Originally posted by Sask49erFan:
What's not to agree with? please explain to me how Lynch has made our team better than the team we had last year? If it isn't for a league easiest schedule, CMC playing out of his mind and great coaching we wouldn't have won a game.
But how about some reference:
-Not re-signing Hufunga who is on his way to a Pro Bowl and replacing him with Jason Pinnock.
-Cutting Maliek Collins (74.5 PFF, 28 pressures and 8 sacks) and replacing him with Alfred Collins.
-letting Greenlaw leave (74.4 PFF) and replacing him with Luke Gifford.
-cutting Javon Hargrave (67.5 PFF, 28 pressures, 4 sacks) and replacing him with CJ West.
-Trading Deebo who has 604 yards and 5 TD's and replacing him with Demarcus Robinson.
-giving 16.8 million dollars to Luke Farrell for 15 snaps a game and letting a better TE walk in Charlie Woerner a year before for 12 mil
-Trading Jordan Mason (659 rushing yards, 4.7 YPC, 6 TDs and replacing him with Brian Robinson
-Drafting a DE 11th overall who isn't a great pass rusher.
-Drafting a LB with a 5th round grade in round 3 who can't see the field over guys like Luke Gifford, Curtis Robinson and former 7th round pick Tatum Bethune. Why even take him if all he can play is WILL and we already had Winters?
That's just brilliant GM'ing there and excellent roster decisions. Literally every player we let leave was replaced with a replacement level quality player.
You keep making this same argument all the time, "We should have kept _________ ." (fill in the blank), without the slightest regard to their performance with the team or the price tag they represented. The Niners knew Brock's payday was coming, so they had to make decisions based around that. They weren't going to be able to afford what Greenlaw and Hufunga would have been asking, and I think there has been some reporting the Greenlaw felt like he was ready to move on anyway. Deebo didn't want to stay. I don't recall the situation around Collins. Hargrave hardly did anything for the team while he was here except be hurt. The team wasn't going to pay Mason when they have a proven record of finding RBs in the later rounds or as UDFAs. They may have overpaid for Farrell but that's the NFL these days. They didn't draft Mykel Williams to be a pass rusher and, as has been pointed out several times, Nick Martin plays a different LB position than all of the guys you mentioned. I think the bigger mistake was in extending Aiyuk, who I think was pretty good, but not worth anywhere near the $28 million a year they agreed to pay him.
They did pick up Mac Jones who, literally, saved their season. White and Ferrell have been doing pretty well, along with Huff, who is being asked to do a lot more than they envisioned with Bosa out. He was supposed to be a complimentary piece rather than the whole show. Skye Moore has solidified the return game and Robinson might have come across as a better pick-up if Kyle would ever put him into the game, though he has contributed.
Maybe you should try and start looking at things the way they are rather than the way you want them to be. Oh, and by the way, did you notice that the team was 10-4 with a legitimate path to the #1 seed in the NFC? If they don't get there, it will likely be due more to the absence of guys like Fred Warner, Nick Bosa and, yes, Mykel Williams, who was doing a really good job setting the edge and playing the run, which is what he was drafted to do, then any of the guys on your list.
[ Edited by 49ers81 on Dec 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM ]