmm. Maybe they’re a fad.
Adam707
Had it been caught, scored a TD, the penalty on Anthony Davis would have hurt me a lot more. The only real miss deep AS had I think was the one where MM only got 1 hand on it. And I think MM knows he can do better than that.
Love CK game and class.
Whining packer fans with “worst call ever shirts” IMO the don Beebe call was the worst ever. They deserve every bad call they get. Lol
Newton blew the game with that fumble. Atl will get that fg. Seen this scene way to many times. Freaky fumble
Alex’s two shots to Manningham should’ve been caught. The throw to Crabtree was off. AS was meh, needs to play better. Not terrible, but he is better than this.
No, actually, he is not.
He’s already shown you to be wrong. But being wrong on this blog doesn’t mean much, as so many of you are wrong so often…..with no repercussions.
Not really, he is not.
Don’t waste your time Nolan,
There’s no talking sense in the face of “no, the sky is not blue” crowd. They ignore Smith’s games, and obsess over his missed plays. Too bad, cuz they’re missing a great team!
Hofer,
Did you see the 60 yard bomb from Matt Ryan?
Yup, it was nice! I also saw MRyan in the playoffs. Not good.
Matt Ryan – jeez. Just not fair.
What kills me is after eight seasons, he’s still the same Alex. This was the year he was supposed to step up, be the guy on whom you could load the team on his shoulders and carry the team.
That did not work out in Minnesota, against a very average defense.
At this point, either he can really play or he can’t. Yes, they won the game, but Alex actually had very little to do with that, the running game, the defense and the special teams did that. The one game where they really needed Alex to stand and deliver, he failed. Miserably.
I know, you Smithers will defend the Precious against any and all criticism, but until he can make ALL the throws, accurately, he is a bust. I don’t care what any pros say, they will say anything to keep some sort of gravy train/good PR going. Rice said it best. Take off the diapers. As I see it, he’s still wearing pull-ups.
First off, Minn is proving to actually be a solid team, so you are wrong there. Their average D just held Detroit to 13 pts….IN DETROIT (don’t be so ignorant next time, do some research). Secondly, the two passes to MM should’ve been caught, they were very accurate passes. The only huge misfire was the one to Crabtree, that was a huge gaff. If you are going to criticize him, criticize him for taking sacks that killed drives.
When you can’t even execute a basic, accurate criticism without sounding like an amateur, no one is going to take what you say seriously…it’s just a waste of text.
We don’t know that CK can make all of the throws. We haven’t seen him enough. If he can, then start rotating him in. All we know now is that he is leggy and can run. As far as we know, he is a refined less known TTebow. Let’s see if he can pass then start rotating him in to take over in 2013. If it’s not GR then the pass attack needs play makers.
He’s nothing like Tebow. No comparison on any level…
Hof the playcalling at the end of the 1st half and really the entire game shows that the 49er formula is what they game plan for and will not deviate from it.
Harbaugh is a coach that will stick to that formula because it gets results. It’s not glamorous, it’s almost too methodical, but it works.
CK will bring some great value back in a trade. He needs to go to a team with a more open passing attack. Thats not happening in SF. They officially are a run the ball, win the turnover battle, field position, defensive orientataed team.
People will say its Smith, well the last drive of the first half says its the coaches. If they didn’t trust Smith there, they could have brought in CK and opened it up and tried to score. They didnt and they didn’t want to take any chances. That’s the 49er way under JH. Love it or hate it, it got us a win.
Agreed Hofe.
Nice runs by CK today but in no way is he ready to become a starter over AS.
CK is becoming what I thought he would become; a change of pace player who can be an X factor against certain defenses.
Remember that CK was only one block from popping a long run (perhaps TD) before the TD run. Harbaugh will use CK’ strength’ as a runner throughout the season, which will give us another weapon.
