Week 16 - 49ers vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Open Thread

by David Fucillo on Dec 23, 2007 10:09 AM PST in San Francisco 49ers News

vs.

Date: December 23, 2007

Time: 1:05PM PST, 4:05pm EST

Location:Walsh Field @ MPCP

Weather: 54°F, 6mph wind

ScoresAndOdds.com Spread: Buccaneers -6; Over/Under 36.5; Money Line SF +220, TAM -260

TV: Fox (Channel 2 in San Francisco)

Announcers: Dick Stockton, Brian Baldinger

Radio: 1050 AM/107.7 FM

Niners Nation Prediction:Tampa Bay 27-13 (Sacrificing playoff positioning for the greater good of the jinx!

Feel free to enter your predictions HERE

I'm heading out of town today until Thursday for Christmas, so I figured I'd get this up now. I'm flying out of Oakland at 4:50, so I figure I'll head over early to watch the game there before my flight. If I can get wireless access I'll try and get a recap up before my flight, but if not I'll get something up later in the evening.

If this is indeed Bryant Young's last home game, let's hope he can go out with a bang!

GO NINERS!

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Fantasy Update

I also forgot to mention that there was a consolation bracket for the top 4 teams that didn't make the playoffs. We got into that bracket and have found ourselves in the championship game.

Currently, we lead Field Gulls in the finals 62-27. He had Marion Barber get him 18 points and Jason Witten get him 5 points yesterday. We got 29 from Roethlisberger on Thursday and 19 from Steve Smith yesterday. Fred Taylor has 14 for us already today. Rosters the rest of the way:

NN: Taylor, S. Alexander, R. Johnson, L. Coles (didn't know until yesterday he was finished for the year and rosters lock at the first game of the week), L. Fitzgerald, Winslow, Graham, Redskins DST.

FG: Palmer, Fargas (out), A. Davis, Gage, Reggie Williams, Josh Brown, Droughns, Colts DST.

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by David Fucillo on Dec 23, 2007 10:14 AM PST reply actions

What was that timeout about?

Not enough players on the field?

by Bob In Pacifica on Dec 23, 2007 1:29 PM PST reply actions

only one wasted TO in the first quarter?

it's an improvement.

Lott's Prayer: Almost as many words as the Lord's Prayer, but the Lord wouldn't recognize any of them.

by Nosetackle Supreme on Dec 23, 2007 1:32 PM PST up reply actions

does the defense know

that the game started?

Lott's Prayer: Almost as many words as the Lord's Prayer, but the Lord wouldn't recognize any of them.

by Nosetackle Supreme on Dec 23, 2007 1:33 PM PST reply actions

WILLIS!!!!!!

he's a good tipper!

Lott's Prayer: Almost as many words as the Lord's Prayer, but the Lord wouldn't recognize any of them.

by Nosetackle Supreme on Dec 23, 2007 1:34 PM PST reply actions

Hicks

he returns KO's to the left 100% of the time. Do they ever call return to the right?

Lott's Prayer: Almost as many words as the Lord's Prayer, but the Lord wouldn't recognize any of them.

by Nosetackle Supreme on Dec 23, 2007 1:36 PM PST reply actions

GORE

that was a nice cutback

Lott's Prayer: Almost as many words as the Lord's Prayer, but the Lord wouldn't recognize any of them.

by Nosetackle Supreme on Dec 23, 2007 1:37 PM PST reply actions

roll out pass to Delanie

another nice call.

Lott's Prayer: Almost as many words as the Lord's Prayer, but the Lord wouldn't recognize any of them.

by Nosetackle Supreme on Dec 23, 2007 1:38 PM PST reply actions

Hill to Jackson!

not exactly Montana to Clark or Young to Rice, but it works right now.

Lott's Prayer: Almost as many words as the Lord's Prayer, but the Lord wouldn't recognize any of them.

by Nosetackle Supreme on Dec 23, 2007 1:44 PM PST reply actions

hey look, a real QB!

lets go defense

by Call It The Throw on Dec 23, 2007 1:44 PM PST reply actions

Strickland!

what a defensive play. what effort!

