That sucked, but the better team won.
Thank you very much. I am honored that my fandom is noted.
I watched the Packers game much later than I expected off my DVR (DVD of The Amazing Spider-Man, then dinner, then numerous football questions from an endearing spouse).
My thoughts:
[COLOR=“SandyBrown”]* GO NINERS!!! ***[/COLOR]
Early on it was nerve-wracking. Pick-six, of course, but generally even play meant any little bounce could lead to a win for either team.
But then we started to pull away, and then run away, and then it was a marathon against a couch potato. My boy Kaepernick set the NFL rushing record for a QB, looking every bit like the guy I watched in Reno. The inside runs were gashing the Pack, leading to giant holes for him to run through on the perimeter.
The defense stopped Rodgers as often as they needed to, but it really was the O-line that starred.
I will be happy for a week, but more so if the fucking Seachickens lose. (I don’t care if it means a NFC championship game on the road, I really hate those dicks.)
The Falcons clearly have the geomagnetic advantage in Sunday’s game. The stadium in Seattle is aligned on a north-south axis, while the Georgia dome is on an east-west axis; with both teams representing birds, the Hawks are accustomed to playing mostly along the geomagnetic lines while the Falcons are play across them. Granted, both are predatory, primarily non-migratory species, so the effect will not be so great, but I would certainly not be surprised to see that Ryan guy end his bad luck streak in the playoffs.
(Woo!)
Doesn’t matter which bird wins, it’s nothing that a 49er shotgun can’t take care of.
Just in case you or anyone else didn’t know, both the shotgun formation and its name were invented by 49ers.
Well, I always though the 49ers were off by 20.
The 49ers had a great game against the Packers. The Packers had nothing to be sorry about–they played extremely well–but…
Go Niners!
Had to say that.
Seriously, after the last what? Twelve years? The Niners have found their feet and they can play with the best of them.
Go Niners!
Niners kicked it in after I went to bed. It was tied when I stopped watching.
This is the first time I’ve ever had seen Kaepernick. How the hell did that guy last until the 2nd round?
No one else noticed that the Broncos won fewer games in the playoffs did they did last year under Tebow?
He just wins!
Partly because he didn’t go to a big-name school like Alabama or Michigan or Stanford. Kaep (“Cap”) went to Nevada Reno.
Heck, how did Russell Wilson last until the 2nd round?
Kap’s also another example that not every college QB should be started as a rookie.
Most team’s acknowledged he most likely wasn’t ready to start as a rookie but had huge upside. That’s a problem for most teams, who are usually in “win now” mode. Everybody also acknowledged that Smith was at least a nice placekeeper for a season while Kaepernick developed. All the QBs selected ahead of him eventually started their rookie year (to be fair, Jake Locker only due to injury to Hasselbeck). He was taken only 1 spot after Andy Dalton (another 2nd rounder who was a Day 1 starter and, though maybe not as good, has a lesser team/coaching around him but has also been a playoff QB in his first 2 seasons).
The now forgotten storyline was that Harbaugh would be stuck with Smith for a year and potentially start Kaepernick in Year 2 after a training year. Smith coming alive kind of screwed that up but he did eventually get replaced.
Not that they can be actually compared but what’s with the 49ers and splitting games between QBs? Had DeBerg/Montana and Montana/Young there. And now another season where the games are split between 2 successful QBs without injury forcing the issue. Not too many teams have ever had that happen in the modern age.
If you pass for 2854 yards and run for 1473 with Auburn, you’re a Heisman winner and #1 draft pick (Cam Newton). If you pass for 3022 and run for 1203 with Nevada, you’re 8th in Heisman voting and you fall to the second round.
And now they’re running the pistol, developed at Nevada. (I guess I can’t leave all the Niners/Nevada plugs to garygnu.)
I also watched the game on DVR delay. My first thought on the pick-six was that might just be the game Kaepernick makes the Niners switching from Smith. I think he recovered nicely. I’ll take a learning mistake here and there for 180 rushing yards and 260 passing. I was a little surpised to see so much designed run for him, but it may have been a matter of making the Packers stop it before they abandoned it. Obviously, the Packers didn’t have an answer, so the Niners never took it out of the mix.
San Francisco had a pretty OK QB a few years back from ND, I think his name rhymes with some state up by wyoming, who was drafted late in round 3, pick #82. Draft rank is not always indicative of skill. Or luck, you do need some of that to win, too.
“Extremely well?” Sorry, but that’s not even close. The defense played one of the worst games I’ve seen, and I’ve seen a lot. They had no gap control, they lost contain, they missed tackles, and they made mistakes. The special teams turned the ball over, as did Aaron Rodgers. The Packers, especially the defense, has a lot to be sorry about, they stunk up that place last night. The 49ers certainly played extremely well, but let’s not pretend the Packers did too.
I really nailed my predictions.
Aside from picking the wrong team to win, this was pretty spot on.
Well, the 49ers picked up Aldon Smith at #7, but I had called dibs on Kaepernick the previous January on their behalf.
Kaep played well in the preseason of his rookie year. Admittedly, after Alex Smith’s playing time and against 2d & 3d stringers. And, preseason.
It’s amazing what he’s done this year. He can run, has great touch on the deep ball, he can run, can laser it in when needed, he can run, and he’s accurate when throwing on the run (mostly; not that pick-6 yesterday running to his left).
And he can run!
Well, Tim Tebow’s brother certainly noticed…
Is Tebow’s brother a Christian? That was not a Christian act, tweeting that.