December 3, 2007
It's Got to be the Morning After
This weekend in sports brought us victories by the Warriors, the Raiders and a color. In the defeated column-- and by defeated we mean severely-- are the 49ers who lost to a team lead by 44-year-old Vinny Testaverde.
Panthers 31 49ers 14- We repeat, the 49ers lost to a team that was led by 44-year-old Vinny Testaverde.
Raiders 34 Broncos 20- There's really no figuring this Raiders team out. A few weeks ago, they looked like they were toast. Then they beat the Chiefs. A few weeks ago, Josh McCown looked like toast. Then he went out and led the Raiders to their second win against a division opponent in a row (first time sionce 2002) And a few weeks ago, the defense looked like toast. Then they went out and stifled the vaunted Broncos’ running game and shut down Jay Cutler, thus dooming SFist's fantasy football team (thank you, Oakland, for choosing this week to remember how to play defense). Of course, the big news out of the game is the appearance on the field of JaMarcus Russell who came out for a spell, threw some passes, fumbled the bal and was soon replaced by McCown, his proverbial football cherry popped.
Warriors 109 Sonics 96- So it's apparent the force is still strong with the Warriors as they haven’t missed a beat from the final month of last season. The question, now is just where will this all get the team? Are we looking a contending team or a team still on the bottom rung of the Western Conference pecking order? Bruce Jenkins still thinks the Warriors are still only a 7th round playoff seed but at this point, who can really say what will happen at ths point? Is all this winning still just lightning in a bottle or is winning the new losing?
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I gave up watching the Niners for the season after the Seahawks threw a no-hitter (several weeks ago).
Perhaps Mike Nolan is an idiot. Perhaps Alex Smith is the wrong fit. Perhaps the team needs a real offensive coordinator. However, I really think the team is doomed to mediocrity without change of ownership.
Denise and John are nothing like Eddie. N-O-T-H-I-N-G.
Ah it's nice seeing the Panthers on SFist and on local TV.
However I did grow up a 49ers fan mostly due to techmo bowl and mike cofer.
Testaverde won the Heisman, what did anybody on the 9ers ever do?
Alex Smith took a 12-0 Utah team to the Fiesta Bowl, crushing Pittsburgh; that Utah team was the first non-BCS conference team to play and win a BCS game.
He came in fourth in Heisman voting, but considering the lackluster NFL careers of many Heisman winners (and runners-up) in recent years, I'm not sure the Heisman thing is all that it's cracked up to be.
That said, I'm not even sure if Alex Smith has the highly-prized ability to find the open receiver.
Oh, and Andy Lee is the best punter in the NFL! Lots of opportunities this year!!
Somewhere online is a theory about Smith, that basically Smith played and excelled in a spread offense. So what did Nolan try and do with him? Make him one of those QBs who "manage" the game instead of the kind of QB who just chucks and chucks the ball. Wouldn't it make sense that if you draft a QB who is really good in a certain kind of offense to try and install that kind of offense instead of making him play a completely different offense?
Then again, there's also the theory that spread offenses are too much of a gimick and that they usually make lousy NFL QBs.
Yeah, the spread offense has not panned out in the NFL. I think NFL defenses are too skilled to let that little gimmick work well. June Jones employs the run-and-shoot at the University of Hawaii, and I wonder if Colt Brennan will have the same problems.
Urban Meyer coaches Florida now (he coached Smith at Utah) so I think Tim Tebow's future success in the NFL is questionable at best, despite the fact he's one of the Heisman favorites.