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obviously, we all need to savor it, appreciate it. at my age did wonder (pre Harbaugh) if i'd ever see this again?
odds are we aren't going to reach the SB next season, so lets all savor the moment.
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obviously, we all need to savor it, appreciate it. at my age did wonder (pre Harbaugh) if i'd ever see this again?
odds are we aren't going to reach the SB next season, so lets all savor the moment.
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my superstitious side told me posting this picture here in this thread will bring us good luck. I have to do what I have to do.
Where were you last year, Damnit! You posting this and this girl being her, here.
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Super Bowl Preview
What Alex Smith must really be thinking.
We've all seen it in the last two months: Alex Smith is the NFL's MVM ... Most Valuable Mensch. Look at his career path: First pick of the 2005 draft. Clearly over-drafted because the 49ers needed a quarterback so desperately. Played before he was ready. Middle name through his first six seasons: "Embattled." Career rescued by Jim Harbaugh, though he constantly looked over his shoulder in the Harbaugh Era with the arrival of Colin Kaepernick and the specter of Peyton Manning. NFL's top-rated passer (104.3) through 10 weeks. Completed 18 of 19 passes in his last full game, at Arizona. Took a week off due to a concussion suffered the next game against St. Louis. Lost his job in that one week off to Kaepernick, who never had started an NFL game. Kaepernick quarterbacked the Niners to the Super Bowl. Smith will watch. Smith will likely quarterback another team in 2013.
"It sucks, to put it frankly,'' Smith told me the other day. "Tough pill to swallow."
An honest admission from Smith. But that's it. That's all the negativity Smith has right now. Everything else is sunshine and light and "Go Niners!" He will be one of the go-to stories this week for the nation's sports media, and I don't expect him to bleed for them much more than he did for me. Because he understands football isn't always fair, and there's no use crying about it. The team's winning, and when you go to the Super Bowl, no one cares who gets left on the side of the road. Smith has stood on the sidelines in the last couple of months and parceled out advice to help Kaepernick. "It's got to be tough,'' Kaepernick said after his first start, "but Alex is so good to me." And still is.
"It's part of who I am,'' Smith said. "It's football. Guys get hurt all the time. Obviously, I feel like I earned the job, and I was doing better and better. But being able to be out there all the time is part of the deal. I knew very well when I went out that I was giving him [Kaepernick] a shot at the job. And now we've seen what Colin is capable of. He's a very unique talent, and he's made the most of his opportunity. At the same time, this is exactly how I got my start in college. And I think the biggest thing I can point to in how I've handled this is that I saw how some mature quarterbacks handled it. That started in college, with Brett Elliott.''
Smith explained that, at Utah in 2003, he battled incumbent Elliott for the starting job, lost, but won it when Elliott, in the second game of the season, broke his wrist. And there was no turning back when Smith beat Cal (and Aaron Rodgers), then Colorado State, and then, in a Thursday night TV game, Oregon. Now the job was his.
Elliott is now a grad-assistant coach at Mississippi State. I spoke with him, and he was flattered that Smith recalled being treated well nine seasons ago at Utah by a heartbroken teammate.
"There's no other way to look at it,'' said Elliott, "than you're totally bummed out. It sucked.''
Sounds familiar.
"It's a unique situation,'' said Elliott, "and really tough for people to understand. It's the most unique place you can be. The most unique situation in life. You're so invested, being the leader and the guy everybody looks to, your life revolving around this. And then in one play, it's gone. You are absolutely heartbroken and depressed.
"I mean, if you play special teams, you can at least go back and play, because there's not just one special teams player. At quarterback, there's just one. It's your job or it isn't. I remember being so heartbroken. Those 5 a.m. workouts, you're so committed to the team. Maybe if I was a freshman, I'd have handled it poorly. But I was on the leadership committee of the team. I was a Ute. I was all-in.