AS is not in any danger of losing his starting job. But I can’t see the Org trading CK (Prime mentioned it) because we don’t know at the moment if he can develop as a passer. If CK7 can learn to throw with accuracy and consistency then we may have some controversy at QB.
But AS is safe until that (if it ever) happens.
I’d like to see Smith make some throws as well Hofer. Alex’s days are numbered. Which team are you rooting for next year when smith is gone?
AES, the only team that uses alternating QB’s is the Jets. We see how well that works! They need to make the plays in the RZ work. I continue to see runs on 1st and 2nd down. The offense is frustrating – both the play calling and the misses by AS and MC.
Watching the game today I saw some good, some average, some bad and some awful.
The aweful is reserved for the Jets QB’s. our Smith is not aweful, he’s just average. Speaking of average, so was the playcalling.
Settling for a field goal in the redzone with 23 seconds left was a slap in the face to Smith.
Putting CK in should also be letting Smith know that the offense is not getting it done. Notice served.
Andy Lee is out if this world.
Jets fans made several positive comments about our defense.
Also Sanches got booed pretty badly today.
Prime
It wasn’t a good playcall at all. Unless Smith has the blocking for a TD run, it does nothing at all that a pass would not have done. Had AS been tackled further down-field in bounds, I don’t know if we can get a snap off before time runs out.
Throw the ball into the endzone, or a quick out. Then look to throw it into the endzone on the next play. Running with AS on that didn’t give our players the best chance to succeed, and that is what a coaches play call is judged by.
I don’t think you needed to be in East Rutherford to come up with that summary Bay. If AS misses on open plays they need to change things up. He worries too much about the INT. The problem is, this isn’t a 6-10 DeBerg team. They were in the playoffs last year and if they make the change and fail, they are really toasted! It’s a fine line.
23 welcher/Bay, just one question? Is it Smith or the playcalling and before you answer, think about that last drive before the 1st half? If Smith isn’t the guy to throw it downfield or if they don’t have any trust, why not put Kap in on that last drive and try and score?
Insted they were content to run it out or kick the FG?
Prime, the problem with pulling AS out down in the RZ, the team will start to question the play calling and their role. What other good teams that are playoff bound do this? They have to try their base RZ plays to MM, MC, RM, etc, etc, to see when they work and when they don’t.
Hof the coaches are baffled of what to do next in the RZ, nothing has worked. Bringing in Kap shows they are trying to do anything which I like.
No one is questioning the coaches and their decisions, it’s way too early for that and considering who they had before, they will do anything JH says, at least until they start losing. Players care about winning under JH, not personal stats.
If teams are too stupid to figure out that CK is going to run it every time he is near the endzone, then we should continue doing it.
I as a fan, knew what was going to happen. That is pathetic that the Jets players/coaches didn’t. I see CK in there, I load the box in the redzone and challenge him to audible out of a likely run play into a pass play and take my chances 1 on 1 outside. Until CK shows he can beat me by reading defenses and throwing it into close quarters, I play it like a run.
Seesh…the Jets are bad, why is Rex Ryan always bragging about his team, and they suck. Sanchez was made to look inept today by the 9ers D, Ryan should have switch out his qb, cuz Sanchez looked plain old bad.
Our defense helped out a lot. Imagine if Smith played against this defense. NO QB looks great against our defense.
I hear ya MD. But Ponder didn’t look all that bad (lol). But I think the entire team thought they could get a win against the Vikes by simply walking into the stadium.
Good wake-up call for us. And it showed today.
Now now, Sanchez is playing behind a bad O-Line and has bad receivers and a new offensive coordinator. Gotta give Mark another 3 years of excuses before you judge him.
Told you. The nfl is like a train wreck being watched over and over on some days.
Good to get the W on the road. New York is BAD! Sanchez makes Smith look like an All Pro, and Sparano looks as if he is grasping at straws. No wonder the Dolphins were so terrible the last few years.
