Has our window closed?

Looking at Seattle and LA, both with a tremendous amount of young talent, I fear the window has closed for us. We have aging stars, and mediocre talent; there isn't really an individual we can point to in the last two/three years that has been drafted and is a true difference maker. Don't get me wrong - there is talent on the team if the form of Kittle, Bosa, Purdy, but no young break out stars to carry us into the future (except for Purdy).

It's CLOSED. We are in a rebuild now. Just some have not realized it yet. Maybe not even Lynch, Shany and the DORKS too. Certainly a lot of the fan base and WZ too.

We doing this again?

I know what handful of poster are going to say. Being objective our window was closed this year and probably not very open next year. We are a rebuilding/reloading team that is missing too frequently on draft picks and how we are spending our salary cap. We can continue to be competitive due to our older stars and our coaching but until we have a good infusion of young talent all over the field I don't see us as a wide open championship window. Just a window that's been left cracked open to get some fresh air.

Originally posted by genus49:
We doing this again?

FREE THREAD!

And was the window open for Seattle or New England before the season?
They weren't in the PO last year seriously.
People should stop speaking in absolutes.
This season was supposed to be a retool year for the Niners with all the dead money.
They finished 12-5 and won a PO game with a young defense with 22 different starters. The team was ravaged by injuries all season including the PO.
Who knows what will happen next season?
All I know is that after this season, there's a lot of positives including Shanahan being a great HC and Purdy being able to win without an All Pro supporting cast.

Windows are always open if you draft well and have a great QB+head coach. Unfortunately, the 49ers don't draft well, so until they stack multiple good drafts with some HUGE hits on impact players, they're not winning the SB.

I'm going to keep repeating this s**t in every thread: the Niners have zero impact players 25 years old or younger. Z-e-r-o

Originally posted by Hysterikal:
I know what handful of poster are going to say. Being objective our window was closed this year and probably not very open next year. We are a rebuilding/reloading team that is missing too frequently on draft picks and how we are spending our salary cap. We can continue to be competitive due to our older stars and our coaching but until we have a good infusion of young talent all over the field I don't see us as a wide open championship window. Just a window that's been left cracked open to get some fresh air.

The issue I have with these threads is it's just a massive overreaction.

Know what keeps windows open in the NFL? Good HC which the 49ers have and good QB which the 49ers also have.

Everything else can be patched easily enough. While I don't think we're a team as good as our record indicated the reality is we still got that record with a lot of critical injuries.

Rams turned their roster around very quickly and we actually had a better season than them if you compare how far they got after they shed their big $ guys and aging vets.

Couple of key FA signings and draft picks and window is wide open. As it is there is no reason to claim it's closed.

They are entering year 2 of a retool. They will be getting key players back from injury. The NFC is wide open, Seahawks are currently the best team but they have a lot of pending free agents.

The window isn't completely closed but it's not wide open either. If they have a good off-season they can contend this year.

Originally posted by Hysterikal:
I know what handful of poster are going to say. Being objective our window was closed this year and probably not very open next year. We are a rebuilding/reloading team that is missing too frequently on draft picks and how we are spending our salary cap. We can continue to be competitive due to our older stars and our coaching but until we have a good infusion of young talent all over the field I don't see us as a wide open championship window. Just a window that's been left cracked open to get some fresh air.

Originally posted by Heroism:
Windows are always open if you draft well and have a great QB+head coach. Unfortunately, the 49ers don't draft well, so until they stack multiple good drafts with some HUGE hits on impact players, they're not winning the SB.

I'm going to keep repeating this s**t in every thread: the Niners have zero impact players 25 years old or younger. Z-e-r-o

Fair takes. But with that said, who had the final 4 as the final 4 this year? I think its fair to say we will be right where we are (top 10 team) until we get an infusion of talent. But the whole window talk is such hindsight. No one really knows. We need to hit on the next two drafts and have a few guys from 2024 - 2025 show up.

Threads like this just show we as a fanbase are traumatized by the Harbaughcalypse from 10 years ago

Is this the 2026 edition?

Because we had the 2025 edition a year ago. If anything they are in much better shape going forward after eating like $90 million in dead money and getting it off the books.

window's always open when you have QB like Purdy

Originally posted by Heroism:
Windows are always open if you draft well and have a great QB+head coach. Unfortunately, the 49ers don't draft well, so until they stack multiple good drafts with some HUGE hits on impact players, they're not winning the SB.

I'm going to keep repeating this s**t in every thread: the Niners have zero impact players 25 years old or younger. Z-e-r-o

They made the playoffs and won a playoff game on the road against the SB champions while having the highest amount of cap money on the sidelines in the entire league. They also don't know what they have with some of the younger guys like Williams, Collins and the rest and its way too early to tell.

Seattle got a nice boost from the Wilson trade, now they're going to have to give huge money payouts to guys like JSN and Witherspoon. This was their year to make a run and they did it so congrats to them but keeping everyone together is about to get a lot more difficult without the multiple 1st rounders that they've benefited from previously.