Meanwhile, there was a football game at the polo grounds of Levi Stadium. Where our beloved San Francisco 49ers, by way of Santa Clara, suffered a colossal ass beating tonight on national television and the interwebs. For the next week the pundits will laud the Ravens, doubt Brock Purdy, and anoint one of the other front runners, likely Lamar Jackson, as the odds on favorite to win the MVP.
Good. Because if we play this way the next couple of weeks, let alone in the playoffs, we are f**ked. If Brock Purdy continues to have games where he tries his best to be Brett Favre as opposed to say Kurt Warner, he does not deserve to be MVP, and while I hate to say it, he hurts his chances to be our longterm quarterback. If Coach Shanny can never help call a comeback (this means Brock has to carry it out) late in the game, say the fourth quarter, he will be remembered as the most gifted, but also unreliable 49er head coach in recent memory.
Sure, we have excuses. O-line is not great. Secondary has its moments of derp. We could have used AA in the middle. Trent was out. Better to lose now than latter (I hear you. But losing is still f**king losing). How could anyone live up to Walsh, Montana, and Young? My dog ate my homework. I had a headache. I left the oven on. I ran out of money. BLAH, BLAH, BLAHTITY f**kING BLAH. f**k that noise. Own it. We got our ass beat.
Don't get me wrong. No team, no championship level team is perfect. They all strive for it, but they are not perfect. I don't have to be an X and O guru to tell you that s**t. Either we are good enough or we are not. Right now, tonight, we were not good enough. The Ravens deserve every kudos coming to them. They are living their story.
The good news is that as with life, the Niners get another chance next week to get back on the right track. You see, the 2023-24 Niners are still writing their story. Funny thing about great stories, you may envision the end and how you got there, but the story has a way of taking on a life of its own. My guess is some Niners quietly were hoping to dominate their way all the way to the end. The reality though, and the veterans of the team should know this, is that it is going to be dog fight for this team and organization. A real gut-wrenching game is coming that will require that they come from behind and win. Tonight, they were not good enough to do it.
If they hope to get back to the Super Bowl and finish the job, they will have to be better. I want to believe they can, but this story is not up to me or you. It is up to the San Francisco 49ers who are playing against past disappoints, while carrying the weighty bag of tradition.
Let's see if they can do it. The next chapter is next week in the nation's capital.
Until then, Happy Holidays, you filthy animals.
I am Fropwns.
[ Edited by fropwns on Dec 25, 2023 at 10:07 PM ]
