Welcome to Sunday’s Toilet Bowl
If the Super Bowl is in February then I guess the Toilet Bowl
will be held this weekend when the NFL’s two lamest teams
– The Raiders and the 49ers – square off at Monster Park
Sunday.
It’s only week 5 of the NFL season but already this game is
shaping up to be the deciding factor in who gets the No. 1 pick in
next year’s NFL draft.
Welcome to Sunday’s Toilet Bowl
If the Super Bowl is in February then I guess the Toilet Bowl will be held this weekend when the NFL’s two lamest teams – The Raiders and the 49ers – square off at Monster Park Sunday.
It’s only week 5 of the NFL season but already this game is shaping up to be the deciding factor in who gets the No. 1 pick in next year’s NFL draft.
Unfortunately for both squads, they are so upside down right now that it’s going to take a lot more than a top pick. It’s going to take about 22 picks – 11 on one side of the ball and 11 on the other.
Speaking of football, have you seen the movie “Invincible?”
It’s the true story about Vince Papale, a down-on-his-luck teacher and part-time bartender from Philadelphia, who attends open tryouts with the Eagles to become one of thousands of hopefuls that want to make the squad in the late 1970s.
I mention this movie not only because it is good, which it is, but also because the 49ers and Raiders ought to give some validity to holding a similar public relations stunt at this point. Besides, have you seen the size of some of those disgruntled fans in the stands lately? Surely, some crazed, lunatic fan from the black hole could make the team.
They’ll never do it, but both teams are going to need to do something soon to keep the fans interested.
In fact, they should hold open tryouts for coaching positions too. For starters, San Benito High’s Chris Cameron and his staff could probably do a lot better than Art Shell and Mike Nolan at this point. Just look at the way that Baler defense has been playing.
By the way, when is the Mike Nolan honeymoon going to be over? Are they giving him a free pass because his dad coached the team in the early 1970s or what? This is getting ridiculous. What’s the guy have – a grand total of five wins now?
For 20 years beginning in 1981 every Niner coach won at least 10 games per season.
Years ago, if the Niners WON by only a touchdown people would question everybody from Bill Walsh to Eddie D.
Under Nolan if they lose by 14 points it’s considered progress. Talk about falling from grace. Now progress is measured at Niner camp, not by Super Bowl wins but by moral victories. At Raider games it’s measured by whether or not the game was blacked out.
Nolan might turn out to be a good coach at some point, but how long should we wait? It’s tough to get anybody to buy into anything when you don’t win games, regardless of personnel.
All of the Niners players talk a good game when asked about progress and buying into coach Nolan’s system, but now I’m starting to believe New York Jet running back Kevan Barlow, who said right after he left the 49ers that the whole team was scared to voice their opinion on anything with Nolan at the helm for fear that they would be cut, traded or benched.
At some point this guy has got to start winning some games. And Mr. Shell is in no different a situation.
Last week marked the first time ever that the Raiders started out a season 0-3. And last week’s blowout loss to the Chiefs was the most lopsided ever in 49er history.
Let me go out on a limb and say that if these teams don’t start winning ASAP there’s going to be a lot of silver and blacked out telecasts in the near future and the same goes for the 49ers.
Listen up Mr. Davis and Mr. York: We’re all sick and tired of high round draft picks. We want wins, and we want them now.
