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Frank Gore with the Score and Much, Much More vs. Seattle

Posted: 21st September 2009 by Michael Erler in NFL
As the saying goes, "That's how you draw it up." In a breezy 23-10 home win over the division rival Seahawks, the San Francisco 49ers enjoyed the fruits of a game plan that was low on pizazz but high on execution, with star running back Frank Gore romping through the battered Seattle front seven for 207 yards on 16 carries, and two long touchdowns. After a brutal opener at Arizona where ...

Singletary As Savior Will Have Short Shelf-Life

Posted: 20th September 2009 by Michael Erler in NFL
The last time your San Francisco 49ers faced the Seattle Seahawks roughly 11 months ago at The Stadium That Time Forgot, so much was made of then rookie head coach Mike Singletary's antics on the sidelines, during half time, and most of all in his postgame presser, that hardly anyone paid much attention to the fact that the 49ers had gotten trounced 34-13—at home—by a team that had come into ...
If you know San Francisco 49ers head coach Mike Singletary at all, you know that he's big on faith and bigger on trust. When plenty of critics said that he wasn't seasoned enough as an assistant coach to take on a head coaching gig, even in an interim capacity, Singletary had the faith in himself to accept the job and trust in the 49ers organization to believe that they'd give him ...

49ers Can Tell Us They’re Running, But They Need To Show Us Some Passes

Posted: 11th September 2009 by Michael Erler in NFL
After all the nonsense and posturing, the meaningless preseason games and even more meaningless interviews, the time has come for Team "Don't Tell Me, Show Me" to put up or shut up. The "Nutcracker" drill has been put in storage for the winter, buried underneath the secret entrance behind Singletary Hill. All the training camp drama—such as it was—has come and gone. Shaun Hill kept his starting quarterback job over hard tacklin' ...