Jack Are you telling me that Smith is not All Pro? . lol AS can tease us and be a top 5 QB, played brilliant in first two games, last week it was a disaster and this week he was pretty good, although his accuracy seems to be a problem on short passes. I am not going to jump on the band wagon anymore, he is not as bad as I thought and not as good as I thought. I am glad CK is playing more too much game to be sitting on the bench.
Steve DeBerg/Joe redux…
Not really. Joe came in to throw. CK was just taking the place of the inadequate RB play in the 1st half. When he starts throwing 3-5 times a game, then we’ll know. Either way, GR needs to call better plays especially on 1st and 2nd down.
They brought in the backup QB and your reasoning is that they were unhappy with the run game? That’s really astounding. IMHO CK was brought in due to his unique talent that absolutely nothing to do with the run game. The run game is the strength of this offense. The 9ers had 143 passing yards in this game. Brining in the backup QB had nothing to do with the run game.
Houston, he didn’t throw it down in the RZ. He passed once which was a poor decision with a crowd of 3 around RM. Do you even know what the half time stats were for the running game? FG was 21 carries for 62 yds (3.0 per carry) for the day! Like I said, most running yds in 4th qtr after game was out of reach. Do you watch the game?
T
Hof I can’t help ya brother. If the 9ers were unhappy with Gore then Hunter plays more. They didn’t bring in the backup QB because they were unhappy with the run game. That logic is rather absurd. I am certain the coaching staff determined CK was coming into this game to run a specific set of plays prior to the game even starting. Gore could have had 240 rushing yards in the first quarter and CK was still going to play in this game.
Houston, that’s your opinion. If BJacobs is healthy, I don’t think we see CK. They won that’s all that matters. On to the Bills.
Bills are not a gimme. We need to put the hurt on them early and take away their run game.
I don’t think CK7 is anywhere close to Joe but Harbaugh is definitely following the Walsh model for bringing up the replacement QB.
It seems that way but I’d like to see some passes. We know he can run. CN lost again today. Maybe a fad? Maybe we see ST to throw and CK to run? Three QB rotation. Hmm.
When Harbaugh finally makes the change at QB, people will forget all about Newton when they see what CK can do.
The future is bright, but for now I am going to enjoy the ride. Good to be back at 3-1 for the second year in a row.
It’s not rocket science guys, they brought him (Kaep) in to run the read option, which is simply just another aspect of our running game. They didn’t bring him in to throw into triple coverage. That was a very poor decision, and the only way he ever throws the ball this year as a real qb is if Smith gets hurt.
I want to see A.S. and C.K. on the field at the same time time in a shotgun formation, the Defense will never know who they are hiking it to. It could be something game changing if these coaches got the idea and ran with it.
I know Bay and Grant were at the game today. Hey Ribico, were you at the game as well?
Looking forward to game assessments from you guys.
Yup AES, was there. Still recovering. :) Sorry, just impressions, not analysis – I’ll let others do the insipid handwringing that should never accompany 34-0 shut/blowouts.
We had fun booing Sanchez and calling for Tebow along with the rest of the crowd ;) Like I said in another posting, also had fun explaining to Jets fans about who Kaepernick is after he showed up Tebow for the imposter he is, and the Jets coaching staff for being clueless in how to utilize a talent like that.
My section – 108 – was right over the away team’s tunnel. As the Niners came off the field at the end of the game Dixon lept into the sea of red jerseys gathered around there. Awesome! I think every Niner fan in the tri-state area must have been there – even before the end of the game when Jets fans had exodus-ed out, a lot of sections, especially upper deck, were predominately red. I’ve been to nearly every 49ers game played at the Meadowlands the last 25 years, I’ve never seen that kind of attendance. It’s gotta make the team feel good to see that level of support on the road.
We are about to go 6-1 Go niners
49ers had 379 net offensive yards. 245 net rush yards and 134 net pass yards. That’s some old school football right there. When you score 37 points with 134 net pass yards you know you have a great running attack and a great defense.
