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The 49ers were coming off one of their best, most complete games in years, after their victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 11. They came into Seattle with a new identity and a new attitude. It was their last chance, it was the 11th hour. It looked good in the beginning, the team was moving the ball, and despite some hiccups, they scored a touchdown to ...

After Sunday's game in Green Bay, the reality has not only become concrete, but it has set in, hard and firm. The only problem now becomes, who's going to tell Mike Singletary? á Singletary's decision to go back to the grind with his infamous ôsmash-mouthö philosophy has solidified what many fans feared, that Singletary is incapable of abandoning his philistine, brutish, simplistic reverie. á He wants to run smash-mouth, and there is no combination ...

The 49ers had to deal with a very tough loss last Sunday versus the Titans. This was a tough loss for many reasons, but I think what is most important, is what was lurking just beneath the surface of this last tidal wave. á Mike Singletary deserves a lot of credit. He has taken a lot of criticism for trying to run a conservative, ball-control offensive scheme, but he did more than ...

ôBent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, ...ö -- Wilfred Owen 1918 There are some things that are hard to describe with words. Some things require a poet to convey the right idea. Singletary accomplished the same thing Wilfred Owen was able to accomplish, when Owen wrote those classic, horrific lines as a soldier in the middle of ...

This will be a funny week in 49er land. á Everyone will say all the proper things. There will be lots of half-answers and poetry. á No one involved with the 49ers organization will want to speak the truth. They'll say, ôwe played betterö in the second half. They'll say, ôwe executed.ö á But we all know what just happened against the Houston Texans. á Alex Smith went from hopeless, to hopeful; Mike Singletary went from single-minded to ...

Everyone knows that there have been some dumb actions on NFL football fields throughout the years. á One of the all-time classics, and actually THE all-time classic, involved Jim Marshall of the Vikings, playing against guess who? Yep, the 49ers, at Kezar stadium in 1964. á Marshall scooped the ball up, saw an open field in front of him, and was so exited that he did not have the time to stop and think ...

The 49ers expected to beat the Rams last Sunday, but more importantly, they took it a step further, they HAD to beat the Rams. Otherwise, they would have been at risk of having their season completely unravel, just as their confidence was at its most vulnerable, after the ôFavre breakerö a week earlier. á The Rams game this past Sunday was one of the most astonishing games the 49ers have played in ...

Just about every NFL coach and player would endorse the idea that "it doesn't matter how you win, as long as you somehow get the win." á This is the stance they must take. á After all, you can't argue with a win. If you try, you might appear as if you care more about pretty things such as stats, style, and flash. No sensible pro football player wants to be caught dead putting ...