47 thoughts on “Thursday Football: Get It Together”
This week's Pain In The Ass Byes: Bears, Bengals, Broncos, Packers. (Yes, I did have a disproportionate number of players from those teams, how did you guess?)
IMHO Kaepernick was hung out to dry, after overpaying him and then trying to to turn him into something he isn't. Like Wilson, he's an instinctual player, but trying to force him to sit in the pocket and make three or four decisions before passing… last season he was so lost. Mind you, so was Harbaugh. Total dumpster fire and the flames are still burning…
I'll agree that they're not playing him to his strengths. That being said, even if they did so, that lack of decision-making was probably going to hurt him eventually, though maybe not this bad.
KISS.
Exactly. What was the benefit of 'protecting' him and in effect turning him into a project for a season or two…and with a new stadium 'bump' for attendances too?
So you let him one look and run, or make something happen – which is what Wilson has had to do repeatedly…. He gets injured or lifespan is shorter, but so what? Ugh… it just frustrates me.
If they wanted a pocket passer and game manager, just keep Alex Smith.
AND IT'S OVER, THE 11-HOUR POLITICAL TRAIN WRECK IS OVER
She'll have ready-made political ads for most of her campaign at this point. Apparently the Republicans outside seemed really sad, which would be an odd reaction if they actually believed it was non-political!
"Curt said if we talked about that one guy emailing poopy words and talked bad about that Admiral, Hillary would start crying and confess to flying to that place (is it in Asia?) to stab those people, like on Law & Order, but she just laughed. She must be crazy."
I'm choosing to read this as the GOP consulting Curt Schilling because that thought is hilarious to me.
Did someone get to say to Gowdy (gawd, that is one dopey-lookin' muthafucka) "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
Might be the longest trip of all to get to a Raiders game soon tho….
(not been to a Raiders game yet, unfortunately, timings never worked out, but I have seen a Warriors and an A's game…would be nice to complete the trifecta)
That's the nice thing about CA and the Bay Area: when they need a billion dollar bridge or train line, they just do it. Red state Republitards (looking at you, Chris Chrisco) are paralyzed by the idiotic promises they made to their teabagger base.
Vancouver invested heavily in infrastructure for the Winter Olympics (Skytrain transit to/from airport and downtown, plus expansion of YVR airport, Sea To Sky Highway to Whistler, various improvements downtown) which IIRC led on to incentive for extra investment for bridge across Fraser and retrofitting BC Place stadium later (see Women's World Cup Final, etc…).
Lasting improvements… compared to London Olympics where billions were spent, most of the transport was workarounds (coopting busy London roads) with fuck all to show after they put everything back the way they found it…and one of the few things they built, they've just completed the most outrageous boondoggle deal on the Olympic Stadium, renting it to West Ham in the EPL for next-to-nothing, compared to other stadia (both Chelsea and Spurs looking to temporarily rent Wembley Stadium for over five times the price while they build – and pay for – their new/expanded stadia)
Anyway, about to go on a rant so will shut up now.
This week's Pain In The Ass Byes: Bears, Bengals, Broncos, Packers. (Yes, I did have a disproportionate number of players from those teams, how did you guess?)
I'm without Forte, Eifert, and Cobb, so I know your pain.
I had 4 on byes and another 3-4 with serious injuries. Those guys with injuries should send me their pain meds because I've earned it.
Oof. Just looked at your team, that's rough.
Being a hardcore fantasy sportsbawller from Seattle, I'll be at the Symphony. Fortunately the game is in SFO not SEA. Whew!
Have fun! I'm sure you can watch the Benghazi hearing when you get back, it's not like it'll end!
Point of Order. It's in Santa Clara.
"Parliamentary Inquiry: How late are we going tonight?"
Have fun folks.
Oh, yay, so far Kaeper-not has me at -0.9. Setting the world on fire tonight.
I remember when people thought he'd be an elite quarterback. Now he looks awful.
If my other QB wasn't hurt, he would be on my bench, if I even kept him.
We have reached bizarro world, where a 49ers QB looks less interesting than one on the Jaguars.
TBH he looks better than he did last season.
Not that that's saying much…
-2.2 at halftime. Ouch. I had no idea the Niners sucked so much this year. They look absolutely awful.
The good news is that they might be able to draft a QB next year!
Suck for Luck!
