first we dont have definitive proof that he was cheating. the announcers could not know if they were if they did say that and it is hard to say when he does use some hand signals to call plays.

ill say that even if he did cheat it really didn’t effect the game even if he had been trying to, those were not the reasons that we struggled offensivly. i think we need to work on the O-line. a few of them are really struggling the last two games and it needs to change since we are now in the toughest part of the schedule now.

finally we won and ill take it. lets go take care of the texans now

Unwittingly, you’ve become an ambassador for a very classy organization. Please act like it.

When he faked his injury. I watched Spikes the rest of the game to see if he looked like he was hurt. Surprisingly he was able to make some tackles. That made me mad and I would love to see them do a rule to prevent cheating like that.

They also had game used Brandon Stokley jerseys in the Pro Shop. 200 dollars was cheap for what essentially is the Shroud of Turin times 100.

Any update on Kelvin Hayden? I would like to have him to cover Johnson next week.

There were a lot of Niners fans there and most of them were what seemed to be 20 to 25 year old guys wearing retro jerseys. The Niners probably gained a big fanbase back during the Montana & Young days. They were good fans.

Falcons win and we are the last undefeated team in the league.

Those were very obvious and cheap moves by the Niners to have players conveniently go down with “cramps” when we were driving so we got out of rhythm and they could get a break. Yet, there is no need to berate the team and Singletary like that. They acted without class a few times during the game, but it did not help them in the end. The “cramps” were horribly acted out, too. Yet, just because they acted without class does not mean we should berate them, esp. after a win. We are known as a classy organization and should act like it. There are ways to mention the cramp incidents without sounding so bitter and disrespectful.

The 3-4 scheme if done correctly is a very effective defensive scheme that if played correctly technique and scheme wise is hard to contend with…

The 3-4 scheme forces a high stakes chess match, because of the unpredictability of the blitz…

1) Peyton was off and played a sub-par game, but he looked sick, and as many have speculated, he may have had the flu last week. Yet, when you can throw for 350 without a pick against an admirable defense, and it is considered a “bad game,” you know you’re the best.

2) Pollak blows. Congrats on getting starting RG, Kyle DeVan.

3) Addai played okay, but that’s it. The run blocking is to blame as well, but we need Brown healthy. Hopefully he’ll be back soon. Still, Addai’s toss made the game for me and scored me fantasy points, so Hell Yeah Joe!!!

4) Hank Baskett: CATCH THE DAMN BALL. Failing to do so is why you are a special teams player and nothing else.

5) Great job by the defense, although I thought Freeney and Mathis both played somewhat poorly in the first two and a half quarters. Then they put those doubts to rest pretty quick. Oh, and Dan Muir…..bad ass, just bad ass.

6) What few are talking about…..WHAT IS KELVIN HAYDEN’S STATUS???

7) I thought Alex Smith did a very good job. Starting your first game in two years against the Colts in Indy is not easy. Good for him. With him, Gore, V.Davis, Michael Crabtree (who played very well), and a solid young D led by Willis, the Niners will be an NFC West champ sooner than later.

8) Not that it mattered, but where the hell was Mike Hart?

I bet Packers fans wish they could have him back now. Both of our starting defensive tackles were taken off of another team’s practice squad. Why even draft defensive tackles now?

But this is a great start in my opinion… to get this tough win is important because we have some really tough games coming up.

Houston is going to give us huge problems next week. Mark my words this will be a tough win, if we win at all. Then Baltimore is playing as if they are pissed at the world again for not getting their ballswashed week after week… and of course New England (need I say more)…

Getting this tough loss shows us that taking wins for granted is just not cool. Wins do not come easy and I echo BBS sentiment that this is a still a tough team and our mettle will be tested the entire month of November!

Anyone defending the injury faking can leave. Anyone who has a problem with me calling Singletary a cheater can leave as well. If you don’t like things called as they are, if you’d prefer people to be “ho-hum” about an opponent trying to cheat to win, then kindly don’t read this blog.

Honestly, anyone defending what was so obviously cheating really needs to get some friggin morals.

3 tough out of division games with the Pats, Broncos, and Ravens. Bring ’em on.

Mike Pollack sucks??

I can’t find a good reason on why 5 is better than 6 at that point in the game.

That Singletary was cheating, it definitely looked like it. I personally wouldn’t want to accuse him of that unless I knew it for a fact.

