John Lynch - 49ers GM

Originally posted by Kolohe:
I'm not expecting any type of Justin Jefferson or Maxx Crosby trade, people should get that outta their minds. Gonna take a miracle to pull off one of those trades without sinking your their offseason.

Agreed.

Originally posted by SmokeyJoe:

Originally posted by Kolohe:
I'm not expecting any type of Justin Jefferson or Maxx Crosby trade, people should get that outta their minds. Gonna take a miracle to pull off one of those trades without sinking your their offseason.

Agreed.

One trade that would make sense that will definitely help the defense is trading for Minkah Fitzpatrick. He shouldn't be that much in a trade.

Originally posted by Kolohe:
One trade that would make sense that will definitely help the defense is trading for Minkah Fitzpatrick. He shouldn't be that much in a trade.

Wouldn't expect that move either, though you might be right that it wouldn't take as much to get him.

Originally posted by Kolohe:
I'm saying, like I've always been saying that Seattle won't worry about Darnold's contract right now. He's set to make $37 mil this season and $41 mil next season. Are you expecting them to be in some kind of cap trouble soon? 49ers got it figured out with Brock Purdy's contract, I wasn't worried one bit or worried about cap space like some fans were on here. And with the cap going up every season Seattle I'm sure isn't worried either.

9ers can't afford to have another losing season, meaning they have had their fair share of losing seasons. Whereas the Rams have only had one losing season since their Super Bowl win at the same time watching waiting for them to fall into cap hell. There's already talk or rumors of taking away John Lynch's powers to call the shots on draft day, that doesn't look good for him.

My main point, yes the 9ers should get better this season, but so will the rest of the NFC West who have much more capitol than the 9ers. 9ers need play their cards right to get back on top and trotting out Jake Brendel as a starter would be a bad start.

Most of Sam's GTD cash was already giving to him in a signing bonus (up front). There's zero chance he's rolling out there past 2026 with no REAL GTD cash and a massive extension. We should ALL understand this stuff at this point. Players want real cash in their pocket asap. They want GTD money, not fluffed up cap hits.

I expect them to plan to have to make Sam/JSN and Spoon top 5 paid players at their position between 2026-2027. Toss in all their other FAs and older players.

you weren't worried about paying Brock $250 million….clearly SF was when the signed literally no one in FA worth anything. It's not always about the cap. It's about having to fork over the real $$ at the signing. Toss in Seattle is trying to sell.

that's the crazy thing with football, no one knows what will happen year to year. The Rams are one stafford back injury away from being a 5 win team. Same with Seattle if Sam gets hurt. SF has shown they can still put up Ws even with everyone injured and being near the top of the league in DM.

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by 9erson3:
Yeah, he already stated he is not retiring this year and the Rams have two 1st round picks as a cherry on top. You have to be a bit honest here. We are in position three at this point and I would say we are the team with the most work to do to get back to number 1.

Hags have great cap space and even more they have incredible depth at positions. it will suck for them to lose a few players but next man up is better than most on other teams on D.

The Rams are just frigging good. No matter the hate they make it work and they strike on their draft picks usually. Those two first round picks will probably be gold for them.

9ers-get busy. No over stretch with 30 somethings as a band aide fix. If shopping in FA maybe a mid-tier younger dude that could be cap friendly but contribute.

What great depth does Seattle have? I swear no one is looking at the guys that are FAs for them currently. They're losing good starters and good depth. They can't resign everyone. They absolutely have to get ready to pay Spoon/JSN this off season and at worst Sam in a yr. Massive amounts of cash there.

The Rams have a year to year worth of Stafford (with a high cap hit each yr) Adams is gone after this season. Puka is gonna eat up a big chunk. Multiple DL are due big contracts this offseason and next. They have no DBs.

I'm not saying those guys aren't still setup to win a ton and probably ahead of SF. Fans seem to not evaluate other teams like they do theirs though.

NY trying so hard to post Rams' / Seahawks' fall off into existence.

Originally posted by NYniner85:
Most of Sam's GTD cash was already giving to him in a signing bonus (up front). There's zero chance he's rolling out there past 2026 with no REAL GTD cash and a massive extension. We should ALL understand this stuff at this point. Players want real cash in their pocket asap. They want GTD money, not fluffed up cap hits.

