I saw Joe Staley back in the game after the injury. The ole’ leg whip play is usually reserved for the start of a playoff game or a very meaning full regular season game.

I guess this means we owe Jared Allen one if we should meet.

After the Gore got hurt in the Seattle game, I knew we should have left him rest. We were up and we did not need Gore anymore. We really need to have Gore rest up for the hard stretch of games that are coming up

But they fought like hell the whole game! We got Brett Farve’d AGAIN!

I’m just going from memory, but I think it was a pass by the Falcon’s Ron Jaworski to Billy “White Shoes” Johnson back in the early ‘80s. I remember that play very clearly, as it was just as devastating as today’s last play loss.

Any experts here who can verify this? Kezarvet?

But I really don’t think they did. The Niners just coughed this one up. I’m reading a lot of stuff on Yahoo! where Vikings fans are saying that Gore wouldn’t have made a difference. I think we all know how false this is, but just to put it in perspective, if Peterson had gone down on his first carry and the Niners had won, I’m pretty sure all we would be hearing about from Viking fans is how they would have won if Peterson had been healthy.

And they very nearly covered for one of those ill-timed bursts of Jimmy Raye-style conservatism as well. After going ahead 24-20 on the second Davis touchdown reception, Raye called for five Glen Coffee running plays over two three-and-outs which gained a total of minus-two yards, and the second series exhausted only 20 seconds, leaving Favre 89 seconds to play with.

He stumped the band in only 87.

“I totally support everything he did,” Singletary said. “I don’t analyze it. If it had worked, you wouldn’t be writing about it.”

yea i didn’t expect that either…

yea but at least a “we will look at the tape” eh he knows if he says that tomrrow the headline will be “singletary and raye are feuding!”

other than Gore’s injury. And IF he can come back in a few weeks, it may be a blessing in disguise, if Coffee gets some confidence. It may sound weird but I think this loss will be good for the team in the long run. Kind of bitter medicine that makes you stronger.

Less than a year ago SF was a pathetic team with no future. Suddenly we are disappointed that they didn’t beat the Vikings, a team with possibly the best offensive player, one of the best defenses overall, and a hall of fame qb. That’s an amazing turnaround, almost too quick. Overall the 49er offense didn’t play all that well. If they had won, everyone might be satisfied and complacent that they had “arrived”, 3 games into the season.

Singletary is builidng something slowly and deliberately, and I’m beginning to see that. The niners played with awesome effort without their best player, with a “journeyman” qb, no name receivers, left it all out on the field, and it took a miracle play to beat them. That is effort and attention to detail. Put it this way: If we could play 16 games where the opponent had to complete a 32-yard TD at the last second to beat us, I take those odds EVERY single time.

Regarding all the running, I would have complained about it in years past, especially with the Niners’ glorious passing history. But Singletary is convincing me. He believes a great team should be able to run when it has to, even if everyone in the stadium knows it’s coming. That’s what Mike is trying to establish bit by bit, and that last drive was a part of that. It’s “sacrificing” something now for future gain. The goal is that at the end of the game you can run no matter what and say “sorry but there is nothing you can do to stop us, you have already lost”. Maybe I eat my words later. But again, if the “failure” for now is that the other team has to have a miracle to beat you, as I said I’ll take that every time.

that Jimmy Raye should take notes on how Indie runs end- arounds and screens for Dallas Clark. Davis would be perfect for those kind of plays given his speed. it would also force teams to spread out a little more laterally instead of stacking 8 in the middle of the box..

i swear i watch other teams play and they all do soooo much with their offense. the last 3 niner games i’ve watched i swear i’m having deja vu because the only thing different is the team we are playing.

Means he is probably back after the bye instead of being questionable.

The 49ers did rush 4 on the final play.

Kentwan Balmer is going to get a butt chewing for his effort on that final play. If he wasn’t jogging and trying decide whether to drop back or rush the QB he would have met Brett Favre in the passing line before the launch of the rocket ball.

Lee messed up the last 2 punts….With his experience they should have started the last drive on the 2yd line.
Singletary not allowing any passing the last 2 times the NINERS had the ball. The reality is coming to roost….he is a 8-8 coach in a good year….guess jesus was not with his niners today….

coffee was 25 for 54 and peterson was 19 for 85 thats a 2.2 ypc compared 4.5… big difference. Four rushed on the last play of the game as they crashed right(defensive side) and had smith loop around, allowing favre room to the right side.. i believe our o-line needs to be revamped. they allow too much penetration and lots of blocking miscues and are not fit for the “power running” style raye strives for. The last offensive series i believe was smart, conservative coaching. you do not want to stop the clock for the vikings and the d was stopping them the whole second half. You dont gamble with the lead. I do however think Raye is doing poorly in ADAPTING to what the defense is doing. The seams were open all game vernon should have had 20 catches. Its obvious now that every opponent so far sees how they can completely neutralize our run game with blitzing up the middle so ADAPT