I’ve been a long time reader, but just recently joined up and I’m disappointed by the accusations in the recap post. You can even bring the issue up, but then going further (without definite proof and there is no absolute way to prove it) and calling names is just too much. If the OP had just left it as an observation that’s fine, but all the name-calling does not befit this blog. This is a Colts blog, not a blog about a single poster – even if they’re the main blogger. I lose just as much respect for someone name calling w/o definite proof as I do for those that might use cheating methods to win games.

I thought it was a good game and win and I’m very happy that we’re 7-0.

that Jim Caldwell was sending dirty signals to Joseph Addai so he would fake a hand injury so he could sub out. The 49ers radio announcer never lies so it’s definitely true.

the local 6 news was interviewing Jeff Saturday and Ryan Diem about the game, and I caught them talking about the “cramps.” Neither player believed they were real, and Diem said he lost respect for the 49ers team for pulling that. The news played a replay of that second “cramp,” and it was a total flop. They were asked directly if the 49ers were cheating, and they both went “eh….” and didn’t say anything. Evidently Diem bitched to a ref about it, and the ref said their was nothing they could do.

Cheap? Yea, but hey worse things happen.

Caldwell did not have to resort to cheating in order to extend Indy’s regular season winning streak to 16 games.

No of course not. Telling Joesph Addai to pretend to have a busted hand so he could do a quick sub-out while not allowing our D time to sub is in no way cheating at all. By your definition Jim Caldwell = BUM. Also if Addai was so hurt why was he back in the game THROWING a TD pass? It’s so amazing that Spikes went out back came back in a few plays later, yet Addai does the same and it’s business as usual? So you’re a sore winner, as well as a hypocrite!

in my FF league Im winning 129-40 right? well the guy Im playing against has the NO defense and he has Michael Turner as his RB…the guy kinda shot himself in the foot with that one huh? lol

I’m both a Colts and 49ers fan, I prefer the 49ers but due to the fact they rarely appear on TV here in Indiana, I also like the Colts. Today was a great game, I only wish that I didn’t have to work and miss seeing a great deal of the game. Due to the fact that I working, I’m not going to dispute if the cramps injuries were real or not, because I didn’t see them happen. I will say that Takeo Spikes has been in the NFL for a long time now and as far as I can tell is a very well respected player who plays the game the right way. I personally can’t see him faking an injury, he’s not that kind of a person IMHO. I also don’t see Coach Singletary endorsing such a tactic. He sent Vernon Davis to the locker room last season because he didn’t like the way he was playing the game. Coach is way too intense to condone cheating and has too much pride to order such tactics. His team gave everything they had today and where in the game to the end because of that, not because they tried to cheat their way to victory.

Anyways, congratulations to the Colts for a hard-fought victory, hopefully we will soon have a real offensive line and will beat the Colts and join them in the ranks of the elite teams of the NFL.

did everyone die or what?

You already did it in your quick recap and frankly, it’s just as unclassy as what you accuse Singletary of doing. It also shows a total lack of creativity and deflects the focus from what was a pretty hard-fought game on both sides.

I’m a huge Colts fan, but having lived in the Bay Area for 20 years, I know that the 49ers are an extremely classy organization. I also believe Singletary is all about winning “the right way,” and wouldn’t order a dive. Yeah he had a misstep early with the pants-dropping, but immediately regretted it and has shown leadership ever since. He’s old school and hard-nosed, but not a cheater.

people just keep coming!! lol

On the Reggie Wayne touchdown. He left his feet. Aren’t we all glad he didn’t come back to them to celebrate; the poor guy could’ve been out ten grand! ;)

Just sayin’… yeah, I think Powers got screwed by the league. But it’s all water under the bridge now.

brought me back to 06, where in the first 9 games, even when they were winning them all, they were tough victories, some of them come-from-behind Ws. That Tennessee or Buffalo games were kinda similar to the one we watched today

I think he’s one of the responsible guys in San Francisco for making this a tough, solid competitor in the NFL

Someone get this done :)

I joined SBnation because this was supposed to be a very classy community.

Name-calling is unnecessary.

I think it is unfair that you call out the head coach for these incidents. I wouldn’t be surprised if Jim Tomasula (D-line coach) was behind this.
But to call Mike Singletary (a HOF linebacker that made a career out of working his butt off) a bum is completely unnecessary.

Sometimes I like to read the Colts post game articles from the perspective of the vanquished opponent. So, I noticed that Kevin Lynch of Niners Insider (linked from the SFGate.com sports section) also believed that the Niners defenders were faking injuries to slow the Colts no huddle attack.
Here’s the link:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/ninerinsider/detail?&entry_id=50747
Here are the quotes:

The 49ers might have just faked a cramp by Parys Haralson to prevent being in the wrong defense.

