49ers signed Glenn Dorsey

Originally posted by robniner:
Not a good amount of encouraging news on him. One Chiefs fan on PFT called him a weak link to the line.

Hmmmmm....an opinion from a random Chiefs fan or that of Baalke/the 49ers scouting department/coaching staff. Who to believe????? Seems like a tough call to me.....

Sopoaga only played about 30% of defensive snaps last year... so all this, "OMGZ HE IZNT TEH NOSE TACKLE" crap can end. No one ground and pounds anymore, he seems like a versatile player that can play in all of our fronts. Talented guy with a new fire and an outstanding staff behind him. I like the signing.

Originally posted by pahlerbj:

Originally posted by mayo49:

Originally posted by pahlerbj:
Any contract #'s yet?

Still waiting.

Thx

Seems like the longer it takes for the numbers to come out the lower they are.

When a player signs a big deal, the agent wants to publicize it.

When a team signs a player to a low money deal, neither side is jumping to show off how small the numbers are.

No question he has talent and he's versatile, Tomsula is a beast, let's see what the hype was about. At worst he spells our guys and adds depth at a position where we were lacking good backups and overplayed our starters.

We continue to move backwards. We are losing key pieces to a team that went to the superbowl and replacing them with scrubs. Smh...

Originally posted by GhostofFredDean74:

Originally posted by robniner:
Not a good amount of encouraging news on him. One Chiefs fan on PFT called him a weak link to the line.

Hmmmmm....an opinion from a random Chiefs fan or that of Baalke/the 49ers scouting department/coaching staff. Who to believe????? Seems like a tough call to me.....

He was out last year with a calf injury. Before that I never heard anyone complaining about his play. We got a good player to put into the rotation.

Originally posted by Gore_21:

Originally posted by NCommand:
Per a Chief's fan:

"Cant say that i'm all that tore up about it, but he was a drama free guy who always seemed to give good effort, so i wish him well. Moving on..."

All that was about Ricky Jean Francois. Someone had brought up that our coaches didn't do anything with RJF and I was talking about how much better, stronger and more mature he has gotten.

Just saw this...sorry! Good info either way...don't need to see RJF getting pancaked in the Superbowl anymore.

Originally posted by NYCNINER:
Now go get LaRon Landry!!! Another top 10 pick on our STACKED roster...

I like this Dorsey pickup though.

Great pick-up if we use him right. He didn't do as well as he was expected to in 3-4 D in KC - and his growth stagnated playing DE. It will be interesting to see where and how Niners plan to use him.

Originally posted by Gore_21:

Originally posted by NCommand:
Per a Chief's fan:

"Cant say that i'm all that tore up about it, but he was a drama free guy who always seemed to give good effort, so i wish him well. Moving on..."

All that was about Ricky Jean Francois. Someone had brought up that our coaches didn't do anything with RJF and I was talking about how much better, stronger and more mature he has gotten.

Tell them he was a 7th round pick who is about to get paid because of his time here.

So who will be at the NT... Dorsey and Ian Williams...? I would feel shaky without Tomsula coaching them. But as it is-- all hail Tomsula the Great! The mother of all D-line coach!

Originally posted by pd24:

Originally posted by Gore_21:

Originally posted by NCommand:
Per a Chief's fan:

"Cant say that i'm all that tore up about it, but he was a drama free guy who always seemed to give good effort, so i wish him well. Moving on..."

All that was about Ricky Jean Francois. Someone had brought up that our coaches didn't do anything with RJF and I was talking about how much better, stronger and more mature he has gotten.

Tell them he was a 7th round pick who is about to get paid because of his time here.

Yep pd24.

Ncommand, don't appologize as I edited it after you said something to make sure nobody else thinks that. The reason I didn't originally put RJF in the post is the person I quoted responded back to one of my RJF posts so he knew who I was talking about.


To me at the very worst we went out and got players in Dorsey and Williams that should do about the same for a fraction of the cost. Also, remember we are only 2 days into FA and we still have weeks and months to go plus the draft. Will be a lot more going on... we could still sign 2 or 3 more players and you all know what we have in the draft.

Originally posted by Gore_21:
Yep pd24.

Ncommand, don't appologize as I edited it after you said something to make sure nobody else thinks that. The reason I didn't originally put RJF in the post is the person I quoted responded back to one of my RJF posts so he knew who I was talking about.


To me at the very worst we went out and got players in Dorsey and Williams that should do about the same for a fraction of the cost.

That's what I'm expecting. If either guy can delivery more, than great. But If we can get similar production for reduced $$, still a win.

With this talk of him being misused in KC's 3-4: I believe Crennel used a two-gap 3-4, and we are a one gap system. I think a one-gap scheme helps a player like him. I don't think any of our old NT's could be two gappers--just too small, but two-gap NTs are rare animals--see Vince Wilfork. Maybe with proper coaching, a change in scenery and a change in scheme could help him become a solid rotational player/contributor.

Nice pickup