Brandon Aiyuk is a Quitter! Pick #25, 2020 NFL Draft

Originally posted by Fanaticofnfl:
I blame Aiyuk for this season ultimately ending in failure because a) he's an easy scapegoat and b) having our #1 WR could've opened up a lot of things for us and potentially led to less injuries

Even with a fully healthy Niners squad I still believe they lose to Seattle. Not as bad as they did, sure. But they were still going home.

blame bad drafting and signings

Originally posted by RiceOwensStokes:

Originally posted by Fanaticofnfl:
I blame Aiyuk for this season ultimately ending in failure because a) he's an easy scapegoat and b) having our #1 WR could've opened up a lot of things for us and potentially led to less injuries

Even with a fully healthy Niners squad I still believe they lose to Seattle. Not as bad as they did, sure. But they were still going home.

blame bad drafting and signings

thats BS lol

If we had everyone from Week 1 at Week 17, we win the #1 seed easily and raise banner # 6

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:

Originally posted by RiceOwensStokes:

Originally posted by Fanaticofnfl:
I blame Aiyuk for this season ultimately ending in failure because a) he's an easy scapegoat and b) having our #1 WR could've opened up a lot of things for us and potentially led to less injuries

Even with a fully healthy Niners squad I still believe they lose to Seattle. Not as bad as they did, sure. But they were still going home.

blame bad drafting and signings

thats BS lol

If we had everyone from Week 1 at Week 17, we win the #1 seed easily and raise banner # 6

Lol surreeee.

Originally posted by RiceOwensStokes:

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:

Originally posted by RiceOwensStokes:

Originally posted by Fanaticofnfl:
I blame Aiyuk for this season ultimately ending in failure because a) he's an easy scapegoat and b) having our #1 WR could've opened up a lot of things for us and potentially led to less injuries

Even with a fully healthy Niners squad I still believe they lose to Seattle. Not as bad as they did, sure. But they were still going home.

blame bad drafting and signings

thats BS lol

If we had everyone from Week 1 at Week 17, we win the #1 seed easily and raise banner # 6

Lol surreeee.

sure..? stop acting like we had 6-11 year lol

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:

Originally posted by RiceOwensStokes:

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:

Originally posted by RiceOwensStokes:

Originally posted by Fanaticofnfl:
I blame Aiyuk for this season ultimately ending in failure because a) he's an easy scapegoat and b) having our #1 WR could've opened up a lot of things for us and potentially led to less injuries

Even with a fully healthy Niners squad I still believe they lose to Seattle. Not as bad as they did, sure. But they were still going home.

blame bad drafting and signings

thats BS lol

If we had everyone from Week 1 at Week 17, we win the #1 seed easily and raise banner # 6

Lol surreeee.

sure..? stop acting like we had 6-11 year lol

"Losing to the Seahawks in a more competitive game" = acting like we had a 6-11 year

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
the only way Aiyuk can be a problem is him actually showing up.. but he also has to do a lot more than show up. I believe he has to reinstate himself some how and show up to camp in 2026

Well, exactly… We hold on to him out of spite we suddenly have a 30M dead cap hit when he shows up which he's shown to be intentionally unpredictable. Not only that but you'd have looming questions about him all season long being a distraction.

Originally posted by Since07:

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
the only way Aiyuk can be a problem is him actually showing up.. but he also has to do a lot more than show up. I believe he has to reinstate himself some how and show up to camp in 2026

Well, exactly… We hold on to him out of spite we suddenly have a 30M dead cap hit when he shows up which he's shown to be intentionally unpredictable. Not only that but you'd have looming questions about him all season long being a distraction.

I was reading on this. I think they will just release him and move on.

Originally posted by Cisco0623:

Originally posted by Since07:

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
the only way Aiyuk can be a problem is him actually showing up.. but he also has to do a lot more than show up. I believe he has to reinstate himself some how and show up to camp in 2026

Well, exactly… We hold on to him out of spite we suddenly have a 30M dead cap hit when he shows up which he's shown to be intentionally unpredictable. Not only that but you'd have looming questions about him all season long being a distraction.

I was reading on this. I think they will just release him and move on.

Yep, we are at the "wrestle a pig and you both get dirty" point. Maybe try clawing back some money, but the dude needs to be gone.

Originally posted by RiceOwensStokes:

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:

Originally posted by RiceOwensStokes:

Originally posted by Fanaticofnfl:
I blame Aiyuk for this season ultimately ending in failure because a) he's an easy scapegoat and b) having our #1 WR could've opened up a lot of things for us and potentially led to less injuries

Even with a fully healthy Niners squad I still believe they lose to Seattle. Not as bad as they did, sure. But they were still going home.

blame bad drafting and signings

thats BS lol

If we had everyone from Week 1 at Week 17, we win the #1 seed easily and raise banner # 6

Lol surreeee.

So missing our 2 best players on defense (Warner and Bosa) plus our best run defender (M Williams) wouldn't given us a chance to win? I think thats BS. Plus not to mention being without Kittle and Pearsall.

Injuries played a huge role. You think the Seahawks win if they had he same injuries as us?

__PRESENT

Originally posted by miked1978:

Originally posted by RiceOwensStokes:

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:

Originally posted by RiceOwensStokes:

Originally posted by Fanaticofnfl:
I blame Aiyuk for this season ultimately ending in failure because a) he's an easy scapegoat and b) having our #1 WR could've opened up a lot of things for us and potentially led to less injuries

Even with a fully healthy Niners squad I still believe they lose to Seattle. Not as bad as they did, sure. But they were still going home.

blame bad drafting and signings

thats BS lol

If we had everyone from Week 1 at Week 17, we win the #1 seed easily and raise banner # 6

Lol surreeee.

