Gannon is soooooo right!

Said Gannon: "If I was coaching the guy, I'd basically tell him, 'Hey, Alex, you know what? You've got 11 games left, I don't care what you do and how you do it, you better get your points across to Mike (Singletary), to Mike Johnson to every guy in the huddle. If it isn't exactly the way you want it, then go do something about it. You're going to call someone out, you're going to stand up in the meeting room, if you're going to say something in the huddle, you're going to change the play, you're going to fight to get it the way you want it. Because at the end of the day, if it doesn't get done right, you're going top be the guy that gets blamed.' That's what he's got to understand. That's the reality. ... I just think that to play this position and to play it well, you have to have a little bit of a jerk in you. And I say that constructively. If you look at Tom Brady, if you look at Peyton Manning, if you look at Drew Brees, if you look at Brett Favre. I could keep going on and on. All these guys, at the end of the day, if they have to take out that whip and let you feel it across the back of your legs, you're going to feel it."

This is perfect! I remember when Lloyd caught an amazing acrobatic pass sometime ago against a good defender and the announcer said, "he (lloyd) just wanted more" - gannon is right on. you gotta want it desperately.

And I can't remember who, but it was a QB, a good one, saying that all the great QB's, Elway, Montana, Bradshaw etc, had a little JERK in them.

GO NINERS and PLEASE BEAT THE FKN RAIDERS TOMORROW!!!!!

now paging phill jennigs............could phill jennigs please step to the 50 yard line

Boo him so his alter ego can take over.

Originally posted by Allx9er:
now paging phill jennigs............could phill jennigs please step to the 50 yard line

I have been wishing and praying for Smith to get pissed about the play calling and to say F-it and call his own play at the huddle.

Originally posted by Daniel2778:
Said Gannon: "If I was coaching the guy, I'd basically tell him, 'Hey, Alex, you know what? You've got 11 games left, I don't care what you do and how you do it, you better get your points across to Mike (Singletary), to Mike Johnson to every guy in the huddle. If it isn't exactly the way you want it, then go do something about it. You're going to call someone out, you're going to stand up in the meeting room, if you're going to say something in the huddle, you're going to change the play, you're going to fight to get it the way you want it. Because at the end of the day, if it doesn't get done right, you're going top be the guy that gets blamed.' That's what he's got to understand. That's the reality. ... I just think that to play this position and to play it well, you have to have a little bit of a jerk in you. And I say that constructively. If you look at Tom Brady, if you look at Peyton Manning, if you look at Drew Brees, if you look at Brett Favre. I could keep going on and on. All these guys, at the end of the day, if they have to take out that whip and let you feel it across the back of your legs, you're going to feel it."

Damn good advice. If Sing yanked him for passing 20 yards up the field instead of running poor gore straight up the middle, again, then the fans would boo Sing instead of Smith.

And that is what we should be doing anyway.

His career is on the line, he needs to get WAY more assertive. I wanted him to blow up on Sing's punk a55 like Steve Young did Seifert.

Originally posted by flow:

Originally posted by Allx9er:
now paging phill jennigs............could phill jennigs please step to the 50 yard line

i still love this..

if he comes out tomorrow with this persona, it really needs to gain attention from the media...i want to watch highlights and see people refer to him as phil jennings

Originally posted by sacniner:
His career is on the line, he needs to get WAY more assertive. I wanted him to blow up on Sing's punk a55 like Steve Young did Seifert.

He did that last week. Hopefully this trend will continue throughout the rest of the Season.Of course it took some prompting from Vernon but he did it.

~Ceadder

Well, this Sunday is it. It's arguably the most important game for Alex since he was drafted. I hope he's ready for his sake.

It's hard to hang on to any sort of hope at 0-5 but at this point there's nothing else. Only thing different about this week is that Alex really did seem different after boo-benchgate. Whole different demeanor attitude and playing style. And this is the first time in 5 years he's admitted that he plays cautiously. I know I know it probably doesn't mean sht and he's a bust blah blah but at this point...that little amount of hope is all us Niner fans can hang onto.

This Sunday...the season turns around. Has to.

Originally posted by Daniel2778:
Said Gannon: "If I was coaching the guy, I'd basically tell him, 'Hey, Alex, you know what? You've got 11 games left, I don't care what you do and how you do it, you better get your points across to Mike (Singletary), to Mike Johnson to every guy in the huddle. If it isn't exactly the way you want it, then go do something about it. You're going to call someone out, you're going to stand up in the meeting room, if you're going to say something in the huddle, you're going to change the play, you're going to fight to get it the way you want it. Because at the end of the day, if it doesn't get done right, you're going top be the guy that gets blamed.' That's what he's got to understand. That's the reality. ... I just think that to play this position and to play it well, you have to have a little bit of a jerk in you. And I say that constructively. If you look at Tom Brady, if you look at Peyton Manning, if you look at Drew Brees, if you look at Brett Favre. I could keep going on and on. All these guys, at the end of the day, if they have to take out that whip and let you feel it across the back of your legs, you're going to feel it."

Indeed he is, indeed he is. Alex step up to the plate and run this s**t! Make this your offense and use that intelligence to diagnose defenses and get the job done. Do what it takes to win, screw trying to please other people.

Smith needs to find his inner Tyler Durden and F things up.

Our players are wayyyy to loyal to the strategy of our inept coaches, that's the biggest problem on this team right now.