I would be mad, too

If I was a 49ers fan, I’d be mad. I’d be upset. I wouldn’t be able to stand for two things about this week.

1. Colin Kaepernick still has a lot of work to do.

The 49ers are playing better, but fans expected more. After last season, fans expected Colin Kaepernick to take another step forward. While he hasn’t really regressed, the bicep-kisser hasn’t exactly taken the huge leap forward 49ers fans hoped he would after last year’s Super bowl run. The last six games of this season will go a long way toward Kaepernick’s perception as either a young player who temporarily plateaued as the league caught up with him, or a player who could never get to the next level after the league caught up with him.

After losing in each of the past two weeks, the 49ers find themselves at 6-4, tied with Arizona for second-place in the NFC West, and 3 1/2 games behind Seattle. It’s not exactly where they hoped to be and they’ll have to play a lot better throughout the rest of the season to even earn a playoff spot.

2. That roughing the passer call was manure

Hogwash. Shennanigans. Ridiculousness.

Whatever you want to call it, the penalty that Ahmad Brooks took vs. Drew Brees changed the game. Ray Lewis, for one, was less than happy.

I’m pretty sure Ray Ray said what a lot of us were thinking, and he has the credentials to back it up. What you get from a player so recently retired are good, candid comments like this. I don’t agree with Ray Lewis very often, but in this case he and Trent Dilfer pretty much nailed the commentary.

There were lots of unhappy fans and media as well. Ahmad Brooks and lots of NFL defenders agree. Brooks used a little stronger language than “hogwash” to describe the call.

One of the reasons the 49ers are a successful organization is that they’ve had really tough, hard-nosed players and coaches. The Brooks hit was legit, and it changed the game.

If I was a 49ers fan, I would not be happy. At 6-4, the 49ers need to win at least four of their final six games to ensure a playoff spot, and fighting for their playoff lives was not what Niner fans had in mind at the start of this season.