"You watch practice and the games, and you see another guy out there, and you think, 'That's my center. This is my team. This is my offense.' All of a sudden, it's not. But you want the team to win, because you love the team and love the guys. And I really liked Alex. He was my friend. I helped him any way I could. But at the same time, you're pissed. Really pissed. You celebrate when the team wins, but you're not as into it as you would be. You try, but it only goes so far. I just don't quite know how to explain it all."
You just did.
Elliott hosted Smith on Smith's recruiting trip to Utah. Most days after breaking his wrist, Elliott had some advice for Smith in the quarterback room during meetings. And then, at the end of the season, Elliott transferred to Linfield (Ore.) College and played well enough to get a free agent deal with the Chargers out of college.
Since then, Smith said he's been helped by Tim Rattay, Trent Dilfer and Shaun Hill, and he's tried to help in return when he was the backup. When Harbaugh chose Kaepernick in November, Smith told him he wouldn't have to worry about any behind-the-back comments. He told Kaepernick when he got the job: "Trust what you see. Trust your eyes. Trust your feet. You're a good player; you've seen it before."
Smith hasn't lost confidence in his ability, saying he is "absolutely sure'' he can be a good quarterback in the league for years. But he says he won't think about the future now. Not this week. What will this week be like for Smith? "I am trying to stay in the moment, and I am excited about this,'' Smith said. "We have a great locker room. I love my teammates. How often do you have a chance, whether you're playing or not, to go to the Super Bowl? We have to get prepared to play and to win a big game, and that's fun. These opportunities don't come around very often.''
What Alex Smith must really be thinking.
We've all seen it in the last two months: Alex Smith is the NFL's MVM ... Most Valuable Mensch. Look at his career path: First pick of the 2005 draft. Clearly over-drafted because the 49ers needed a quarterback so desperately. Played before he was ready. Middle name through his first six seasons: "Embattled." Career rescued by Jim Harbaugh, though he constantly looked over his shoulder in the Harbaugh Era with the arrival of Colin Kaepernick and the specter of Peyton Manning. NFL's top-rated passer (104.3) through 10 weeks. Completed 18 of 19 passes in his last full game, at Arizona. Took a week off due to a concussion suffered the next game against St. Louis. Lost his job in that one week off to Kaepernick, who never had started an NFL game. Kaepernick quarterbacked the Niners to the Super Bowl. Smith will watch. Smith will likely quarterback another team in 2013.
"It sucks, to put it frankly,'' Smith told me the other day. "Tough pill to swallow."
An honest admission from Smith. But that's it. That's all the negativity Smith has right now. Everything else is sunshine and light and "Go Niners!" He will be one of the go-to stories this week for the nation's sports media, and I don't expect him to bleed for them much more than he did for me. Because he understands football isn't always fair, and there's no use crying about it. The team's winning, and when you go to the Super Bowl, no one cares who gets left on the side of the road. Smith has stood on the sidelines in the last couple of months and parceled out advice to help Kaepernick. "It's got to be tough,'' Kaepernick said after his first start, "but Alex is so good to me." And still is.
"It's part of who I am,'' Smith said. "It's football. Guys get hurt all the time. Obviously, I feel like I earned the job, and I was doing better and better. But being able to be out there all the time is part of the deal. I knew very well when I went out that I was giving him [Kaepernick] a shot at the job. And now we've seen what Colin is capable of. He's a very unique talent, and he's made the most of his opportunity. At the same time, this is exactly how I got my start in college. And I think the biggest thing I can point to in how I've handled this is that I saw how some mature quarterbacks handled it. That started in college, with Brett Elliott.''
Smith explained that, at Utah in 2003, he battled incumbent Elliott for the starting job, lost, but won it when Elliott, in the second game of the season, broke his wrist. And there was no turning back when Smith beat Cal (and Aaron Rodgers), then Colorado State, and then, in a Thursday night TV game, Oregon. Now the job was his.
Elliott is now a grad-assistant coach at Mississippi State. I spoke with him, and he was flattered that Smith recalled being treated well nine seasons ago at Utah by a heartbroken teammate.
