Posted By: Darren (11/08/2008 11:52:49 PM)
Comment: IndianaJim, can you please detail the TV you saw the game, or were you playing a Madden game and you thought the 49ers beat the Raiders? You're the one that needs some wine and cheese at the Napa rehab center where doctors can find your REALITY. You're an embarrassment to anybody that has hired people for a job, and if people can't do a job, YOU FIRE THEM MORON! You don't give them cake and cookies and pat them on the freaking back, YOU FIRE THEM! You hire somebody, they don't want to do the job you ask of them, YOU FIRE THEM! My apologies for the Michael Savage rant.

Posted By: Mike in Sac (10/08/2008 10:21:51 AM)
Comment: Indiana Jim- Quit trying to be the voice of reason. This team looked terrible Friday. They looked like the same buch of losing dopes of the last few years. People need to see progress and things building. Great Morgan looks good but VD looks like the same lost puppy with no feel for the game. Dude we have so many key ???'s and this point it is pathetic. The middle of our defense is in limbo THREEE weeks prior to the season starting. THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE and Nolan is supposed to be a defensive guru. F grade for Nolan. Then you have this Qb joke of a competition. As many have pointed out NOBODY on this roster is a quality #1 NFL QB. Now, maybe JTO can pull it off if he pulls his head out of his A!*, but that is a big if. Smith is runined at this time; trashed shoulder and no confidence because of so many coaching and systme changes (all on Nolan). Lastly, I thought Hill might be the answer, but I was way wrong becuase this guy must not know where the weight room is located. He needs to dial up Balco and get some product. Talent wins in this league and Nolan will not play kids with talent over old lame dopes like Roman because of his stupid old school mentality. Lastly, the draft this year appears to bring no immeadite vaule. Looks like the only bright star came in the 6th round? Mc numbnut in the front office deserves the pipe for that one. No TED or QB prospect. Two HUGE NEEDS for this team, but heck, we have potnetial future sould be at least future backups in training......

Posted By: Marco from Stockton (10/08/2008 10:12:18 AM)
Comment: Any way you look at it the Niners are still the same sorry ass team from last year. The trouble for them is Seattle is still better and the Cards/Rams are getting better. Last place in the NFC West and hopefully McNolan gets fired. Another four years wasted and season ticket holders leaving in droves.

Posted By: George (10/08/2008 10:01:05 AM)
Comment: Every fumble in the Raider game was recovered by the Raiders. The 49ers players seemed to lack a sense of urgency. At least in theory, job are on the line now. I've never been big Nolan supporter (even before he started talking like an idiot) but now I believe that he has lost this team. Make a change, (Singertary, Martz, anyone) for changes sake and show the players you mean business Mr York.

Posted By: AF (10/08/2008 8:53:46 AM)
Comment: Wow, its like Indiana Jim hasn't the abortion of the last three years of football on Nolan here in SF. Nolan should have been fired after last season, why's it any different now? If anything he's worse at the job today that he was at this time last season. No one here likes him and he has not demonstrated any coaching ability.

Posted By: SactoBob (10/08/2008 8:32:25 AM)
Comment: Well, the 9ers sure looked ready to play football. What movie will they be seeing this week when they should be practicing?

Posted By: Kelseyville9er (10/08/2008 8:16:31 AM)
Comment: Now that Miami has Pennington, any chance the 9ers try to obtain John Beck? Steve Young is really high on him, could be a good project QB. Send Hill over to Miami...

Posted By: Indiana Jim (10/08/2008 7:21:08 AM)
Comment: Let's also not forget that the offense didn't look terrible with J.T. O'Sullivan in. O'Sullivan looked terrible, but the rest of them looked okay. We haven't seen the best quarterback on the roster play with the first team yet.

Posted By: Indiana Jim (10/08/2008 7:16:40 AM)
Comment: People... sheesh. I am embarrassed to count myself among you as a 49ers fan. The only problem with success is it has made us the whiniest bunch of turd-mouthed two-faced Kevin Lynch-mob fans in the entire NFL. WE HAVEN'T EVEN PLAYED ONE REGULAR SEASON GAME and you're calling for Nolan's head. I was calling for Nolan's head at the end of last season, but he's here now. So let's see what happens before we tie the knot on the ol' rope.

