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Larry Leavitt on Pro hockey: Bulls late scoring could inspire offense

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by Larry Leavitt

DALY CITY–It was an interesting game that was very physical the game between the Stockton Thunder and the San Francisco Bulls on Friday which was the first of five in a row scheduled meeting between the two teams.The five game set up runs last Friday at the Cow Palace, then three games away in Stockton and then one game at home back at the Cow Palace next Saturday. So their going to see a lot of each other and it started out with some bad blood in the first period of the game.

The two teams didn’t take but 40 seconds to get the first fight in and there were a couple bad boardings from the Stockton players which led to more fisticuffs the Thunder and the Bulls weren’t really playing really great hockey they were just hanging in there and then comes the third period they came back and closed out the win and actually put in an empty netter so it looked better and it was a close game all the way to the end.

The Bulls stuck with it all the way through and came out with a 5-2 win which included a really good showing from coming from behind and playing the game. While it was that the Bulls Adrian Foster opened the game up with the first goal of the game you still have to play the full 60 minutes of hockey. This goes to show you you can’t let up you got to keep on playing. You got to play the game all the way through until the last buzzer the Bulls really did come with a complete game at the end.

To be fair the ice was tilted into the Stockton end quite a bit they were just missing that last pass to knock it in the net quite a bit there’s a lot of cross ice passes in front of the goalie they didn’t have the timing down and it could have been worse for the Bulls. Credit goes to where it’s due they really stuck with it and came from behind and had two quick goals which really turned it around and then Stockton was on their heels.

San Jose Sharks update: The Sharks who maybe are in a tie with the L.A. Kings in the Pacific division and they have their thrid straight win against the Coyotes Friday but their doing it in shootouts and it’s giving the other team a point there. The Sharks are not closing out games granted they came from behind a lot against the Coyotes.

The Sharks didn’t have the lead until until the third period, they finally got the lead and then they coughed up the lead where they really need to close it out. That’s a shame and the Sharks really need to get better at that if their going to continue and be an elite team they need to get that lead and shut them down.

When it comes to shootouts it’s purely whose hot now type of a thing could it be a freaky goal that happen to goaltender of the Coyotes Mike Smith at Phoenix where the puck dropped in the back of his jersey and went into his hockey pants and he backed into his own goal for the score which turned out to be the winning goal for the Buffalo Sabers.

Maybe that was in the back of Smith’s mind Friday night when he was starting to have some problems and when it comes to winning I’d rather be lucky than good. The Sharks are still putting it in the net. Right now the Sharks Patrick Marleau is gold for the shootout and he’s been one of the Sharks most consistent players of this year and the fact that he wasn’t invited to the Olympic camp might have been a way that he showed them that they might have missed something.

Larry Leavitt does Pro hockey commentary for Sportstalk each week

Michael Duca and Morris Phillips on Cal basketball

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by Michael Duca and Morris Phillips

BERKELEY–The thing about Cal facing Creighton and losing last weekend in that non conference game is that loss won’t help them as we approach the NCAA Tournament on whose going to go and who isn’t. Cal head coach Mike Montgomery knows there’s not that many opportunities in the non-conference to make them last.

When the Golden Bears went to Maui and lost to Syracuse 91-82 November 26th Syracuse is ranked number two in the nation right now but they weren’t ranked number two when Cal played them after raking up a few more wins. The Bears didn’t beat Syracuse and they didn’t beat Creighton that will hurt them come selection time.

As far as the Bears next opponent Furman is concerned whom they play at Haas on Saturday they won’t give Cal much of a battle that will be the final non conference game for the Bears and they will see Stanford on January 2nd at Maples Pavilion to open their first conference game in the new year.

The Bears best game in non conference play was the game against Oakland which they won 64-61 the team from suburban Detroit that was in Berkeley on November 15th that game went down to the last two minutes. Oakland went onto do some almost wonderful things.

The Bears also took Michigan State down to the end of the wire that game was played at the Palace of Auburn Hills in Michigan. Non conference basketball is where you don’t want any slip ups like losing to someone your not suppose to lose to because people will come and hurt you come selection tme.