Hofer,
Change Smiths diaper. Harbaugh says he’s busy!!
Are you responding to a post or just being an annoying child? Where do posts like this even come from? Such a joke.
Nolan,
Where did you come from. If you don’t like the post, don’t read it clown. I wasn’t addressing you. So beat it. Grown folks are talking here.
Jordo, you really need to knock off the lecturing. Your misses here (not AS’s misses) have been the biggest joke. So clean up your act, think, then comment! Ever try it??!
Jordo, after your done changing JJ’s, you’ll have time. Take care of it! LOL
LOL, he says “grown folks are talking here”…I would hardly classify Stinky Butt’s behavior as grown/mature. Where did I come from? How is that relevant? Who cares, I can respond to whatever I want…which is exactly what he does, the stinky butt boy.
Change your own stinky butt…
Alex is part of the problem but isn’t all the problem. At times the line does not give him time. At times the receivers can’t get open and get pushed off their routes. The YAC is very low. MM seems to be the only one getting much YAC of the wide outs. The play calling is also a problem at times. The whole approach at times appears to be to avoid mistakes instead of to score points. This needs to change if we want to get to the Super Bowl.
I think theentire offense needs some work not just Alex.
I’ll stand by my Steve DeBerg comment. Steve was just good enough to get your hopes up and then break it with a pick. They brought Joe in gradually. Now it’s the same with Colin. I don’t worry about him throwing. He threw into that crowd because that was the play. Randy had a good shot at it but couldn’t come up with the ball. It was no where near a defender. Some of you guys need to look with your eyes and think like the coaches as best you can; game looks way more interesting that way…
IP
I don’t buy the “that was the play” deal. It is the job of the QB to protect the football and not cause turnovers as best he can. Throwing it into 3 coverage without looking any place else because the call was to RM isn’t a good decision. Most of the job of a QB is to make good decisions.
That ball should have been picked off. CK not showing he has the patience necessary to adapt. Anybody thinking he is like Joe was in 1980 is seriously mistaken. CK didn’t throw any but that one pass. That should have been intercepted.
Nonsense. It is the job of the quarterback to run the offense, make plays and help score touchdowns.
If you protect the ball and lose, you still lose.
When the 49ers needed Alex to step up, against Minnehaha, he failed. What is your excuse for THAT?
Minnesota is a good team. Our entire team got outplayed. Stop showing so much ignorance when it comes to football, just do some research.
Did you listen to the announcers at all? They said that the best way to win a game in the NFL is not turn the ball over.
We didn’t. The Jets did. We won.
Last week, we did turn the ball over a lot, and guess what? We lost. And the last turnover was Staley not protecting AS’s backside which was hit just as he was about to pass. The most dangerous time to give up a hit on a QB.
Kinda obvious to me. Perhaps you need a new bandage. The one you have is soiling your brain if you can’t figure that one out.
DS for once I understand where the haters are comin from. Most of us became Niner fans because of the offensive stars and the exciting passing attack.
Now under this regime, we have an entire new philosophy, new way to win games and its hard to accept that change because lets be honest, today’s game was painful to watch but this is who the 49ers are under JH/Baalke.
The approach to winning remains the same, run the ball, play good defense, don’t turn it over, win the field position battle.
Some don’t like the approach cause it’s a 180 from Walsh but to me, as long as it keeps producing wins, I’m good.
Ds never listens to anyone but harbaugh. Except if its defending Alex smiths honor. The announcers know everything all of a sudden. But wait till they say something about smith. They will be morons again. Lol ds’s first post today was “did you see MC drop that sure td?”. Classic hypocrite. Lol
md
Find a friend.
