Originally posted by Oakland-Niner:Originally posted by Amir:Originally posted by Oakland-Niner:Originally posted by Amir:Originally posted by mcbaes72:Originally posted by drake49er:Originally posted by MadDog49er:
Be patient. They have a "plan"...to not spend any money.
Lawson was only $3 million. Crazy they didn't offer that much to have him stay.
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He was not happy with the 49ers front office; did not want to return to SF ... @hudd07 Can you believe we lost Lawson over 1 year deal?
He didn't want to be here...can't force people to sign.
Oh that explains it, I thought he at least showed interest in staying. Looks like he couldn't wait to leave.
But who cares. According to Maddog, you have to make them stay.
Obviously, you can't make people stay, but this front office is showing an inability to massage relationships. They seem to take a very hardline confrontational stance with players they are negotiating with. Total sign of a rookie FO.
It's one thing to disagree, but a lot of our guys seem to be leaving upset.
He got a 1 yr, 3M dollar offer. Obviously, we were not the only team in the league that did not value him. So we should have re-signed him for the sake of signing him? If he was so good, he'd have multiple teams going after him and offering him multiple year contracts.
I really get frustrated with the "every other team" arguments. Every other team passed on Deason Jackson almost twice. Every other team let Joe Montana slip to the 3rd. Every other team let Tom Brady fall to the 6th round. And the list goes on and on. Every other team thought Banta Cain was garbage, but he was a double digit sack guy in NE. Who knows why teams do what they do. But the every other team argument is faulty at best. I could just as easily say this every thing this FO has done has resulted in losing the last eigh years, so they must be making mistakes right now? The track record is in my favor, not yours.
Montana, Jackson and Brady were all rookies. Teams only had college tapes on them to judge them by. These NFL FA's have been in the league. There is tons of gametape on them against NFL talent. Please don't compare "other teams" passing on rookies to actual NFL Vets.