John Lynch - 49ers GM

i have a hard time believing we wont make an in season trade. A trade now doesn't make sense we have a pretty complete team and no one is trading anyone who would actually be an upgrade now .We will wait for a team to be a seller and see how we are after a few games and if anyone gets injured

even if no one is injured i think we make a in season trade especially on D (pass rush or corner)

Originally posted by ritz126:
i have a hard time believing we wont make an in season trade. A trade now doesn't make sense we have a pretty complete team and no one is trading anyone who would actually be an upgrade now .We will wait for a team to be a seller and see how we are after a few games and if anyone gets injured

even if no one is injured i think we make a in season trade especially on D (pass rush or corner)

I don't have it in me to check right now cuz im on my phone but I believe we've made a bunch of training camp time trades over the years.

I think the team is either comfortable with what they have right now or may have handshake type deals in place with some vets at positions we're not as excited about right now. But when they get a look at everyone after the break and once the pads come on…there is time to make some moves and bring in guys you feel better about.

Laken Tomlinson
Brian Robinson

Both players we traded for with the training camp window.

Tashaun Gipson a guy who ended up starting most of our games in 2022 was brought in late August.

I'd be shocked if we don't add someone else at edge before the season starts. I just hope we're adding guys because we want more depth and not because of injuries.

Originally posted by genus49:

Originally posted by ritz126:
i have a hard time believing we wont make an in season trade. A trade now doesn't make sense we have a pretty complete team and no one is trading anyone who would actually be an upgrade now .We will wait for a team to be a seller and see how we are after a few games and if anyone gets injured

even if no one is injured i think we make a in season trade especially on D (pass rush or corner)

I don't have it in me to check right now cuz im on my phone but I believe we've made a bunch of training camp time trades over the years.

I think the team is either comfortable with what they have right now or may have handshake type deals in place with some vets at positions we're not as excited about right now. But when they get a look at everyone after the break and once the pads come on…there is time to make some moves and bring in guys you feel better about.

Laken Tomlinson
Brian Robinson

Both players we traded for with the training camp window.

Tashaun Gipson a guy who ended up starting most of our games in 2022 was brought in late August.

I'd be shocked if we don't add someone else at edge before the season starts. I just hope we're adding guys because we want more depth and not because of injuries.

Agreed. So ready for the season

If we are looking like a top 5 team (which I believe we are, at least on paper) midway thru the season, I want Niners to go all in on Maxx Crosby if he is looking like himself & fully healed. Kittle, Trent, CMC, Juice, etc deserve a ring with this team. Don't let them be the Harbaugh Niners & never get it done.

Originally posted by Wolf_Packer_53:
If we are looking like a top 5 team (which I believe we are, at least on paper) midway thru the season, I want Niners to go all in on Maxx Crosby if he is looking like himself & fully healed. Kittle, Trent, CMC, Juice, etc deserve a ring with this team. Don't let them be the Harbaugh Niners & never get it done.

This. See where we're at when there deadline hits.

Originally posted by Cisco0623:

Originally posted by Wolf_Packer_53:
If we are looking like a top 5 team (which I believe we are, at least on paper) midway thru the season, I want Niners to go all in on Maxx Crosby if he is looking like himself & fully healed. Kittle, Trent, CMC, Juice, etc deserve a ring with this team. Don't let them be the Harbaugh Niners & never get it done.

This. See where we're at when there deadline hits.

Agree.

If the Raiders are being the Raiders and are getting thrashed w/almost zero wins - then a trade could happen.

Originally posted by genus49:
I don't have it in me to check right now cuz im on my phone but I believe we've made a bunch of training camp time trades over the years.

The trades acquisitions you are talking about happen around the roster cutdown date(s) during the preseason. Bryce Huff is the only player Lynch has traded for between the end of the draft at the start of preseason.

