SANTA CLARA – Brandon Jacobs told USA Today on Wednesday he’s very frustrated with his role on the 49ers. On Thursday in the 49ers’ locker room he clarified those comments to Bay Area reporters.
JACOBS: It’s going to be a good week for me. That’s all I can tell you guys. I’ve been working hard every day. I’m in a unique situation. Most guys like me don’t ever have a chance to be in a situation like this. So I’m taking advantage of the opportunity that I have at hand, and I’m going to get better every week.
Q: There was a piece in USA Today, and the implication was you are not happy on the 49ers.
JACOBS: Did you read that?
Q: I read it.
JACOBS: Did you read those words exactly?
Q: I have the story.
JACOBS: Assuming makes an (expletive) out of you and me both. We don’t do that. I did do an interview with USA Today. The competitive nature in me – I want to go out and play. I’ve played through worse injuries than I have now. But I have the rare opportunity where I have a chance to get healthy, 100 percent healthy. Coming into this season I was injured, I was going to be down for a long time and they kept me. That says a lot for this organization. I’m going to take the opportunity that they’re giving me to get myself 100 percent so I can help this team when it gets down deep into the season in December, January and even February.
Q: When you came here, you’re coming from a spot where you get 150-200 carries a year. What did you envision your role being?
JACOBS: I didn’t envision a role. I came in and I was going to get what I earned. With me being down the last seven weeks, I’ve got to work myself back into playing shape, I’ve got to get myself mentally ready to be able to perform and help the team win. Right now, could I go out and play? Yes, but would it be smart? No. I have to get healthy.
Q: So you’re not 100 percent healthy?
JACOBS: There aren’t a lot of guys in the league who are 100 percent healthy. A lot of those guys are playing because they have no choice. In my case I don’t have to, and again, that’s what I meant by a “rare opportunity.”
Q: Have you talked to your teammates about the Giants and what they can expect?
JACOBS: This is really my first time on offense against the Giants defense. I know the guys over there. I know they work hard and I know it’s going to be war when they come in here. It’s going to be a battle, and I’m looking forward to the opportunity to be able to watch my teammates go out there and compete.
Q: When you come back do you know what your role will be. Do you need to know what your role will be?
JACOBS: Being a running back, you don’t need to know what your role. You’re sitting in meetings like everybody else. Whatever opportunity presents itself, that’s the one you take. Make your coaches right. You go out and you run what they want you to run and you make them right for putting you in there.
Q: Have you talked to Harbaugh this week?
JACOBS: I spoke to Coach Harbaugh a couple times the last couple days. We ironed it out. We got it done. I understand where Coach is coming from. He understands me from him playing football and understanding an athlete, and the competitive nature of wanting to help your team win, and not only that, but against your former team. In this case, my former team is not important.
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Should unleash him…..but I guess its smart to rest him….would not want to be infront of him when he gets back on the field……PAIN!!!!!! WHOS GOT IT BETTER THAN US?!!!!!!! NOBODY!!!!!!
Damn, I was looking forward to a motivated and fresh Jacobs battering ram against the G Men but we have plenty of studs to carry the rock. I think we will pound them and then Alex will slice & dice them with the passing game when the opportunity presents itself. Can’t see them shutting us down and it should be a great game with us coming out on top. Vic’s squad knows Eli pretty well now and should hold him in check. The Giants really don’t run well so its all on Eli. If he gets pressured and starts throwing picks look out it could get ugly.
There are lot of things going on right now. It appears that Coach is trying to keep everyone fresh to the degree that he can. He puts packages in and out on offense and on defense. The older guys, Moss, Jacobs and a few others should be rested deep into the season. that bodes well if we keep winning. With a healthy Jacobs, Gore and Hunter and all of them fairly rested you have a running game that shouldn’t run out of steam when the going gets tough. You have the dual threat at QB with Kap and Smith as well as a group of wideouts that keep getting rotated. The big question is what happens if the defense has some injuries. I don’t know just how deep they are at some positions. I think that we have a great shot at the SB if the team stays healthy and focused.
Hey Dave,
Just a suggestion for a modest change:
If Eli gets pressured and starts throwing picks, look out, it could get BEAUTIFUL.
Why not give Miller some touches on short yardage. He has had very limited carries and on Sunday had a nice pick up of 4 yards. I’d like to see the Niners develop this guy further, why not in the role of his coach Tom Rathman.
This essentially is where your short yardage carries should come from, your FB.
He is clearly an athlete and maybe is the diamond in the rough we need to get those tough inches.
Jacobs now is unnecessary. There is simply not enough touches for him. Why let him stew. With Gore, Hunter and 2 insurance policies in Dixon and LMJ, Jacobs is expendable. If there is a deal to be made, give him that chance to play on another team. If he is sittin then he ain’t gettin better, is that not the phrase of the week.
And there you have it: Jacobs has been Harbaughed! Not only do I inderstand not playing now, I see it as a rare opportunity.
Love it.
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Another insignificant post by Mr. Nobody!
The funny thing is Prim Tin Tin, you are such a bore, your blogs are redundant and your football knowledge is next to nothing, you support your sister BS, and talking about insignificant energy.
Oh I see since you are a double or triple poster, with BS, and Latino Heat, what other profiles do you have loser.
Prime that post was possibly the best example of irony that i’ve ever seen.
oh yes D Clark and Prim Tin Tin are both wanna bees.
