Buying Spaghetti with Justin Smith

by smileyman on Oct 18, 2011 6:00 PM PDT in Interviews

Justin Smith and Vernon Davis like spaghetti

Vernon Davis was a guest on ESPN's Pardon the Interruption today. It was a pretty good interview and I recommend downloading the podcast if you missed the show. Very little was said about the handshake of doom, instead the focus was on the changes brought by Harbaugh to the San Francisco 49ers.

As best as I can here's a transcript (very rough) of what went on during the show.

Q. What was your reaction when Jim Harbaugh was announced as the new head coach of the 49ers?
A. (raises hands in the air like it's a touchdown) Yes!!!!

Q. Were you at all nervous about a rah, rah coach coming to the pros?
A. A little. We're men in the NFL and it's different, but all you have to do is look at the record and see that he's been effective.

Q. What has been the biggest change to the 49ers since last year?
A. We didn't know how to finish games last year. This year we do.

Q. Anything else?
A. We're also a much tighter team than we were last year. We're hanging out with each other after practice. I'm hanging out with guys that last year I barely knew. I'm going grocery shopping with Justin Smith and we're buying spaghetti together.

Q. We're going to give you the chance to say something on national television. You can tell us that you're going to buy spaghetti all the way to Indianapolis.
A. OK. I'll buy spaghetti ~~every day~~ once a week with Justin until Indianapolis. Then he's on his own because I have a family.

Great answers all the way around, but I think the answers about the biggest changes are extremely enlightening. Under Singletary it was so disheartening to go into the halftime with a lead or only behind by a little and then end up losing the game by less than one score. This team doesn't have that problem. I have no concerns about the 49ers being able to finish games. If the team is behind in the 4th quarter I have every confidence that they can score and I have every confidence in the defense to stop opposing teams from trying to come back.

To paraphrase a well-known console game, the 49ers know how to "Finish Him!".

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I'm a vegetarian...the hell with your meatballs!!

...and then Singletary opened His Book and it said "thou shalt NOT pass"

Coaches FEAR the "Harbshake"

by jimisoursavior on Oct 18, 2011 6:03 PM PDT reply actions

To each his own

But dead animals rule. Especially Lions, (joking)

by gee man on Oct 18, 2011 6:13 PM PDT up reply actions

I'd be a vegetarion...

If animals didn’t taste so good!

(it’s certainly not my fault…)

Seriously though. I am much more aware of what the food industry (from inception to our stores) does and have cut back a lot, all but stopped eating pork (rare exceptions), and buy organic as much as I can (not for health, but for how the animals are raised)…

by ColoradoNiner on Oct 18, 2011 7:44 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah I'm not really an animal-rights fanatic...although the animals do get the hell abused out of them

It’s much more of a health thing for me…not to mention the amazon is being cut down to make pasture land for cattle (almost as bad as Charmin Ultra using old growth timber to make toilet paper, america is literally WIPING IT’S ASS with 200 YEAR-OLD TREES)…but I digress lol

...and then Singletary opened His Book and it said "thou shalt NOT pass"

Coaches FEAR the "Harbshake"

by jimisoursavior on Oct 18, 2011 11:13 PM PDT up reply actions

Well, actually the Amazon is being cut down mostly due to soy beans farming, not cattle. Not for food tough, as Brazil use soy beans for fuel.

But, yeah.

by Ralha on Oct 19, 2011 9:13 AM PDT up reply actions

http://www.mongabay.com/brazil.html

...and then Singletary opened His Book and it said "thou shalt NOT pass"

Coaches FEAR the "Harbshake"

by jimisoursavior on Oct 19, 2011 6:57 PM PDT up reply actions

Yeah I'm not really an animal-right's fanatic...although they do get the hell abused of them

It’s much more of a health thing for me…and ranching is a big cause of deforestion in the world (although it’s not as bad as charmin ultra and other toilet-tissue brands using 200 year old trees…america is literally WIPING IT’S ASS with trees that have been around since Lewis and Clark!) …but I’m getting preachy lol

...and then Singletary opened His Book and it said "thou shalt NOT pass"

Coaches FEAR the "Harbshake"

by jimisoursavior on Oct 18, 2011 11:19 PM PDT up reply actions

I don't know if it's cause it's 3 am but my posts are buggin' out

Sorry for taking up space SB nation lol

...and then Singletary opened His Book and it said "thou shalt NOT pass"

Coaches FEAR the "Harbshake"

by jimisoursavior on Oct 18, 2011 11:23 PM PDT up reply actions

Me too!

I’ve been a vegetarian for about a year and a half. One of the best decisions I’ve ever made :)

by crevis1987 on Oct 18, 2011 10:31 PM PDT up reply actions

Sweet!

I’ve been one for about half my life so if you ever have any questions feel free to message me

...and then Singletary opened His Book and it said "thou shalt NOT pass"

Coaches FEAR the "Harbshake"

by jimisoursavior on Oct 18, 2011 11:16 PM PDT up reply actions

I didn't work my way to the top of the food-chain to eat plants.

