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3 san francisco was in a strictly re building mode having gone 2 14 in 2004 the storied franchise was in the doldrums and needed a saviour montana young garcia those great years had been built around a brilliant passing game executed by talented quick quarterbacks who responded well to pressure and could improvise effectively on the field late in close games as anyone who follows the game knows in pro football the quarterback whatever his surrounding cast may be constitutes about 90 of the potential success or failure of any team the quarterback dictates the pace and style of the offense a pro quarterback who can t pass accurately under pressure will never succeed in the nfl 49er fans had been spoiled by 25 years of superior even championship quarterback talent the 2004 nfl draft wasn t rich in quarterbacks only two stood out alex smith from utah and aaron rodgers from cal berkeley both had had comparable years in their last two years leading their teams into post season bowl contention smith had the added attraction of being an excellent student mike nolan the son of another san francisco coach dick nolan was if anything even more stern and iron jawed than his father had been his press conferences were stiff affairs and he was known to demand total obedience and cooperation from all his players in selecting smith nolan was reported to have been swayed by smith s dedication and malleability smith was a man who could follow orders who could be counted on to memorize his playbook and keep his thoughts in order both on and off the field he was a model citizen as well as a disciplined player this was the quarterback nolan thought he wanted but things didn t go the way he planned in smith s first year he completed only 51 of his passes threw for a single touchdown while being intercepted 11 times the next year was slightly better at 7 9 and smith made what seemed like significant progress completing 58 of his passes and throwing for 16 touchdowns while throwing as many interceptions it wasn t great stuff but it looked like the kid was improving however in 2007 in a september game against the seattle seahawks smith injured his shoulder during the next few games back up qb trent dilfer was given the starting job and eventually journeyman shaun hill took over towards the end of that season serious conflict broke public after smith s aborted attempt to return to play beginning in october a stretch during which his quarterback rating and performance were near the bottom statistically nolan after three years of failure needed a scapegoat for his own inability to produce a winner so he accused smith of dogging it of blaming his poor performance on injury smith in retaliation openly challenged nolan s opinion in the press insisting that his injury had not healed as it turned out smith was right his treating physician recommending surgery at the end of the season smith missed the whole of 2008 the quarterback duties being shared by j t o sullivan and shaun hill that year after week seven nolan was fired and replaced by mike singletary it could reasonably be said i think that despite his injury plagued seasons of 2007 2008 smith s failure to mature into an effective quarterback was the primary cause for mike nolan s failure as a head coach to bring respectability to the franchise some blame may lie with nolan s combative handling of his prima donna during a difficult time for both of them but smith s decision to go public with his feud regarding his injury would become the final nail in nolan s coffin though the actual effect would take a while come to pass nolan s investment in smith his hand picked successor to fill the void created when garcia left after 2003 proved to be his undoing starting out the 2009 season singletary tried to create competition among his quarterbacks letting shaun hill and smith duke it out for numero uno despite going 3 2 after five games singletary decided to let smith the younger man the hope of the franchise try to establish himself once more as the team leader smith took the team the remaining 11 games going just 5 6 with his wins coming against poor teams such as the rams lions bears and jaguars his stats were deceptive under pressure he usually folded throwing interceptions or becoming flustered or confused behind the line despite his sterling college record smith s performance in the pros has lacked luster he rarely seems to be in control of his players and there s a sense of weak conviction as if he had no confidence his passes often sail wide or are thrown too hard as if to compensate by forcing throws into tight coverage when he rolls out he rarely sees the open man and usually dumps the ball off to a running back there s a sense too of mental detachment as if he were not quite completely involved in the action on the field meanwhile after subbing under brett favre at green bay for three years aaron rodgers stepped up in 2008 becoming a star performer his touchdown to interception ratio total yards and overall rating are head and shoulders above smith who continues to struggle in this his fifth active season much has been made of the fact that smith has had to deal with a succession of offensive coordinators that he hasn t been allowed to become comfortable with a single integrated system the niners have employed four offensive coordinators in as many years norv turner 2006 jim hostler 2007 mike martz 2008 and jimmy raye 2009 10 turner left to coach the san diego chargers but martz was fired for no reason that i could see as the genius offensive mind of the st louis rams in their glory years he was 53 32 taking his team to the play offs four years out of six but i doubt whether the changing game plans can be used to excuse most of smith s failures as a player the team s defense has been vastly improved the running game except for yesterday s debacle has worked just fine under singletary s preferred ground game approach really very little is asked of the quarterback 175 yards of error free medium range passing should be adequate smith isn t being asked to dominate with 3 or 4 hundreds yards of wide open spread air attack yet he still has trouble even against kansas city which doesn t possess a great defensive squad he looked ineffectual and confused this year everyone is saying let s see finally whether alex smith can find the inspiration that has eluded him all his pro career he deserves just this one last chance to prove himself singletary a strong stern disciplinarian just as his predecessor nolan was has trouble admitting mistakes and tends to stick with ideas and commitments long after they ve outlived their use here s my prediction if singletary doesn t jettison smith before the end of the current 2010 season i doubt whether he ll survive smith brought about directly and indirectly the demise of mike nolan if singletary doesn t see the light he could find himself broken on the same wheel alex smith is never going to be a good quarterback much less a great one but singletary might end up taking his inspiring powerful personality elsewhere so far he s shown himself to be a poor judge of coaching talent picking the ineffectual bumbling jimmy raye to run his team s offense it was announced this morning that in an apparent flurry of concern he s fired raye the 49ers glory years were built upon a foundation of offensive innovation under walsh for years afterward his continued influence upon player and coaching selection