BS,
Denegrating CK won’t make Smith look any better. Everybody knows your agenda, and it’s tired. CK came in and threw a bomb (Can Smith throw that far?) because that was what he was asked to do. He also scored a TD, something that our starting QB is asked to do but couldn’t. That doesn’t mean he is a starting caliber QB, but it does show that the Niners are commited to developing him and getting him some playing time. You should be happy about that, but I’m not surprised, it’s all about Alex with you. You find more positives in his turnovers then you do in CK’s score.
DS, today AS left a couple of TDs on the field. I’m getting tired of him saying in the presser he missed some opportunities. He needs to make those plays. GR doesn’t always put him in the best position, but he’s got to step up when the plays are there. No excuses. Play better.
“Can Smith throw that far?”
Actually he can. He said during the preseason he can throw 65 yds in the air and he did in one game last year.
BS, when AS moves on to another team, will you finally leave this blog and root for AS new team? As we all know here you are a AS fan first and a Niner fan second. Now that is a FACT precious.
bigp and md need to exchange phone numbers and get off the blog to discuss their issues.
hof
AS missed 1. The others would have been called back due to penalties. One of them, MM was held and it wasn’t called. And the problem with AS deep passes haven’t been his arm strength at all. I think all his deep misses have been overthrows.
Add neal. Teleconferencing is a great way for you all to go.
“Actually he can. He said during the preseason he can throw 65 yds in the air and he did in one game last year.”
Why would Harbaugh bring CK in then?
“And the problem with AS deep passes haven’t been his arm strength at all. I think all his deep misses have been overthrows.”
So he is inaccurate?
They have been overthrows. He does have the arm strength but he’s more concerned about the INT. He needs to make the pass when they are there.
He hasn’t though.
Prime… Well said and true. I to finally had to except this way of football, because its winning. Hopefully it’s good enough to win it all.
And bs…. Still trying to control the blog huh? Hater! Get lost you fraud of a 49er fan. You will be gone when smith leaves or retires, and I will be here to continue to call out your hatered and stupidness. Beat it kid
hof
from an article mood found:
“Brady also despite having a strong arm and very good accuracy, was just 15-57 on those passes, or 26% completion rate.Of those passes Brady was just 1-15 on balls thrown 31 yards or more.”
http://www.hogshaven.com/2012/9/4/3291805/lies-damn-lies-and-statistics-dont-trust-the-deep-ball-passing-attack
The supposed best in the world isn’t exactly great at it either. Fact is, nobody is. If they were, they would be throwing a lot more of them.
I know a lot here will ignore it. They ignored moods post on it as well. But that doesn’t make them right.
Throwing into triple coverage was in no way ever to be “the play”. If you don’t mind Kaep throwing into triple coverage, you must be a big Detroit Lions, circa Joey Harrington era, fan. Gimme a break. If Smith threw into triple coverage, the reactionaries on here would be screaming bloody murder.
Doing my grades, I have a question for you guys. Did Donte Whitner come close to picking off Sanchez early in this game? I remember him diving for a tipped pass.
Grant
It was a great dive. DW had his hands on the ball just as it hit the ground. Had it been in the air just a bit longer, he would have made a spectacular catch.
Regardless, he played AWESOME Grant! He also showed some class on that fumble return TD. He knelt by Santonio Holmes that whole time. Most of the time, defenders will run together after a TD. But he seemed might concerned for Holmes on that play.
Thanks.
He had his hands on it but it would have been an amazing effort if he actually caught it. You couldn’t have expected any player to make that play.
It was close but it was trapped. Very close though.
Thank you.
I would give AS a C-plus.
Why do you guys think they brought in CK just to take a shot downfield to Randy? It wasn’t a run or a red zone play which Hofer suggests is the only reason to bring in CK.
It told me that either Alex couldn’t make the throw, or Alex doesn’t make the throw. If it was the latter, then maybe JH was letting AS know that if you don’t make the through I have someone on the bench who will.
Maybe Grant should ask that tough question. Or maybe he did – he was at the game today.
Bay why not bring KaP in at the end of the 1st half then?
