It appears that the 49ers will be major players in free agency

From the Weston Richburg deal:

• This is a significant boon for the 49ers, who would have saved $4.5 million by cutting Richburg before June 1 and $7.95 million by cutting him after June 1. June 1 cuts allow teams to create more cap space in the current season, but that money isn't available until the major wave of free agency has ended. By working this deal out now, the 49ers moved closer to that June 1 figure, and will have more than $31 million in cap space at present.

So, if the 49ers had just waited till after June 1st, they would save 1 million more on the cap than their current restructure deal will give them. The fact that they wanted that extra money now to me suggests that they have big plans in free agency. It may be as simple as resigning Trent Williams to a monster deal or maybe the cap space for a "free agent" QB. Other than QB, I can't see them needing more than the 25 million or so they already had to resign a single player like Trent Williams, so that makes me think they are probably looking at multiple high priced players in free agency.

Being one of the teams that has significant cap space in a lean year, gives the 49ers a unique opportunity. Most teams will be pinching pennies, and dropping players that they might have kept in a normal year. With the 49ers cap space they can instead be buying those free agents at a slight discount over what they would have cost in a normal year.

I wish this were true but knowing the Niners over the past couple years I don't think it will be. I hope we spend a decent amount on a corner like Casey Hayward or an edge rusher because there's about 10 of them that are excellent replacements for Ford. I hope we restructure one or two other contracts because there are teams with way less space than us that are going to be getting better free agents than we are and that pisses me off.

Given that next year they will be even more cap Space we should be getting a bunch of free agents now and pushing the money down the road until next year and the year after so we will be able to keep these good players that we sign this year, Take them off the market before other teams especially in our division start getting them when they have so much less space. Their general managers have more balls when it comes to that even though people may see it as stupid or not wise, the spending is not really hurting anyone because look at teams like Green Bay the Saints the Chiefs they are going to be fine overall even the Rams and they were all way over the cap.

So why sign a deal that gives them more cap space now, but 1 million less after June 1st? I can't see the purpose unless they are planning on being big spenders before June.

I suppose one possibility is the article isn't entirely correct. Maybe no one has bothered to check under the new contract what happens if Weston is cut after June 1st.

Originally posted by fryet:
So why sign a deal that gives them more cap space now, but 1 million less after June 1st? I can't see the purpose unless they are planning on being big spenders before June.

I 31+ million isn't a whole lot in that sense. Yes it will give you some freedom to sign a couple of very good to elite players, but its not like you can sign a whole all pro secondary. They are going to have to pick their shots. There's way more teams with more cap space than there are teams that with less than them.

My other thought is that they might go with signing a lot (in a sense) of good undervalued free agents that they think they can develop, Rosen being an example, that is cheap to test out the tires and see if they can make the 53 man squad. Making an additional 7 million available might mean the ability to kick 3 or 4 more tires in free agency - specially with Kyle's eye for offensive talent.

If there was ever a year to do it, this is the year to go crazy in FA. There's going to be an unprecedented number of good-to-great players available. Also, you could accrue a ton of comp picks.

Originally posted by Heroism:
If there was ever a year to do it, this is the year to go crazy in FA. There's going to be an unprecedented number of good-to-great players available. Also, you could accrue a ton of comp picks.

Yeah that totally makes sense. So let's spend some money !!!!!💰

Originally posted by frankieuc68:

Originally posted by Heroism:
If there was ever a year to do it, this is the year to go crazy in FA. There's going to be an unprecedented number of good-to-great players available. Also, you could accrue a ton of comp picks.

Yeah that totally makes sense. So let's spend some money !!!!!💰

And also resign them next year to keep the good fa's that panned out or if we signed them to multi year deals this year, structure the contracts in a way so the hit is smaller this year then the following years.

this is a good chance to jump ahead of contenders that can't afford to sign good players

I think it's very telling that they haven't done anything with Jimmy's contract. If they were totally committed to him they would give him a 3 year extension which would allow them to restructure his current deal and bring his cap number way down for the 2021 season. They can say that they are confident with Jimmy all they want but actions speak louder than words. Either need to trade/Cut him or fully commit to him. Staying as it is just hurts the team. IMO can't go into the 2021 season with his cap hit being around $26 Million. You could trade or cut him and gain $23-26 million in cap space or extend him and save around $10-15 Million in cap space. Honestly I am ok with either one. Not ok with the $26 Million cap hit for the upcoming season.

But the reality is with a healthy team we could reach the Super Bowl....With Jimmy Garoppolo, that is the only reason we are keeping him in my opinion. I hope we draft a quarterback in the first round because I have a feeling we won't get Watson. At the very least we are a playoff team and that's only with a few major injuries instead of the whole damn team like last year

Major players??? No I don't think so. We've never been major players in FA.. not since the 94 season when they fkn stacked the team with vets.

sorry only major players they will be is resigning their own guys. If we resign Williams I don't expect much.

Originally posted by MrNineSeven:
Major players??? No I don't think so. We've never been major players in FA.. not since the 94 season when they fkn stacked the team with vets.

sorry only major players they will be is resigning their own guys. If we resign Williams I don't expect much.

Unfortunately, this is true the only big FA signed in the last 15 years was Nate Clements. Our team is always in the conversations for prime FAs and in many cases we end up relieved we didn't bite on some of the deals made.

I think this year given the cap constraints and number of teams like the Saints, Chiefs, and Seahawks needing to purge players, it could be a year to snag some quality FAs on short prove it deals.

I think we're re-signing key players like juice and Williams, unfortunately I think JV priced himself higher than what we could realistically afford, unless he decided to give give a discount for believing in him, but I won't blame him in the slightest if he wanted to secure the bag.

I'm thinking we get a quality interior o line, a solid corner, and hopefully get hyder back then worry about the draft. The rest of the offseason should be dedicated to finalizing the qb position and how to keep out guys goddamn healthy.

Front office kind of has no choice but to spend. We made the playoffs once (granted we went to the Super Bowl) during the four years this regime has been here. Another non playoff year definitely puts them on the hot seat. Not to mention the Rams got better with Stafford, Seattle will always be Seattle as long as Carroll is there and Arizona should only get better as Murray continues to develop.

I hope they use the money to resign K'wan. The secondary is so much better with him. He might end up a jet though