I expect them to plan to have to make Sam/JSN and Spoon top 5 paid players at their position between 2026-2027. Toss in all their other FAs and older players.

you weren't worried about paying Brock $250 million….clearly SF was when the signed literally no one in FA worth anything. It's not always about the cap. It's about having to fork over the real $$ at the signing. Toss in Seattle is trying to sell.

that's the crazy thing with football, no one knows what will happen year to year. The Rams are one stafford back injury away from being a 5 win team. Same with Seattle if Sam gets hurt. SF has shown they can still put up Ws even with everyone injured and being near the top of the league in DM.

Bolded for emphasis.

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by Sask49erFan:

Originally posted by Heroism:
nope

Give him Aiyuk's money. Defenses will have to honour the threat of his speed on the outside.

It will open up the whole offense. Teams won't be able to stack 8 in the box because we lack a guy who demands respect on the outside

It won't be cheap but a field stretching WR who can block is the BIGGEST need we have and it's not even close.

Dude no one in their right mind should be tossing Alex Pierce a $100M contract. He had 47 catches last yr.

Let's be smarter about all this

He led the league in YPC two years in a row. Dude is elite at separation and stretching the field which is exactly what we need.

47 catches is more on Daniel Jones and whoever else they had at QB after he went down.

Originally posted by Koldo:
NY trying so hard to post Rams' / Seahawks' fall off into existence.

Yeah you're right I'm making it all up.

Seattle doesn't have half a dozen starters/good rotational players that are FAs. They don't have two players that are due for top 5 contracts this off season. Their SB MVP isn't leaving. Sam's gonna be a good ol' boy and continue being the 20th highest paid QB and play out his mid contract. Ya you're right 3 of their DL aren't in their 30s and aren't in the last yr of their deal (or have no GTD cash left after this season). I guess you're right there's no "Super Bowl Tax" Seattle will be the first team that gets to avoid that.

Yup Stafford isn't almost 40, who's one back injury away from being toast. He doesn't need back injections weekly. Devante Adams isn't in the last yr of his deal. Puka for sure isn't gonna want to be a top 3 paid WR in the league. They clearly don't have multiple DL that are due extensions from 2026-2027. Their DB room is just full of amazing talent.

Buddy, I never said they suck or won't be good this yr, I'm pointing out that A LOT of teams have s**t to do. It's the NFL and you can go from being great to mediocre pretty quickly

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by Kolohe:
I'm saying, like I've always been saying that Seattle won't worry about Darnold's contract right now. He's set to make $37 mil this season and $41 mil next season. Are you expecting them to be in some kind of cap trouble soon? 49ers got it figured out with Brock Purdy's contract, I wasn't worried one bit or worried about cap space like some fans were on here. And with the cap going up every season Seattle I'm sure isn't worried either.

9ers can't afford to have another losing season, meaning they have had their fair share of losing seasons. Whereas the Rams have only had one losing season since their Super Bowl win at the same time watching waiting for them to fall into cap hell. There's already talk or rumors of taking away John Lynch's powers to call the shots on draft day, that doesn't look good for him.

My main point, yes the 9ers should get better this season, but so will the rest of the NFC West who have much more capitol than the 9ers. 9ers need play their cards right to get back on top and trotting out Jake Brendel as a starter would be a bad start.

Most of Sam's GTD cash was already giving to him in a signing bonus (up front). There's zero chance he's rolling out there past 2026 with no REAL GTD cash and a massive extension. We should ALL understand this stuff at this point. Players want real cash in their pocket asap. They want GTD money, not fluffed up cap hits.

I expect them to plan to have to make Sam/JSN and Spoon top 5 paid players at their position between 2026-2027. Toss in all their other FAs and older players.

you weren't worried about paying Brock $250 million….clearly SF was when the signed literally no one in FA worth anything. It's not always about the cap. It's about having to fork over the real $$ at the signing. Toss in Seattle is trying to sell.

that's the crazy thing with football, no one knows what will happen year to year. The Rams are one stafford back injury away from being a 5 win team. Same with Seattle if Sam gets hurt. SF has shown they can still put up Ws even with everyone injured and being near the top of the league in DM.

I somewhat agree up until the end. If Darnold gets injured, that's still a 10+ win team with a backup QB.

Originally posted by VinculumJuris:
I somewhat agree up until the end. If Darnold gets injured, that's still a 10+ win team with a backup QB.

Yeah disagree Drew lock is getting them 10+ wins. He's another guy that on the last yr of his deal as well.

