I wonder who Foles has lunch with?

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http://blog.sfgate.com/49ers/

49ers appear united, and could we a change after the bye week?
By Kevin Lynch on October 28, 2015 at 2:59 PM

Colin Kaepernick breezed through the locker room and past a small group of reporters.

“Hey,” Kaepernick called out, “Who do you guys have lunch with?”

Kaepernick was poking harmless fun at the news conference he just concluded when he was asked who he lunches with.

The question was prompted by a national report saying that Kaepernick was on an island in the 49ers’ locker room.

“Kap isn’t on a damn island,” wide receiver Torrey Smith told a gaggle of reporters unprompted.

If the 49ers are fracturing in the wake of a 2-5 start, they didn’t show it on Wednesday, in fact they put up a convincing show of unity, with Smith leading the charge.

“If anyone is going to be mad, it’s going to be the receivers,” Smith said about the team’s start and Kaepernick’s struggles. “And we’re fine.”

For the record, Kaepernick lunches with fellow quarterbacks and offensive linemen Alex Boone and Joe Staley.

When asked to address the report on being on an island, Kaepernick said, “No, I have a great relationship with my teammates. To me, that’s a situation where I don’t know what the agenda is saying that or what the credibility of that source is.”
The report from Jay Glazer brought up memories from last year of unnamed sources that undercut then coach Jim Harbaugh.

Under cutting Kaepernick now could be a motivation since the 49ers might want to get a look at backup quarterback Blaine Gabbert before determining whether to pay Kaepernick $16 million in bonuses and salary next year. Also, if Kaepernick sustains a horrible injury, the 49ers would owe him $61 million.

But the decision on whether Kaepernick sits or plays is up to one man – the loyal Jim Tomsula. The new coach doesn’t have final say over the roster, the draft, or player acquisition. He does have final say on who will start on game days, and right now his starter at quarterback is Kaepernick.

As we have seen, Tomsula doesn’t like to make changes. He once said that he doesn’t want his players to feel like they are “disposable.”

Tomsula has also said twice that changes could be made, but then little happens. The only switch has been the introduction of Andrew Tiller at right guard on a rotating basis. And from what Tomsula said Wednesday, it doesn’t appear if a shake up is expected this week.

However, all this could change in a few weeks. The 49ers play in St. Louis on Sunday, and they host Atlanta before arriving at their bye week. At that time, center Daniel Kilgore is expected to return, which could provide a perfect opportunity to start a new quarterback.

But in the mean time, there appears to be support for the embattled Kaepernick. But just how long with that support last?

Agamemnon wrote:

Will Jim Tomsula eventually have to bench Colin Kaepernick?

Who besides Kaepernick can kill the moles?

This is the same QB who led SF to consecutive playoff wins
over the Packers. And now he’s a mole-killer ?
How does that happen?

“…Ted Thompson on Colin Kaepernick: Oh my, that was special
Posted by Josh Alper on January 13, 2013, 11:20 AM EDT
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Kaepernick scrambles away from Green Bay Packers Neal in their NFL NFC Divisional playoff football game in San Francisco Reuters

The Packers left San Francisco as 45-31 losers to the 49ers and members of the Colin Kaepernick admiration society.

Watching Kaepernick light up the defense for 263 passing yards and 181 rushing yards, the most ever by an NFL quarterback, left the architect of the Packers team sounding more impressed by Kaepernick than he was upset at his team’s efforts. Packers General Manager Ted Thompson knew the hype on Kaepernick, but said that the real thing went beyond the advance billing.

“That was unbelievable,” Thompson said, via Jason Cole of Yahoo! Sports. “He did everything. I mean, I had read the press clippings and seen some of the highlights. But to watch what he did … oh my, that was special.”….
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/01/13/ted-thompson-on-colin-kaepernick-oh-my-that-was-special/

SF is a bad team, but like most bad teams
they can rise up and play well now and then.
Interestingly their defense gave up 43 pts to Pitt,
and then 47 points to Ariz — and then they came
out and limited the Packers to 17 points.

Remember when SF was one play from winning the Super Bowl?
Wasn’t that long ago. And Kaepernik was the QB. He was a Star.
Now he’s a bum. Funny what happens when the RB leaves and the OLine
falls apart.

