The Murph Blog

By Brian Murphy One bye week, and the world forgets about you. At least that's the vibe the Jock Blog was picking up after the Chicago Bears, with their shiny new toy All-Pro defensive tackle Jeffrey Simmons, walloped the Seattle Seahawks in the Pacific Northwest Monday night, 34-17. The chattering class went bananas f...

By Brian Murphy The Jock Blog is utterly convinced that the 49ers must land the No. 1 seed in the NFC. Thus the Jock Blog is utterly convinced that, as cool as it was to see the 49ers land the familiar face and excellent talents of DeForest Buckner in a trade on Tuesday, the 49ers must do more. Sorry, president of foot...

By Brian Murphy Trash talk when you lose by a million points: Fair or foul? Today's Jock Blog addresses the lightning rod known as Yaxel Lendeborg, who threw red meat to the NBA chatterverse masses when he talked his ish to six-time All-NBA first-teamer, two-time NBA scoring champ and five-time top-8 MVP vote-getter Lu...

By Brian Murphy The Jock Blog is here to make official what you all felt in your 49ers heart, bloodstream and gut late last Sunday afternoon: It is ON. Like, Super Bowl ON. The 49ers' 32-29 win over Seattle was an orgy for the senses. I'm talking about the senses that govern vengeance, the senses that govern feelings o...

By Brian Murphy The last two times they played - only ten months ago - the combined score was 54-9, bad guys. The coach of the bad guys, a defense guy, sort of owns the coach of the good guys, an offense guy. The quarterback of the good guys, while on an absolute heater, has struggled mightily against the bad guys of l...

By Brian Murphy Heavy sigh. The heavy sigh is multi-layered. We sigh not just for the 97 losses, not just for the feeling that everything went wrong this year - but also for the feeling that the upcoming winter lockout could rob us of a lot of baseball in 2027. That's the rub. Even when your team has a .401 win percent...

Dear Mike Krukow, You're a music guy. You love it, you listen to it, you play it. So why don't I start this Jock Blog Open Letter to Mike Krukow by quoting the Beatles. Let Paul and John sum up what we've all witnessed in the countdown to your final broadcast with the Giants this weekend: And in the end/the love you ta...

By Brian Murphy Wait - you mean the 49ers have to play another NFL game this Sunday? Man. I figured after the never-ending summer-long discussion of time zones, sleep cycles, circadian rhythms, melatonin, body clocks, lie-flat seats, blue light glasses and, perhaps most important, whether to say Mel-BOURNE or Mel-BIN ....

By Brian Murphy Wow! After 60 wonderful minutes of football in Australia, after leaving the purportedly unbeatable Rams as a beaten carcass to die in the bush of the Outback, is it time to recalibrate our feelings about the entirety of the 2026 49ers? The short answer is: Yes, sports fans. The Jock Blog has covered all...

By Brian Murphy The 49ers leave for Australia on Wednesday - what in the name of Mitch Wishnowsky is going on here? Think of all the negatives: - Losing a chance to play the Rams at SoFi Stadium, a de facto home game. - Disruption to the process of staying in a routine at home before Week 1. - Uncertainty over who to t...