Lowell Cohn's new article

i thought it was linda cohn

Talk to me Thursday night after the Chargers game about this team and this season.

Originally posted by PatrickJira411:
Talk to me Thursday night after the Chargers game about this team and this season.

I don't like the dude, but he's got a point.......IF the Niners win out and make the playoffs and MAYBE win a game, there is a good chance that Jed won't fire Singletary!


Don't get me wrong, I want the team to win. I'd love to see the Niners make the playoffs and maybe even steal a win at home. But then what happens next year? More of Sing's (F)ysical power running offense? More idiotic press confrences where he finds as many words as possible to say pretty much nothing?
The thought of another season with Sing is just horrible.

Still...........GO NINERS!

We could make it to the super bowl and singletary will still get fired and Alex would still be going to another team or at the most come back as a stop gap or back up similar to Rattay.

People just love to over react and be negative. Its easier and more interesting I guess. If the Bears dumped Grossman after he had a decent season and led his team to the superbowl...the Niners can and will let Smith go after going 5-6 (1-6 plus potentially winning out) and a first round blow out.

I agree with this article 100%, except I still will not believe in this team even if we some how magically beat SD.

I wonder if Lowell Cohn even watches the game sometimes.

I agree we all need to temper our optimism as this was a Seattle team missing some receivers. There was a great deal to be optimistic about in today's game but you won't see it sitting up in the press box jaw boning with your fellow scribes.

To see why 49er fans can be optimistic about today's game you would have to have spent some time studying the offense in the Jimmy Raye era and then compare it to today. You should look at the pass patterns being run and the sequencing of plays (at least in the first half) today and compare what you saw to Jimmy ball. If you did that, and really understood what you were viewing, you would see that the offense in the first half today was impossible to compare to JR days. This offense actually had a purpose and design/style to it. It actually fooled LBs and safeties on the Seattle side of the ball. The OL actually had some blocking advantages due to influence plays. It was VERY different from that mess we saw in the first 7 weeks.

IMO, for the first time, we saw today what Mike Johnson can do with an offense. Up until the time Sing shut it down in the second half, Johnson was able to take the wraps off and just call plays that would work. Not every play was a big gainer but each play had a purpose if it was nothing more than probing to set up another play.

MJ couldn't do that with Troy because Troy didn't know the book well enough but with Alex he could run some things that gave us some insight, and, yes, some hope that we can actually develop some of the talent that is on this team. This is still the same team that the experts called the best in the division. Now that the training wheels have been taken off it showed today for the first time a new offense - one that actually looks like a pro offense.

Cohn gets paid if people read his stuff and hit his page. It doesn't have to be right. It just has to get some hits so the PD can justify its ad rates. That is all he did today.

That douche is still writing?

Originally posted by greywolf447:
That douche is still writing?

that was the first thing I thought when I read the title.

negativity sells more than positive stories.

I bet Cohn's boss can relate to this article. Writing 1 good article per season is how Cohn's able to keep his job.

Ho hum. 49ers won. Enjoy it. We have a lot of holes. They won't go away. We just have to hope we can scrap together a miracle in SD. Phillip Rivers is one of the best pure throwers in the league. We are weak against the pass. If we can't put pressure on him, or we can't match them in a shoot out. We are screwed.

Read it, and can't disagree with it. There's no reason to buy into anything if they play like s**t against the Chargers. Cohn just writes in a derogatory manner to piss everyone off, but I agree with him.

Originally posted by Ceadderman:

Originally posted by 49ERSAM:
OK, I forgive the team's performance this season if they could make it to 8 - 8. But then again, I know I am just foolin myself to be keep believing that they could. Alex Smith is so inconsistent about his performance every week that it makes my azz hurt watching him play. Bottom line, no-go, delete this QB after they loose to the Rams.

What?

Why even bother?

We had a 1-6 record before Alex got benched. Defense was the cause of 4 of the losses.

Seattle was a trap game. How do you prepare for an Offense you've never seen? Alex played pretty well in the first half and the Defense was average into the 2nd Quarter.

The one game that really killed Alex was the KC game but be honest, that was Coaching at its worst. Every side of the ball sucked. You could blame it on the QB but you would only be 1/44th right.

So if you look at the games lost by the Defense(i.e. Saints, Falcons, Iggles) Alex actually played pretty consistently. He had turnovers sure. But only cause Sing's feathering the brakes all game long.

Ahhh but that's the price you pay when you're the number 1 overall pick and the fans are unhappy with you in San Francisco.

~Ceadder

Please, plllleeeeaaaasssseeeee leave with Alex to whatever team picks him up next year. I'm begging!

Originally posted by Ceadderman:
Well he must have had that stored up since he couldn't whine about the Gigantes, since they didn't get that early Postseason exit.

Do people really buy into this type of negativity? If so I'm glad I got out of the State. That kind of negativity fed my G/Fs' paranoia for years.

I have some advice though. If you don't like it don't watch. Find some other team to watch, find some other sport. Hell take the time to get to know your family instead. Maybe little Billy won't grow up to be a ward of the State for 25 to Life cause you didn't hug him much when he was a kid.

I could write a hundred times better and show my displeasure than this Cohn fool.

~Ceadder

Why don't you become a fan of whatever team A.Smith goes to. You, him and his new team would be a match made in Heaven because some of us, THE REAL FANS WHO KNOW WTF THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT are sick and tired of this Hell we been living for the past 6yrs. One blow out win and people STILL support this guy and you know what the funny part is HE IS STILL 2-6 AS THE STARTER THIS YEAR!!