1 9/14 vs. Min W 20-3
2 9/20 @ Pit L 43-18
3 9/27 @ Ari L 47-7
4 10/4 vs. GB L 17-3
5 10/11 @ NYG L 30-27
6 10/18 vs. Bal W 25-20
7 10/22 vs. Sea L 20-3
8 11/1 @ StL 10:00 AM PT

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http://blog.sfgate.com/49ers/2015/10/26/will-jim-tomsula-eventually-have-to-bench-colin-kaepernick/
Will Jim Tomsula eventually have to bench Colin Kaepernick?
By Kevin Lynch on October 26, 2015 at 5:31 AM

Colin Kaepernick on an island in the locker room? (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Colin Kaepernick on an island in the locker room? (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Rumors are swirling around the embattled 49ers, which is almost expected after five corrosive losses. Whispers of momentous changes on this team have been in the air and on Sunday, Fox’s Jay Glazer reported that quarterback Colin Kaepernick is on an “island in the locker room.”

Coach Jim Tomsula said changes were coming on Friday, after the 49ers’ dreadful offensive performance in a 20-3 drubbing to rival Seattle. But he wouldn’t be specific. However, he did say there would be no change at quarterback. In fact, last week, Tomsula was obstinate about who makes the decision at quarterback – he does.

But sticking with Kaepernick might not be what the organization wants. They have a $16 million bill coming due on him in the off-season, and if Kaepernick’s frustrating inconsistency persists, the higher-ups might want to see what kind of bridge quarterback Blaine Gabbert can be.

Certainly, wide receivers Anquan Boldin and Torrey Smith exhibited consternation this season after a few of Kaepernick’s wayward passes. Nevertheless, to Kaepernick’s credit, he has not show any anger at his offensive line for their leaky protection.

Of course, Kaepernick’s lack of pocket presence and inability to spot open receivers has contributed to his 25 sacks, something that is probably not lost on management.

All of this puts pressure on Tomsula if indeed, those above him want him to make a change that he doesn’t want to make. Tomsula continues to be admired and well-liked by players. It seems that most believe that Tomsula is in the same predicament they’re in, namely working for a diminished team resulting from free-agent losses, sudden retirements and a lack of adequate replacements.

But now, Tomsula’s loyalty and belief in his unshakable will to make things right might be working against him. Tomsula’s rise to success was built on persistence and overcoming insurmountable odds. How else could a guy that once slept in his car win the head job after just eight seasons as a defensive line coach?

The reality is the 49ers cannot be fixed this year. Now they have lost strong safety Antoine Bethea, and running back Carlos Hyde has a stress fracture in his foot. Those losses are added to an already talent-challenged team.

Tomsula announced he will fix his team and he is probably working himself into the ground to find solutions. But sleeping in his office, and hoping the answer will come in his 19th straight hour of toil is just magical thinking.

The one decision Tomsula seems unwilling to make – the one at quarterback – is something that seems antithetical to Tomsula’s sense of loyalty and his belief he can work his way to winning.

But it’s a decision that eventually, he may have to make.

Twitter: @klynch49

Rams are at home.
49ers have lost a ton of former-ram-killers on defense.
Rams have Gurley.
Cook is due to have a game where he’s not a Weasel.

Rams win Ugly

Rams 23
SF 17

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Well the issue to ‘me’ is — can they get to that “ten win” level.
Wild-card playoff level — and to be at ‘that’ level, you can
still have weaknesses. So, i think they can indeed
have a mediocre passing game and still be a wild-card-level team.

I never had much hope for an ‘elite level’ team this year.

I also do think the passing game will improve as the season
goes along (barring injuries). Surely its reasonable to
expect incremental improvement from a new QB and a new OLine
as the season goes along and they get more experience.

They get the 49ers at home. Good teams win
these games. To state the obvious.

PS — what could be finer than to beat
the shit out of the 49ers and the Vikings
in back to back weeks. Make it so.

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zn wrote:

wv wrote:

I like the ending of Plan9
better than 2001’s ending,
btw.

Not sure what has to do with Miklasz.

Well, my own interpretation of what you just wrote
is, “wv ram, you are even more brilliant
than Hal, the computer on 2001.”

