Heavens to Murgatroid!

I don't know why, even though he's on my team, I've always equated Martz with Snagglepuss. He's got this smug momma's boy demeanor on the sideline. His arrogance in taking a bajillion sacks for a chance at the longball, his wasting of timeouts, etc. makes me think he was one of those preppy kid in all those summer camp movies.

I've heard him speak in press conferences before and I know how he sounds, but everytime I read a quote from him he ends up sounding like this in my head.

So watching Samurai Mike yell down Snagglepuss Mike on electing to kick a field goal on a 4th-and-1 was one of the highlights of the game for me. It still doesn't help that we didn't win after mismanaging the clock to watch Michael Robinson get stuffed up the middle to the end the game.

I thought I saw a facemask on the play but it seemed like the referees were doing their best to fuck up the game for both sides so I was kind of whatever when I saw [NOT FRANK GORE] getting tackled in a play that had no chance.

What kept us in the game, however, was Snagglepuss's more balanced playcalling which was probably ordered by Singletary. Gore got got over 20 carries and it lessened the load for Shaun Hill who actually scrambled away from the rush and stayed compose when throwing the ball for most of the game (except when it mattered).

But for all of the goodwill I had given him for most of the game, the final minute is all on him. After the catch at the 2-yard line, he called for a spike but the team was in disarray trying to get lined up for a fucking snap. Inbetwen watching Jason Hill rdive for a near-TD and the 25-godawful seconds of watching the team try to line up properly for spike is pretty much the way the post-Debartolo era has been. And to make it even worse, almost in an outsmarting himself sort of way, he has fucking FRANK GORE LINED UP WIDE and calls an inside run with a special teams guy (and I love Robinson but my fucking God) for the final play of the game. They had two weeks to prepare and study video and the best money play was that. That play was like Martz giving the organization the middle finger for choosing Singletary over him: "So you want to run? I'll run that little morsel... right into Chike Okeafor even!"

This is the genius we signed up for. The man to help us bring the 49ers offense back to respectability. The guy who anointed the JT O'Sullivan as the QB to make us the "best offense in the history of the NFL".

And that's why we're 2-7.