Box score: alex 9/15 and it sounded like a repeat of last yr. Then I saw the game on NFL..

Originally posted by oldman9er:
What rubs me wrong are the comments like, "if Alex can play consistently."


What I notice is... if the OL and receivers do their jobs with any sense of consistency? Then so does our QB.

People demand "consistent" good play from the QB when the OL, receiver play, and scheme has been anything but "consistent." That to me seems a very flawed mentality.

One AS play on Sat. gave me real hope that maybe he is going to raise his level of play this year. I think it was in the 2nd qtr and Smith dropped back and looked right, receiver covered--then looked left receiver covered. He then stepped up into the pocket and evaded some pressure coming from the left and casually completed a pass over the middle for about an 8 or 9 yd pickup. I replayed the dadgum play over and over until I was sure it actually happend. I don 't know if it's in part due to JH coaching or Alex getting more time from a clearly improved OL, but if that keeps happening, they keep moving the chains, this will an exceptional offense compared to what we have seen the last few years.

Originally posted by wrongway9erfan:

Originally posted by oldman9er:
What rubs me wrong are the comments like, "if Alex can play consistently."


What I notice is... if the OL and receivers do their jobs with any sense of consistency? Then so does our QB.

People demand "consistent" good play from the QB when the OL, receiver play, and scheme has been anything but "consistent." That to me seems a very flawed mentality.

One AS play on Sat. gave me real hope that maybe he is going to raise his level of play this year. I think it was in the 2nd qtr and Smith dropped back and looked right, receiver covered--then looked left receiver covered. He then stepped up into the pocket and evaded some pressure coming from the left and casually completed a pass over the middle for about an 8 or 9 yd pickup. I replayed the dadgum play over and over until I was sure it actually happend. I don 't know if it's in part due to JH coaching or Alex getting more time from a clearly improved OL, but if that keeps happening, they keep moving the chains, this will an exceptional offense compared to what we have seen the last few years.

I remember that one... a completion to Morgan over the middle. He also had the check-down back, but didn't even look left toward him... nice.

Originally posted by oldman9er:

Originally posted by wrongway9erfan:

Originally posted by oldman9er:
What rubs me wrong are the comments like, "if Alex can play consistently."


What I notice is... if the OL and receivers do their jobs with any sense of consistency? Then so does our QB.

People demand "consistent" good play from the QB when the OL, receiver play, and scheme has been anything but "consistent." That to me seems a very flawed mentality.

One AS play on Sat. gave me real hope that maybe he is going to raise his level of play this year. I think it was in the 2nd qtr and Smith dropped back and looked right, receiver covered--then looked left receiver covered. He then stepped up into the pocket and evaded some pressure coming from the left and casually completed a pass over the middle for about an 8 or 9 yd pickup. I replayed the dadgum play over and over until I was sure it actually happend. I don 't know if it's in part due to JH coaching or Alex getting more time from a clearly improved OL, but if that keeps happening, they keep moving the chains, this will an exceptional offense compared to what we have seen the last few years.

I remember that one... a completion to Morgan over the middle. He also had the check-down back, but didn't even look left toward him... nice.

It's also nice that "outlet" checkdown routes are right in front of the QB rather than to the side and out of their periphrial vision due to scrambling around.

Originally posted by OKC49erFan:

Originally posted by miked1978:
Lets see what they can do in the regular season before we crown this team. I agree we do seem a lot better but lets not overhype ourselves just yet.

Yeah, damn all these people and their pesky optimism.

This is the same argument that happens every year, between people who make an unbiased assessment of the team and see 6-10 and the blind faith homers that see the same thing and say 11-5. What is comical as the 11-5 guys rip on the realists who are accurate 100% of the time lately. Funny how everyone has anointed
Jim Harbaugh the next Vince Lomarbardi after 2 preseason games.

Originally posted by Memphis9er:

Originally posted by BobS:
Wow, starters vs starters we led the RAIDERS 3-0 at halftime of a preseason game and that is enough to predict this is going to be the best team we have seen in a long time? Three elite running backs?

Do you not get that we could have scored tds if we had called passing plays instead of running plays in the redzone? Our coach decided to hold onto those calls for the regular season, when the games count. The fact that we have a real head coach is the reason to think this will be the best niner team in years, not an unreasonable assessment. I do not know where the three elite backs are, as I see it, we have Frank, who is elite, then a couple of young unproven guys.

