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pasodoc9er · 2012-07-27T09:03:38-07:00

Why did Mario, Moss, McBath, Leonard Davis, Jacobs all come here? Why did the entire D return? Why did the entire O return, sans Snyder( who was going to be demoted anyway)? Why did Carlos Rogers resign, when he could have gotten more $$ elsewhere? One answer: SB. Sure, it would be stupid not to say some guys did it just for the dough, but Coach and Baalke also resigned guys that needed to be signed, and not for boatloads of cash, but fair contracts. But another reason is Coach Harbaugh. Super Bowl is the #1 reason, but COY, and everybody knows why league wide, is also a huge drawing card. The guys who came here smell SB, know the HC is going to win games , some based just on outcoaching the opponents, and then we have best D, best STs, and with receivers, are going to have an awesome O. Our running game got way stronger, and looking for holes, there just aren't many, except major injury to key players. If I were an NFL player and wanted a ring, THIS is exactly where I would want to be. A mere two seasons back, and for the 10 seasons preceding that, SF was the one place where NOBODY wanted to go. It is almost impossible to see a franchise so completely turned 180 degrees around in so little time.Oh, and Coach got shortchanged on TC, PS last yr, on top of everything else. San Fran, baby, that's the place to be.

Jul 28, 2012 at 2:44 PM

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chico49erfan
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Nice post! Pumped for the season!!

Jul 28, 2012 at 3:02 PM

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Dr_Bill_Walsh
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Amoy Pek-Pek Mabang-hoe

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Jul 28, 2012 at 4:24 PM

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BrianGO
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Rogers certainly wanted to be here. He might have gotten a little more elsewhere.
Brooks got paid well. Might have made slightly more elsewhere, but not enough to turn down our offer.
Goldson was an ideal franchise tag candidate if there ever was one. I have no doubt that he wants to be paid 100% market value. If it wasn't for the franchise tag, he might not be here. He's also smart enough to realize that he needs to attend training camp if he wants to get the big pay-day next year.
Ginn tried to go elsewhere, but realized that nobody really wanted to pay him what he wanted, so he had nowhere else to go.
Alex Smith wasn't going anywhere, for multiple reasons.
Morgan left town for more money.
Snyder left town for more money.

Moss certainly wanted to be here.
Leonard Davis certainly wanted to be here.
Manningham wanted to get a shot as a starting WR.
Jacobs certainly wanted to be here.

Our free agents certainly believe in the team.

Jul 28, 2012 at 4:56 PM

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Yeah, Brian, and 2 yrs ago back to 12 yrs ago, nobody would come here on a bet. Nate the great, the shut down corner who wasn't was the only real high end brand we got, and that was a frigging disaster. He got beat by everybody, because a shut down corner has to have some help...and he had none. Rest of the league treated the 9ers as if we were lepers, and unless we grossly overpaid someone, eg, Nate, nobody came. Now, guys can smell SB in the air, we got the F.O. (jed), the COY, the GMof the yr, D of the yr ST fo the yr, and just showed up with 5 WRs in camp, on a team that finished the yr with 2. We got Vernon, Delanie, frank, AJ, La Michael, no snyder, no chilo, a much better OL, backups for frank, and better backups at qb. The D is intact, as is the ST. Jeez, just how much more could a team ask for? As for alex, he did what he was asked last yr, and will do the same this yr. But he won't be throwing 17 TDs, it will be a multiple of that with these targets:

VD, Delanie, Frank, Crbs, mario, moss, La Michael, Ginn, AJ, maybe kyle....unh, that's 10 guys to throw to and alex finished the season with 3 guys to throw to, and crbs disappeared, so two guys to throw to. I believe, at start of camp, alex will have 5 X as many guys to complete passes to as when he finished last season. Don't have to be a genius to figure what coach has in mind.

Jul 28, 2012 at 6:19 PM

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DonnieDarko
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i remember these kind of threads in 2007...2008...2009...lol

Aug 8, 2012 at 7:00 AM

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Mr.Mcgibblets
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Didn't see an ideal place to put this... so why not bump a decent thread with this?

Potentially interesting for our week 2 showdown with Lions...

Lions FS Louis Delmas underwent left knee surgery Tuesday.

Dr. James Andrews performed the procedure. The only good news for Delmas is that this is not the same knee that kept him out of the final five regular season games last season. Still, it's the second knee surgery in eight months for the man coach Jim Schwartz calls the "soul" of his defense. Even if this surgery turns out to be a mere "scope," Delmas' Week 1 availability is in doubt.

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