History of players acquired by Lynch via trade

• 2026
  • League Start - Osa Odighizuwa
• 2025
  • Minicamp - Bryce Huff
  • Preseason - Skyy Moore, Brian Robinson Jr.
  • Regular Season - Keion White
• 2024
  • Regular Season - Khalil Davis
  • League Start - Maliek Collins
• 2023
  • Regular Season - Chase Young, Randy Gregory
  • League Start - Zane Gonzalez
• 2022
  • Regular Season - Christian McCaffrey
• 2021
  • Regular Season - Charles Omenihu
• 2020
  • Regular Season - Kiko Alonso, Jordan Willis
  • Draft - Trent Williams
• 2019
  • Regular Season - Emmanuel Sanders
  • League Start - Dee Ford
• 2018
  • Preseason - Shon Coleman
• 2017
  • Regular Season - Jimmy Garoppolo
  • Preseason - Laken Tomlinson
  • Draft - Kapri Bibbs
  • League Start - Jeremy Zuttah

Originally posted by Wolf_Packer_53:
If we are looking like a top 5 team (which I believe we are, at least on paper) midway thru the season, I want Niners to go all in on Maxx Crosby if he is looking like himself & fully healed. Kittle, Trent, CMC, Juice, etc deserve a ring with this team. Don't let them be the Harbaugh Niners & never get it done.

I can't see Paraag loosening the purse to acquire Maxx Crosby. Las Vegas is going to want a premium in compensation. His compensation this year is pretty much all game checks as they didn't restructure his salary into a signing bonus. His guarantees are 30M in salary this year and 29M in salary next year. Then his salary is non-guaranteed and drops to 26.5M and 27.43M. He's going to want a new contract at around the same time Bosa is going to want a new contract.

Originally posted by Typecast:

Originally posted by genus49:
I don't have it in me to check right now cuz im on my phone but I believe we've made a bunch of training camp time trades over the years.

The trades acquisitions you are talking about happen around the roster cutdown date(s) during the preseason. Bryce Huff is the only player Lynch has traded for between the end of the draft at the start of preseason.

History of players acquired by Lynch via trade

• 2026
  • League Start - Osa Odighizuwa
• 2025
  • Minicamp - Bryce Huff
  • Preseason - Skyy Moore, Brian Robinson Jr.
  • Regular Season - Keion White
• 2024
  • Regular Season - Khalil Davis
  • League Start - Maliek Collins
• 2023
  • Regular Season - Chase Young, Randy Gregory
  • League Start - Zane Gonzalez
• 2022
  • Regular Season - Christian McCaffrey
• 2021
  • Regular Season - Charles Omenihu
• 2020
  • Regular Season - Kiko Alonso, Jordan Willis
  • Draft - Trent Williams
• 2019
  • Regular Season - Emmanuel Sanders
  • League Start - Dee Ford
• 2018
  • Preseason - Shon Coleman
• 2017
  • Regular Season - Jimmy Garoppolo
  • Preseason - Laken Tomlinson
  • Draft - Kapri Bibbs
  • League Start - Jeremy Zuttah

Originally posted by Wolf_Packer_53:
If we are looking like a top 5 team (which I believe we are, at least on paper) midway thru the season, I want Niners to go all in on Maxx Crosby if he is looking like himself & fully healed. Kittle, Trent, CMC, Juice, etc deserve a ring with this team. Don't let them be the Harbaugh Niners & never get it done.

I can't see Paraag loosening the purse to acquire Maxx Crosby. Las Vegas is going to want a premium in compensation. His compensation this year is pretty much all game checks as they didn't restructure his salary into a signing bonus. His guarantees are 30M in salary this year and 29M in salary next year. Then his salary is non-guaranteed and drops to 26.5M and 27.43M. He's going to want a new contract at around the same time Bosa is going to want a new contract.

An in-season trade of Crosby actually kind of makes sense financially.

Pay him $15M for the season and then try to flip him in the offseason.

Originally posted by Typecast:

Originally posted by genus49:
I don't have it in me to check right now cuz im on my phone but I believe we've made a bunch of training camp time trades over the years.

The trades acquisitions you are talking about happen around the roster cutdown date(s) during the preseason. Bryce Huff is the only player Lynch has traded for between the end of the draft at the start of preseason.

