We can take from that lose the fact that we are going to be on the receiving end of those kinds of game from time to time and move forward. I could not believe Favre hit his receiver with less than an inch of space in the back of the end zone. I looked and looked and deep in my heart I wanted to hear the ref come back after reviewing and say "after further review, the receiver's foot was out of bounds." But it didn't happen like that.

I am still very proud of the way the Niners played to last second of that game and never gave up when it looked bleek.

The refs gave the Vikings a few calls that I felt were questionable. But complaining about them now doesn't change the fact that we lost a close game and now we just have to get ready for the Rams.

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It's been an interesting NFL Sunday thus far, so I had the urge to get my two cents in on the day's events. First thing that comes to my mind, it's going right into this post...

-New York football is riding high, as both the Jets and Giants have improved to 3-0. The Giants had a walk in the park against the laughable Tampa Bay Bucs, but the Jets had to work extremely hard for their victory against the desperate Tennessee Titans. Rex Ryan's boys (and my favorite team) certainly earned the win, but Tennessee's wide receiver drops had a little something to do with it. Kerry Collins' statistics were very misleading today; he actually played well. 

-My preseason predictions suggested a bit of a surprising season for the Washington Redskins in the NFC East, but the surprise is how BAD they are. Congrats to the Detroit Lions on breaking their seemingly endless losing streak against the 'Skins. Jim Zorn's crew had the opportunity to steal away the victory in the late fourth, but Detroit held its ground. Washington simply doesn't have the weapons on the offensive side of the ball. Clinton Portis played banged up but didn't provide much. 

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In the words of Mike Sigletary..."we go in...we hit people in the mouth" And that's what the Niners did today in Arizona. The San Francisco 49ers went in and got things going from the start. Although they struggled on offense today, Hill managed to dig down deep and move the ball when it was needed. 

The running game was totally shut down and that's going to happen. As long as they don't give up on it, it WILL have it's good games. And I know that coach Singletary is not going to stop running. There were a few plays that I wished we could have had back but, that too is going to happen. On a few plays, Hill over threw his target and few times he missed the open man. But, like I stated before, he made things happen when it really needed to happen. The 15 play 7:26 possesion was the series of the game. Vernon Davis has become a team player! I am very impressed with what he's been doing. He missed a pass or two but, caught a few as well. As the season gets going, I can see that he's going to get better and better.

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They looked at QB Cleo Lemon. DE Kevin Carter seems to be getting serious consideration. QB Matt Gutierrez was cut and QB Andrew Walter signed to replace Gutz.

But no position has been as active since the end of the regular season as OLB. Even before Mike Vrabel was traded to Kansas City, we’ve seen Angelo Craig and Darrell Robertson signed. Both were cut before training camp got underway.

In between that action, Tully Banta-Cain came back from two disappointing years with San Francisco.

The latest player shown the door was Vince Redd on Sunday.

And there has been no shortage of rumors for the vacant spot. The Pats were incorrectly tabbed as interested in Carolina DE Julius Peppers, even though he was an unsigned franchised player. Oakland’s Derrick Burgess might be in New England’s crosshairs. And Willie McGinest is interested in coming back if he’s wanted.

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And it started off with some mixed thoughts in my mind. First off, I had never hear the 49ers "sound off" while they were going through stretching. It sounded GOOD to me. It actually brought back memories of when I was playing in New York.

When a team sounds off, it says something about the unity of a team. And that's something the Niners haven't had in a long time. 

From there is looked like the same old routine until they started the hitting! POP was the sound of the morning and there was a lot of popping going on out on the field. Personally I think the players are really into the padded practices.

I felt really bad for the rookie kicker who's trying to win a spot an a team that has two of the BEST kickers in the league. I felt bad for him because his kicks barely went beyond 30 yards. I'm not going to waste any more time on him because I'm sure he won't be here long.

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I didn't know what to really expect as far as the crowd, the set-up, what players would be there and how they would placed around the stadium for autographs.

It didn't take me long to become a kid again as I hit the 40yrd. dash. My good friend and I ran the 40 and he's a little faster than I thought he would be but not by much. I thought we both would drop dead but, we did pretty good. Cory Sheets thought we did REAL good considering what we were wearing. My friend was in flip flops...LOL

I actually ran it three times. I ran one by myself to see what my time would be. I have to say, I'm very impressed with myself. I'm 45 as of this coming Saturday and I'm still able to run a 5.6 40 yrd dash.

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OTA's are going well, the QB compitition continues and the team is looking good.

Other than that, ...Not Much to write about. I've been working hard on getting my business off the ground. Still a long way to go there but, I'm doing it!! That's the whole thing...I'm DOING IT!!

 So, until next time...

See Ya @ The Stick 

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