San Francisco 49ers vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers: A Prospector's Guide

that our 3 game winning streak we yet to beat a real contender but if we look at our wins like the ‘’ BCS’’sysstem n look at the teams we beat n the teams they beat those were some solid wins lol.But in the NFL a win is a win and on any giving sunday anybody can be beat and a streak is a streak so all we can do is keep winning espicially at home.

I’m going to check out their last game and see what kind of offense we’re dealing with. I can’t imagine they’re any better defensively than the Rams, and if everything stays constant, I don’t think we’re gonna have a problem getting the Tank rolling early.

If the Tank gets rolling, I expect to see a stacked box and explosive plays in the air to seal this thing.

The only question mark, at the end of the day, will be our D. Having the Tank take the Bucs apart will allow the Defense to rest, which is an area they need some help in as WonderBoy is lobbing crap downfield but not eating nearly as much clock as you’d like. I’m not terribly familiar with the Bucs offense, but if they rely on the running game to set up the pass, we have a better shot than if Josh Freeman just comes out slinging from the start.

Also, for “game film” purposes, does anybody have a good way of getting video off a DirecTV DVR for perfectly legal internet archival for me and all of you, my closest friends? I got Sunday Ticket this season, and it seems a waste to have all of the film available but very little of the actual football X’s and O’s analytical skills.

LaGarrette Blount gets to see how his power running game matches up against P-52. Sorry Blount, you’re no Steven Jackson.

We match up against them well, although Freeman has been throwing the ball well. If our secondary holds up and we can get some pass rush, we win. I’m not worried about Troy and Tank scoring points in this game.

The Seachickens play the Saints and the Rams play the Falcons. On Sunday evening we could be in second place and only one game out of first in our sorry ass division.

I can’t stand Mike SIngletary! I was glad when he was hired, loved him as a linebacker and I thought he’d be a great motivator. I didn’t anticipate his ignorance running this deep though. The dude puts this team in tough situations every single week and makes them work harder than they should for each win. For example, anyone notice how whenever the Niners take the lead, we go back into run up the gut mode? We can have a 3 or 7 point lead and Singletary wants to cruise. That’s why dating back to last year we either win or lose by 3, 7 points tops in most games. He never goes for the comfortable lead.

Then he constantly wastes timeouts on his headset issues, which I might add, he hasn’t learned to correct in over two years on the job! He’ll blow all three timeouts in the first quarter for those “issues”, yet he won’t use a timeout to stop the clock and allow the offense to try to get more points! Wtf is that? If you ask me, SIng’s the reason that game had to go to OT on Sunday. We had at least 2 timeouts left, maybe even all 3, towards the end of the 2nd quarter. The Rams had the ball and we stopped them on 2nd down. I want to say there was about 1:25 on the clock at that point, something like that. He should’ve called a timeout after 2nd down. He didn’t. On 3rd down they attempted a pass which was broken up by our D. Clock stops again. By this time though since he hadn’t stopped it on 2nd down the Rams had let the time wind down before their 3rd down play, which killed mabe 30 seconds. So once the Rams punted to us and the offense got back on the field, there was what, maybe 27 seconds left? He still could’ve tried a run up the gut, a bootleg or a screen. Anything to try to get us in field goal range to break the 10-10 tie. We were getting the ball back after the half, would be nice for the team to start a half with the lead at some point. However he had Troy Smith take a knee and let time expire and we took the timeout or however many we had left, into the locker room with us without using it.