The NCAA will select someone whose in the top 40 who will hurt you, especially since Cal comes off that loss to Creighton which is disappointing and you’ll see them bounce back pretty well. The Bears are in Stanford Jan 2 and you don’t want to open the conference season with a loss and Cal hasn’t had much success at Maples lately. The Bears have lost the last three or four in Maples.

The Bears have won at Stanford only once since Montgomery was the coach the win was in his first year it’s a tough place to play for Cal. Montgomery doesn’t get much a of reception down there any more even though he was a great coach at Stanford for many years and they’re going to have to deal with Stanford and their size. If anything we know that Stanford doesn’t shoot the ball well all the time and hopefully Cal can take advantage of it.

Morris Phillips covers the Cal Bears with Michael Duca for Sportstalk Radio

Raiders report: Pryor looking for redemption in return in season finale

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by David Zizmor

ALAMEDA–The Raiders had started Matt McGloin and now all of a sudden the Raiders are starting quarterback Terrelle Pryor. He had a pretty nice run earlier in the season then he got dinged up and McGloin came in and had a few starts he looked okay and decided to go with McGloin for a few weeks to see what they have and now in week 17 their going back to Pryor.

There’s no rhyme or reason to it it’s a little strange but at a certain point the Raiders thought they had a shot here and they’ll go for it and then everything fell apart. Most of this is on the defensive side and the offense hasn’t been awful. Pryor is the guy the Raiders really need to evaluate and we’ve been saying this the last six weeks since McGloin took over.

Pryor is a more dynamic option back there and he’s the one with the highest ceiling and McGloin he looks okay there’s nothing wrong with the guy he’s not someone you look at and say this is someone whose going to lead us to the Super Bowl. He’s a caretaker, he’s a game manager, he’s a back up quarterback. There’s nothing wrong with that there’s plenty of room in this league for a back up quarterback.

You could look down at Dallas where quarterback Tony Romo got injured and back up Kyle Orton is going to start and take Romo’s place. The backup quarterback is something important and every team needs one. The Raiders aren’t in a position to be looking at a back up quarterback and to make sure the back up QB is any good. The Raiders need to find out if they have a starting quarterback.

Going forward everyone could see that McGloin was a back up and Pryor at least had some chance at being a starting quarterback. Pryor obviously has a lot of polishing up to do he’s someone who needs some work who needs to learn but you can’t learn until your out there on the field. The Raiders have kept him off the field for several weeks which really doesn’t make any sense.

Time and time again the threat with his legs really open things up for the Raiders and gave them an opportunity that would not otherwise exist and makes them a little more interesting to watch. It will be fun to see Pryor out there and it would be interesting to see if he could step in after being on the bench for so many weeks. It’s defintely going to be tougher going against the Denver Broncos this Sunday their the team that still has something to play for.

The Broncos aren’t going to play too hard, quarteback Peyton Manning got his touchdown record their the number on one or number two seed no matter what they get the Broncos got that home game either way. Denver might rest it’s players which could give the Raiders a chance in this one.

David Zizmor covers the NFL for Sportstalk Radio

49ers report: Niners can’t let up on Cardinals

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by David Zizmor

SANTA CLARA–This is going to be an interesting weekend as the 49ers and Cardinals season finale will mean something for both teams. Seattle lost to these very same Arizona Cardinals whom the 49ers play this Sunday at Glendale. That does two things that keeps the Cardinals in a position to make the playoffs so they certainly have something to play for. It also puts the 49ers in a position to win the divison.

Now it’s not necessarily the most likely win for the 49ers, a couple things need to happen they need to beat Arizona to win the division but number two Seattle also has to lose to St.Louis in Seattle and while Arizona managed to beat Seattle on their home turf last week it seems very unlikely that Seattle will lost two in a row at Century Link.

The Seahawks have been so good for so long up there in their own stadium that losing two in a row would seem unlikely but for whatever stroke of luck if Seattle loses and the 49ers win and the Niners end up being the division champions at a bare minimum the number two seed and if Carolina ends up losing to Atlanta and the Niners won to become the number one seed and have home field through the playoffs that final game that everyone was talking about at the stick last week would end up being pushed back a little bit.

