I was thinking more about the David Akers Saga. (Everything is a “Saga” these days and not about football players playing football games).

Back to Jan 3 with Joe Nedney’s comments:
"The telling sign to me is that he is missing them wide left, which means he is not getting his hips through the ball, he is not swinging confidently through the ball. It’s kind of what we call poking-and-hoping."
And then later that day with
David Akers revealed he had double sports hernia surgery in Feb. Been dealing with complications in latter part of season.
And day before yesterday the news story
I don't know a lot about sports medicine, but complications from any kind of surgery can't be good. Earlier this season there were some comments about Akers dealing with a pelvis injury. My guess is that this is related, but as with many 49ers injuries, we won't know for certain any time soon.

Their current kicker, David Akers, was limited in practice on Wednesday with a pelvis injury. (Brandon Marshall has a suggested treatment plan for that.)
And then back to Nedney,
Though he was not present for Jim Harbaugh’s regime, Nedney suggested there would be aggressive practices for the Niners’ kickers in an attempt to determine a winner. He also mentioned that Harbaugh would be "monitoring the psyche of David Akers."
So to sum all this up and submit an all encompassing theory I think that what we have here is a Kicker with an average to above average life time completion percentage, comes to the 49ers and has an unusual lights out season, gets injured but gamely perseveres, only to have the injury catch up to him, throwing off his kicking motion, especially on longer kicks, and finally crushing his self confidence. Harbaugh, being aware of all this, tries to counter with the competition game to see if Akers has the right stuff mentally and can focus on keeping his job, let alone completing an important field goal or three in our upcoming battle with the Green Bay Packers.

David Akers got injured, his performance dropped, the fans turned on him, and then Harbaugh pulls his flagging self esteem out of the ashes with some basic sessions in rudiments with Cundiff and to build a fire under his competitive determination to get him back on track.

I predict 75% for Akers on Saturday, at least 10% higher if the ball is teed up on or before the 35 yard line, and that there will be at least one trick play where the holder runs for it, throws a pass or Akers himself throws a left handed pass like the touchdown pass he through to Crabtree last year against the Rams, the video of which I linked last night.

Jim Harbaugh wants everybody to be performing at their highest possible level. Anything less is unacceptable for a team with Super Bowl aspirations.