So missing our 2 best players on defense (Warner and Bosa) plus our best run defender (M Williams) wouldn't given us a chance to win? I think thats BS. Plus not to mention being without Kittle and Pearsall.

Injuries played a huge role. You think the Seahawks win if they had he same injuries as us?

__PRESENT

Originally posted by Since07:

Originally posted by miked1978:

Originally posted by RiceOwensStokes:

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:

Originally posted by RiceOwensStokes:

Originally posted by Fanaticofnfl:
I blame Aiyuk for this season ultimately ending in failure because a) he's an easy scapegoat and b) having our #1 WR could've opened up a lot of things for us and potentially led to less injuries

Even with a fully healthy Niners squad I still believe they lose to Seattle. Not as bad as they did, sure. But they were still going home.

blame bad drafting and signings

thats BS lol

If we had everyone from Week 1 at Week 17, we win the #1 seed easily and raise banner # 6

Lol surreeee.

So missing our 2 best players on defense (Warner and Bosa) plus our best run defender (M Williams) wouldn't given us a chance to win? I think thats BS. Plus not to mention being without Kittle and Pearsall.

Injuries played a huge role. You think the Seahawks win if they had he same injuries as us?

__PRESENT

Their secondary would still be healthy and solid but no:

DeErnest Jones (Warner)
DeMarcus Lawrence (Bosa)
Leonard Williams (Mykel)
JSN (Aiyuk)
No Sam Darnold for half the season

Yeah they probably don't make the playoffs.

Originally posted by 49erKing:
Their secondary would still be healthy and solid but no:

DeErnest Jones (Warner)
DeMarcus Lawrence (Bosa)
Leonard Williams (Mykel)
JSN (Aiyuk)
No Sam Darnold for half the season

Yeah they probably don't make the playoffs.

The massive glaring difference between Seattle and the Niners is that their talent isn't concentrated in a few players. Their talent is spread out across many players deep and can easily withstand an injury or two while the 49ers can't. For example, Bosa goes down, and the entire pass rush is gone with him; conversely, if Demarcus Lawrence or Leonard Williams goes down, Seattle is still terrorizing QBs because their pass rush is 5-players deep.

unfortunately, this is what happens when a team has failed to draft impact players for many drafts now.

Originally posted by Heroism:

Originally posted by 49erKing:
Their secondary would still be healthy and solid but no:

DeErnest Jones (Warner)
DeMarcus Lawrence (Bosa)
Leonard Williams (Mykel)
JSN (Aiyuk)
No Sam Darnold for half the season

Yeah they probably don't make the playoffs.

The massive glaring difference between Seattle and the Niners is that their talent isn't concentrated in a few players. Their talent is spread out across many players deep and can easily withstand an injury or two while the 49ers can't. For example, Bosa goes down, and the entire pass rush is gone with him; conversely, if Demarcus Lawrence or Leonard Williams goes down, Seattle is still terrorizing QBs because their pass rush is 5-players deep.

unfortunately, this is what happens when a team has failed to draft impact players for many drafts now.

To a degree yes. They definitely had a ton more depth but there's no doubt in my mind they don't overcome those types of injuries as well as the 49ers did despite that fact.

They were missing a few of those guys and not even their heavy hitters and Baker Mayfield lit them up week 5. They won a close game vs the Jags with their defense banged up but no injuries on offense. No JSN would've crippled their offense.

But it's all sour grapes. You play who you play and you play with who you have available.

We were one of the healthier teams in the league in 2012 and 2023 and still found a way to not win the SB(though losing Greenlaw and Feliciano in 2023 IN the SB definitely impacted our ability to win that game)

I pray we manage to stay healthy at the critical part of the season when we have a squad that can do something with that health.

Originally posted by 49erKing:
Their secondary would still be healthy and solid but no:

DeErnest Jones (Warner)
DeMarcus Lawrence (Bosa)
Leonard Williams (Mykel)
JSN (Aiyuk)
No Sam Darnold for half the season

Yeah they probably don't make the playoffs.

That's not even half the list of our injuries. Even our starting backups were hit with injuries, especially at LBs, the most critical positions to protect run and passes , late into
the season.

12-5 but the injuries never stop. It was amazing that Niners won in Philly

Originally posted by RiceOwensStokes:

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:

Originally posted by RiceOwensStokes:

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:

Originally posted by RiceOwensStokes:

Originally posted by Fanaticofnfl:
I blame Aiyuk for this season ultimately ending in failure because a) he's an easy scapegoat and b) having our #1 WR could've opened up a lot of things for us and potentially led to less injuries

Even with a fully healthy Niners squad I still believe they lose to Seattle. Not as bad as they did, sure. But they were still going home.

blame bad drafting and signings

thats BS lol

If we had everyone from Week 1 at Week 17, we win the #1 seed easily and raise banner # 6

Lol surreeee.

sure..? stop acting like we had 6-11 year lol

"Losing to the Seahawks in a more competitive game" = acting like we had a 6-11 year

yeah, you are pretty much saying we had no chance as if we were some scrub 6-11 team

With a fully healthy 2025 season.. week 17 doesn't even matter