"There's no other way to look at it,'' said Elliott, "than you're totally bummed out. It sucked.''
Sounds familiar.
"It's a unique situation,'' said Elliott, "and really tough for people to understand. It's the most unique place you can be. The most unique situation in life. You're so invested, being the leader and the guy everybody looks to, your life revolving around this. And then in one play, it's gone. You are absolutely heartbroken and depressed.
"I mean, if you play special teams, you can at least go back and play, because there's not just one special teams player. At quarterback, there's just one. It's your job or it isn't. I remember being so heartbroken. Those 5 a.m. workouts, you're so committed to the team. Maybe if I was a freshman, I'd have handled it poorly. But I was on the leadership committee of the team. I was a Ute. I was all-in.
"You watch practice and the games, and you see another guy out there, and you think, 'That's my center. This is my team. This is my offense.' All of a sudden, it's not. But you want the team to win, because you love the team and love the guys. And I really liked Alex. He was my friend. I helped him any way I could. But at the same time, you're pissed. Really pissed. You celebrate when the team wins, but you're not as into it as you would be. You try, but it only goes so far. I just don't quite know how to explain it all."
You just did.
Elliott hosted Smith on Smith's recruiting trip to Utah. Most days after breaking his wrist, Elliott had some advice for Smith in the quarterback room during meetings. And then, at the end of the season, Elliott transferred to Linfield (Ore.) College and played well enough to get a free agent deal with the Chargers out of college.
Since then, Smith said he's been helped by Tim Rattay, Trent Dilfer and Shaun Hill, and he's tried to help in return when he was the backup. When Harbaugh chose Kaepernick in November, Smith told him he wouldn't have to worry about any behind-the-back comments. He told Kaepernick when he got the job: "Trust what you see. Trust your eyes. Trust your feet. You're a good player; you've seen it before."
Smith hasn't lost confidence in his ability, saying he is "absolutely sure'' he can be a good quarterback in the league for years. But he says he won't think about the future now. Not this week. What will this week be like for Smith? "I am trying to stay in the moment, and I am excited about this,'' Smith said. "We have a great locker room. I love my teammates. How often do you have a chance, whether you're playing or not, to go to the Super Bowl? We have to get prepared to play and to win a big game, and that's fun. These opportunities don't come around very often.''
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Suggs is close to full strength
January, 27, 2013 11:19AM ET
By Tom Carpenter | ESPN.com
The fact that Terrell Suggs has been a part of the Baltimore Ravens' run to the Super Bowl is impressive in its own right. The guy only took five months to recover from a torn Achilles tendon and then battled through a torn right biceps that he sustained in December. Now, it appears that he is getting closer and closer to 100 percent as the big game nears, according to Matt Zenitz of the Carroll County Times.
“He’s getting better,” coach John Harbaugh said. “He’s becoming quicker, faster, more explosive — all of those things. You can tell that [the Achilles] is healing. He’s just playing more like a normal 100-percent Terrell Suggs would play.”
It's clear that he has made vast improvements in the postseason; he made only 22 tackles and two sacks during the regular season, but he already has 19 tackles, two sacks and a forced fumble in the playoffs.
January, 27, 2013 11:19AM ET
By Tom Carpenter | ESPN.com
The fact that Terrell Suggs has been a part of the Baltimore Ravens' run to the Super Bowl is impressive in its own right. The guy only took five months to recover from a torn Achilles tendon and then battled through a torn right biceps that he sustained in December. Now, it appears that he is getting closer and closer to 100 percent as the big game nears, according to Matt Zenitz of the Carroll County Times.
“He’s getting better,” coach John Harbaugh said. “He’s becoming quicker, faster, more explosive — all of those things. You can tell that [the Achilles] is healing. He’s just playing more like a normal 100-percent Terrell Suggs would play.”
It's clear that he has made vast improvements in the postseason; he made only 22 tackles and two sacks during the regular season, but he already has 19 tackles, two sacks and a forced fumble in the playoffs.
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