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Kid, give your take on the Niners after the season opener on Monday Night Football.

THE NINERS ARE WHO WE THOUGHT THEY ARE....WHO THE HELL TAKES THE FIRST GAME OF THE REGULAR SEASON LIKE IT'S ****!!!  ****!!

Kid, everyone thinks that the 49ers are the best team in the division..

YOU WANT GO AHEAD AND CROWN THEM..THEN CROWN THIER****!! 

Kid, any more on how you thought your team played last night?

WE HAD THEM WHERE WE WANTED AND WE LET 'EM OFF THE HOOK!!!

And so start off my Denny Eqsque tirade.  What the hell, do we live in some weird time warp of evil??  Did I unknowingly piss off someone's mother in law so bad that she's put a Voodoo hex where my team has to endure gut wrenching loss after gut wrenching loss.  For crying out loud, it's just Alex Smith!  I keep reverting back to that line in Top Gun where Maverick came back from his first flight after Goose's death. The voice of his RIO keeps playing in my head....We could had em' man!  We Coulda HAD!  What the hell are you waiting for??  It doesn't get any better then that?? 

I just wanted to grab someone and scream back "THEY'LL WIN WHEN THEY'RE GOD DAMMED GOOD AND READY!"  Unfortunately the NFL season is only 16 games, and we put one in the L column because we stopped our aggressiveness that had held Frank Gore and the Forty Whiner offense to 109 yards for the entire game.  We when into this prevent defense crap that does nothing more then prevent you from winning.  Sure....they needed a TD...But come on now...The games 60 minutes long, not 58 1/2. 

It's not a total loss...It's a hard one to swallow, because I know this teams better then that.  That horrendous start to the second half illustrates something that needs to fixed.  We're supposed to be SMART, TOUGH, and DISCIPLINED.  We opened up the 3rd quarter like we had our heads shoved so far up our buttz that we would have needed emergency surgery to pull them out.  Totally uncharacteristic of how they had previously performed.  And Matt Leinart and the WR Corp never got in any kind of rhythm.  Routes were poorly run, and Leinart looked uncomfortable in the pocket. 

Let's just be thankful that we will NEVER have to listen to the combination of the Tres Mikes ever again.  I actually thought about taking a drill and giving myself a root canal without any pain med, that's how bad they were.  But the thought of waking up the rest of my house kept my sanity in check.

So it's time to move on, and throw some focus onto this weeks opponent, the Seattle Sea Chickens.  Their last trip to the desert ended up in a sweet victory for the Cardinals.  Shawn Alexander couldn't' get anything going, and Hasselback played like the overrated imitation Quarterback that he is.  So this weeks tailgate menu would be incomplete without Grilled Sea chicken, spiced with a bit of hot sauce, because we all know how gamy the Sea Chicken can actually be.  And rumor out of the rainey Northwest that gave us greats like Kurt Kobain and some weird beat box **** on American Idol, is that Shawn Alexander will be in a limited role due to a possible broken hand.  And the Madden Cover Jinx continues to ruin another career.  What's next...Allegations of illegal Sea chicken fights???  Only time will tell!

Hopefully next week's blog much more upbeat and I will be talking about a 1-1 Cardinals team heading into Baltimore for yet another tough challenge!  Until THEN!

GO CARDZ!!!