There will at least one playoff game at the stick for the 49ers before they close down that stadium there’s a lot going on in terms of the playoff race and let’s not forget that Arizona could still make the playoffs. So if they win New Orleans loses then Arizona winds up being the final Wild Card team. So there not going to be any sitting down and resting their guys and playing for nothing they have a legitimate goal in this game.

The Niners can’t rest because they have their own playoff hopes to try to fulfill but the Cardinals won’t be able to rest either their going to be aiming for that playoff spot. So this is going to be a big game New Orleans will be playing at the same time Seattle is playing.

So none of the outcomes will be known going into the game all these teams will be playing for that playoff spot their all going to be playing at their hardest everybody who can play will play. Your not going to see a lot of guys sitting out and resting this will be a very interesting game. If you look back earlier in the season the 49ers demolished the Cards.

That wasn’t even a very close game but the score looked a little closer than it was in the end it was a 32-21 victory for the Niners. Arizona always plays the Niners tough they have such a good defense Calais Campbell of the Cardinals on their defensive line is having an All-Pro year and the Cardinals are slightly higher up in the standings Campbell should get defensive player of the year considerations he’s really good.

David Zizmor is covering the NFL for Sportstalk

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: Candlestick may still have a game or two left in her if Niners make first seed

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by Ken Gimblin

SAN FRANCISCO–There is a slight possibility for the 49ers that they maybe hardpressed into hosting a NFC Playoff game at Candlestick park who hosted San Francisco’s last regular game ever there last Monday night. The 49ers are going to play in Arizona that’s going to be a big game for them on Sunday that’s coming off a big win against Seattle. So they got to play in Arizona and if the Niners beat Arizona they’ll move up to the first seed if Seattle loses to the Rams in Seattle and truthfully it’s unlikely.

If the Rams were to beat the odds and beat Seattle the 49ers would get the number one seed and Seattle would drop into a playoff situation. The advantage of being the number one seed as oppose to the number two seed is the number one gets a first round bye and has time to patch up their victories as most of the players are kind of banged up. The second thing about being number one you play your games at home.

So if the Niners get the number one seed and that would take a 49ers victory and a Seattle loss this Sunday then the 49ers would be back at Candlestick and the Stick will could be use for at least two games if the Niners were to advance and host the NFC Championship which would make it the last game ever at Candlestick.

You really have to emphasize that the 49ers could actually play two games at Candlestick if I had to critcize the Niners and their certainly playing a lot better and the fact that they got Michael Crabtree back he’s the receiver that the 49ers desperately need. The two things that stood out in the game aganist Atlanta and they were lucky to have won. The 49ers gave the Atlanta quarterback way too much time.

So the 49ers are going to have to make sure they don’t give the Arizona that much time and they need to put pressure on him. The second thing is on 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick former 49er quarterback Steve Young said that Kaepernick zeros in on the number one receiver and he’s not always picking up the receiver in the open. These are things that Kaepernick needs to work on.

Sometimes he’s not always passing off the correct way and he’s not passing off that bottom foot the results are that his passes are coming in soft and their easy to pick off. The Niners have improved and their going to have to work on a few things in order to be sucessful on Sunday.

Candlestick memories: My first Candlestick start with the 49ers at least 50 years ago in covering the Niners. I had a very close relationship with the Oakland Raiders and I spent a lot of time them home and away games and once they moved to L.A. I put my full attention on the 49ers. So I would have to say my attention had to be with emphasis on the 49ers over the years.

I spent more time covering them and I worked with both the Giants and 49ers but I would say because of working for the Giants earlier and knowing the owners and so forth and getting closer to the players because baseball is easier to do I have to say I have more more memories at Candlestick with the San Francisco Giants.

Ken Gimblin is filling for Amaury Pi Gonzalez who is out on holiday

Larry Leavitt on Pro Hockey: Bulls have to make most of this three game weekend

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by Larry Leavitt

DALY CITY–The Colorado Eagles are a top three team in the East Coast Hockey League and they proved that on Friday night with a three goal win over the San Francisco Bulls 6-3 at the Cow Palace. They’re very fast and they’re a great skating club, they have great skaters. They look like an elite team. The Bulls played sloppy and if your going to play in this league you got to have your A game you got come out there with your best.

