Mitch Wishnowsky - Punter (Utah) is a Free Agent

Originally posted by Since07:
Still looks awful, maybe our coverage improves but K, P, LS are completely ?s We haven't returned a kick for 7 years nor a punt for 14 years

Weeks has been a Pro Bowler as a LS.

Morstead has been a Pro Bowler as a punter.

These are experienced vets, not random guys off the street.

Do we know if this was a money move or his back is an issue?

Really bums me out, I had a soft spot for him

Originally posted by Cisco0623:
Do we know if this was a money move or his back is an issue?

to me it's clearly the back. he missed like half the season, and reportedly into the offseason. club at some point have to move on. they don't want to be in a situation where it's mid week and we have to find a punter. just my take on it

f**king waste.

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:
Weeks has been a Pro Bowler as a LS.

Morstead has been a Pro Bowler as a punter.

These are experienced vets, not random guys off the street.

And honestly, we've had our best success on special teams with veteran guys over the years. Several vet kickers who did great with us. Only guy I can think of that we've drafted in the last 35+ years who was good was Andy Lee. (Regarding K and P).

so I'm okay with these vets. We need to set the tone to the young guys.

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:
to me it's clearly the back. he missed like half the season, and reportedly into the offseason. club at some point have to move on. they don't want to be in a situation where it's mid week and we have to find a punter. just my take on it

Wish was a decent punter but nothing unique. I wish him the best but it isn't like this is a loss for us.

plus we will never be punting .. 😈😈

Dude was athletic... if Kyle had any balls, he would have used that to get us some surpise 1st downs when we needed them.

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:

Originally posted by Cisco0623:
Do we know if this was a money move or his back is an issue?

to me it's clearly the back. he missed like half the season, and reportedly into the offseason. club at some point have to move on. they don't want to be in a situation where it's mid week and we have to find a punter. just my take on it

Agreed.

Originally posted by tankle104:
Wish was a decent punter but nothing unique. I wish him the best but it isn't like this is a loss for us.

plus we will never be punting .. 😈😈

Yes but I agree with Afrikan below

Originally posted by Afrikan:
Dude was athletic... if Kyle had any balls, he would have used that to get us some surpise 1st downs when we needed them.

I agree, he should have been used like that way more.

Originally posted by tankle104:

Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:
to me it's clearly the back. he missed like half the season, and reportedly into the offseason. club at some point have to move on. they don't want to be in a situation where it's mid week and we have to find a punter. just my take on it

Wish was a decent punter but nothing unique. I wish him the best but it isn't like this is a loss for us.

plus we will never be punting .. 😈😈

you are 100% wrong on nothing unique, i invite you to check out guys who have punted either professionally or collegiately and hear em talk on wish, namely pat mcafee or isaac punts on you tube. it's highly unique. he had a lot of different punts or ways to influence the ball. that's more of an aussie thing, and it's why you see a lot of these aussie guys. it's different than just straight banging the football. i am seeing that not a lot of our own fanbase either appreciated or understood he was even doing it. but he was, nonetheless. i view special teams as a real third of the game.

Originally posted by Since07:
Still looks awful, maybe our coverage improves but K, P, LS are completely ?s We haven't returned a kick for 7 years nor a punt for 14 years

Sure would help if Kyle didn't instruct our punt returner to start calling for a fair catch before the ball has even left the punters foot 😂

We drafted him early because he was a threat to fake it yet we had literally 0 attempts outside of the one Mitch called himself. Frustrating kind of this second but it's not the biggest deal I guess. Whatever....
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Originally posted by TD49ers:
f**king waste.

Yup it always was a wasted of a fourth round pick. We just got a guy off the streets who will be as good or better and nobody will see any difference as would be expected from drafting a freaking punter that high.

Now on to the the wasted 3rd rounder……

But I do hope he can turn it around this season

Originally posted by 4putt9r:
We drafted him early because he was a threat to fake it yet we had literally 0 attempts outside of the one Mitch called himself. Frustrating kind of this second but it's not the biggest deal I guess. Whatever....
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Yup. This is what I convinced myself when we drafted him. And like you said 0 attempts. Even the one he called himself didn't count because of a penalty lol

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Originally posted by Since07:
Good lord our ST looks awful

What even happened to our LS? I thought he was supposed to be good but we released him for a 39yr old?

That 39 year old has consistently been one of the best long snappers in football.

Thats good to hear but he's still 39