Originally posted by Sask49erFan:
He led the league in YPC two years in a row. Dude is elite at separation and stretching the field which is exactly what we need.

47 catches is more on Daniel Jones and whoever else they had at QB after he went down.

He led the league YPC in part because he only has 47 catches. He was 60th in targets if you want a field stretcher to get 40 catches a yr just draft one vs vastly overpaying a FA WR

Saw something on the internet where someone was asking whether Maxx Crosby for Brandon Aiyuk and our 26' and 27' 1st round picks would be a "fair deal". Just what we need, surrender two firsts for a 29-year-old edge rusher who makes a boatload of money, seems to me we already have one of those, though his timetable for return remains uncertain.

This team really need to start hitting on more of their draft picks. It was either here or somewhere else, where somebody posted our picks from the year Brock was drafted. he and Kalia Davis were the only ones still on the team and I'm not sure how many of the other guys we picked are even still in the league. I think more and more that it's time we took a new approach to drafting. Give Lynch a new title, bump him upstairs and bring in someone who has a fresh take on the draft and scouting with some kind of track record to back it up with, because whatever we're doing is clearly not working anymore.

Originally posted by NYniner85:
Most of Sam's GTD cash was already giving to him in a signing bonus (up front). There's zero chance he's rolling out there past 2026 with no REAL GTD cash and a massive extension. We should ALL understand this stuff at this point. Players want real cash in their pocket asap. They want GTD money, not fluffed up cap hits.

I expect them to plan to have to make Sam/JSN and Spoon top 5 paid players at their position between 2026-2027. Toss in all their other FAs and older players.

you weren't worried about paying Brock $250 million….clearly SF was when the signed literally no one in FA worth anything. It's not always about the cap. It's about having to fork over the real $$ at the signing. Toss in Seattle is trying to sell.

that's the crazy thing with football, no one knows what will happen year to year. The Rams are one stafford back injury away from being a 5 win team. Same with Seattle if Sam gets hurt. SF has shown they can still put up Ws even with everyone injured and being near the top of the league in DM.

I'm not gonna tell you about zero chances Darnold does this or that or what Seattle has to do. Fact of the matter and the main point again to this argument is that Seattle has a ton of cap space and draft capital. As the 9ers get better so can Seattle and LA. They've drafted good (Seattle/LA) that has them set up to win for this season. Again keyword there is THIS season.

And you think the 9ers were worried to sign Brock Purdy cause they didn't sign anyone this past season? I thought we all agreed that they did that to get rid of $100+ mil in dead cap. Brock Purdy signed in time to have almost a full offseason with the team. Now if you asked me if they were worried about signing Aiyuk, sure. But they were ready to trade him, so I doubt they worried too much about him.

Sure the Rams are one injury away from having a disastrous season. Just like the 9ers are one Trent Williams injury from having a struggling offense. Even Brock Purdy is as injury prone as Stafford, he's coming off of a significant injury too. So crossing my fingers Purdy also stays healthy, it doesn't seem like the 9ers are really keeping Mac Jones around.

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
2nd round picks since they got here and took over.

2018....Dante Pettis....
2019....Deebo Samuel....
2021....Aaron Banks....
2022....Drake Jackson....
2024....Renardo Green.... (unsure but plays well in spurts)
2025....Alfred Collins.... (just neutral for now because it's early. But trending.... )

This is honestly a lot better than their 1st round picks. They have no idea how to pick in the 1st round. 2nd round is not perfect but much better overall.

Originally posted by DRCHOWDER:

The 49ers currently have the 10th most cap space in the NFL pic.twitter.com/rEF1qVeH6J

— Coach Yac 🗣 (@Coach_Yac) February 18, 2026

John Lynch ready to spend on some injury prone players in FA

"retards, vampires, scared men"

Originally posted by Heroism:

Originally posted by pillageDatazz:
Not sure what he called (or meant) Lynch

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— 54🕊? 97 🕊? 85 🕊? #SurvivingLynch (@SadNinersFan) February 17, 2026

Originally posted by DRCHOWDER:

The #Dolphins are reportedly taking trade calls on S Minkah Fitzpatrick, per @Schultz_Report

Should the 49ers reach out? pic.twitter.com/j6qnYnp0gf

— ???????????????????????????????????????????? (@TheSFNiners) February 18, 2026

Our new DB coach would be ecstatic if they signed MF

He'd automatically be the leader / captain back there. Niners need to make a move on one of the FA safeties