IMHO Kaepernick was hung out to dry, after overpaying him and then trying to to turn him into something he isn't. Like Wilson, he's an instinctual player, but trying to force him to sit in the pocket and make three or four decisions before passing… last season he was so lost. Mind you, so was Harbaugh. Total dumpster fire and the flames are still burning…
I'll agree that they're not playing him to his strengths. That being said, even if they did so, that lack of decision-making was probably going to hurt him eventually, though maybe not this bad.
KISS.
Exactly. What was the benefit of 'protecting' him and in effect turning him into a project for a season or two…and with a new stadium 'bump' for attendances too?
So you let him one look and run, or make something happen – which is what Wilson has had to do repeatedly…. He gets injured or lifespan is shorter, but so what? Ugh… it just frustrates me.
If they wanted a pocket passer and game manager, just keep Alex Smith.
AND IT'S OVER, THE 11-HOUR POLITICAL TRAIN WRECK IS OVER
Aw, come on, that's the perfect amount of raw footage for a future Hillary ad.
She'll have ready-made political ads for most of her campaign at this point. Apparently the Republicans outside seemed really sad, which would be an odd reaction if they actually believed it was non-political!
"Curt said if we talked about that one guy emailing poopy words and talked bad about that Admiral, Hillary would start crying and confess to flying to that place (is it in Asia?) to stab those people, like on Law & Order, but she just laughed. She must be crazy."
I'm choosing to read this as the GOP consulting Curt Schilling because that thought is hilarious to me.
Did someone get to say to Gowdy (gawd, that is one dopey-lookin' muthafucka) "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
did it ever get any better?
Definitely. It got better the moment it ended.
Emmitt Smith’s Lock Of The Week! This week, I like the New York Gents (+9) to go into Fucksbro and STUNT the Paytreats!
This is my favorite part of Magary's articles.
Nice catch by Lockett!
I remember when Kaepernick was allowed to do stuff like that
So apparently the Cubs once drafted Colin Kaepernick. One wonders how he would have done in baseball.
Bo knows.
Sorry, that was for us olds
The Seahawks have somehow managed to get multiple personal foul penalties called against them in a game they're up 20-3 in.
with 4.08 to go, I'm not sure that even the Seahawks D can fuck it up from here!
Jeez, they showed Marshawn Lynch barfing on the sidelines early in the game, and then he goes out and rushes for over 100 yards. Beastmode!
Next Vomiting Larry post incoming?
Did she avoid this summer's nasty fires?
Now, now. Roger was merely, and kindly, passing the broken shard back to him.
It's true, been advertising it on TV a ton around here.
MANAGED TO FIND A SORT OF ON-TOPIC TWEET FOR THIS THREAD
https://twitter.com/Buster_ESPN/status/6573572670…
1. Sadly you are on Krampus's list this year.
2. At least you can get to San Francisco's airport on the BART.
I honestly have no clue but that doesn't sound like it would be far off.
Might be the longest trip of all to get to a Raiders game soon tho….
(not been to a Raiders game yet, unfortunately, timings never worked out, but I have seen a Warriors and an A's game…would be nice to complete the trifecta)
That's the nice thing about CA and the Bay Area: when they need a billion dollar bridge or train line, they just do it. Red state Republitards (looking at you, Chris Chrisco) are paralyzed by the idiotic promises they made to their teabagger base.
Vancouver invested heavily in infrastructure for the Winter Olympics (Skytrain transit to/from airport and downtown, plus expansion of YVR airport, Sea To Sky Highway to Whistler, various improvements downtown) which IIRC led on to incentive for extra investment for bridge across Fraser and retrofitting BC Place stadium later (see Women's World Cup Final, etc…).
Lasting improvements… compared to London Olympics where billions were spent, most of the transport was workarounds (coopting busy London roads) with fuck all to show after they put everything back the way they found it…and one of the few things they built, they've just completed the most outrageous boondoggle deal on the Olympic Stadium, renting it to West Ham in the EPL for next-to-nothing, compared to other stadia (both Chelsea and Spurs looking to temporarily rent Wembley Stadium for over five times the price while they build – and pay for – their new/expanded stadia)
Anyway, about to go on a rant so will shut up now.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34492276
Fucking outrageous tbh. But then we're used to private sports businesses paying market rent/value over in the UK.
Except now we're* mostly blue because we're still stuck with Christie.
* I can still say we since I haven't switched my voter registration/dmv stuff yet.