Posted By: Indiana Jim (10/08/2008 7:13:25 AM)
Comment: Preseason. I mean, we're talkin' about Preseason?! Preseason... really? We're talkin' about Preseason? Preseason.

Posted By: Grand Theft Auto (10/08/2008 6:04:37 AM)
Comment: Well said, Ron. The catalogue of errors has mounted to such an extent that I cannot even be bothered to think about them or make comment about them on here anymore. I've said it dozens of times already, but under Nolan, we are a joke.

Posted By: max (10/08/2008 2:20:07 AM)
Comment: Martz is making the QB decisions, not Nolan. I think Martz knows what he's doing.

Posted By: Ron in Sacramento (10/08/2008 2:00:18 AM)
Comment: Matt, I agree with Vince. I have been patiently waiting out the quarterback position, but am now angry. Nolan is showing himself to be an ass****. I had been willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and a chance to build our team with good to excellent players who have good character and play hard. He is demonstrating vindictiveness toward Alex Smith that is borderline mean and asinine. I watched Smith's "opportunity" Friday, please what a joke. To offer judgment on his very limited time on the field is wrong, wrong. Listening to Nolan's comments about Smith is sad. I would say that it is time to fire Nolan, right now. Understand I am of the mindset of giving a coach an opportunity to succeed, i.e. Bill Cowher. I would never have said this previously, but Nolan's insane vindictiveness, which I am sure he would deny, is unacceptable, period. As Vince has pointed out Alex has never really had an opportunity to grow within a system or even to have the same coordinator for a few years. His coach at Utah clearly stated that Alex needs time to understand a system before excelling. This quarterback competition has become a sham. I say give Alex the entire first half of the next game and if he shows enough to build on, end the competition and move forward. If he fails to move the offense after 3-4 games and shows no growth than switch out then. Nolan is acting like a man on the run. If the offence succeeds and Martz becomes a hot commodity he is gone and the Niners would (?) have to make him the head coach to keep him. If the Niners do not win he is gone anyways. I predict short of an NFC championship game appearance Nolan is gone and he seems to communicate to the media, at times, like a man in turmoil inside, like a man on a short rope, whose time in power is coming to an end. Vindictiveness from a person in power is ugly and we are seeing the inner workings of this bear fruit within our beloved 49ers.

Posted By: Wilson (10/08/2008 1:07:14 AM)
Comment: Nolan is the worst I've ever seen at game day decisionmaking. There's simply no way to justify getting conservative near the goal line in a preseason game. He is literally worse than the average bonehead fan at that aspect of the game. He has some positives as a coach but he will make bad decision after bad decision this season until he turns that function over to somebody else. Please, somebody, try to convince Nolan that this is going to cost him his job unless something else does it to him first.

Posted By: Nolan must go (10/08/2008 12:11:40 AM)
Comment: I repeat, any coach who is unaware of the down and distance is, a) an idiot, and b) should be fired...but then we've known this for years already...

Posted By: vince (09/08/2008 11:46:37 PM)
Comment: Enough from the guys who have only played football with a video game controller. having 4 o.c.'s for a 23 year old qb is terrible for his development. The only way for a qb to look good is to be comfortable with the offense he is running. once you've been in an offense for atleast 2-3 years knowing your progressions, knowing your hot reads (which we didn't have last year), and where your personnel is supposed to be becomes more instinctual and reactionary translating into a more confident relaxed qb.i.e. peyton manning's been in the same offense for 11 years. when it is new you think too much and try to force things and make mistakes and short arm your throws, like throwing behind your target. and there is a reason why both qb's have never been starters anywhere else and this is jto's 8th team. Lets not also forget we haven't had a reciever since T.O. And the line hasn't helped. give him a chance he's extremely young still. and nolan undermining him because "special teams needed work" needs to stop. have faith in him for one more year. Oh and fire nolan.