The Bulls didn’t really come out with their best unfortunately Bulls goaltender Tyler Beskorwany he had some quick goals put on him not all of them were quick passes. So if he’s moving from side to side in the net the other team just tapped it in. Multiple goals like that by the Eagles are practiced and obviously Colorado did very well. The Bulls tried to make their come back in the second period and scored a couple and then they scored one in the third. The Bulls cut it close and then unfortunately Colorado pulled away at the end, it was a decent showing at the end.

The goals that the Bulls scored were all really good goals they really worked the puck in there and on offense I was very impressed with the play in front of the Eagles net by the Bulls at the end of the game when they were shooting at that end. They were working the puck they were working the corners there was not a lot time and space the puck was bouncing pretty well. Bulls skaters Tyler Gron and Dale Mitchell looked pretty good carrying the puck and of course it was fortunate they looked real good.

The Bulls have to keep working at it and keep the grinding into it. They need to come out with a better start because playing with a three goal deficit is really tough to come out of it. Turning the page is what you have to do as a hockey team once the last horn sounds for a game and especially in the ECHL you have back to back games. In this case back to back to back. The Bulls played Friday and Saturday and finish up Sunday afternoon at the Cow Palace.

The only other league in sports where you play that many consecutive games without a day off is professional baseball.

San Jose Sharks update: The Los Angeles Kings played a very physical game and they won the Stanley Cup a few years ago and they still have a good number of those core players there and the Sharks are a good team and their getting good goaltending from this rookie who came in Alex Stalock.

Injured left winger Tomas Hertl checked with his father in the Czech Republic that he would be out for a week to a month and that was the night of the knee injury in Los Angeles on Thursday. When an injury happens it really takes a couple days for things to settle down to observe the full extent. I would expect this injury to Hertl to last a couple of months.

If the knee is torn or ripped he’ll be out awhile but if it’s just a bruise it might be three or four weeks and then you have to get into hockey shape of working out to get the game speed. As far as the hit by the Los Angeles Kings Dustin Brown on the knee on knee injury it’s amazing no matter who you ask that Brown should have been thrown out of that game.

Brown has done this multiple times to players and if this was a legal hit it’s unfortunate and it worked and the poor guy is getting blamed for something terrible. I’ve been skating for 40 years and if your making a left turn and your on your inside edge on your right foot you should be inward and and it was not on his inside edge and his knee wasn’t inward which tells me that he was trying to go right at Hertl.

Larry Leavitt does Pro Hockey commentary each week for Sportstalk Radio

Morris Phillips on the NCAA: Former Raider Tuiasosopo to coach Hunger Bowl for Washington

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by Morris Phillips

SAN FRANCISCO–The Kraft Hunger Bowl is back and kick off is scheduled for Sat December 28th at AT&T Park between BYU and Washington University. Friday night I was in downtown S.F. and ran into the BYU advance crew. The Cougars don’t arrive in the City until Sunday. The Cougars former head coach Lavelle Edwards was in town on Friday night.

There’s a lot of excitment downtown it’s BYU’s first appearance in the Kraft Bowl and it’s Washington’s also. It should be a great football game. BYU is having a great season. The Cougars lost games during the regular season to Wisconsin and Notre Dame. BYU is a good football team and they run the football.

Washington runs the football just as well with their running back Bishop Sankey and the Huskies are 8-12 for the regular season in the Pac 12. Then there was the coaching change for Washington as Steve Sarkisian who left for USC is replaced by Chris Peterson. Sarkisian will not be involved in this game.

Peterson left Boise State to coach the Huskies and with the Hunger Bowl in the last couple years there have been coaching changes for this game. It will not affect the product on the field it should be an exciting game. Former Raider quarterback Marques Tuiasosopo the Huskies interim coach knows the system going into this bowl game. It’s all hands on deck with Sarkisian gone and the team has to rally around the new coach for this game.

The players have to be more attentive and the assistants have to assume the responsibilty it’s not going to affect them on the field. They’ve got plenty of time to prepare and they might be able to do well without Sarkisian for this game. What happened two years ago with Illinois they came into the bowl to play UCLA with their new coach and last year a coaching change happened when Boston College came town and they also had a new coach.

