49'ers The San Francisco 49’ers Thread

[Ground Chuck]

As much as I hate to admit it, Purdy is a good qb. Not great but he’s not going to be a game wrecker. As long as Shanny is the coach he can move that team.

I think Rat-boy has talent but is fatally flawed in the all-important leadership intangibles McVay possesses in spades over his former rodent-like colleague.

The upside when Shanny ultimately gets fired at the end of the year is that he already has the homeless alcoholic look going, so he'll fit right in at the shelter.

 

[RamFan503]

There’s the window, I suppose.
By then the 9ers will have had to find replacements for wiener, ayuck, mccafe, tw, bozo, and kibble—all on rookie deals.

IOW, they’re gonna have to start drafting like the Rams.

Wait. Are any of those players on rookie deals?

 

[RamFan503]

The upside when Shanny ultimately gets fired at the end of the year is that he already has the homeless alcoholic look going, so he'll fit right in at the shelter.

 

[JYB]

Two things saved Shanahan's job. Purdy and Lance's injury. If he benched Lance after almost dumping Garoppolo there woulda been some serious repercussions at that time. The injury saved him from that. I watched the game he was injured. Shanahan's QB1 and he called several QB keepers up the middle. Almost like he was trying to get him hurt.

I thought the same thing -- that Shanahan not only didn't care if Lance got hurt, but figured it would be the perfect excuse to do what he wanted to do anyway, which was to replace him with Jimmy G. Benching Lance at that point would've looked really, really bad after giving up 3 firsts and a 3rd to get him and then spending a year and a half developing him and then handing him the starting job. That would've created massive distractions, constant attention from the media, awful publicity about the move to get Lance, and never ending questions about when Lance would get another chance. The injury eliminated all of that.

 

[snackdaddy]

Purdy's cap hit the next 3 years.

9m, 25m, 31m.

No cap pressure from his contract the first three years.

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Yeah, they really back loaded that contract. The final 3 years cap hits total 194 million. 137 million the last two years. They can do something the next 3 years. But are they gonna find the same talent they had a couple years ago? Odds are slim on that.

My guess is they'll have to move on from McCaffrey and Aiyuk in a year or two. Maybe Kittle too. And Williams. No guarantee they find all pro talent to replace them. Being real, Purdy needs that all pro talent to succeed. He didn't have it last year and we saw how that worked out.

 

[fanotodd]

Wait. Are any of those players on rookie deals?

Oops! My apologies for the poor sentence structure. I meant their replacements would be on rookie contracts, offsetting the enormous cap drain that would start in year 4 of purdy’s contract.

 

[Allen2McVay]

...
IOW, they’re gonna have to start drafting like the Rams.

Maybe the Rams can help the 49ers ... trade them Derion Kendrick for a future 8th round pick.

 

[snackdaddy]

Maybe the Rams can help the 49ers ... trade them Derion Kendrick for a future 8th round pick.

And a Hawaiian pizza extra pineapple~Loyal

 

[Turducken]

Trent, Christian and George have a lot miles on them. Only one was healthy last year and the team fell off a cliff.

As a result, the 9ers have the easiest schedule in the league this year. If those three stay healthy, there should be no excuse for missing the playoffs again.

Their fanbase won't accept it, a blood sacrifice would have to occur.

 

[fanotodd]

Trent, Christian and George have a lot miles on them. Only one was healthy last year and the team fell off a cliff.

As a result, the 9ers have the easiest schedule in the league this year. If those three stay healthy, there should be no excuse for missing the playoffs again.

Their fanbase won't accept it, a blood sacrifice would have to occur.

Right on the $$, I’d say.
Except, I don’t think tw is capable of a full season anymore and their backup LT has signed elsewhere. Who knows how mccafe will be after an Achilles injury. Medical science has come a long way regarding that injury, but it doesn’t work the same for everyone. Are we to assume ayuck is returning to full form and doing so by opening day?

This might be the year the 9ers realize they can no longer rely on their established stars and need to be hitting on those draft picks—starting NEXT year.

 

[TheTackle]

Trent, Christian and George have a lot miles on them. Only one was healthy last year and the team fell off a cliff.

As a result, the 9ers have the easiest schedule in the league this year. If those three stay healthy, there should be no excuse for missing the playoffs again.

Their fanbase won't accept it, a blood sacrifice would have to occur.

Are they friends of yours or something? What’s with the first name familiarity? [blue font]

Personally, I reserve that for Rams players only and only when I can’t be bothered to look up how spell their last name!

 

[Turducken]

Are they friends of yours or something? What’s with the first name familiarity? [blue font]

Personally, I reserve that for Rams players only and only when I can’t be bothered to look up how spell their last name!

I may hate the 9er fanbase, but I have several 9er fan who are friends.

Similarly, I hate their team but I've always considered the individual players to be frenemies.

BTW, having 9er fan friends was very painful (for decades). Now...? It's not so bad at all. I know their team as well as they do and I feed into all their fears every upcoming season. I started telling them they would end up overpaying for Purdy two years ago.