Rave - He hasn’t even played in a regular season game yet and already OG Iupati looked like a dominant offensive lineman in this game.  Against MIN the team tried several times to pull him and to have him straight up on the MIN’s pair of top run defending DTs. He held his own ground [...]

Rumination - At some point we all have to wonder how WR Jason Hill has not worked out. Honestly, the guy had excellent pedigree. He came from a top program, putting up lots of TDs with good hands. He flashed excellent top end speed in the combine on top of good agility numbers. He was [...]

Rave - There was a definitive standout hero in this game and it was rookie RB Anthony Dixon. Holy cow. Let me just wax poetic a bit about some of the reasons why I’m impressed. Let’s start with his effort. This kid, even when wrapped up and stopped always found the burst to knife through [...]

Rave - Early on in the game QB Smith tucked the ball and scrambled…to his left. He got the first down. Now for all of those complaining about his tendency to always go right and limit his options, there you go, he can go left as well. apparently Alex Smith is not related to Derek [...]

Rumble - Before the game I noted in my Prospector’s Preview that we needed the bubble screen to work. I have never seen so many Smoke/Push/Screen patterns run by wide receivers inside and out. How many times was the play a simple, lateral attack for a 1-3 yard gain? Heck, it got to be so [...]

Rave - To finally hitting stride and finding a way to get Gore into the offense. Arizona was a good game, he had some good plays. But the running game showed some new wrinkles and success against PHI. First, the direct snap with the QB-fake was a very nicely designed play. It’s almost too bad [...]

Rumination - What is the point of a challenge in an instance where the evidence is so vague it cannot overturn the original call? Now, the rules suggest a coach should never get ‘extra help’ but that’s not reality. In reality the home stadium coach gets big, slow replays to watch (people can see it [...]

Rumble - Let’s just put it out there and get it over with. The officiating was bad and approached a leve of home-town favoritism that I thought we had an NBA refereeing crew on the field. Lack of time to substitute on defense, non-calls on some clear pass interference situations and calls in some shaky [...]

Rave - How nice was it to see TE Delanie Walker finally being used in a manner consistent with his skills and having what I think was a career year to date. This was part of the reason we extended him. Well, okay, part was because he’s such a solid receiving TE clone and part [...]

Rumble - Teams ahve been using it against us, but now Green Bay went ahead and burned us well with it. Try and watch the first half and see how many times Green Bay completed a Comeback route to the right side. I counted about 6 times to 4 different receivers. But it was like [...]