A fictional (yet pretty close) account of what a suicide poster would have posted in 2011

Originally posted by BodhiPaddlesOut:

Originally posted by btthepunk:
I wouldn't say that's fictional. A lot of people were saying exactly all of that. A lot of were excited about Harbaugh but even more thought we had no chance at him since York went with Baalke instead of Lombardi.

No. No "a lot of people" weren't saying that..

This entire thread is ridiculous. Bowman, who everyone knew had plenty of potential and was a first rounder on the Cowboys board. That was commonly known, and he'd be starting next to Patrick Willis who had nearly identical measurables.

After the initial shock, a majority of people warmed up to the Aldon pick. His highlights of the game where he got sacks with the broken foot, a long with the Warren Sapp video, pretty much hyped everyone up.

"We also lost our two best pass rushers in Manny Lawson and Travis Laboy."



Nobody was decrying the loss of Manny Lawson or Travis Laboy. Nobody.

Wragge was crap and we knew it. Baas was alright, but everyone was stoked on Boone and we'd just spent a first rounder on Iupati. Goodwin had a Super Bowl ring and was still rated fairly well, at least serviceable.

"Finally, We let Clements and Mays walk and we replace them with other teams garbage. Rodgers sucked in WSH and Whitner was way over drafted in Buffalo"

What? Rodgers didn't sick in WSH. He couldn't catch. He still played consistently in coverage. The desperate WSH were just fickle desperate for every possible turnover. And Taylor Mays.... , yeah, even the suicide posters weren't attached to Mr. Cannonball.

"This Trent Baalke experiment is an absolute failure and yet Jed York is so cheap that he went with our interim guy when we could have guys like Michael Lombardi who have much more experience who would have brought in a much more experienced coach that Jim Harbaugh"

The Lombardi enthusiasm was really tempered when his actual FA and draft success was brought up. The only reason people wanted him was because of his connection with Harbaugh and it was rumored that was a caveat of Harbaugh's.... which is what helped bring up the Browns rumors.

Originally posted by pwillis52beasty:
lol what? If I remember correctly the majority of people were incredibly excited when we hired Harbaugh.

They were. Hardly, if anyone, was upset about losing Wragge, Sopoaga (common knowledge was he sucked in 2010), Baas, Nate Davis, Lawson, Laboy, Mays, or Clements (he was overpayed )

Most of the gloom, or tempered expectations, came from the shortened offseason. Which Alex Smith saved our asses and helped out.

Total revisionist circle jerking. I am a 100% 49er fanatic. I soak up every article I can find. All 49er related commentary I loved to read. My family has to hold me back when I spot Seahawks fans in the wild, because I get pretty confrontational. I almost got in a fight with this butch chick because she showed up at the pizza parlor in her brand new Seahawks hootin' 'n' hollerin' about the Hawks until I drowned her out with booes, and the management separated us to opposite sides of the store.

You guys wanna hype up players like players like Patton and DeAndrew White and Dial, that's cool. Keep on keepin' on. But when I start reading stuff like this, I just have to close the tab and find another community. Really getting ridiculous. I agree the offseason "damage" to our team has been overrated, but this offseason's NT has been damn near intolerable.

Originally posted by facestabber:

Originally posted by NCommand:
I don't know about "excited" but more "relieved" b/c Miami was pushing hard for Harbaugh and if we didn't get him, then what? And the OP didn't even cover the coaching staff concerns...Harbaugh had zero NFL experience coaching, Fangio had one good season but only when he had top talent (Dome Patrol) and seemed to progressively always get worse with time, many still didn't like Solari, Rathman was still new, we knew that Roman was only a High School coordinator only, who was Geep Chryst, etc. Lots of questions about the rest of the position coaches as well. Tomsula was the only proven veteran coach, etc. Most were just so happy to move on from two dead-beat defensive coaches for an alleged "QB guru" b/c it was obvious we had a lot of defensive talent. Then the non-off season began and we had no QB. So Harbaugh was forced to try and keep Alex Smith which, fortunately for him, was "arrow up" the 2nd half of the previous season and in his new scheme, Alex was the perfect, smart game-manager.

Then Baalke went nuts with the roster getting rid of Lawson, Clements, etc. ensuring players such as Brooks, Rogers, etc. were inline to get starting roles for the first time...in fact, he made as many moves as Seattle did in their historic off season of 2,000 moves. Baalke built the roster, the position coaches coached them up, Alex held "Camp Alex" and coached up the offense to everyone all off season, the defense took off b/c many were in their prime years, Gore was featured (in his prime) and the NFL was hit with an offense they've never seen before (all the motions/shifts) and going against the grain of the NFL which had focused more on stopping the pass vs. the run. Harbaugh provided energy, a direction and a theme "Who's got it better than us!?" And in 2011, many of our now-retired players were hitting their peaks at that time as well. It was just a perfect formula of everything coming together at the right time...then Kyle Williams happened (poor ST coaching) and HaRoman had no answers offensively against a good defense in the Giants.

As I read this I was reliving the excitement of that season and then Kyle Williams happened. His flops killed our dream season.