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zn wrote:

wv wrote:

They need to be intense, motivated,
hit hard, play their asses off. And They need to win.

You make sense, Miklasz doesn’t. I don’t think you translated him, I think you hit re-set and overwrote him.

Cause, you know, 2001: A Space Odyssey is not Plan 9 From Outer Space, just cleaned up a bit.

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Well, honestly, that’s how my brain
deals with people like Bernie,
routinely.

My brain goes “well, this is what he probly meant.”

And I like the ending of Plan9
better than 2001’s ending,
btw.

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Well, I ‘translate’ Bernie’s column to mean,
If they dont win today they aint makin the playoffs — again.

So, i basically agree
with my own-interpretation of what Bernie said.

Its basically a must-win as far as this year’s playoffs go.
Its not a must-win as far as improving, or ‘making a run’
or being a spoiler or setting up year FIVE, etc, etc, and so forth.

They need to be intense, motivated,
hit hard, play their asses off. And They need to win.

And then they need to do it all again next week.

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I thought the Greg Williams vid/transcript was
a must read/listen.

http://www.rams-news.com/gregg-williams-we-play-our-safeties-deeper-than-any-team-in-the-league-video/

…(On the pros and cons of playing press coverage)
“There is, but one of the things too is, I’m giving too many tips away right now, but you see how deep we play our safeties? Deeper than anybody in the National Football League. That’s (S) Rodney’s (McLeod) job and that’s (S) TJ’s (McDonald), whoever it is depending upon on our press alignments. For an awful long time, even when I was a secondary coach back in the early 90’s, I asked those guys to do some stupid things. But I don’t anymore in the respect of, when you press and when you’re very physical with press, you’ve got to have an angel back there in the secondary. You’ve got to have an angel back there. We call it the angel. The angel player has got to be out there to help you out. And Rodney does a phenomenal job of that. He took one poor angle in the last ball game, but you know what, he’s so fun to coach. He just took a poor angle on that one play. It wasn’t that he was not there. The game is about angles. Especially when you play against arguably some of the top guys in the league, there’s no really bad guys in the league anymore. But, he does a great job of that. He and our guys that press for him are confident that he’s there to save them, the angel is going to save them.”

Well Brown doesn’t think its a big deal, apparently.

I kinda think its nice that he’s learning both positions.
I just dont see it as a bad thing.

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Agamemnon wrote:

<span class=”d4pbbc-font-color” style=”color: blue”>I am not sure everyone gets what Holt said. He said that if you run the route 10 times in a certain way in practice. Then you should run it that way in a game. He didn’t say it was wrong to stop as much as Cook did something that Foles did not expect.</span>

<span class=”d4pbbc-font-color” style=”color: blue”>At 7 million per year, the Rams have better ways to spend their money. imo</span>

Well, i think we all know what he is as a player at this point.
He stretches the field with his speed, defenses have to account for him.
Maybe it opens things up a bit for Tavon and Gurley.
But the guy just dont have good hands.

One would ‘hope’ they can upgrade next year.

Maybe the Rams spend the Bradford pick on a TE ?

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Browns injury newz
http://www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2015/10/joe_haden_concussion_gary_barn.html#incart_river

Everything hinges on the OLine.
Will they come-together,
in time.

Time is runnin out.

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“They’re (O-line) way ahead of where I thought they’d be in the run game,” coach Jeff Fisher said before the team’s long bye weekend. “I think we have some work to do in the pass game, just in subtle techniques.

“It’s not a matter of having mental errors and things like that. They know what to do. The group has to work together.”
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“The guys are doing great, they’re learning,” Reynolds said. “You know it takes a while to get used to who you’re playing next to, and that’s when you start seeing something special happening. You see little glimpses of it right now.”
“Obviously, I feel like I’ve grown a lot,” said Brown, a third-round pick out of Louisville. “But just looking back at the game we played against the Packers, watching that film let me know there’s still a lot more out there for me to learn. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I think it’s a good thing.”
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/football/professional/growing-pains-continue-for-young-o-line/article_b48dbd47-ada9-594c-a288-d7fff6c22cf4.html

“My team is performing like Ruxin’s sperm,
failing all over the place.”

Do i wanna know who or what “ruxin” is?

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