Regarding the QBs. He annoints Alex as our QB before the season. Puts the “C” on his chest as if he’s ever been a captain. Good guy? Yes. Captain? Not at all. Anyway, he tells us Alex will win games and do great. Once the season starts and Alex does the opposite every week, except once, Sing would constantly praise him after losses. He’d say, “I think Alex played decent. He played pretty well”. I’m thinking WTF were you watching bruh? So then Troy plays great two weeks in a row, something Alex NEVER did in 6 years, and what does Sing have to say about Troy’s play? “He played ok. There are some things we have to correct, but I think he did ok”. Yet again, WTF Sing? Things need to be corrected with those glasses because your vision must be effed up!! He downplayed the significance of the QB position all season long when it was brought to his attention regarding Alex. Said Alex didn’t need to be the leader of the team or win the games, that we had 11 players on each side to win. Alex was not the most important player. Then once his job’s on the line he suddenly has an epiphany and says he needs a leader in the QB position! Man coach they’d been telling you that all year! He’s far too slow a learner. I want him gone after the season, please Jed!! We’re not going to be able to constantly win in spite of our head coach. My bad guys, had to get it off my chest. Can’t stand that dude!!

is that with all of the talk about how many mistakes the team has made and they continue to make mistakes no doubt about that but they have only had one turnover in the last 4 games and that was David Carr’s interception at the end of the Carolina game. To me that’s definitely a good sign. Now they have to work on the penalties and third down conversations. But hopefully that trend can continue against Tampa Bay. And hopefully we can create some turnovers on defense to help the offense have a shorter field

Picked us to win the division. Its a lock we can rest easy now

In the last table titled 2010 Statistics you have the Bucs with a 3-6 record. I believe that is transposed.

I don’t know if I would have said the same with AS at QB, but with TS in there, this is definitely a good matchup. We’re pretty similar in the sense that The Bucs have had almost as many close games as us (decided by less than 2 TD’s), but they’ve won more of them. They’re 5-1 in that category, we’re 3-4, 2-0 with TS starting, not surprisingly. Maybe it’s because we have a decent playmaker now? The Bucs do too in Freeman. This should be a pretty good game. Minimize TO’s (we’ve been doing that as of late), penalties (we should be able to improve on that if we take advantage of their weakness at run defense), work on managing the game clock and we should be alright. I can see the majority of the plays being run with Frank Gore being featured either directly or indirectly.

Personally, i think we’re passed any “GPS” games, but if they win this game I might have to turn my GPS back on.

Bucs by 3. I anticipate penalties (and this time maybe a turnover or two) will cost the 49ers.

Troy Smith may be the ultimate X-factor for the 49ers, though. I sure hope he is, but I’m not putting that expectation on the guy.

off-topic, but I thought it was funny!
http://www.theonion.com/articles/nfl-sends-thousands-of-volunteers-to-help-clean-up,18457/

Watch the D step up in these final weeks and play better. Football is a dependant game. Each unit has no choice but to depend on the other units to do their parts. When one unit has no faith in the others, they play outside of the scheme and try to do too much to win the games. They no longer just play their gaps, or cover their man. They try to jump the routes in hopes of the big interception or storm through holes to make a big play. That’s when you get beat. I think that’s what happened with our D.

I’ve been impressed with their ability to find a way to win, even with lesser talent overall. I’m not worried about the Niners stopping the run (I’ve benched Blount on my fantasy teams this week…I suspect he may be in for a rough day). However, Mike WIlliams is the real deal, Kellen Winslow is still good, Benn, Spurlock, and Stroughter have all come through at times. Not to mention Cadillac’s ability in the screen passing game. And Freeman can get the ball to them. Our secondary will have to be on it’s game in order for us to win this one.

Either way, if the Niners can pull this one out, it would be a pretty big win, IMO, seeing as TB has actually been good this year. And it would be nice momentum heading into a divisional matchup with AZ the following weekend.

I tend to not blame the coaches for everything bad that happens to our team. I’m not a Sing hater but I’m sure there are things he can work on. He needs to lay a fire under Manusky. The D needs to play more discipline and aggressive. Two games that in the end could end up hurting us is the ATL game (which I was at ) and the Carolina game. Nate needs to stop biting on double moves…that happened as early on as the first game of the season…and we know what happened in ATL. I’m not going to blame Sing for that…maybe more blame should be on Manusky…or maybe we should actually blame the players… Those who always blame the coach for the problems probably blame the government for their own issues. If you bought a house that you cannot afford, it’s your fault..stop blaming someone else…Go Niners..we will win Sunday.