That game last night didn’t mean shit in the grand scheme of things. Anybody can get beat at home and eventually the Niners will wallop Seattle at home. It was the second game of the year. The game on December 8th will be a much bigger game, given the point in the season at which it occurs, and the Niners WILL win that one. The Niners got shellacked last year in Seattle and when all was said and done, Seattle had to sit at home and watch the Niners do what they couldn’t get done. I know a few Seattle fans out here and it never ceases to amaze me how quickly you can tell if a fan roots for a team that has never actually won shit in its history. Those types of fans are the ones popping off about a win in the middle of September. 49ers fans for the most part don’t even give a shit. Since we’ve actually seen what winning, playoff football looks like year in, year out, for more than three decades in a row and not intermittently over the last 8-9 years, we understand that games at this point of the year don’t make a champion out of anyone.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
That game last night didn’t mean shit in the grand scheme of things. Anybody can get beat at home and eventually the Niners will wallop Seattle at home. It was the second game of the year. The game on December 8th will be a much bigger game, given the point in the season at which it occurs, and the Niners WILL win that one. The Niners got shellacked last year in Seattle and when all was said and done, Seattle had to sit at home and watch the Niners do what they couldn’t get done. I know a few Seattle fans out here and it never ceases to amaze me how quickly you can tell if a fan roots for a team that has never actually won shit in its history. Those types of fans are the ones popping off about a win in the middle of September. 49ers fans for the most part don’t even give a shit. Since we’ve actually seen what winning, playoff football looks like year in, year out, for more than three decades in a row and not intermittently over the last 8-9 years, we understand that games at this point of the year don’t make a champion out of anyone.[/quote]
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Sour grapes cost a lot more than that around here, pal.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
That game last night didn’t mean shit in the grand scheme of things. Anybody can get beat at home and eventually the Niners will wallop Seattle at home. It was the second game of the year. The game on December 8th will be a much bigger game, given the point in the season at which it occurs, and the Niners WILL win that one. The Niners got shellacked last year in Seattle and when all was said and done, Seattle had to sit at home and watch the Niners do what they couldn’t get done. I know a few Seattle fans out here and it never ceases to amaze me how quickly you can tell if a fan roots for a team that has never actually won shit in its history. Those types of fans are the ones popping off about a win in the middle of September. 49ers fans for the most part don’t even give a shit. Since we’ve actually seen what winning, playoff football looks like year in, year out, for more than three decades in a row and not intermittently over the last 8-9 years, we understand that games at this point of the year don’t make a champion out of anyone.[/quote]
I don’t disagree with a lot of this, but this game was about as big as it gets in September and we both know that. It also shows how important home field is in this division and between these two teams. It makes every regular season game important. There is no fucking way you can convince me you’d feel good about a post-season away game in Seattle.
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
That game last night didn’t mean shit in the grand scheme of things. Anybody can get beat at home and eventually the Niners will wallop Seattle at home. It was the second game of the year. The game on December 8th will be a much bigger game, given the point in the season at which it occurs, and the Niners WILL win that one. The Niners got shellacked last year in Seattle and when all was said and done, Seattle had to sit at home and watch the Niners do what they couldn’t get done. I know a few Seattle fans out here and it never ceases to amaze me how quickly you can tell if a fan roots for a team that has never actually won shit in its history. Those types of fans are the ones popping off about a win in the middle of September. 49ers fans for the most part don’t even give a shit. Since we’ve actually seen what winning, playoff football looks like year in, year out, for more than three decades in a row and not intermittently over the last 8-9 years, we understand that games at this point of the year don’t make a champion out of anyone.[/quote]
I don’t disagree with a lot of this, but this game was about as big as it gets in September and we both know that. It also shows how important home field is in this division and between these two teams. It makes every regular season game important. There is no fucking way you can convince me you’d feel good about a post-season away game in Seattle. [/quote]
Fuck no I don’t feel good about one up there. But you know what? That isn’t my concern. I just sit and watch the games and want to be entertained. And last night’s game was anything but entertaining.
I’ll never forget the first few games of the 1994 NFL season. The Niners were coming off back-to-back losses to Dallas in the NFC Championship Game, people are going fucking insane about Steve Young and Joe Montana and all that shit, and the Niners seemed like they were really up against it early in the year.
