Rat-boy

In terms of pure racquet skill and footwork the only player I’ve seen in 40+ years that can arguable be considered a similar pure talent is McEnroe. Rafa and Djokovic are also tremendous players and amongst the best of this generation as well, but their strengths are different. I never tire of watching Fed play due to his unique combination of artistry, movement, finesse, power and pure shotmaking ability. When he was at his best, he brought the game to another level and it took guys with amazing mental strength, backboard like consistency, and Gumby-like movement to be able to beat him. Every generation seems to have one or two superior talents, that is true. You’d have to go back to the 60s when there were four Aussies who were similarly dominant over the field as Rafa, Fed, and Novak. Rafa is now 36 and has very bad knees, but the fact that he is still in the top 3 and a threat to win every tournament he enters, along with Novak, speaks volumes. This new kid Alcaraz who just won the Us Open might be the next Fed as far as changing the game. We will see.

Wouldn’t be the first time some troll did that, and it certainly won’t be the last. Just thinking of Hogboy brings a rueful smile to my face…

😒 Your nose for talent evaluation and personnel fit with the offensive scheme is clearly based on expertise whetted and carefully honed by years of keyboard jockeydom. As it is clearly superior to the poorly informed decisions of professionals whose job it is to make decisions using real data, would you consider teaching a course to pass your talents to those not gifted with such skills?

So interesting that you chose to post again after this declaration. You Pats and Dolphins trolls are a rather sad lot.

Half the Bay Area pundits are falling over themselves to excoriate Shanahan for calling too many designed runs. This I find to be a lousy take, as mobility is part of his skill set and that’s part of the reason they liked him so much. A sizable fraction of the rest are talking about how brilliant Lynch is to have kept Jimmy G, despite the fact that they couldn’t get him on the bus out of town fast enough last year to allow their new poster boy to start. I guess a division win makes them quickly forget all their stupid takes about him being the reason they didn’t beat the Rams last year. SF homers are so bloody spoiled.

I always preferred Easterbrook and his TMQ column for pure entertainment and reasonable football IQ, although others have previously commented on the, shall we say, questionable nature of some of his non-football related content he chose to throw in there. But agree that Simmons writing was right up there in quality, if you can look away from his clear regional biases.

There’s usually more than one. Sometimes they turn out to be the same dude, but. 😀

Anybody know a place in London (UK) that will screen this game? I am struggling to find anything and probably SOL.

This is an interesting take. They clearly understood the risk and seems to me upgraded the pass rush and drafted two CBs to compensate. I would hardly term it a disaster of an operation…but feel free to indulge in histrionics if it makes you feel good.

Indeed. They are stacked everywhere but O-line. If Lance can deal with this and they avoid major injuries, unfortunately the 49ers will be a tough out for anyone, including our heroes.

In the Bay Area pundits have been trying to get rid of Jimmy for years. Media hate him and fans blame him solely for last year’s LA loss in the championship and the D blowing a 4th quarter SB lead three years back. Niner fans are amongst the most entitled and spoiled in all of sports. It is going to be a lovely circus. I have popcorn at the ready. 🥳

ROFLMAO.

Excellent passes don’t miss. He had plenty that led his receivers out of bounds and the TD to Diggs would have been upheld as a non-TD if the refs had called in properly as a no-catch on the field. And three in a row at one point that weren’t within 10 yards of his receivers. I suppose it was the wind. Your Allen bias shows through sir.

How dare you post this. Random TBD members who spend their afternoons drinking 40s know far more than paid NFL coaches, pundits, and former players. Didn’t you get the message? The truly informed know Tremaine is a horrible player.

I have a magic amulet that protects me from moose attacks. Here in the big city I’ve never once been attacked by a moose. The amulet must be working.

Shoulda drafted Donovan-People’s Jones

I was a child, but I do miss the snow! India has changed a lot in 25 years. I wonder how much upstate and western NY has.

Bengaluru, India. Expat from upstate New York and fan since 1974. 13,349 km to the Ralph

No need for any discussion here. Solve all our injury problems by firing the whole coaching staff. If we lose to the Patsies next week, fire the new staff, too.

10 years or more since I've posted. It's like I never left, particularly after a loss. Wow. Are Hogboy, RINGS, or crayonz still around? Or lennie in sloan?

It's late on the west coast, so cue the 900 more posts on how EJ sucks, Hackett sucks, Matrone sucks, to this thread by 9am EST (yawn).

Since 1997ish, I've been coming here for entertainment as well as information. It's fun to listen to certain individuals get on their personal soapboxes and beat the same horse to death every chance they get. There's a personality in every generation, but I really miss Hogboy, crayonz, and stevestojan among others. On the other side, Alaska Darin, PTR, CBF, Rockpile, and other long timers were (and some still are) always a good voice of reason. Back to fly-on-the-wall mode.

Yawn. We won. Game over. Next week?

Why does anyone on this board bother responding to this idiot? (DeLuca, that is)

DeLuca, you're awesome. You know so much about football it makes me want to put you in place of Tony Kornheiser on the ESPN broadcasts. I bow to your superior football intellect, and your ability to spend so much of your free time posting about how you'd make a better GM than most of the current employees in the NFL. Come back with some of your snappy wit. I will stay awake waiting for your response. Oh, BTW, JP sucks. Draft Quinn!