History of players acquired by Lynch via trade

• 2026
  • League Start - Osa Odighizuwa
• 2025
  • Minicamp - Bryce Huff
  • Preseason - Skyy Moore, Brian Robinson Jr.
  • Regular Season - Keion White
• 2024
  • Regular Season - Khalil Davis
  • League Start - Maliek Collins
• 2023
  • Regular Season - Chase Young, Randy Gregory
  • League Start - Zane Gonzalez
• 2022
  • Regular Season - Christian McCaffrey
• 2021
  • Regular Season - Charles Omenihu
• 2020
  • Regular Season - Kiko Alonso, Jordan Willis
  • Draft - Trent Williams
• 2019
  • Regular Season - Emmanuel Sanders
  • League Start - Dee Ford
• 2018
  • Preseason - Shon Coleman
• 2017
  • Regular Season - Jimmy Garoppolo
  • Preseason - Laken Tomlinson
  • Draft - Kapri Bibbs
  • League Start - Jeremy Zuttah

Originally posted by Wolf_Packer_53:
If we are looking like a top 5 team (which I believe we are, at least on paper) midway thru the season, I want Niners to go all in on Maxx Crosby if he is looking like himself & fully healed. Kittle, Trent, CMC, Juice, etc deserve a ring with this team. Don't let them be the Harbaugh Niners & never get it done.

I can't see Paraag loosening the purse to acquire Maxx Crosby. Las Vegas is going to want a premium in compensation. His compensation this year is pretty much all game checks as they didn't restructure his salary into a signing bonus. His guarantees are 30M in salary this year and 29M in salary next year. Then his salary is non-guaranteed and drops to 26.5M and 27.43M. He's going to want a new contract at around the same time Bosa is going to want a new contract.

Thank you...i thought I forgot someone last year. Skyy Moore.

Originally posted by Fanaticofnfl:

Originally posted by Typecast:

Originally posted by Wolf_Packer_53:
If we are looking like a top 5 team (which I believe we are, at least on paper) midway thru the season, I want Niners to go all in on Maxx Crosby if he is looking like himself & fully healed. Kittle, Trent, CMC, Juice, etc deserve a ring with this team. Don't let them be the Harbaugh Niners & never get it done.

I can't see Paraag loosening the purse to acquire Maxx Crosby. Las Vegas is going to want a premium in compensation. His compensation this year is pretty much all game checks as they didn't restructure his salary into a signing bonus. His guarantees are 30M in salary this year and 29M in salary next year. Then his salary is non-guaranteed and drops to 26.5M and 27.43M. He's going to want a new contract at around the same time Bosa is going to want a new contract.

An in-season trade of Crosby actually kind of makes sense financially.

Pay him $15M for the season and then try to flip him in the offseason.

I'd rather spend less than half of that and have Clowney all season. You don't have to do the draft pick dance of sending multiple early picks (and probably Mykel Williams) just to flip him in the offseason for some of that value back.

Originally posted by Typecast:

Originally posted by Fanaticofnfl:

Originally posted by Typecast:

Originally posted by Wolf_Packer_53:
If we are looking like a top 5 team (which I believe we are, at least on paper) midway thru the season, I want Niners to go all in on Maxx Crosby if he is looking like himself & fully healed. Kittle, Trent, CMC, Juice, etc deserve a ring with this team. Don't let them be the Harbaugh Niners & never get it done.

I can't see Paraag loosening the purse to acquire Maxx Crosby. Las Vegas is going to want a premium in compensation. His compensation this year is pretty much all game checks as they didn't restructure his salary into a signing bonus. His guarantees are 30M in salary this year and 29M in salary next year. Then his salary is non-guaranteed and drops to 26.5M and 27.43M. He's going to want a new contract at around the same time Bosa is going to want a new contract.

An in-season trade of Crosby actually kind of makes sense financially.

Pay him $15M for the season and then try to flip him in the offseason.

I'd rather spend less than half of that and have Clowney all season. You don't have to do the draft pick dance of sending multiple early picks (and probably Mykel Williams) just to flip him in the offseason for some of that value back.

That's dumb, the FO has always been the better half of the trade table.

clowney over Crosby? Ridiculous

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:

Originally posted by Typecast:

Originally posted by Fanaticofnfl:

Originally posted by Typecast:

Originally posted by Wolf_Packer_53:
If we are looking like a top 5 team (which I believe we are, at least on paper) midway thru the season, I want Niners to go all in on Maxx Crosby if he is looking like himself & fully healed. Kittle, Trent, CMC, Juice, etc deserve a ring with this team. Don't let them be the Harbaugh Niners & never get it done.