They got beat the fuck down in Kansas City in Week 2, with Montana burying his old team and Steve Young getting knocked the fuck out, staying in the game, puking all over the field and generally looking tougher than he was good. Then they get the absolute SHIT kicked out of them a couple weeks later by Philadelphia 40-8, IN Candlestick Park on top of everything else. Young got benched, almost had to be restrained from going after George Seifert on the sidelines, the sky was falling, and so on and so on.
The Niners ended winning every single game from that point up until a meaningless Week 17 game against the Vikings in which none of the starters played more than a couple series. They beat the fuck out of the Cowboys at home even though they looked totally incapable of hanging with them over the last two seasons, they rolled into the NFC Championship Game at home because they still managed to clinch homefield advantage despite two of the ugliest losses in recent memory at that time, and when they faced Dallas again in the Championship Game they further beat the fuck out of the Cowboys and went to the Super Bowl. And by that time the Niners were on such a roll that the largest point spread in any Super Bowl before or since (17.5) was in place about a day after the two conference championship games. And of course, the Niners more than covered the spread by beating the living snot out of the hapless Chargers.
The point is that seasons aren’t won or lost in September. There is plenty of time for the Niners to recover from this game, figure their shit out, make some adjustments, and not only beat Seattle into submission in December, but to potentially wallop the fuck out of them in the playoffs as well. Forty-Niners fans understand this because we’ve seen it before (1988 and 1994). Seattle fans have no clue what the fuck I’m talking about because they’ve never seen a successful run to anywhere but the divisional round of the playoffs, save for one embarrassing showing in the Super Bowl.
And if that isn’t an incredible job of minimizing/rationalizing what was about as psychologically-damaging a loss as is possible in September, I don’t know what is.
And I DID lose an avatar bet in this game, but to whom I’m not sure. I just remember it was some uppity fucking asshole from Idaho and we’ve got the same bet already lined up for the rematch in December. We made the bet so long ago that I don’t remember who it was with. But I’m a man of my word so I expect whoever I owe one month’s worth of an ego-crushing avatar to come on here and provide it.
But provide it soon. The terms of our bet were that I would use the avatar for one month, starting right after the game. If whoever I lost to comes on here in late October when I will owe chillain an avatar (assuming Kershaw finishes the year with a sub-2.00 ERA), that boat will have sailed. I have about a year’s worth of avatar bet commitments that are going to start realizing themselves in the next month or so, and if you don’t provide me with the avatar you want me to use when it’s time for the next person to potentially collect on a bet you go to the back of the line. So hurry the fuck up with your stupid fucking Dave Krieg avatar so I can get this the fuck over with.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
And if that isn’t an incredible job of minimizing/rationalizing what was about as psychologically-damaging a loss as is possible in September, I don’t know what is.[/quote]
It is, no doubt about it lol.
As much as that loss last night sucked for us Niners fans, like DB said it doesn’t really matter much.
Same thing happened, but worse, last season and look how that turned out. The 49ers will be fine. That game was oddly reminiscent of two years ago against the Giants when no one in a red jersey could get any separation to save their lives and Alex Smith had something like 2 completions to wide outs?
The DB’s were holding like crazy but the refs were letting em play so they needed to figure out a way to get open. I would love to see SF kick the she hawks asses in December and then have the season tie breaker be the NFC Championship game as the last ever game at The Stick.
Amazing.
[quote]gregron wrote:
As much as that loss last night sucked for us Niners fans, like DB said it doesn’t really matter much.
Same thing happened, but worse, last season and look how that turned out. The 49ers will be fine. That game was oddly reminiscent of two years ago against the Giants when no one in a red jersey could get any separation to save their lives and Alex Smith had something like 2 completions to wide outs?
The DB’s were holding like crazy but the refs were letting em play so they needed to figure out a way to get open. I would love to see SF kick the she hawks asses in December and then have the season tie breaker be the NFC Championship game as the last ever game at The Stick.
Amazing.[/quote]
Didn’t you get voted off the island?
[quote]BeefEater wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
As much as that loss last night sucked for us Niners fans, like DB said it doesn’t really matter much.
Same thing happened, but worse, last season and look how that turned out. The 49ers will be fine. That game was oddly reminiscent of two years ago against the Giants when no one in a red jersey could get any separation to save their lives and Alex Smith had something like 2 completions to wide outs?
The DB’s were holding like crazy but the refs were letting em play so they needed to figure out a way to get open. I would love to see SF kick the she hawks asses in December and then have the season tie breaker be the NFC Championship game as the last ever game at The Stick.