That’s just the kind of timing they have in football and particuarily with this bowl game coaches are taking new jobs at this time of the year and obviously athletic directors are not interested in having somebody around whose accepted a new job who can not even coach the last few games. They get the guy out and he doesn’t coach the final bowl games and they just move on.

It shouldn’t effect Washington at all with this change and again Peterson will take over at the beginning of next season and coach the Huskies 2014 season. Peterson maybe attending this game as an observer. He might be there as a consultant but Peterson left Boise State and it’s great for Washington he was an excellent coach while he was with the Buffaloes and made a couple of BCS appearences.

Morris Phillips is filling in for Michelle Richardson this week for NCAA commentary

That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary: A’s ownership considering building near Coliseum site

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by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

OAKLAND–The question was put to A’s co-owner and managing partner Lew Wolff where if not for Jack London Square’s Howard Terminal is the best place for the A’s? Wolf mentioned the Coliseum “would be where were at right now on land controlled by (the city and county).” Wolff made it clear that a Jack London Square park would be out of the question after a design of what it would look like on the Oakland Waterfront would look like.

There has been reports that if Wolff ever was to sell the A’s and he reiterated that he was no going to sell the club but if he were executives from Clorox bleech, Dreyer’s Ice Cream, Warrior owners Joe Lacob and Peter Gruber were interested in buying the team. It was the first time since Wolff said he wanted to move the team to Fremont or San Jose that he would consider keeping the team in Oakland but it would not be in downtown Oakland.

The new design that was released on Wednesday is located next to the bay by the containers and the horse shaped cranes and would be in proximenty to Jack London Square which is prime downtown location for hotels and restaurant constructon if a new stadium was ever to be constructed there. The key here is that Wolff and co-owner John Fisher said they are not interested in the downtown location, what are you going to do? “All I care about is getting a new home for the A’s in the best possible circumstances, and under any circumstances Howard Terminal would be as close to impossible as anything.” said Wolff.

Wolff and Fisher for the longest while were not convinced that they could not have a place in Oakland but the Coliseum location seems to be of strong interest. Wolff likes that it’s all city and county property that would be all city and county property to build on the land spending public funds and Wolff would pay almost unheard of low rent. The suitors for buying the A’s Clorox, Dreyers and the Warriors would like to build a waterfront ball park in downtown Oakland and develop Jack London square into a shopping, hotel, and condo meca.

Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig said he was not in favor of getting rid of the team but that he said the A’s could not go to San Jose because of the San Francisco Giants territorial rights. We know the city of Oakland wants to keep the A’s we have to go to the Genises of this and Wolff doesn’t want the team at the waterfront but will consider building the team a new stadium at the Coliseum location.

Wolf says BART goes right to the Coliseum and that the only change would be the A’s would get a new park and be in the same location that they always have been in since 1968 and that’s in east Oakland at the Coliseum. Everytime the city of Oakland comes up with a new plan Wolff says it’s not doable. So that plan is what Wolff wants and he wants to build a new stadium for the A’s on public property at the Coliseum site.

Wolff wants to move the team to San Jose but he finally realizes now that he can’t because of the Giants territorial rights and baseball also would not allow it because the Giants would litagate against baseball and Selig does not want a side show over the A’s moving to San Jose. Right now it’s 50-50 and nobody knows how this is going to end up.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the Spanish radio voice for Oakland A’s baseball and does That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary

Major League Baseball: 2013 was a very good year

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That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary

OAKLAND–You will not see any baseball owners this Christmas,going through the garbage bins behind your local Safeway searching for food.

According to Forbes Magazine(the authority in financial matters), Major League Baseball established a record of over $8 billion in revenues this 2013 season.. According to this report, Major League Baseball will see revenue double for new broadcasts deals with national network partners; FOX, ESPN and TBS, that will add an additional $788.3 million a year to the league’s coffers.

Leading the way are the Los Angeles Dodgers, with the communications giant Time-Warner, with a broadcast rights deal of over 20 years between $7 to $8 billion, to be approved soon by Major League Baseball.

I know many have written the epitaph of Major League Baseball, specially since the National Football League has become the dominant league in America, but meanwhile, baseball has been prospering like never before. As a matter of fact, during the last 18 years, Major League Baseball have seen revenues grown by an incredible 264 percent.

