Kicker Robbie Gould

Originally posted by NYniner85:
yup it's a silly thing to think would actually happen.

Still. to me. he has made it clear he does not want to be here. sure . its silly to think he would shank kicks on purpose but a player who does not want to be here hardly endures himself to his fellow team mates

His choices are simple. Hold out and lose 5 million. Retire. Play and look good and hope Chicago doesn't solve their kicking problem,and that they really want to actually pay him decently to kick next year. This nonsense about him creating dissension with his team mates by staying away is just that, nonsense.

I can just hear his wife if he decides to not play here. "Get your dumb ass out there and kick that damn ball. Are you stupid? $5M in our bank account or you sitting here under my feet while the kids are in school?"

He is a freaking kicker, not a QB,has been paid that way and has a chance to set his family up nicely for their future?

Just put her and the kids up in nice hotel whenever they want to fly out during the season.

Originally posted by DonnieDarko:
I think the 49ers are just holding onto him until they hear a good trade offer from someone

To that point, I think Gould is the one who's playing the waiting game. Why sign the tag now? There's absolutely no benefit in signing immediately. Just wait and see. Anything can happen. Maybe a quality kicker becomes available, the 49ers sign him and let Gould walk. Maybe the Bears or some other Midwest team has an injury, gets desperate, and offers the 49ers huge value in trade. Gould would be limiting his options by signing immediately. Just wait it out. If nothing materializes, sign the offer at the end of training camp, collect your $5 mil, and play one more season on the west coast.

I hope they get this worked out. Last year kicking was the one area we didn't need to worry about. It would really suck if we have a good year in other areas only to have the kicking game cost us a couple of games.

He's playing for the 49ers this season. He's spending the entire summer with his family. He will come back in time for the season and will sign the tag under the agreement that the niners relinquish his rights next year and not tag him a second time.

He's not going to miss out on $5 million payday which was more than his whole contract was first two years. He stayed away, tried to play hardball to get out and it didn't work. That doesn't mean he's not going to play football and earn the money.

Originally posted by Youngone:

He's playing for the 49ers this season. He's spending the entire summer with his family. He will come back in time for the season and will sign the tag under the agreement that the niners relinquish his rights next year and not tag him a second time.

He's not going to miss out on $5 million payday which was more than his whole contract was first two years. He stayed away, tried to play hardball to get out and it didn't work. That doesn't mean he's not going to play football and earn the money.

Let him go to Chicago, he's played long enough where Management should take the players well being into account.

Originally posted by RishikeshA:

Let him go to Chicago, he's played long enough where Management should take the players well being into account.

They did take his well being into account, he's got 5 million dollars sitting on the table waiting for him so he can play a game, where at his position players rarely get hurt

Originally posted by Heroism:
It sounds like living out of the Santa Clara Hyatt is miserable lol.

haha he should just crash with JGQ...maybe hang with some porn stars

Originally posted by cciowa:
Still. to me. he has made it clear he does not want to be here. sure . its silly to think he would shank kicks on purpose but a player who does not want to be here hardly endures himself to his fellow team mates

he's the kicker, most teammates don't even count him as part of the team

He'll show up game day and kick a couple balls...get on a plane & hang with his family until next week or some s**t. Whatever gotta get one yr of kicking out of old baldy then move on. Is what it is.

Originally posted by Lifer:
To that point, I think Gould is the one who's playing the waiting game. Why sign the tag now? There's absolutely no benefit in signing immediately. Just wait and see. Anything can happen. Maybe a quality kicker becomes available, the 49ers sign him and let Gould walk. Maybe the Bears or some other Midwest team has an injury, gets desperate, and offers the 49ers huge value in trade. Gould would be limiting his options by signing immediately. Just wait it out. If nothing materializes, sign the offer at the end of training camp, collect your $5 mil, and play one more season on the west coast.

I think he has until July 15th to get a LT deal done (which he doesn't want from SF)....I'm not positive but after that date (when tagged) he can only play the upcoming yr on that one yr tag deal.

Even if he's traded (after July 15th), he has to play under that tag for the yr.

Originally posted by RishikeshA:
Let him go to Chicago, he's played long enough where Management should take the players well being into account.

F that....that's like saying we should have let Justin Smith walk after his best yr of football to go play for KC (he's from Missouri) because he's played long enough.

This isn't a charity, it's a professional football team. IF you let good players walk because of s**t like that, you've set a precedent whenever the situation happens again.

IF family matters that much to him, then retire. He's got to deal with it for 4 months (hopefully longer) Dude needs to remember the team he loved dumped his ass.

I mean the Pat should let Brady walk to play for his childhood team the Niners then amirite

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by RishikeshA:

Let him go to Chicago, he's played long enough where Management should take the players well being into account.

F that....that's like saying we should have let Justin Smith walk after his best yr of football to go play for KC (he's from Missouri) because he's played long enough.

This isn't a charity, it's a professional football team. IF you let good players walk because of s**t like that, you've set a precedent whenever the situation happens again.

IF family matters that much to him, then retire. He's got to deal with it for 4 months (hopefully longer) Dude needs to remember the team he loved dumped his ass.

I mean the Pat should let Brady walk to play for his childhood team the Niners then amirite

Yep.

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by RishikeshA:

Let him go to Chicago, he's played long enough where Management should take the players well being into account.

F that....that's like saying we should have let Justin Smith walk after his best yr of football to go play for KC (he's from Missouri) because he's played long enough.

This isn't a charity, it's a professional football team. IF you let good players walk because of s**t like that, you've set a precedent whenever the situation happens again.

IF family matters that much to him, then retire. He's got to deal with it for 4 months (hopefully longer) Dude needs to remember the team he loved dumped his ass.

I mean the Pat should let Brady walk to play for his childhood team the Niners then amirite

No kidding give me Brady please he wants to play closer to home. I can imagine the laughs coming out of Kraft and Belichek as they finish their massages. Lol. People are so kind. Oh he's a vet let him go if he wants. What?!? Grow up!

He needs to be here by the time preseason games roll around period. At least the last two and that's pushing it. Come on people I want to win games and the margin of deficit in these games is very very small. I wonder why when he wanted his long term deal we couldn't work one out? Did he want to much money? Now he doesn't want to be here. Lol. I wish we could cut his ass but that's bad business.

I worry because guys who miss all of training camp USUALLY have horrible seasons. I hope he doesn't. I hope we don't need him very much at all. I hope the fact that he's just a K makes it easy for him to slide right in without facing a live rush and kick FGs in game come week 1. I hope Browm kills it during the preseason and kicks 60 yard bombs. I hope I hope I hope. Freaking K lol.

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by RishikeshA:
Let him go to Chicago, he's played long enough where Management should take the players well being into account.

F that....that's like saying we should have let Justin Smith walk after his best yr of football to go play for KC (he's from Missouri) because he's played long enough.

This isn't a charity, it's a professional football team. IF you let good players walk because of s**t like that, you've set a precedent whenever the situation happens again.

IF family matters that much to him, then retire. He's got to deal with it for 4 months (hopefully longer) Dude needs to remember the team he loved dumped his ass.

I mean the Pat should let Brady walk to play for his childhood team the Niners then amirite

Agree. Move his family out here!