Amazing.[/quote]
Didn’t you get voted off the island?[/quote]
In a surprise twist ending the producers decided to bring me back to shake things up.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Bert, anyone ever told you you are quite the chatty rascal?[/quote]
Yea I tell him all the time
[quote]gregron wrote:
[quote]BeefEater wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
As much as that loss last night sucked for us Niners fans, like DB said it doesn’t really matter much.
Same thing happened, but worse, last season and look how that turned out. The 49ers will be fine. That game was oddly reminiscent of two years ago against the Giants when no one in a red jersey could get any separation to save their lives and Alex Smith had something like 2 completions to wide outs?
The DB’s were holding like crazy but the refs were letting em play so they needed to figure out a way to get open. I would love to see SF kick the she hawks asses in December and then have the season tie breaker be the NFC Championship game as the last ever game at The Stick.
Amazing.[/quote]
Didn’t you get voted off the island?[/quote]
In a surprise twist ending the producers decided to bring me back to shake things up.[/quote]
He is only allowed in the football threads
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Bert, anyone ever told you you are quite the chatty rascal?[/quote]
I don’t know what you’re talking about. Try to sum your point up a little more succinctly next time and I might be able to wade through your verbose prose style and find the point you’re trying to make lurking somewhere within.
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]pat wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
I don’t even think Kap played all that bad, and the 9ers had a couple injuries. But it didn’t matter that D for Seattle was out of it’s god damn skull last night.
I’m too old to enjoy it, but being 25, drunk and a Hawks fan in that stadium must be the most fun time for most sports fans. [/quote]
I wasn’t his best game. 3 picks, no touchdowns…
-13 of 28 passing 46% completion, 127 yrds passing
-87 yrds rushing in 9 attempts
and a fumble.
Actually, he did have a bad game. Not saying he’s a bad QB, but he definitely had a bad game. It wasn’t all his fault, that defense came unglued in the 4th quarter. They had a litany of stupid penalties. They just got out muscled by the 'Hawks. That’s the bottom line of the game.
Wilson didn’t look all that good in the first half, but he turned it on in the second. All in all, a damn entertaining game. I do not want to play the Seahawks right now. The defense looks dominating and I HATE Sherman.
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All I’m saying is: Kap didn’t go out there and suck ball bag, the Defense forced him to play like that.
I give more credit to the D, and think Kap just got beat. I don’t think he had all that much of an “off day”. It is just the Seattle D was good enough to keep the best quarterback to ever wear human skin, future hall of famer and potential yearly MVP until he chooses to retire, down. [/quote]
I am going to have to disagree. He had his moments of brilliance, but he turned the ball over 4 times. And he had several misses, not just where his receivers failed him, but actually threw poorly. He just had a bad game. No it wasn’t all his fault by any stretch, but he had a hand in it… You cannot turn the ball over 4 times as a team, much less a single player.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
That game last night didn’t mean shit in the grand scheme of things. Anybody can get beat at home and eventually the Niners will wallop Seattle at home. It was the second game of the year. The game on December 8th will be a much bigger game, given the point in the season at which it occurs, and the Niners WILL win that one. The Niners got shellacked last year in Seattle and when all was said and done, Seattle had to sit at home and watch the Niners do what they couldn’t get done. I know a few Seattle fans out here and it never ceases to amaze me how quickly you can tell if a fan roots for a team that has never actually won shit in its history. Those types of fans are the ones popping off about a win in the middle of September. 49ers fans for the most part don’t even give a shit. Since we’ve actually seen what winning, playoff football looks like year in, year out, for more than three decades in a row and not intermittently over the last 8-9 years, we understand that games at this point of the year don’t make a champion out of anyone.[/quote]
Oh brother.
I just have one question. What color skirt do you squat in?
[quote]gregron wrote:
As much as that loss last night sucked for us Niners fans, like DB said it doesn’t really matter much.
Same thing happened, but worse, last season and look how that turned out. The 49ers will be fine. That game was oddly reminiscent of two years ago against the Giants when no one in a red jersey could get any separation to save their lives and Alex Smith had something like 2 completions to wide outs?
The DB’s were holding like crazy but the refs were letting em play so they needed to figure out a way to get open. I would love to see SF kick the she hawks asses in December and then have the season tie breaker be the NFC Championship game as the last ever game at The Stick.
Amazing.[/quote]
Yeah it was the ref’s fault.