And neither did VD.

by jscott_26 on Oct 19, 2011 2:39 AM PDT up reply actions

i'm a meatatarian

can i have his meatballs?

by MattSFfrd on Oct 19, 2011 4:45 AM PDT up reply actions

If we're not supposed to eat animals

then why are they made out of meat?

We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.

by Echo6.JH on Oct 19, 2011 7:49 AM PDT up reply actions

Love the MC reference by the way lol

...and then Singletary opened His Book and it said "thou shalt NOT pass"

Coaches FEAR the "Harbshake"

by jimisoursavior on Oct 18, 2011 6:08 PM PDT reply actions

It's MK veggieboy!

by mrg80 on Oct 18, 2011 6:37 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

Oops

...and then Singletary opened His Book and it said "thou shalt NOT pass"

Coaches FEAR the "Harbshake"

by jimisoursavior on Oct 18, 2011 6:44 PM PDT up reply actions

To quote another SB Nation blog

Finnish hymns!

Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...

by Smoke on the Water on Oct 18, 2011 6:17 PM PDT reply actions

Ville Leino?

perhaps? Just curious.

I hail from New Sanfranadelphia, apparently.

by Ranger10 on Oct 18, 2011 6:47 PM PDT up reply actions

McCovey Chronicles

common refrain in gameday threads when a Giant’s pitcher has a two strike count.

Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...

by Smoke on the Water on Oct 18, 2011 10:16 PM PDT up reply actions

?

this has nothingto do with the post but can anyone tell me what the #s 34 and 35 stickers on the helment mean

by 9er prospect on Oct 18, 2011 6:46 PM PDT reply actions

It's to honor John Henry Johnson and Joe Perry.

When's the last time a 3-4 had two inside guys who played all three downs?

by whatsURdeal on Oct 18, 2011 6:57 PM PDT up reply actions

http://www.csnbayarea.com/06/22/11/49ers-to-honor-John-Henry-Johnson-with-h/landing_notes_notables.html?blockID=536786

When's the last time a 3-4 had two inside guys who played all three downs?

by whatsURdeal on Oct 18, 2011 6:59 PM PDT up reply actions

I don't remember who wore which number

They’re for Joe “the Jet” Perry and John Henry Johnson, two of the four members of the NFL’s first Million Dollar Backfield (with Y.A. Tittle and Hugh McElhenny). They played for the Niners in the 1950s. Both Perry and Johnson passed away recently.

"(I)f you think you've got an inside track to absolute truth, you become doctrinaire, humorless and intellectually constipated." Saul Alinsky

by dianemarie on Oct 18, 2011 6:58 PM PDT up reply actions

The answer from the ancient one ...

The “million dollar backfield” …
14 = Y.A. Tittle
39 = Hugh McElhenny
34 = Joe Perry
35 = John Henry Johnson

by 49erFanSince1950 on Oct 19, 2011 12:33 PM PDT up reply actions

I don’t usually get ESPN, but getting to see this interview flying home was neat. Davis has plenty of awesomesauce to use with that spaghetti, I’m sure.

I hail from New Sanfranadelphia, apparently.

by Ranger10 on Oct 18, 2011 6:49 PM PDT reply actions

thanks guys

by 9er prospect on Oct 18, 2011 6:59 PM PDT reply actions

Theyre replaying the game on NFL Network,

if you havent had enough of this delicious victory.

"Handshake was too hard."

"Just accept the fact that you are a masochist, like most of us here."

by DudeDontTazeMe on Oct 18, 2011 7:29 PM PDT reply actions

It would have been painful

If we hadn’t pulled it out at the end. Re-watching, knowing how it is going to turn out, is exceptionally wonderful.

Watching Suh take himself out of plays, and then get smacked around by off-the-bench Chilo? Priceless.

"Football combines the two worst things about America: It is violence punctuated by committee meetings" -George Will

by lottwasgangsta on Oct 18, 2011 9:25 PM PDT up reply actions

TRUE DAT

"Handshake was too hard."

"Just accept the fact that you are a masochist, like most of us here."

by DudeDontTazeMe on Oct 19, 2011 8:24 AM PDT up reply actions

K David Akers, P Andy Lee, LS Brian Jennings, and ST Blake Costanzo will make the Pro Bowl this year.
Note: Akers, Lee, and Jennings will be off to the Peeble Beach golf course for golfing tomorrow.

by Tantrum16 on Oct 18, 2011 7:36 PM PDT via mobile reply actions

ST coverage men don't make pro bowls

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Reporter : "What do you remember about the BCS title game"
Cliff Harris: "That we lost"
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When Jim Harbaugh says "more is more" I think he is trying to say Moore is more.

by manraj7 on Oct 19, 2011 12:07 AM PDT up reply actions

They do, each team has a Special Teams exclusive player, who is selected by the coach of either team.

by Ralha on Oct 19, 2011 9:17 AM PDT up reply actions

Spaghetti is overated

Vernon needs to up his pasta game if he wants to be putting up big numbers this year,
justin Smith gets a pass, because spaghetti strangely seems fitting for him

by AHR on Oct 18, 2011 9:29 PM PDT reply actions