I can't see Paraag loosening the purse to acquire Maxx Crosby. Las Vegas is going to want a premium in compensation. His compensation this year is pretty much all game checks as they didn't restructure his salary into a signing bonus. His guarantees are 30M in salary this year and 29M in salary next year. Then his salary is non-guaranteed and drops to 26.5M and 27.43M. He's going to want a new contract at around the same time Bosa is going to want a new contract.

An in-season trade of Crosby actually kind of makes sense financially.

Pay him $15M for the season and then try to flip him in the offseason.

I'd rather spend less than half of that and have Clowney all season. You don't have to do the draft pick dance of sending multiple early picks (and probably Mykel Williams) just to flip him in the offseason for some of that value back.

That's dumb, the FO has always been the better half of the trade table.

clowney over Crosby? Ridiculous

Disagree. The Lance trade is in the convo of worst trades in NFL history. Then there was Jog Young. We spent a 3rd round pick on a half-season rental because we thought Young was the missing piece for that championship run. "Young has history with Bosa! Ignore him being terrible on Washington! Bosa will motivate him! Young will excel! We'll get back that 3rd round compensatory pick!" Well, he didn't excel. He wasn't even good with us. He signed a 1-year 13M deal with the Saints which returned a 4th round compensatory pick. Then there was Brian Robinson Jr.. He was barely used. Cost a 6th for a 1-year rental and didn't even fetch back a future compensatory pick. They gave up a 2nd round pick for Dee Ford, gave him a huge multi-year contract, then witnessed his falloff before a back injury effectively ended his career.

Maxx Crosby is not the same as he was 2021-23. Clowney has been consistently better the last two years and is a fraction of the cost. I would have also taken Grennard and Hendrickson over Crosby too.

Originally posted by Typecast:

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:

Originally posted by Typecast:

Originally posted by Fanaticofnfl:

Originally posted by Typecast:

Originally posted by Wolf_Packer_53:
If we are looking like a top 5 team (which I believe we are, at least on paper) midway thru the season, I want Niners to go all in on Maxx Crosby if he is looking like himself & fully healed. Kittle, Trent, CMC, Juice, etc deserve a ring with this team. Don't let them be the Harbaugh Niners & never get it done.

I can't see Paraag loosening the purse to acquire Maxx Crosby. Las Vegas is going to want a premium in compensation. His compensation this year is pretty much all game checks as they didn't restructure his salary into a signing bonus. His guarantees are 30M in salary this year and 29M in salary next year. Then his salary is non-guaranteed and drops to 26.5M and 27.43M. He's going to want a new contract at around the same time Bosa is going to want a new contract.

An in-season trade of Crosby actually kind of makes sense financially.

Pay him $15M for the season and then try to flip him in the offseason.

I'd rather spend less than half of that and have Clowney all season. You don't have to do the draft pick dance of sending multiple early picks (and probably Mykel Williams) just to flip him in the offseason for some of that value back.

That's dumb, the FO has always been the better half of the trade table.

clowney over Crosby? Ridiculous

Disagree. The Lance trade is in the convo of worst trades in NFL history. Then there was Jog Young. We spent a 3rd round pick on a half-season rental because we thought Young was the missing piece for that championship run. "Young has history with Bosa! Ignore him being terrible on Washington! Bosa will motivate him! Young will excel! We'll get back that 3rd round compensatory pick!" Well, he didn't excel. He wasn't even good with us. He signed a 1-year 13M deal with the Saints which returned a 4th round compensatory pick. Then there was Brian Robinson Jr.. He was barely used. Cost a 6th for a 1-year rental and didn't even fetch back a future compensatory pick. They gave up a 2nd round pick for Dee Ford, gave him a huge multi-year contract, then witnessed his falloff before a back injury effectively ended his career.

Maxx Crosby is not the same as he was 2021-23. Clowney has been consistently better the last two years and is a fraction of the cost. I would have also taken Grennard and Hendrickson over Crosby too.

So he wasn't good in the SB? If Burford doesn't blow his assignment and they win, would it still be a colossal failure? Outside of of Lance the rest of your examples are pretty weak imo