informed the management choices of the franchise but walsh is dead and the caravan moves on sometimes you have to bite the bullet and go back to the drawing board i always thought hill was the kind of quarterback singletary admired a blue collar sort of guy not flashy but reliable careful deliberate tough but hill is gone whatever singletary chooses to do his solution for the quarterback problem will determine his fate either he gets rid of smith and gets a better one on the free agent market or he swallows his pride through another losing season hoping to get a high enough draft pick in the off season to bet on another college phenom posted by curtis faville at 2 32 pm 1 comment ted greenwald 30 years later back in 1979 i published ted greenwald s common sense effectively a selected poems up to that point the money to do it i was just a struggling poet myself at that time plugging along in a government job which i always thought would be a temporary gig but which continued for another 22 years came from the national endowment for the arts small publishers grants program full disclosure i ve been officially opposed to government support of the arts for at least the last 15 years despite my once having been a beneficiary albeit for publishing not for my writing ted s collected poems was one proposal in my grant application and it turned out to be one of the best projects i ve ever undertaken up to that point in time ted had only published short mimeo pamphlets which was the medium of the day and i thought his work deserved the sort of professional presentation ordinarily accorded primarily to mainstream poets we agreed on terms and ted encouraged me to edit his collected works from his previously published books this wasn t very difficult ted s work was consistent and clear and chronology as a guiding principle of organization didn t seem to be an over riding concern we were both happy with the resulting collection appearing concurrently with ted s other major collection that year the licorice chronicles kulchur press 1979 it lent greater authenticity and legitimacy to his reputation as an underground poet to be reckoned with from my first exposure to ted s work i realized he was an original in the words of ezra pound referring to the young george oppen a writer whose ideas were not gotten out of any other man s books a writer who invented his own literary or non literary contexts and whose style met the demands of a personal vision which he shared with no one some writers are original by design or mastery of will others simply are ineluctably undeniably themselves sans any premeditated compulsion to pretend to be anything they aren t there was never anyone who wrote the way ted did and there may never be he s the genuine article a poet with a voice and a way of seeing the world that is unique in the years since ted has continued to publish and by now must have well over a thousand pages of published work s two books i found recently at spd in its berkeley warehouse in your dreams blazevox 2008 and 3 cuneiform press 2008 confirm that ted s as busy and inventive as he was when i collected him thirty years ago i ve referred to ted before in print as an urban primitive a term which for me captures some of the rawness of the life of the the big city streets while implying a sophistication that encompasses his brilliant appropriation of middle brow speech language for the purposes of high mimetic ted who began publishing in the mid 1960 s was a language poet years before the language poets even knew they had a name or an identity they naturally adopted ted as a comrade in arms even though in point of fact ted was too elusive a quantity too original and genuine an artist even to need a literary association to define his importance ted discovered language poetry technique s before most of the language poets had graduated from college this may sound somewhat argumentative until you realize that talent may not always rise to the top in this country where publicity and promotion usually constitute 4 5 s of the public s apprehension of any writer s reputation that s as true in academia as it is in new york publishing circles or in the underground network of the avant garde in any case ted has turned his attention in recent years to longer works ted s shorter poems usually function as the pirouette of a single turn but in the longer poems he works out complex patterns of incremental repetition and variation playing off phrases which are augmented by the changing focus of attention greenwald has always stuck stubbornly with his daily speech seeing in it a key to the meaning of his rhythms obsessions fascinations he burrows inside these explicating them based on a personal code which then becomes a part of what is happening falling apart the changing reorientation becomes a series of subtle adjustments each of which opens or disintegrates before our eyes in your dreams is a long 247pp 79 72 line poems series of meditations set as centered lines all of which are capitalized without any explicit punctuation periods or commas wondering how carving living darkness guard down run out of paint carving living darkness run out of paint stand looking carving living darkness guard down stand looking for what personality under glass stand looking personality under glass back to where stand looking for what back to where conversational lyrics handheld romance back to where handheld romance needy talking about back to where conversational lyrics needy talking about tissue loneliness vanity glue needy talking about vanity glue belief waa waa walk the floor with the ceiling and so on the order of the lines here is abcacdaedfgdghdfhi and so on what this incrementally shifting recurrence does is create a dialectic in which individual phrases are interlocked but never return to a beginning life presents us with millions of obsessive little lyrical formulae most of which never recur in quite the same way twice what these strictly organized rehearsals do is record the shifting preoccupations of the mind in language each phrase in the mind has a characteristic rhythmic and denotative identity a resonance which spins in place undergoes slight change then is replaced with another we are always subconsciously trying phrases out for size like pairs of pants in the changing room of a department store does this fit how do i look this plastic security device is really heavy such phrases then become a part of the process of living or of thinking through the poem itself does this fit trying phrases out replaced with another in the mind this plastic security become a part of thinking does this fit i don t know that anyone has ever written a work quite like this one john giorno used to write poems that were repeated sentences broken up into different lengths but he wasn t experimenting with the transformations of individual phrases and conceptual relationships the way greenwald does ron silliman works with through repeated phrases in a similar way but his separations are much wider and meant to queue thought rather than as with greenwald the mental jingles which are toyed with with such obsessive curious precious determination greenwald s style depends upon the rhythmic triggers that set unconscious thought processes into action the poems become echo chambers or function perhaps as a ghost tracking of stray particles in linear accelerators the particles are phrase units sometimes familiar 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