Posted By: fire nolan (09/08/2008 11:39:38 PM)
Comment: as much as i hate to say it, alex smith needs to ask for a trade if he is not the starting QB in week one. its really hard watching Nolan wreck this kids career with his ego guided head games.. richard, shaun hill did an "ok" job against future practice squad players and you are acting like his best girl. then you say to keep b. lloyd?? maybe its time for you to find a new sport to follow.

Posted By: ninerbob (09/08/2008 10:56:55 PM)
Comment: Hey everyone!!! Coach Nolan is in the house!!!Firts he says he is Richard Ramirez (aka. the night stalker), then he says he is Oscar. Mike feel free to be yourself. I hope you become the Cowboy's head coach one day. Or even better, it would be great to see you in the silver and black.

Posted By: Oscar (09/08/2008 10:31:09 PM)
Comment: YEaah i agree totally with Richard....we gave Alex 3 years to show up....4 new OCs...well u have a lot of variety to learn from there...thats hast to be a good thing....and What About if Jason Hill caught up that nice pass From Shaun....That would ve changed a lot of things and both Hills would ve been considered Better...sorry for my broken english still learning it....we need this QB battle.this is the only way Alex will get pressure to get better and make those Millions of dollars worth it...I might not agree with Coach Nolan in a lot of things..he is a little bit too conservative for me...but he sees talent in every player he gets...and he has a great defensive Mind...i will give him one more year...to see how he does with a Good QB on the field...

Posted By: Jonas Ymir Jonasson (09/08/2008 10:30:57 PM)
Comment: No need for abusive language The performance from Hill was far from being all right.

Posted By: richard reyes (09/08/2008 10:01:20 PM)
Comment: to all girls that are crying about yesterday. it's pre-season. and if u think alex smith is the answer u guys were not watching the game. most throws that were short slants were mostly behind the recievers. shaun hill did a all right job. for u girls cursing him today i bet u were praising him last year when he won those 2 games. fuckin 2 face fans. he had a touchdown dropped by jason hill. perfect pass over 2 raiders. i said perfect. how many did u see smith have. nolan a bad coach. i think he is a decent one. built an up and comming defence. just not offence minded. i knew he should of went with rodgers but oh well. did u morons forget d.c of the ravens. not his fault qb problem. bryon leftwich. lmao. waste of money there retard. look what atlanta tried. plus they need recievers. don't give me arnaz battle as a good one.fuckin joke. team is still young. y arent u guys complainin about vernon davis. hasent lived up to hype. he can play way better. hell josh morgan played way better than any reciever they had since antonio bryant. should of never traded brandon lyod away. he may be a bust now but he made plays as a niner. learn about ur team before u open ur mind. fuckin losers.

Posted By: ninerbob (09/08/2008 9:39:28 PM)
Comment: What is the most effective way to run Nolan out of the state? Really?!?!? I could live with one more year of Alex Smith if this doesn't happen to be his year to bust out. But Nolan has got to go. Even the shiny-happy people can't defend Nolan. So how do we oust him? If we are real 49er fans we find way to get the Yorks to fire him. Anyone want to have a peaceful demonstration in front of headquarters? Can someone out there help us with the legality of demonstrating to have someone fired?

Posted By: improvise (09/08/2008 9:36:38 PM)
Comment: a smith sucks!

Posted By: Darren (09/08/2008 9:34:32 PM)
Comment: Man, Nolan can swing some really good BS in the way he talks. can't reporters grill him? Damon Bruce did a great job proclaiming Nolan to be gone by Bye Week if he keeps this BS up. FIre Nolan! Fire Nolan! Fire NOlan!

Posted By: evilbob41 (09/08/2008 9:27:12 PM)
Comment: Give ASmith the #1 reps and end this charade. He is clearly our best option. JTO's strength coming in was his knowledge of the system, yet he made incredibly poor decisions and was reckless with the football. Although effective at times, JTO looked squirrely. The kid has played for 10 different NFL teams for a reason. Although Smith holds the ball too long and tends to throw behind receivers- he showed better presence. Smith is the most athletic of the bunch and clearly has the strongest arm. His long release and indecision can only get better with more reps and support of the organization. Hill simply lacks the arms strength to get the ball down field in a Martz style offense. He's gotta be our #3. In a preseason format we're going to be out matched. We were rolling with Clayton and Zak Easy- they're rolling with McFadden, Bush and Rankin (Stockton product). They handed it our 2's and 3's. Josh Morgan looks special; hopefully this year's Marques Colton. VD "click clacked" wonderfully in shifts and motions but when he had his one opportunity to turn it up and get vertical he couldn't move the chains. Goldston makes plays. He should be the starter.

