Originally posted by kem99:
1. The 49ers knew Justin Smith was going year to year and we were told that they were prepared for his departure. Also, as great as Smith was, because of the wear and tear on his body, he wasn't playing as much and his level had dropped off, though he was still playing at a good level.
drafted Carradine two years ago and AA this year, respectively. Would have liked us picking another 34-DE last year though.
2. The 49ers plan out their salary cap and contract situations 2-3 years in advance, so they knew what would be happening with the likely loss of Culliver and Cox. On the scale of problems, this isn't that big of a deal.
So???
3. Losing Crabtree hasn't been a big issue. Yes, he's having a bit of a revival in Oakland but it probably wouldn't have happened here and most would probably rather take their chances with T. Smith over Crabtree.
True....So?
4. The 49ers had themselves covered for the loss of Gore with Hyde. The bigger problem is the choices made behind Hyde -- Bush hurt most of last year and is now an older RB, Hunter got released at the end of TC, Davis hasn't shown much so suddenly what was a deep position now isn't because of the personnel decisions for the back-up RB's.
With Hyde going into this season as a clear-cut starter the need was of low priority ovr. Bush, imho, was not penciled in as a primary Hyde-backup anyway. Sure, one should count in Bush injury-proneness but you simply cannot plan for Hyde's AND Davis' injury timeouts. This is way too much to ask.
5. Davis temporarily "retiring" after the draft was a huge blow but, the 49ers would have been in the same spot if say...Davis got hurt in OTA's (like Crabtree) or in the pre-season. Going back to before the 2014 season, it was considered unlikely that the 49ers would be able to resign Iupati, so the 49ers had plenty of opportunity to prepare for those losses and the best they could do was trade their 5th string TE for a back-up OG (Devey) and sign a journeyman OL (Pears) who is probably better at OG than OT at this point. Martin was a 2nd round pick and has been the worst C in the league. Thomas was hailed as Iupati's replacement and can't even be active for game days. The 49ers have been "searching" for that 3rd OT for the last couple of years and were never able to find one. Sorry, but you can't blame the OL's collapse totally on Davis retiring.
1) Pears is ok as a backup.
2) Wanted to get an OT-backup badly but it is still a difference between an injured Davis compared to a left one. In former case the need is of low priority again whereas in latter scenario you clearly need a starter NOW.
6. There's no doubt Harbaugh was difficult to deal with but you don't let a coach who is 44-19-1 and 5-3 in the playoffs walk where every other coaching choice you've made during your ownership has been a disaster. You complain about 2014 being a "major step backward", but the 49ers were 8-8 (despite the Jed York created distractions), which was the most successful year since the Yorks hired their first HC other than Harbaugh's 3 previous years. Yes, the offense had its problems in 2014 but it was still much better than the alternative Jed came up with.
We were 8-8 thanks to the D only. Kaepernick regressed even more and Harbaugh was a year away from free agency. A decision needed to be made.
If Jed was going to part ways with Harbaugh, he had to get it right and he failed miserably. Everyone knows that Tomsula is overmatched. There's a reason Chyst went 15 years between gigs as an OC. There's a reason Logan was a radio talk show host. Is there any other team that would hire Chyst as their OC? No. The Cardinals talked after thumping the 49ers about how easy the 49ers offensive scheme was to diagnose. Is there any other team that would hire Logan as their QB coach? No. While more likely, there also doesn't seem to be any other team that would have hired Mangini as their DC either.
According to your logic guys like Gruden, Dungy etc. suck.
The offense was apparently simplified thanks to Kaep's limitations that existed last year as well. If two coaches cannot handle that, then perhaps the talent is too limited.
There's been plenty of complaints about Harbaugh's staff on this board, but, all I heard during his tenure was that it was one of the top staffs in the NFL. It's obvious that Tomsula's staff is at or near the bottom and most, if not all, of Harbaugh's assistants that left, got gobbled up pretty quickly by other teams, including Roman.
Roman is responsible for the rushing offense only. Anyone else? Fangio and Donnatell, liked both of them but let's face the facts:
points per game, Bears: 28.9, 29th (49ers: 25.9, 23rd)