Many fans that follow baseball have been amazed at the signings is this, off-season, beginning with the $240 million contract for 10 years the Seattle Mariners gave ex-Yankee second baseman Robinson Canó, if you are not a Red Sox fan, Canó is the best second baseman in baseball, if you are a Red Sox fan you will say Dustin Pedroia. But, joking aside, Robinson Canó is not only the best second baseman in baseball, but one of the very best players in the game today.

And there could be soon another big deal if Masahiro Tanaka is available to sign with a major league club. The pitcher was 24-0 with a 1.27 earned run average starting in 27 games for the Rakuten Eagles. The amazement comes not for guys like Canó, (although I believe to give a 31 year old player a 10-year deal for that money is crazy), but for the mediocre players that have been signings very lucrative contracts.

Granted, it has become such a large business, that teams sometimes keep players whose numbers have been dwindling, just because they are drawing cards to their parks. Best example, the $35 million contract for 2 years the San Francisco Giants gave pitcher Tim Lincecum.

The popularity of Major League Baseball was also helped by the MLB Network, a 24X7 only baseball channel, that covers the game as good as anybody, during the past decade they have provided great coverage, including during the off season, but especially during the regular season, when they cut to the live broadcast from game to game around both leagues. Giving you(the fan)a live and instant look at different games, key moments on those games, and history records, as they happen.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the vice president for the Major League Baseball Hispanic Museum and does News and Commentary each week for Sportstalk Radio

49ers report: Team gets ready to bid fond adieu to 55 yr old Candlestick Park

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by David Zizmor

SANTA CLARA–The last game ever at Candlestick Park this coming Monday night will feature a lot of pomp and circumstance as the 49ers close out the old park with the Atlanta Falcons. You will see a lot of superstars coming to bid the old park goodbye which includes Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, Dwight Clark, Eddie DeBartolo Jr, Steve Young, just about everybody you could think of whose still alive and kicking. There’s a rumor that some former baseball Giants might come out and say goodbye to the old place too.

So anyone that had anything positive to do with the park over the years will be at Candlestick to celebrate the final game of this old and crumbling stadium before the 49ers move down to Levis Stadium down in Santa Clara. It’s been a long run for Candlestick it’s not the greatest stadium and anyone whose been there knows it’s past it’s prime. Even in it’s prime I wouldn’t call it a great stadium it was always a hulking mass.

It’s way too cold and way too hard to get to it’s one of those places that you like it because but it’s not a Soldier Field in Chicago or a Lambeau Field in Green Bay. Fans are going to miss it but they also look forward to going to their new stadium in Santa Clara they’re kind of crossing their fingers that it will have the same impact that it did like AT&T Park had in the city for the Giants when they moved at the end of the 1999 season.

When the Giants moved to AT&T Park pretty much everybody agreed that AT&T is one of the top stadiums in baseball and hopefully the 49ers new stadium will have an equal impact and it will be like as much as AT&T Park that’s kind of the gold standard. It will be sad to see it go.

Fans have a lot of memories there I first met Lee Leonard at that stadium so it’s even historical for Sportstalk radio we had our moments there. Good times, good memories but it’s time to move from Candelstick before it crumbles to the ground and the next time we talk about it is when they blow it up which everybody would like to go and see that because it’s going to be really cool.

49ers and Falcons preview: The Falcons have a lousy record but they might be better than what their record reflects. The Niners look really good, they got the running game going and Tampa had a good running defense last Sunday so that’s a good sign for San Francisco.

49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has been in more control than he has in the last several weeks even in the win against Seattle this game was the best that Kaepernick has had in throwing against Tampa in five or six weeks. You also saw the defense playing well as it always has. This game coming up against Atlanta should be an interesting one.

First of all the Niners are playing the Falcons the team they beat to get into the NFC Championship game last season
but the fortunes have switched the Niners are still a very good team. The Falcons have an awful record this year they’ve been just sent reeling this year the bottom line is Atlanta has suffered a series really bad injuries and as a result they’re 4-10 so there’s no chance the Falcons are going to the playoffs. The Niners should have this game handled on Monday Night hands down.

David Zizmor covers the NFL for Sportstalk Radio