Because he saw it once and saw that it was a poor decision and almost a pick. JH is all about the turnover – don’t make them or you don’t play period.
Prime
Exactly. With time running out, I’d put in the guy with the best chance to run it in from the QB position. The Jets didn’t do anything against it all day anyway. Why not do it again?
I don’t think Smith can get the ball down the field like that, it seemed very deliberate. In the bigger picture, Harbaugh seems committed to developing CK regardless of Smith’s play. Whether Smith is the long term answer or not, I still want all of our QB’s to develop because it is best for the team.
BigP, I question if it’s good for a playoff team. It hasn’t been done before. But we’ll see how it plays out.
CK gives us another dimension, glad Harbaugh is using him more often to develop.
I hate saying this, but I’m starting to think you’re right. At least consistently. The second MM should have been caught IMO. Other than that every deep pass he threw was horrible. Maybe this is why he never goes deep, and maybe Harbaugh knows this also. I sure as hell hope not.
@Hof,
Would love to see Kaep playing in the Red zone, what a dynmaic situation that would be , he can throw it or pass, defense will have problems.
Nobody should have made that throw. He was triple covered.
Agreed. CK7 decided his target before the ball was snapped and stuck with it regardless of what the defense showed him. Not a good decision.
On the plus side though – that was a beautiful throw.
That may be true but someone has to give Moss a chance to make a play? Alex Smith sure is not doing it. Moss had a chance. That’s all the receivers have been asking smith to do. Throw it up and give them a chance to catch it, that’s what wide receivers get paid to do.
Enjoying the high of winning! Hope everyone let’s the feeling linger.
+1
I am I won some good money on a 21 point win. Wheeew
While I am glad we stomped the JETS, I left feeling a bit sad for them. I thought the crowd would have more fight in them. They let a sea of 49er fans roll in and let them take their lunch money without a fight.
Proud franchise and proud fans but neither showed it today.
I got the feeling the crowd knew their team was marginal and not worth fighting for : (
Screw every New York fan. I don’t feel sorry for them 1 bit. Maybe espn will. Lol on tv it sounded like there were about the same amount of 49er fans as jets fans. Wheew. The empire is everywhere
Instead of trying to create a AS vs CK debate (which is really no debate, because as of now AS is still the starter), let’s just enjoy the big win and be thankful that our TEAM does not have to rely on one person to make plays.
We were happy when we signed RM and MM as added weapons. Now, we can add CK7 to the equation. The TEAM just becomes that much more dangerous. No need to create party lines here.
AES
Please reason out your September 30, 2012 at 11:38 am post from this one.
Because it sure sounded like you were all trying to create some debate to me.
DS,
How did that statement in anyway, shape or form imply that I’m creating a debate?
Saying that you should get used to seeing CK7 play more should be viewed as a plus in my opinion.
Are you telling me that CK was not a weapon today?
You make it sound as if you’re threatened by him. No worries DS, I also mentioned that AS is our starter.
Don’t panic bud.
I don’t know about you, but if CK7 adds another weapon and dimension to our offense, I’m all in!
AES
“DS, the verdict is in: Get used to seeing more of CK7 bud.”
This was your closing sentence to your 11:38 post. The verdict is in makes it sound like a trial. And that CK’s TD run means AS is out, or at least being handed his hat.
Then your post above implies that is not at all the case. Thus my confusion.
Had you not ended your 11:38 post as you did, I’m cool with your post above. I am quite in if CK does that every time. I just doubt that it will be that easy may more times this season.
Damn aes this sucka has tabs on your posts now. Times and everything. You must feel flattered. #stalkerwatchyourback.lol
DS94everXev says:
September 30, 2012 at 3:26 pm
If teams are too stupid to figure out that CK is going to run it every time he is near the endzone, then we should continue doing it.
I as a fan, knew what was going to happen. That is pathetic that the Jets players/coaches didn’t. I see CK in there, I load the box in the redzone and challenge him to audible out of a likely run play into a pass play and take my chances 1 on 1 outside. Until CK shows he can beat me by reading defenses and throwing it into close quarters, I play it like a run.
