Everyone in the Bay Area and beyond predicted they'd win decisively in Seattle and all they did was lay a major egg.
Not a good start for a team that is supposed to win its relatively weak division and an organization that has its sights set on a new stadium in the Southland.
And all they have coming up on the schedule is the defending champion New Orleans Saints, (ouch, but its at home on Monday night at least)
Raiders: red OK, nobody expected a win on the road against a better-than-average Titans team in a stadium where they don't play that good anyway, but Sunday's performance was vastly disappointing.
Worry central for the Silver and Black: new QB looked shaky. Rookie center and o-line issues. The good news: Rams at home Sunday.
**Gary Plummer: green The 49ers radio color analyst called out, (on-the-air) Michael Crabtree after the diva managed to run two wrong routes, made a wimpish effort to tackle a defender who picked off an Alex Smith pass. "Bench him!, Bench him!--he's hurting the team!, yelled Plummer, who scored points with the anti-homer crowd.
**Mike Singletary: red The rah-rah talk is beginning to lose its luster with team, fans, and media as the leader of the ship makes lame post game excuses; blames game-related blunders on helmet communications and defends offensive coordinator; oh, and QB too. By the way, Pete Carroll says your welcome.
**CBS5: green-mild It's fine that you touted that you beat the other guys in the San Bruno fire and explosion, but would it have killed you to wait a week? There's something wrong there, maybe timing. That said, your video feeds, (and that incredible footage from KGO-TV) were amazingly crisp and fluid; Dana King was both calm and informative and Simon Perez' on-scene reports were incredibly profound.
KRON4: red What in god's name is Darya Folsom doing at an anchor desk during a major story like this? Folsom sounds like a giddy high-school glee reporter that's trying to impress the principal. Like her "work" on the evening of the Oscar Grant rioting, she again showed her utterly clueless ways, even by KRON's goofy standards. Hey Pero, just get Pam Moore on the set ALONE on breaking news like this; Folsom is an embarrassment even by your standards.
SF Chronicle: red Again, in the slightly tacky dept., the Chron's SFGate website plugs an "Only in Sunday print edition" special news layout of the San Bruno tragedy. Yo Chron, editors, there was still bodies in those houses. I know you're desperately losing lots of money and need to get your print some readers, but not in this manner. Like the audience peeps who screamed at Gilburt Gottfried at the Friars Club in NY a week after 9/11 when he made a bad joke: "too soon!"
**Spider Dan: green Guy spends three hours scaling Millennium tower and unfurling the American flag. Sure it was dangerous and edgy, but in the end, the guy made his point and provided nirvana for Bay Area TV newsrooms desperate for any news on a slow Labor Day.
**The SF Giants postgame rap: red Opposing team's pitcher throws a complete-game shutout and in your after-game radio summation, all of you "pick" Giants as players of the game. I don't care if its the LA Dodgers, that's just bush. Grab some pine, meat.
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