Red & Gold Not As Black & Blue

Red & Gold Not As Black & Blue 7-9 Might Suggest

by Spencer Stegeman

01.08.06 — I just found out that Nolan for his second straight year has been chosen to coach in the Senior Bowl. This is fantastic news. I was thinking just last month about how awesome it would be if Nolan could coach it again and get the inside track on some of the non-projected 1st-rounders to better utilize our 50 first day picks…and how that was almost impossible because the 10 teams before us couldn’t possible be as dumb as dog-shit. Thanks dog-shit! Okay, so canine feces may be a bit harsh, but I have a hard time understanding the logic behind backing out of the opportunity to measure players on more than their…measurables. Things like intelligence, work ethic, or natural intensity. You know, the things that were ignored during the Donahue administration. Well, this is the Nolan/ McCloughan administration, and it looks to be another good draft.

With 8 well informed picks in the first four rounds, a good draft last year, the NFC’s leading rusher, a quarterback who is starting to get “it”, a young team with another season of maturation under it’s belt, and 41 million in salary cap money to spend, we are definitely on the upswing. Even the media is starting to take notice. Some of these talking heads, pretending that they’ve been eyeing us since September, are now proclaiming us to be a probable playoff team next year. but hold on a second, lets not get too giddy. Remember, the media is known for it’s ignorant praise/criticism. I, for one, am judging based on what I have seen with my own eyes, and what I have seen is a team that should be growing into its huge potential with some added key free agents (shakes fist), and a potentially awesome draft for the second year in a row.

Do I think that we will make a run at the playoffs? Yes I do, and I hope we get in for Nolan’s sake, because I think he has this team on the right track, but this is probably his last year to prove it. It just seems to me that everything has sort of been falling into place ever since last off-season. With Green Bay taking away Mike McCarthy (who would have been nicknamed “the red scare” if ANYONE was EVER afraid of his offenses), only for him to be replaced by Norv goddamn Turner. Thanks again GB. I owe you a beer… or some crack, because apparently that’s your poison. Then comes April when Vernon Davis, who will be a monster if he can catch the damn rock, falls to us at number 6. Then we trade back into the first and grab Manny Lawson. Either Nolan is the kind of guy that makes things happen, or he’s luckier than a four-leaf clover taped to a hooker’s condom. Which may, or may not be saying a lot.

This is going to be an exciting off-season. And yes, I do think we will have the weapons to make a playoff run next season, and the coaching to see that it happens. But if we don’t, it’s my fault because I predicted it, and I am bad luck. And if you need to take it out on someone (kill them), my name is Ryan Seacrest. Look it up, I’m probably in the directory.

~ by 49ersNews on January 8, 2007.