Ditto on that JH is thinking why show what we got in the preseason JH is a crafty guy can't wait to see a real game I think he is going to unleash fury on our opponents this season Go NINERS

Originally posted by backontop:
two people getting shot isn't exactly something to joke about, especially when it takes away our right to tailgate after the game starts.

Oh sure it is bro, it's funny as hell. Attempted homicide is a winner. Every comedy writer is in America is chompin at the bit to parlay this into millions. 80849er4life is a genius.

Originally posted by BobS:
This is the same argument that happens every year, between people who make an unbiased assessment of the team and see 6-10 and the blind faith homers that see the same thing and say 11-5. What is comical as the 11-5 guys rip on the realists who are accurate 100% of the time lately. Funny how everyone has anointed
Jim Harbaugh the next Vince Lomarbardi after 2 preseason games.

Uhhhh no it's just nice because it seeeeeeeeeeeeemszuh, like we finally have a real NFL coach. Not one who parades around the sidelines wearing a suit and b1+chen RayBans hoping his preparations for looking good that day will help him feel like a legitimate coach or a PHYSICAL with an F neanderthal needing to look at film.
Harbaugh got worked in week one and he and his coaching staff and players saw to it that it didn't happen again. It was just nice to see that. That is all. Why be such a downer? Have you grown to be such loser fan over the last 8 years that awfulness is all you have come to expect? Cheer up BobS...arrow ^^^^

Originally posted by MadMoneyMarshall:

Originally posted by Paul:

Hahahahaaha

When I was a kid, I used to make fun of the raiders QBs (whichever ones were their current QB at the time, all of them received the same joke) and pretty much do exactly what Alex Smith did in that gif. When Hostetler did it a few times in the early 90s, I couldn't help but laugh thinking back. Now, seeing our own QB do it, it's not so funny.

Originally posted by MadMoneyMarshall:
Hahahahaaha

Originally posted by MadMoneyMarshall:
Hahahahaaha

Originally posted by Paul:

a classic

Did anyone watch Drew Brees last weekend against the Texans? He had a wild, "Alex Smith Philly-Fumble" and so I was reminded... "big fu*king deal"... Wasn't Brees' first and won't be his last. You can get LOL clips of every QB having fu*ked up horribly after years of playing. Anyone remember the 2 INTs that Andrew Luck really threw in the last Bowl game? Of course not... because the defenders dropped the easy INTs and made them incompletions. Any less retarded were the throws? Nope.

Originally posted by 49erRider:

Originally posted by MadMoneyMarshall:

Originally posted by Paul:

Hahahahaaha

When I was a kid, I used to make fun of the raiders QBs (whichever ones were their current QB at the time, all of them received the same joke) and pretty much do exactly what Alex Smith did in that gif. When Hostetler did it a few times in the early 90s, I couldn't help but laugh thinking back. Now, seeing our own QB do it, it's not so funny.

Yeah..I used to laugh at other teams o-lines that did sht like this too. Then I saw us do it.

Originally posted by redmanc07:
Happens more than you think. Thats the whole deal with passing lanes and what not. Im assuming he was zeroed in on that corner on VD and when he saw where he let the ball go 2 there happened to be fat daddy dropping to that area.

sometimes you just have to attribute an interception to a great play by the defense...i remember a couple seasons ago vs Philadelphia, Asante Samuel was running downfield covering his man and Smith threw to another receiver..as he did Samuel dropped off his man and moved over in fromt of the receiver Smith was throwing to...great play by Samuel

Originally posted by susweel:
I thought the mods weren't allowing fifty million Alice threads.

Who's Alice?

alex is alice

BobS, we weren't comparing JH to coach walsh, tho there are some striking similarities. Same for lombardi. Point was JH is NOT erWRECKson, lilmikeynoln, nor is he the amazing BM(bowel movement or bigmike). JH is thotful , extremely well prepared, knows all phases of the game, is a principal OC, and can teach an OL how to block, and a DB how to cover. He is, in short, the new generation of great young coaches, perfectly prepared to take on this job. Shame it took 3 lulu losers for jed et al to realize that.

No matter what happens here on out, I am already pleased with the season. I see a guy who knows his stuff at HC and it is apparent baalke may be really something special in talent evaluation. Hunter in 4th? are you kidding me? And on top of that we have an OL, with legit young backups, that actually blocked for one game. It won't be the last.

Originally posted by sf49ersx11: