I'm not a huge fan of Thursday Night Football. All 4 games this year have already been terrible to watch, and thinking back on it- can you think of ANY TNF game that has been good since they started doing this like 6 years ago? They've all been terrible. Of course they are- teams have 3 days to prepare and heal after beating the hell out of themselves on Sundays. The Rams had to travel home from Dallas and prepare for the 49ers in 3 days. That's ridiculous.
But I will say this- it sure is nice to have a quick turnaround after a game like the 49ers had on Sunday. One of my favorite things about baseball is you get that immediacy- even if you lose 15-2, you get another chance the very next day to wipe that feeling away. The Colts loss really pissed me off. That was a terrible performance against a middling-at-best team, which is why I was so happy to have a nice quick break before being able to see if they'd be able to bounce back.
Nothing like a game against the Rams to bounce back. Wow, they are bad. Sam Bradford is really bad. They have no running game, sure, but wow he is bad. That first scoring drive of theirs was an easy TD that he simply missed. Any halfway decent QB would have jumped all over the 49ers in the first quarter, when SF was still playing like it was in Seattle. I'm not sure what the hell was wrong with them for those 9 quarters, they looked disjointed and lost on both sides of the ball, not qualities we are used to seeing from a Harbaugh team. The penalties are also getting completely ludicrous.
Colin Kaepernick looked positively Alex Smithian. If that's what it takes for them to be successful, so be it. It would be fun to be the kind of team that throws for 400 yards every week, but apparently they can't win that way. Maybe it's the lack of weapons, or maybe their style of offense just can't survive when it throws the ball that much- whatever it is, it doesn't work. They have to run for 200 yards a game to be successful, and fortunately they have a team set up to do just that.
All in all a very nice win, but I think the "back on track" nonsense is just that- it was a win over a marginal team who had a short week with travel. Nice to see, no reason to do cartwheels just yet. There are still a lot of issues with this team that need fixing.
Oh yeah, and I hope Aldon Smith gets better for his sake. It would be nice to see him on the field again, but good lord dude- take care of yourself.