My apologies Neal, you appear to have grasped the wrong end of the stick concerning my post! I was referring to Primes post, not yours.
Neal,
Ironic because I’m the blog instigator, look at the kid prime. Through responding to post from kids under 21 years of age.
Jordan,
I would say you are the most passionate one on your beliefs of AS, you look at the big picture and I respect that, but Prim Tin Tin, is the biggest instigator, anything I post, he follows me like fly’s on poop. The same with Latino Heat, both are the same person. Prim Tin Tin, oneniner and Latino Heat are the same blogger. Anyway I have zero respect for Prime Slime, he is a AS lover first than a Niner fan..
Looks like you wiped away your tears from last night when you got told by Claude, DS and me. Then you turtled away in the night holding your thumb!
@neal I may not know alot about football but at least I know how many players suit up on game day fool. Hahahahahh!
Mr. Nobody and Attention seeker holding hands, how nice!
You said it slime, you are right you don’t know alot about football.
That’s right Neal, a lover of a winning QB and the OT reason I follow you and attention seeker is I know you will jump when I say boo!
Passionate hot air coming from his sphincter. You two are perfect for another!
I do understand you Prim Tin Tin, you pretend to have a big ego and have accomplished very little in life. You don’t need to be Dr. Phil in saying you are very insecure, have no meaningful friends, probably had many jobs under your resume, no meaningful relationships with the opposite sex, other than your sister BS, who you visit with 5 days a week. You feel horrible about your self, and have to be big name on blog campus and be a instigator, because you have such low-self esteem. Am I dead on my evaluation of you? I do think so. You can come at me at day long, you are nothing but a lingering fart that won’t go away. Now put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Neal, the master says bark, the dog says whoof!
You follow?
Oh, of-course I can add that you have a severe case of depression, which you can take meds for along with your anxiety and compulsive disorder.
Neal this is not the forum to tell us your life story dude?
You sound like you need to talk to someone? Give your hero a call 23, he has been there, probably still there so, maybe you guys can work it out together.
Don’t worry about me, I’m fine.
Neal,
Try not responding to BSPRIME. The Press Democrat Troll will eventually go away. Most kids his age really just need a hug. She’s only engaging you because she doesn’t feel like talking to herself right now.
Why are you using my lines attention seeker?
Tell us again how Alex is going to throw up on Sunday? How the Giants are gonna stack the box, how Smith will walk into Tuck? How Smith cant beat an elite defense?
Your like the book green eggs and ham, you know the words before hearing them.
That is the best that Prim tin tin can come up, well she is a lost soul, that is for sure, anyway funny how, the the troll keeps on trolling with her multiple profiles.
Lets see if the 49ers made the right decision with Hasselback who gets to play against the Steelers tonight. Where is Bayareawrongatic? He wanted Hasselback so bad.
You are so easy to figure out Prin Tin, you need to be right on everything, that is your existance Prim Tin Tin. Even something insignificant about Matt Hassellback, who cares, move on, you win the battle to be right, but you are a lonely classless soul. Truth hurts. !! TB went after MH, I trust the GM of the year, over someone like you anytime of the day.
Move on? Who keeps bringing up Fouts/Marino with DS? You need to take care of that Alzheimers son!
If you trusted the GM and coach of the year you would keep quiet about Alex. But you can’t cause you don’t know anything. You just follow your ignorant hero 23 attention seeker.
Prime
Notice how Neal and 23 keep bringing up this BS person? Whomever he is, he certainly has gotten into their heads. Hasn’t posted to or about them much if at all today, but they can’t seem to stop talking about him.
If he was stupid or wrong, they wouldn’t give so much thought to him now would they? I mean, no need to consider his posts. Just skip them. Right?
And who remotely gives a crap about Marino and Fouts on a Niner blog.
1. Both of those players played when the Internet was basically running on the ultra fast 2400 kbs modems.
2. None of them were ever Niners. This is a Niners blog. Their obsession with Marino/Fouts indicates that they are not Niner fans at all. Which any casual observer could tell after reading their hate speech for no more than 5 minutes.
Whomever Neal and 23 are, they are mentally deranged people. That, I being the doctor (according to them) I can assure you of.
God are they ever stupid. They keep putting themselves into these situations and don’t know how to get out of them. Would be funny if they weren’t haters.
I am a football fan, BS, unlike you who just loves Alex Smith. Is this a gang fight with the two sister, against little oh me.
No Neal the battle is between your brain and your mouth and trying to stop the words that come out of it.
Everything you say just makes you look dumb.
You know like:
PULL THE TRIGGER
CAN’T WIN A PLAYOFF GAME
CAN’T THROW FOR 300 yards
WALK INTO SACKS
No wait that’s 23′s gig. What the difference, your his lacky anyways.
BS and Prim tin tin have become the blog sister’s at the democrat press , let’s welcome these wanna bes’s
Awwwww Can’t we all just get along and enjoy the ride:)>?
We can’t Razor cause some of us are fans and some of us are believers only when we see it.
razor
That is all depending on them. Last year they bitched about 13-3. This year they bitch about 4-1. If there are any bitches, it’s them.
Get on boad or get off. That is the message.
Welcome to the board Wade!
Why don’t dixon get more carries on short yardage he does good when the game is a blow lot.