Posted By: Razoreater (09/08/2008 8:44:00 PM)
Comment: If this type of performance continues through the 1st half of the season I would not be surprised to see Nolan fired and Dr. Martz given the keys.

Posted By: oneninersWINGMAN (09/08/2008 8:28:56 PM)
Comment: Byron Leftwich Why don't the Niners bring him in?

Posted By: Rich, San Ramon (09/08/2008 8:24:15 PM)
Comment: In 2005 Nolan and McCloughan cited Smith's versatility as one thing that distinguished him from Rogers. The record show, however, that Alex did not click with Mike McCarthey's WCO, he is not showing much in Mike Martz' offense, and Hostler's offense woke up once Shaun Hill came in. So maybe it was Smith who was the limited one. Hey, he was on the right trajectory in 2006, that was no mirage. But neither before nor since has he shown much more than one or two really good plays amongst a bunch of clunkers. It just looks like every play is a struggle for him. Maybe Norv Turner was Smith's last best hope for NFL success.

Posted By: andrew (09/08/2008 7:24:30 PM)
Comment: So matt i noticed u posted some lions qb stats that are eerily similar to what I posed in the game blog...

Posted By: MIke in Sac (09/08/2008 7:16:22 PM)
Comment: Screw Smith. His dilevery is so slow you can know where the ball is going before it ever leaves his hand and he can't lead a receiver to save his life. No excuses. He has had OTS, mini and now TC to get this cirrect. He also has no touch. He is a hack, an over paid hack. For what he is due to be paid next year, trust me he is getting cut at some point. You do not keep a $10MM hack around. We can get his kind of crappy play for much cheaper. See, Sullivan, JT.

Posted By: LodiGrapePicker (09/08/2008 7:16:14 PM)
Comment: The entire team seems to lack desire, motivation, and chemistry. Nolan is a bad seed that is rotting the moral of this team. Dr. Dork needs to pull his head out of his ass and fire Nolan.

Posted By: The IDIOT (09/08/2008 7:15:44 PM)
Comment: Nolan is an idiot!! "Nolan said it would've been nice if someone had moved them down the field and stuck it in the end zone." It would have been nice to call a play that would allow Smith the opportunity to throw a touchdown at the end of the second half. I notice "The IDIOT" never mentioned not giving Smith the 3rd or 4th down try. "The IDIOT" can't remember the play calling or the yardage.

Posted By: Mike in Marin (09/08/2008 7:14:43 PM)
Comment: I am so tired of hearing anything from Nolan. He looks good in a suit and sounded good a few years ago in interviews. He sounds like an idiot. This football team is in trouble! We need a new head coach, maybe Singletary and if Martz stayed around as oc would be sweet. Either way I dont care, we need a new HC. Install a system and let the players master it. It usually takes a few years. What we have here is a young group of talented players whose growth has been stunted by a new playbook every year. Now I dont know if Alex is the QB we all hope he can be, but we will never know because of 4 different playbooks in 4 years. U know how big those playbooks are. Their like encyclopedias. This sucks and Nolan has got to go!

Posted By: BOI49er (09/08/2008 7:08:31 PM)
Comment: Doesn't matter. When defenses game plan for Shaun Hill, they will just need to cover the short areas, which will not only shut down our passing, but Gore too.

Posted By: ninerman (09/08/2008 7:04:37 PM)
Comment: Nolan is a bitch, and a terible hc im so tired of looking at his confused face on the sideline. Nolan is a worthless DILDO!!!