Colts drive: Another fake of a cramp, this time by veteran linebacker Takeo Spikes.

i am pretty shocked and amused at what a horses ass, no pun intended, the BBS main blogger is, i have never heard such katty bs after a win of all things, there really must not be much going on in old indy, the Colts are obviously a top 3 team in the league right now, enjoy it and stop being sich a big blue biz natch.

First, BBS blindly ties together his in-game observations and third party comments about signals from sidelines to form an immovable opinion about the opposing team’s head coach.

Second, the niners fans respond in blind defense of their head coach, insisting that any statements of this nature require irrefutable proof. Otherwise someone with an opinion contrary to their own or lacking in hard evidence is moronic etc.

It’s really simple for me, call it law school if you have to. BBS relies upon his first-hand observations in a television broadcast to alert him that players are mysteriously going down to injuries during times which the Colts are employing a hurry-up offensive strategy. He forms an opinion, based upon his past experiences and observations, that something doesn’t seem right about it and flashes back to historic games against New England. At that point, and in a tight game when tensions are higher than normal, BBS relies upon 3rd party opinion (hearsay) provided by radio announcers who observe the actions of members of the San Francisco coaching staff, and decipher those actions as signals to niner defenders to fake injuries. (BBS didn’t observe it himself)

I saw the same injury breaks, and they were suspicious. If the radio broadcasters saw something that appeared fishy in the signals made from the San Francisco sidelines prior to those injury breaks, that is fine. But certainly, nothing that I saw with my own eyes or would have heard from radio announcers would come close to holding up in front of a jury, pass rules of evidence, be admissible in court, or be considered reliable for purposes of proving a case. IE – BBS believes what he believes based upon what he saw, what he heard, and what he believes about the source of the information (who were observing actions made by members on the visitors sidelines – no matter what the radio announcers will never be able to establish the “signalers” intent).

All of that results in an unsubstantiated opinion, which BBS states as fact. A mistake I wouldn’t really want to make, but one he has every right to make if he wishes.

All the garbage about Addai’s hand, it was his right hand he was shaking and his left hand he threw with. It was clear throughout the game that the Colts didn’t want to put their back-up running backs in as Addai took almost every snap in the backfield and all but one carry. He didn’t cause an injury timeout, slow the play of the game, nor do something so blatantly obvious that would have tipped the niners defense or sidelines So please drop it because the point is absurd.

Finally, come on niners fans. The injuries were fishy. If you know anything about cramps, how they happen, their onset, and how the body responds you will know that the way these injuries happened were odd, and at strange times. The point? How about saying, “BBS your delusional when you make claims that Singletary is a cheater and that signals were called in telling players to fake injuries as though you know these things for a fact.” “That said, I understand why they look strange, and I think the injuries were likely legitimate but if it is ever proven concretely that these were faked injuries, I would be the first in line to say that the behavior is uncalled for and an example of cheating.”

By saying things in this way you make BBS look stupid for sticking his neck out there on something he couldn’t possibly hope to ever prove (but wants to believe relentlessly, and in terms of legal standards, foolishly) while also admitting that you understand why he has his opinion and holding the moral high ground that such actions would not be condoned. BBS can’t win in that situation.

Alas, here we are. BBS states things as fact he could never hope to substantiate and niners fans attack BBS and defend a head coach unable to substantiate anything to the contrary (not that it is their burden in this case but that goes deeper), without making any claim about how they would feel if they were to find out the “signals” were actually made.

Round and round we go. WHEEEE!!!!

Did Jamey Silva get the game ball? After he backpedaled a second time to return a punt, I was thinking, “This is a fumble waiting to happen,” but he stuck with it and did a great job of securing the ball and not giving up a silly turnover. Then went out and made big plays on the other side of special teams. Silva deserves a ton of credit for the win.

I can’t believe I actually read all the way through all of these comments (I’ll never get that hour of my birthday back, you bastards!) without first killing myself or punting some random person in the crotch!
And after all of my suffering the only conclusions I’ve been able to draw is that BBS is still BBS, 9ers fans don’t like having their coaches and players called bums and cheaters, and Marked Hoosier is a candy-ass who can’t drink Mt Dew after 6 o’clock, which he really wishes was still 7 o’clock, because apparently recalibrating his biological clock by an hour for a few months out of the year for daylight savings time makes his periods get all out of whack.
(insert cramp joke)
ALL OF WHICH I ALREADY KNEW!