First off I applaud the NFL for coming up with a web browser customized to the Iphone. There are other Apps such as Score Mobile and Score Tap, but I find a lag in updates and slow general performance. I prefer getting data from the source. For those of you interested this is located at http://wap.nfl.com/, click Scores and bookmark this as an icon on your home page.
This was an exciting game even on a detailed play by play in class. A few improvements though and I will send these off to NFL.com.
- Reverse the order of the plays on the screen so the most recent update is on top. I had to scroll down to the bottom of the page for the most recent update and it was painful after a long 4 quarters of updates
- Have an auto refresh selection using ajax on the top of the screen so I can select the time to refresh. I believe ESPN has this when I owned the Treo 700w. Since the time out to auto lock is a minimum of 1 minute subsequently in 1 minute increments, perhaps a 50 second auto refresh increment would allow a user not to touch the phone and it will just show updates at dinner or wherever one maybe stuck at without having to unlock the phone. I was refreshing about every 15 seconds manually, so those options should be granted as well
- There seems to be a bug with the detailed play by play. Sometimes it shows the detailed text box score and other times it shows the high level, TD, FG summary. I had to reset my browser a few times to get what I needed
- Add a breakdown on stats by players, lots of us are fantasy players that would help a-lot
49ers Rays of Hope
On my drive home there were some livid fans on the air waves. It wasn’t quite clear to me what all the ruckus was about. The 49ers put themselves in a position to win the game against a solid Arizona Cardinal team at 5-3, with their 3rd string quarterback, a new coach’s 2nd game and on the road in Phoenix. I don’t know about you but I did not expect such a fight from the 49er team on all sides of the ball.
The key mistake they made was calling that Michael Robinson 2.5 yard diving play and then running it again to Frank Gore for the last 2 second play. But honestly, do you think Shaun Hill was practicing sprint right options in game winning situations? They only had 2 weeks probably just learning the snap count. They should have watched the line though, Arizona was ready and even Shaun Hill could have changed the play at the goal line and bootlegged in.
Taking a huge step back the 49ers almost won that game at the 1 yard line with 2 seconds on the clock. Yes they made a-lot of mistakes but Mike Singletary has turned this team around in 2 weeks. This is a display as to how good leadership can make changes and make it fast. On top of it all, without interference from upper management Mike Singletary will do wonders in the weeks to come.
If you truly want to see a dysfunctional organization at its’ best take a look at the Oakland Raiders across the bay. Raider fans keep taunting me that we are on a 6 game win streak. Fair enough, but at least the Niners are scoring points and don’t get skunked. Most importantly our owners don’t know much about football so they stay out of the way of those who do. Bad upper management can demoralize an entire team and that is evident from many folks speaking out against the organization. “Shut up and play” has never been a way to inspire any team member or employee in any job.
That being said, let Mike Singletary pulled this team together, because for the first time this season, this team played as one unit. They gave young rookies chances to shine to advance the career ladder and they did. Good leadership makes changes and gives hungry players an opportunity. Good leadership inspires and unites a team to a common goal. With 7 more games left at least Coach Singletary believes they can go 7 – 0. It starts with a belief, then its up to the coach to drive the culture and build the discipline and comradery to get there. It can be done, it will be done, if not this season, I am hopeful for the next.
Mike Singletary on KNBR, great interview, honest and forthcoming
http://www.knbr.com/podcast_skin/fb_singletary.html
Fantasy Football
I really don’t know what to do about Fantasy Football. The weeks we play certain players they have terrible games, the weeks we bench them they have breakout games. Case in point, Jay Cutler has been struggling for 3 games straight so we benched him. The turns out have a record game along with Brandon Marshall who we benched as well. We start Tim Hightower against the 49ers and the Niners have their first defensive stance in a very long time. On top of that Thomas Jones has a breakout game while sitting on our bench as well. What a frustrating first season in Fantasy!
Shaun Hill photo cited from http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/07K5ghOcFm9ou/340x.jpg
1 comments:
Go Broncos and we should have more faith in Cutler since the Broncos are out of running backs. You will see a lot more throwing!
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