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01/27/13 09:32 PM
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wrote:Comparing regular-season performances, the 49ers have big advantages on both sides of the ball. They've outperformed the Ravens' solid offense and vastly outperformed their below-average defense. Anything the Ravens do poorly, the 49ers do well, and almost everything the Ravens do well, the 49ers do better. Only the Ravens' special teams and passing offense edged out the 49ers during the course of the season. Then again, San Francisco's passing game isn't the same one that performed in the regular season. The Ravens have stepped it up in the postseason, too, especially on defense. Perhaps Ray Lewis's last season is driving them to higher levels. But, on paper, the 49ers have a massive advantage in almost every phase of the game.
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01/27/13 09:43 PM
Who's got it better than us? NOBODY!
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(on this being the most talented roster he’s been a part of) “It’s ridiculous. You look around our locker room, and from head to toe, the offensive line, receivers, DBs, defensive line. It’s just the main reason we’re here. The talent level, what the coaches have been able to get out of us, it just all has come together. This roster is loaded.”
(on the extra week helping his arm to heal) “I think it’s getting better every week. I can do more stuff every week. It heals up the more time goes by. It’s feeling better. I’m getting used to wearing the brace a little bit better. I know how many more games I have left now, so it’s just four more quarters.”
01/28/13 07:09 AM
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01/28/13 10:21 AM
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01/28/13 11:58 AM
wrote:San Francisco 49ers backup quarterback Alex Smith is expected to ask for his release before the free agent signing period begins on March 12, Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com reports. Smith opened the 2012 season as the 49ers' starting quarterback, completing over 70 percent of 218 pass attempts for 1,737 yards with 13 touchdowns and five interceptions before sustaining a concussion in a Week 10 tie with the St. Louis Rams. Smith was inactive the following week against the Chicago Bears and was replaced in the starting lineup by 2011 second-round pick Colin Kaepernick. Smith earned the starting job in head coach Jim Harbaugh's first season as 49ers head coach and guided the club to the NFC championship game by playing mistake-free football, completing 61.3 percent of his pass attempts for 3,144 yards with 17 touchdowns and just five interceptions. Despite their deep playoff run with Smith at the helm of the offense, the 49ers allowed Smith to test free agency as they themselves flirted with Peyton Manning, who had been released by the Indianapolis Colts prior to the start of free agency. Smith visited the Miami Dolphins, but after Manning signed with the Denver Broncos, the first overall pick of the 2005 NFL Draft signed a three-year, $24 million contract that included $15.5 million (partially) guaranteed money to remain with the 49ers. Smith received a $3 million roster bonus on March 26, 2012 - $1 million of which was deferred until March 15, 2013 - and his $5 million base salary in 2012 was fully guaranteed. Smith is due to earn $7.5 million in base salary in 2013, with $1 million already fully guaranteed. If Smith is on the 49ers' roster on April 1, the remaining $6.5 million will become fully guaranteed. While the 49ers would prefer to trade Smith, who the team has invested tens of millions of dollars in over the last eight seasons, they will have a very short window of opportunity to do so. According to a source with knowledge of the contract, Smith is due a $1 million roster bonus on the third day of the 2013 league year, which gives the 49ers around 48 hours to move Smith, and his contract, to another team's roster.
01/28/13 12:04 PM
wrote:And, as it turns out, Luck was involved in the process by which Harbaugh and 49ers general manager Trent Baalke selected Nevada quarterback Colin Kaepernick in the second round of the 2011 NFL Draft. As Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle recently wrote, Luck and Kaepernick first met at the Manning Passing Academy in 2010, when Kaepernick was an under-the-radar prospect and Luck was the headliner. The Academy is a longtime concern of Archie, Peyton, and Eli Manning, and it's a way for the best and brightest quarterbacks on their way up to make themselves known and get additional pointers about the position. Luck didn't have to bull his way in, but Kaepernick did -- in the end, Nevada head coach Chris Ault had to write a letter of recommendation to get the lanky passer in the camp. When Luck returned to Stanford, Harbaugh asked him if he'd seen any quarterbacks worthy of mention. Luck, who had become friends with Kaepernick at the Academy, said that Harbaugh should keep an eye on Kaepernick. After he was hired by the 49ers, Harbaugh went to Reno in the spring of 2011 to try Kaepernick out. “We had a few competitions, different drills and different accuracy things," Kaepernick recalled during the 49ers' introductory press conference in New Orleans on Sunday evening. "Just head up and see who could compete and win. We had different goal-post throws, who could throw a better spiral, things like that. I let him win the first one, and I won the rest.” After the two men threw the ball around, according to Hostler, there was an abrupt ending to the festivities. A friend asked Kaepernick how the meeting with Harbaugh went. "I think I pissed him off," Kaepernick said. More likely, Harbaugh had done all the scouting work on Kaepernick, who was downgraded by some NFL teams because he was seen to be the product of a "gimmick" offense. Most likely, Harbaugh understood that in watching Kaepernick throw for more than 10,000 yards and run for more than 4,000 in college, he had the potential to be a franchise signal-caller in an offensive like Harbaugh's, which is based on the run game and overall efficiency, but also has elements of motion and play-action. And in time, Harbaugh was able to merge the read-option and Pistol offenses Kaepernick knew with his own NFL concepts. “I thought it would work to some extent," Kaepernick said on Sunday, when asked if he believed that his college concepts would work in the NFL. "I didn’t think it was something you could run every play. There are too many good athletes on defense at this level. Not so much the speed, just the fact that everybody is good on defense. There are not really too many people you can just pick on in the NFL like there are in college.”
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