Lott's Prayer: Almost as many words as the Lord's Prayer, but the Lord wouldn't recognize any of them.

by Nosetackle Supreme on Dec 23, 2007 1:48 PM PST reply actions

One of the things I prefer about Hill...

Everyone on the team seems to play with a bit more fire now that he is at the helm. I think there is something to be said for a team rallying behind a QB it believes in. I'm not in the locker room or anything, so obviously this is all speculation, but the team is playing like they give a damn over the last couple of games and didn't play that way with Smith/Dilfer. Its good to see.

by Call It The Throw on Dec 23, 2007 1:51 PM PST reply actions

True

There seems to be more fire in their bellies.

by Bob In Pacifica on Dec 23, 2007 2:11 PM PST up reply actions

IMHO

While I absolutely respect this line of thinking, I just can't convince myself that Shaun Hill starting and the team playing better have anything more to do with each other than coincidence. I'm just skeptical that's what's happening.

And I'm not saying this to knock on Hill. I'm slowly getting on that train, too. I just still think that his success has more to do with the team playing well than the team playing well has to do with his success.

Or, not his success, because I think he'd be doing alright anyway, but the comparative perception of his success when people look at him as opposed to either Smith or Dilfer. If that makes sense.

Anyway, just my two cents.

I keep reliving the moment when Steve Young almost fell down. Over and over. / My Blog, For Writers

by howtheyscored on Dec 23, 2007 6:50 PM PST up reply actions

Reality

Well, the reality is that Hill won. But then again the Bucs were pulling starters out in the second quarter, so you can't say it was a very stern test. The Browns will need to win next week in order to get into the playoffs, we'll be playing there, and the conditions will probably be typical late December by Lake Erie. That will be a much better test.

When Smith first separated his shoulder I'd hoped that they would have moved on to Hill. After a couple of Dilfer starts, and then seeing Smith try to throw in Seattle with his separated shoulder, it made no sense to waste the rest of the year with Dilfer.

Hill certainly seems to have more pocket presence than Smith, but that could also be due to the circumstances of the games (like today's didn't mean much for the Bucs) and that the offense has been practicing together for the whole season, so you'd expect that they would eventually get it right.

Another thing to consider is that even with three passing TDs I don't think Hill reached 140 yards today.

I would hope that they'd resign Hill and have a true competition in training camp. Hell, I wouldn't mind them bringing in a real third quarterback to compete. That means I hope that Dilfer retires.

by Bob In Pacifica on Dec 23, 2007 7:32 PM PST up reply actions

but we still can't catch...

ridiculous.

by Call It The Throw on Dec 23, 2007 1:52 PM PST reply actions

crap

I'm having a shitty prediction day so far. Thanks Saints and Bills.

Bring back the classic Uni's!

by wjackalope on Dec 23, 2007 2:15 PM PST reply actions

For Serious

I got one game right, and that was the Patriots.

by groug on Dec 23, 2007 10:07 PM PST up reply actions

On that note!

I just realized I can promise NOTHING in terms of results until after I sober up on Wednesday. I should be sober long enough on Tuesday morning to go to church (mass with the g/f's family) and come home to get drunk again.

That may be an exaggeration, but still... this might just be the best x-mas ever.

I keep reliving the moment when Steve Young almost fell down. Over and over. / My Blog, For Writers

by howtheyscored on Dec 23, 2007 10:52 PM PST up reply actions

vernon needs to learn

when to just get down. I love that he can fight for some extra yards, but you have to give in eventually.

Bring back the classic Uni's!

by wjackalope on Dec 23, 2007 2:16 PM PST reply actions

THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING 'BOUT!

WILLIS!

Lott's Prayer: Almost as many words as the Lord's Prayer, but the Lord wouldn't recognize any of them.

by Nosetackle Supreme on Dec 23, 2007 3:01 PM PST reply actions

Clements

That was a nice strip. He is a sneaky motherfucker and I love him. Anyone who says he hasn't earned his contract is wrong and doesn't know what they're talking about.

We are not who I thought we were.

by marcello on Dec 23, 2007 3:29 PM PST reply actions