An Open Letter To Jed York & Trent Baalke

March 14, 2015 ~ JodiLea

Dear Beavis & Butthead,

You have taken an awesome NFL team and F$#@ed it all up. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? Do you even like football?

You got smart (or was it an accident?) in 2011 when you hired Jim Harbaugh and his staff. HE had his stuff together, HE loves football, HE had been a Quarterback in the NFL and worked well with Alex Smith and then-rookie Colin Kaepernick. After years of losing more games than winning – the 49ers finally make the playoffs. Then Alex gets hurt and Colin takes his place. Kap’s athleticism, strength, and talent blew everyone away. The NFL commentators & the press fell in love with Colin and he was now the “chosen one”. Sorry Alex, but the kid walks on water, so we are giving him your job.

THEN… Something happened. And we can’t get a straight and honest answer about what. For some reason last year you couldn’t get rid of Harbaugh fast enough. This put morale in the dumper, and, adding stress to that you have yourself a team that can’t focus. Remember, this is the team that had to work with a new head coach every year, until you hired Harbaugh. With one out of the four years of his contract remaining, rumors started that Harbaugh was looking for another job. I suspect you guys started it, but that’s moot now. Harbaugh is history.

Jim Tomsula has been with the 49ers long enough to know that he took a temp job. No 49er coach makes it to the end of their contract. Everybody knows that.

We faithful convinced ourselves it was a nasty rumor, right up until the announcement.

That was the first of your ~~BAD~~ ~~stupid~~ STUPID decisions.

WHAT was your problem with him? He was shaping the 49ers back into the well-oiled machine they used to be. We were gaining momentum, our reputation and pride were growing again. We liked this guy, Jim Harbaugh. We loved how he watched the plays so intently, and was emotionally committed to the team. He took bad calls personally, and he celebrated along with his players and their fans. We were so happy you brought him to the team.

Either you guys have really bad memories (brain damage?), or there is no loyalty in football. At least not in the executive booth. The players and the fans have plenty of it. Maybe not as much as they used to – considering…

FrankGore Considering that you two bozos are firing, letting go, or not keeping key players on board. 49er greats like Gore and Iupati are moving on to other teams. Wait, WHAT!?! FRANK GORE!? is no longer a 49er? He signed up with Indianapolis this week. Apparently, you did NOT do everything you could to keep him. LIARS!

You were so broken up about losing strong, veteran players (Ha!) that you hustled and hired 4 new guys. I would guess you were familiar with their NFL records, but were you aware of their criminal records? Remember Ray McDonald? Bruce Miller? You signed up for more of that? AND YOU DIDN’T TRY TO KEEP FRANK? I imagine the NFC West are doing happy-dances about now.

OK, this is the horrifying nightmare of the 2015 season:

Who will NOT be a 49er:

Patrick Willis
Frank Gore
Justin Smith/ Aldon Smith – assumed will be gone
Mike Iupati
Chris Culliver
Dan Skuta
Stevie Johnson
Perrish Cox
Michael Crabtree

Who WILL be a 49er:

QB-Blaine Gabbert (re-signed for 2-yr)
TE-Garrett Celek (re-signed for 1-yr)
LS-Kyle Nelson (re-signed for 4-yr)

NEW Guys:

WR-Torrey Smith (5-yrs)
DT-Darnell Dockett (2-yrs)
WR-Jerome Simpson (2-yrs)
RB-Jarryd Hayne, from Aussie Rugby Team (3-yrs) free-agent

Well, that concludes my rant. I feel a little better now, but I won’t be able to relax until this free-agent craziness ends!

Be well and prosper, guys. No matter which team you are playing for. ❤

GO NINERS!!

Negative Rooting, Like Crime, Doesn’t Pay

January 23, 2015 ~ JodiLea

It was a good idea at the time. Too bad it didn’t work.

If you’ve ever been here (this blog) before, you know I am a raving 49er Fan, so why did I throw a playoff game party? And even worse than that… we rooted for the Green Bay Packers. It made me feel trashy and disloyal.

Have I lost my mind? I know, it goes against my cheese-head hating self, but the bottom line is – we didn’t want the Seahawks going to the Super Bowl. Those guys are too damn cocky. They are a helluva good team and everyone knows it. They don’t need to be cocky. But yet, they are.

It was a good plan, a good party & fun with family. I’m very happy I did not bet on that game. Those Seahawks will be going to the super bowl again. And there is nothing you or I can do about it.

I sure was hoping that the Colts could keep ahead of the Patriots, for the game. Coach for the Patriots must have gotten his team worked up at half time. I would suspect a powerful and moving pep-talk or something, however, that’s old school now. The new school is tampering. Tampering with scholarships, favors, yada-yada. And now on the Fox News I find out someone is tampering with the balls. Just removing some air from the footballs – enough to make the balls more supple, allegedly, this makes the throwing and receiving of the ball easier. Of course, this completely screws the team’s place kicker & punter – because deflated balls have no lift.

Trust me on that.

What I don’t understand is – why these playoff balls aren’t kept away from both teams by the NFL. The balls, picked out by each team, get weighed and measured by officials, then they are given to the Ball Boys (who, BTW, work for the Stadium). That is a lot of opportunity for evil forces to tamper with the balls before the game. Who “ball sits” during the game and at half-time? Do they stay with the ball boys, referees, team staff? This Enquiring mind wants to know.

Wouldn’t there be a chance that the balls could get mixed up? And the Colts would get a flattish* ball? Wait a minute – wasn’t there a messed up Field Goal attempt by the Colts? Hmmm. And why are teams allowed to manage their own balls? Shouldn’t this be done by the NFL, to prevent just this sort of thing from happening? Sheesh.

The Pat’s won the AFC championship and they are going to the Super Bowl. Too bad the only questions reporters are asking, have to do with what they are calling Deflate-Gate.

Personally, I am suspicious that the game balls were tested after the game. It doesn’t sound like a normal procedure to me. So… balls were inspected after the football game was over. On whose request? Someone knew something fishy was going on. Somebody tattled. Vows to “get to the bottom of this” are made. Songs are being written using “who let the air out?” in the lyrics, replacing “dogs”.

It reminds me of High School.

* flattish [flat esh]; adv. somewhat flat [no lie, this definition is in the Webster’s Dictionary. Hee Hee.

A Few Words About Football

January 5, 2015 ~ JodiLea

I believe this sums it up:

AND… to rub it in, not one of my wild-card picks happened to win this past weekend.

For me, this season is so over.

I believe Jed York, et.al., are going to regret letting Harbaugh go.

I miss him already. . .