Originally posted by brodiebluebanaszak:
Originally posted by AB81Rules:
Originally posted by brodiebluebanaszak:
Originally posted by blizzuntz:
I think time will tell ..... if we see the players who stepped up continually get better and succeed here and other places , I will admit I was being too hard on Lynch.
my guess is this coaching staff was lights out scheme wise and with locker room culture .
i would love to be wrong in regards to our depth not be solid .
We trade away our depth or let it walk in fa.
Deebo, charvy, mason, hufanga, collins, hargrave, greenlaw, aziz, if you wanna go back farther omenihu, ebukam, mostert, wilson, mitchell, armstead.
Im not naming guys like mcg, banks, buckner, jimmy who were paid top dollar to go elsewhere. I am only counting affordable or semi affordable guys.
The majority of those guys ended up getting good sized deals that the 49ers weren't and shouldn't have given out, they weren't keeping guys who are backups and signing them to $10M+ a yr deals that makes zero sense, that's how you ruin your salary cap, by overpaying players who aren't worth the money, plus the fact is Deebo & Hargrave were overpaid already so they were cut, Collins we probably shouldn't had released, Ward wasn't coming back after what happened to his daughter, plus he admitted he gave up during that season, Dre was offered more but wanted to be LB1, he wasn't gonna be that here with Warner here, plus he only played in 8 games this season, Mason is a dime a dozen RB IMO, same with Mostert & Mitchell, who I believe was released not long ago, Armstead wouldn't take a pay cut, so they cut him, Omenihu & Ebukam got $10M+ a yr deals, those weren't happening, Azzezz got a good sized deal as well when we had Dre, we weren't paying 3 LBs $10M+ a yr, Hufanga is a good Safety but is just as bad in coverage as Mustapha & Brown are, not trying to make excuses but you can't just keep everyone and still have 1. a balanced roster, and 2. a healthy salary cap cause the majority of those guys got $10M+ a yr, they can't afford that many, maybe 10-12 max, not 20, just not feasible, even if the cap can be manipulated eventually it catches up, looks at the Saints who had to redo every deal for like 5 yrs in a row.
You are just aplogizing for FO decisions.
We should have paid ward, azeez, omenihu, mason, collins and kissed and made up with raheem.
try to sign greenlaw to an incentive contract due to injury history.
Ward quit because we told him we weren't extending him. He was shocked. He made a business decision to stay healthy for 2025.
I know there's a medical history war here, but Mostert was the most gifted OZ runner that shanny had since Morris. Just look at raheem 2018 2019 highlights. Why we treated him like a special teamer we could nickel and dime I have no idea. Horrid talent evaluation. Also Mason >>>>>Robinson. Another mistake. For a few million bucks more? The salary cap is 305m next year. I think there's room. Mason would have eaten into cmc's numbers....but that's a good thing right? We get more cmc in 2026.
POoint is that we can't extend everybody but to keep continuity and performance we need to extend some people who are GOOD PLAYERS. We have a very different defense this year with charvy (77/458 snaps), omenihu(62/567 snaps/5sacks), azeez (71/926snaps), and collins(74/546/8 sacks) in the mix.
We need to be comfortable pulling the trigger on mid range contracts to supplement our star players. Not just say it's all eaten up by the bosa's and the Williams'
Do you even follow this team or understand cap/contracts at even a basic level? It really doesn't seem like it.
Greenlaw wanted to leave and go somewhere where he can be #1 LB. We tried to match the Broncos offer and he said no. And if he would've stayed you would've complained that we overpaid for him and he's not the same player anymore...
Ward didn't want to come back because of what happened with his daughter dying and he said staying here would've reminded him too much of that. Ya, he's taken back a bit that we didn't offer him a new contract, but I don't think it would've mattered.
Azeez got a good pay to be LB #1 or #2 in TN, you don't pay that much money for him to be a 3rd string LB. I'm sure you pulled out your crystal ball that told you Greenlaw would tear his ACL a year later and he was gonna sign with another team.
Teams with star RBs (Bills, Eagles, Colts, 49ers, Ravens, Falcons, etc) aren't paying 5 mil a year for a backup RB that's barely gonna see the field if RB #1 stays healthy.
Collins was very average here, he happened to have a breakout season, good for him, it happens.
The only player I agree with is Mostert, should've extended him. But we were making stars out basically out of every RB since Kyle took over so I understood the FO mindset when it came to it, although I didn't agree. He was a HR hitter as a RB and that's hard to find. We definitely nickle and dimed him, which wasn't fair for him. That was handled poorly.