It’s Got To Be The Morning After

That’s the title of song from The Poseidon Adventure, actually.  Many people don’t remember that the captain in that movie was played by the late, great Leslie Neilsen.  We’ve all been talking about Airplane! recently.  All the obituaries for the aforementioned fallen star also mentioned The Naked Gun films.  But most people never saw the original show.  If you’re one of them, rent it immediately.  It’s far more random than the movies, if you can imagine that.  Simply put, it’s genius.

As for last night, it was hard to find much fault with how the Bolts played.  On the radio feed, Hank Bauer did point out that Rivers had gotten hit twice early in the game when the Niners only rushed three.  He also noted that San Francisco foolishly seemed to give up on Vernon Davis.  Obviously, our defense had something to do with that.  Sports Illustrated posted this piece today suggesting that the Chargers are doing their annual “scariest team in the league impression.”  The article also intimates that we might have locked up a playoff spot had we not let McNeill and Jackson sit out.  I can’t get caught up in that.  As Rich Eisen pointed out last night, those guys don’t play special teams.  Norv didn’t seem worried, but his pledge of no more blocked punts this season was almost violated.  If the Bolts hadn’t fucked up their start, who knows how they’d be playing now?  Clearly, Jackson needs to be kept.  Tim Sullivan once again touched on that today.  However, he claims The Organization has no one to blame but themselves if the team doesn’t make the playoffs.  I tend to blame the coaches and players more for the 2-5 start.

When asked about Jackson, Rivers responded “We would have loved to have him the whole time, but we have him now and we can only control what is ahead of us.”  That’s as close as Rivers would ever come to questioning AJ’s decision.  I don’t think any of us thought Jackson should get what he wanted.  We just all thought it should have been dealt with before the season.  In his postgame interview, Gates made it seem like he wouldn’t be back again in the regular season, yet Norv suggested in his presser today that he might play in Cincy.  Did I really hear that opposing teams have made every field goal against us?

Go Rams,

RLW