Pathetic hater. It kills you that CK can do what smith can’t. WOW. Anyone still want to back this fraud? Ds your MC post was low, but this is downright hatred. Get lost!
md
Get a phone.
What was wrong with that post? That is good analysis. The Jets should think run every time Kap is in the game.
Thank Nolan
(never thought I’d say that)
md has issues with me. md thinks I’m racist for liking Alex and Justin Smith. 2 white guys. He also hates foreigners. So, his distaste for me matters little.
Doesn’t match the rest of its crummy hating posts. You’re new here. Believe me I know what I’m talking about. If it threatens smith its a problem. Just ask why bs doesn’t like MC.
And bs… I’m on my phone right now. Serial poster trying to call someone out. I wonder how many posts you average a day, and how many you have since you started disgracing this blog. Ds…. Your lame comebacks only make it worse for you.
You see ds can’t enjoy this win because Alex smith did nothing to help it. Ds is a bitter bitter soul
*(never thought I’d say that) lol*
>>The Jets should think run every time Kap is in the game.
As well they should. Which was also a brilliant call letting CK uncork that 50 yarder to Moss. How’s a team supposed to defend when they have no idea what’s coming at them?
ribico
In a previous post I said run or deep pass. Just didn’t state it here.
CK in the redzone, I’m thinking run 100%. On that pass, I’m thinking deep pass if I’m in the secondary and run if I’m a DL/LB while not losing containment. I’m not concerned with him going thru his reads until he proves he can.
Run/deep pass seems like an easy scheme to defend.
Very happy about the win after last week’s disappointment. My concern is still the offense and overly conservative playcalling. Alex is still having troubles throwing to his WRs and it’s hard to pinpoint whether it’s him or the playcalling. The gameplan was fine today as the rushing game was dominant and there was no big reason to deviate from that. But as we saw last week, anyone who can shut down our run we will struggle with because the passing game is still not up to par. I know that Harbaugh/Roman are conservative by nature, but I also sense they still don’t trust Alex. One of the biggest plays in the game was Kaep’s run and because of that success, we will probably see more of that the rest of the season. That right there indicates it is only a matter of time before Kaep takes over.
I think today showed that they don’t trust smith with the deep routes and for good reason. They have to stick to the ball control type of offense with #11. Lets hope its good enough for a Super Bowl win. It’s weird unless the reciever is wearing 85 he can’t hit them. Although the second MM pass was on the money. Should have been 6
MD,
You know you’re my boy. But I gotta pour this bucket of water on your head. This is the NFL 2012. Go back 10 years and tell me how many ball control offenses have won super bowls. This is a QB driven league and we tried to get. Hall of famer in the offseason and failed. We can’t win a super bowl with a game manager. Gotta come visit you at the pole and shake you bro. Don’t look into Smiths blue eyes.
You saw the game today. Kap is knocking. Let him in.
DS94everXev says:
September 30, 2012 at 4:02 pm
AES
“DS, the verdict is in: Get used to seeing more of CK7 bud.”
This was your closing sentence to your 11:38 post. The verdict is in makes it sound like a trial. And that CK’s TD run means AS is out, or at least being handed his hat.”
@DS
Sorry bud, can’t make it more clear then saying that AS is our starter.
Your problem is that you over react to anything that has even the slightest reference to AS.
Decipher what you want from my comment DS.
CK should be viewed as another weapon just like RM, MM, MC, VD, FG, KH, D.Akers and yes, even AS.
Why do you have an issue with that?
What is it about Harbaugh inserting CK7 into the line-up that you find disturbing?
Did CK hurt us when he was in? (I’ll give the simple answer before you can spin; NO!)
Did he give the offense a lift? Yes!
Why the discontent bud?