Posted By: sac9er (09/08/2008 7:01:42 PM)
Comment: SHAUN HILL!!!!! how is nobody talking about hill? watch the tape, hill had only 1 bad pass (int.) All other passes were on target including a great pass that would have been a td if j.hill would not have dropped it. he had 3 or 4 nice passes that were dropped

Posted By: one very sick person (09/08/2008 6:55:52 PM)
Comment: This **** makes me sick watching these third string QB's playing Romper Room football. Just name Smith the starter, start him the next 3 preseason games and let him play at least half of the game. With this complex offese he neads all the playing time he can get!!! I didn't even realize that Hill doesn't know how to throw a tight spiroll. Makes me sick... Now I have to hear all of the Sorry ass Raider fans talk shit for the next month. Other then that I think the niners are on their way to becoming a decent football team. But then I think like they need to just put smith in with the starters. Enouph of this bull **** Nolan Just name Alex the starter and have him practice and start with the 1rst team offense.

Posted By: Indiana Jim (09/08/2008 6:53:39 PM)
Comment: Did J.T. the (Plays Like) Pooh have a rumbly in his tumbly? Is that why he made a dumb play?

Posted By: Indiana Jim (09/08/2008 6:52:36 PM)
Comment: His "insides" were telling him? Which one is he? Bert, Ernie or Prairie Dawn?

Posted By: eastbaytransplant (09/08/2008 6:30:02 PM)
Comment: "At the same time, Nolan said JTO's insides were telling him, 'How can I help this team?'" Shouldn't that go unsaid? Nolan's rhetoric is getting a little old.

Posted By: BOI49er (09/08/2008 6:15:02 PM)
Comment: It's "anybody but Smith". His favorite was Sean Hill, but since Martz benched him for a "tired" (weak) arm (and then "rested" Alex's arm for cover), it was the only guy left, so now he's making excuses for JTO's headwork mistakes he wouldn't do for anybody else on the team.

Posted By: Jon in Socal (09/08/2008 6:14:58 PM)
Comment: Duckett is going on IR soon. His knee needs to get fixed. Goldson played well and is going to start soon. Alex is going to need to step it up

Posted By: http:// (09/08/2008 6:10:53 PM)
Comment: to the guy under this comment, thats not an offensive call thats a game/situational call that the head coach makes, now if he told him to run a draw or corner routes then that would be him calling the offensive, but going for a field goal or not is the head coaches call no one elses.

Posted By: AF (09/08/2008 6:05:32 PM)
Comment: Was the Keasey question yours? Haha! Its hard to take Nolan at all seriously, he lies through his teeth like second nature. It sure sounds like he's got an emotional favorite to win the QB "competition" and its not Alex SMith.

Posted By: BOI49er (09/08/2008 6:02:09 PM)
Comment: He made the call to keep Alex Smith from shining.

Posted By: http:// (09/08/2008 5:22:39 PM)
Comment: Please ask him why Martz wanted to kick a FG during the pre-season? Oh he made that call. why is Nolan doing the offensive play calling?

Posted By: ninerbob (09/08/2008 5:20:14 PM)
Comment: Matt, ask him where he thinks his next job is going to be?

Posted By: BHF (09/08/2008 5:09:15 PM)
Comment: Nolan just can't call 4th downs. It's amazing and it's not that hard. He needs to do the opposite of what his brain is telling him.

Posted By: sizepro (09/08/2008 5:06:25 PM)
Comment: Tell Nolan to stop being a little b***h about going for it on 4th down... How's that demonstrate his confidence on his team and his players as individuals? Alex was heated after Nolan decided it was a good time to "practice special teams" with a 3 yard field goal...

Posted By: jimpooba (09/08/2008 4:58:14 PM)
Comment: Matt ask Nolan if he thinks he has an NFL caliber starting QB on his roster - oh wait...I already have my answer.

Posted By: Simran (09/08/2008 4:48:34 PM)
Comment: Yes, please ask if it was Martz or Nolan making the decisions and why they were so interested in seeing how Keasey runs with the ball when Smith was in. Also ask if he felt like the 49ers energy level matched the Raiders.

Response: Martz calls the offensive plays; Nolan makes the game-management decisions, such as whether to go for it on fourth downs. --Matt M.

Posted By: Jon in Socal (09/08/2008 4:38:34 PM)
Comment: Thanks Matt, I wonder how surly Nolan is going to be today. Can you ask if he makes all the "go for it" decisions or if Martz has influence?