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Niners hoping to put some noise in their December silent night
By David Zizmor December 5, 2007 |
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Maybe the San Francisco 49ers need to hit the free agency market and look for a better back up quarterback as Trent Dilfer had trouble getting his engine going, following the tough loss in Carolina last Sunday. Dilfer was in for injured Alex Smith and more than likely will fill in for at least the Minnesota match up next Sunday and the Cincinnati game on Saturday the 15th. Both are home games. Smith could return as early as Saturday the 15th but he's still nursing his bad right wing. The need for a back up quarterback is necessary because things are not happening and another thing that you can criticize Smith evidently it is not going to be the answer to the 49ers problems and I'm saying that because after he got his shoulder hurt there was a fundamental disagreement between the coaches and the players as to what to do about it. That's a very bad sign because you have a player that thinks he knows the right thing to do isn't back implicitly, implicit that he doesn't want to be coached to do things he doesn't want to do. The Niners team is really suffering in this kind of a situation and ultimately your going to find a player going to one side or the other and the belief system that players have should be in the coaching end of the system. But the coaches are having a tough time trying to instill that in this 49ers team and that's having some bad effects and of course the Niners haven't look good losing either. Dilfer's passing have been off the mark. It seems like if your going to win in the NFL consistently you have to have a great starting quarterback but you also have to have a back up that can do the job all be it for a short time. That's what the problems are with the 49ers right now. Its too bad because Dilfer was a great player but he's getting pretty long in the tooth now and to try to come up to NFL standards is very difficult and you can see that Dilfer had one or two games that most people thought he played very, very well. Dilfer can't do that week after week and you might make the argument that's why he's the back up but Smith is the question mark right now for San Francisco. What are they going to do with him? Are they going to let him go? Start over? Start a different team? Is it going to be done with or without the coaching staff they have or is it a problem where the offensive coordinator just didn't call the right signals early in the year to give Smith an honest to goodness beginning by calling all the right plays? Its an open question. The 49ers host the Minnesota Vikings at 1:05PM at Candlestick Park Sunday. David Zizmor covers 49ers football each week with Tony the Tiger Hayes and Pearl Lo. |
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