49ers Vs. Giants: Not So Happy Happy Hour With Harbaugh

I’m a Sun Devil, but follow the niners much closer than the Sun Devils. I was saddened that one of the only Sun Devils for the Niners blew it. I think the first one was on him, no need to be that close if you’re not actually going to pick it up. The second one, he was making a play and it didn’t pan out. I was way happy with his kick return to the 45 yard line after the first muff.

Again, as many said, team loss. He’s just in the spotlight. Even my Aussie friends were asking me where Crabtree was, ant they’ve been watching the niners/grid iron for only this season.

Just about everybody on NN was very positive about KW all year. I thought the one where he picked up the punt against N.O. was also risky. I like him as a WR. I think we need Ginn back for PR/KR.

Great year, sucker-punch of a loss yesterday.

although never with such dire consequences. I do recall Ginn muffing punts one season at an alarming rate. But he always was quick to fall on the thing. It got so bad that Tressel eventually put Santonio Holmes (nice to have) back with him, and they’d stand close together on the catch. It was funny because everyone thought it was to avoid kicking away and so on, but it was obvious it was to make the other reassured about catching in traffic and/or muffing it.

After that fumbled reserve and the diving catch on the one punt, I was wonder if they’d just put Hunter back there.

>> carrying the ball in the right hand when running along the left side of the field when he was stripped

Yeah, I noticed he was doing that on his good return too.

On the first one I think he had to be thinking, “If the ball caroms hard towards me, I should pick it up,” which is probably not smart, but not completely crazy. The problem was that he didn’t commit to it. He just kept trying to decide whether or not to go for it.

he pouted and threw a hissy fit…

Harbaugh is a bad loser. We all knew that, but in case anybody needed more evidence, this game was it.

It won’t seem so cute when the Niners aren’t winning 13 games a year and his character/sportsmanship is revealed when he has to answer questions in the midst of losing and struggling.

I’ll admit, though, I do love the backhanded chuckle over a “how did you feel?” question, which, although simple and easy to answer, is a stupid question that I don’t think even most fans care to know.

It’s always Cohn with the dumbsh%# questions.

He makes Kawakami look like an award winning journalist.

it’s what he does next, where he goes from here that matters. Consider Alex: Most of us would have happily shipped him off at the end of last year. A lot less of us, now.

Here’s to hoping Kyle works his tail off and lifts his game and teammates up somewhere down the road.

but there was talk about cutting him or letting him go etc. after the game which didn’t make sense. But he warrants criticism; he’s made some awful decisions on punts and they happened at inopportune times. By no means is he the sole reason they lost. But he certainly didn’t help. In fact, he hurt their chances of winning greatly.

I woke up this morning thinking “damn. we had that game.” gotta do other stuff to take our minds off it.

Williams didn’t have his head in it after the first time – you screw up that bad, you are relieved of duty. I suppose that if there was such a dire need for return yardage, you table that for next season (in finding another competent speedster of a WR), and make do with what you’ve got in the present. Harbaugh made lemonade all season out of some situations that would not have been given a second thought before, but for this scenario, the lemon went rotten. Sure hands trump return yardage any day in my book.

I’d say Jackson would be an ideal candidate, but…Singletary’s not around to place a boot up this guys arse (certainly not a want for Sing’s return).