If Alex ever has to miss a game, he will never getback into the line-up as a starter. Colin has everything Alex has and a whole bunch more. And FWIW, I like Alex and hope he does great. But the talent level is too dissimilar.
It’s too bad the entire coaching staff, led by the reigning coach of the year, can’t see what’s so obvious to you. Maybe when we get a coach and scouting department that have a better eye for talent than this bunch……or maybe you’re just wrong.
But if you’re right….we’ll be unstoppable!
Have a Molson dude…
Hoferfan67 says:
September 30, 2012 at 2:24 pm
“AES, the only team that uses alternating QB’s is the Jets. We see how well that works! They need to make the plays in the RZ work. I continue to see runs on 1st and 2nd down. The offense is frustrating – both the play calling and the misses by AS and MC.”
@Hofe
Perhaps Hofe. But Sanchez is not playing anywhere close to AS’ level of late. And our offensive line is much better then anything the Jets can roll out on the field. CK seems faster than Tebow. And may actually be more accurate than Tebow given the time to play more.
I’m not a huge fan of the gimmicky plays. But when you have a weapon like CK on your team why not utilize him?
You may be right in saying that this type of play does not always win games. But I’m enjoying this one. And I’m looking forward to more plays from CK in the future.
I guess it’s time to reflect back on how many of us said that “In Harbaugh we Trust” and begin to accept the fact that he can find a way to use CK7.
It’s Harbaugh’ call. I trust him!
Kaepernick, 7 points.
Alex, 0 points.
Harbaugh, please keep alternating QBs.
It could of been 14 points, JH is no dummy , he knows that Smith has his short comings and CK can bring in a new exciting chapter that we are missing. I am not saying CK is the answer, but good to see this kid being used.
Neal,
Did I tell you Kap was playing this week? He’s gonna play more and more every week. Smith is not the answer and the staff knows it now. Smith is out soon. No more babysitting his ego. This is the big leagues.
AES, thanks for the comment. They are winning and that is the main thing. The offense is difficult to watch, but a win is a win.
Hofer,
What does not win plays is inconsistency from your QB. You want Smith to be the guy but I keep telling you that he does not have al, the tools to put it on the field consistently.
Stop being in denial. Alex smith can’t be counted on. He can’t e en relax in the pocket. He sees pressure when there is none. JJ got cut in the preseason for overthrowing open receivers. Grant mentioned that Harbaugh hates that. I do too.
Keep begging Alex to be what you want him to be. You’re gonna continue to be let down. He contributed a little to today’s win, very little. We could have easily won this game without him. He is a
Liability.
On the other hand, give Kap his props. He produced results! The kid is 3 times as fast as Smith with a cannon. Bye Alex Smith.
My iPad is crap right now. Sorry about the crappy post.
Meanwhile, the guy none of the Smithers wanted just went 30/38 for 338 yards and 3 TDs in a 37-6 victory.
Yeah but he has to wear an orange uni…
Victory against who? Oh thats right a team that sucks. What happened when Peyton actually played against a respectable D coordinator? He got picked 3 times.
Go play fantasy football if you care more about yards and stats than points.
So by that logic if the 49ers play a horrible defense shouldn’t AS be putting up similar numbers?
Hofe,
For all the weapons we have, there really has not been an immediate and decisive change on the offense thus far.
I say thus far, not as an indictment against AS, but rather as the fact that it’s still early in the season and chemistry with many of our new weapons has yet to develop.
Today was the first time MM jelled with AS and that bodes well for the future. Once RM get’s going and we can add BJac when he’s ready we could be that much more dynamic.
The offense came out somewhat sluggish today for whatever reason. Our defense played up to it’s norm, which put us in good field position. But a sluggish offense will not work against the C-hawks and some of the other top defenses we will face this year.
Harbaugh and Greg Roman will need to find a way to jump start and build some chemistry on offense. But that’s what makes football so intriguing. They may do something completely different on offense next week.