Fuk the curse…living in Boston i've heard the Curse of the Bambino thousand of times as the Red Sox failed time and time again to win the WS.

4 WS titles in the last 15 years.

I think our string of bad luck ends next year. The Jimmy injury will be a blessing in disguise as we draft a stud edge rusher in Bosa or trade down for a good amount of picks and get one of the other guys.

I also think the injury showed that maybe we were further away than Kyle/John thought due to the way we finished the year last season and I'm expecting us to be a little more aggressive in free agency this offseason.

I see them spending big money in FA this year. Lynch can't sit around saying brick by brick forever.

Lynch HAS to spend money this year. Back to back poor seasons, he has to make some moves, even if they’re risky. Even with a 5 year deal, he knows he has to prove his worth this upcoming season. No more passes.


Not sure if Lynch thought the roster was better than it was, because of the win streak or if he just didn’t think any of the free agents warranted the contracts they wanted. If it’s the latter, looks like he might’ve been right. Trumaine Johnson, Andrew Norwell, Sammy Watkins, Malcolm Butler, Nigel Bradham, Josh Sitton…I think we all had our eyes on these guys as possible signings and at least for this year, none of them justified their contract. Fuller I don’t think was actually ever available.

Looking back on what we actually did, the McKinnon and Richburg contracts don’t look good right now. The Sherman contract is a steal. McGlinchey and Pettis look to be solid first two picks. A lot still up in the air after that. And I’ll give Lynch credit for reportedly really going after Khalil Mack. I’m glad he’s been aggressive in trades because I think that might be where the NFL is heading, getting good players in trades.

I still would’ve liked Allen Robinson. I know he wasn’t great this year, but I think that’s more about Trubisky. Robinson was a baller in that playoff game against Philly.

Hard to blame a guy when your star QB goes down 3rd game of the season. I'm thinking the 49ers will be competitive this season.

Our draft last year looks pretty solid…hopefully unlike the 2017 class they improve in their 2nd season.

McGlinchey, Pettis and Warner(i'm assuming you forgot him) are legit starters we can build around.

McKinnon is a tough contract to evaluate, i get why they front loaded it and apparently the Jets bumped his price up pretty good so it was what it was…hard to evaluate because he never actually played but the camp notes always had him playing well and he was going to be a huge part of the offense before getting hurt.

Richburg…i hope he was just playing hurt because at the end he was our worst OLman and we cannot have that happen again. The C position is critical in this offense and when we have to play against Aaron Donald twice a year if we want a shot to win that division we cannot give up pressure up the gut.

I would've liked Robinson as well but overall he wasn't worth the money either. I mean dude had 300 yards more than Bourne and same number of TDs…was that really worth it?

To me there are key free agents we have to sign/target.

1. Robbie Gould - we saw what happens when you don't have a reliable kicker. Can't let him get away. We'll franchise him if we have to
2. Earl Thomas - we have some promising safeties on the team but I'm tired of not having an Earl Thomas type in this scheme. May as well actually get the actual Earl Thomas. History in the scheme, history with Sherman and a desire to flip off the Seahawks again. Get it done! Let the other guys fight for SS and depth.
3. Edge rusher - hard to say who right now without knowing who will be available but it's imperative that we sign a starting caliber edge.

I would also like us to sign a legit interior OLman, a SAM linebacker and a WR like Tyrell Williams.

Draft(gonna go off someone else's top 150 for honesty's sake).

1. Nick Bosa - everyone needs to pray Arizona either takes one of the Bama Williams guys or trade down(more likely scenario) for someone wanting Haskins. If they take Bosa we better hope we have a team desperate to trade up. If we're forced to pick at #2 it will be very tough and I'm looking at Quinnen Williams or Brian Burns. But if Josh Allen shows great things at the senior bowl he may help make things easier.

2. Dalton Risner - G/C
3. Garrett Bradbury - G/C
4. Sutton Smith - LB/Sam

I then try to trade next year's 2nd round pick + for Antonio Brown.

Basically add impact play makers on defense to get the talent to properly execute this team. Edge rusher & single high safety are key. With Bosa & Thomas plus others we get that.
Once the defense is good jump on improving the OL to protect Jimmy and give him more time.
Then put the cherry on top by bringing in a great but aging WR in Antonio Brown.

Target LT in 2020 first round.

https://www.ninersnation.com/2019/1/...**n-kaepernick

I didn't even know he was still around. Sorry Raven fans things might start out fun but could get boring real quick.

I don't miss that guy at all.

But I'll be taking their RBs early in FF.

OMG this is weird…. The ravens have a young moble QB, Roman, a coach with the last name Harbough and Crabtree. Be careful with those fade routes in the endzone.

Ha came in to mention this.

I was always the one in here defending Jim and I still think he’s a really good coach but I think he’s clearly more of a defensive guy than offensive guy at this point. I know this doesn’t really involve him but everybody in here credited Fangio and the talent for the defense but Harbaugh has gone on to have an elite defense in Michigan as well.

I’m still a huge fan but he clearly needs to adapt offensively. He’s a smart coach and seems to motivate his team but there’s no reason for him to keep trotting out these mediocre-at-best offenses. He’s been too rigid at being a “tough and physical” team.

/rant

I'd say Fangio has shown he's ok with Jim as well. And Michigan and Harbaugh have been able to get some major recruits which helps. But yet every year they fail to win the big games.

Can't believe what Goodwin and his wife had to deal with. Just unbelievable tragedy. I really hope things end up working out for them. He's such a nice guy and to have to keep going through tragedy like that is unreal.

Didn't want to post it in the same post because it didn't seem fair to put football stuff when talking about Goodwins' tragedy.

But in football news I'm very bummed out about Josh Allen opting out of the Senior Bowl. I think it's a very stupid decision by him. I understand it but to me it sets off a lot of red flags and I'm going to have a really hard time watching him go #2 if Bosa is gone.

I don't recall a golden opportunity for a player invited to the senior bowl where the team coaching him there would have a top 2 pick and a HUGE need at that position. He could've went and easily cemented himself at the least as the #2 guy on the 49ers draft board and likely also helped himself with the Raiders who also have a big edge need and sit at #4 overall.

Considering he also played in the bowl game for Kentucky to me it screams that he's more afraid of performing poorly versus worrying about injury. Bad look. I really wanted to see him in the pass rush drills to see what he can do with the hand in the dirt when the OT knows he's going to rush.

Wow just read the mercury news article about him and his wife losing their twins. That's devastating.

Senior bowl is definitely not meaningless when it comes to draft evaluations and is much more important than a bowl game. Not even the game itself but the practices.

He had a golden opportunity to show 2 NFL teams with huge edge rush needs picking 2nd and 4th in the draft that he's the one they want but decided to bail(why accept the original invite?)

The biggest questions with Allen are his ability to beat OTs who know he's rushing with none pure speed moves. His versatility in college gave him some golden opportunities to get sacks by having him hesitate or show he's dropping to have the OT switch to help double someone else and giving Allen an opportunity to blow by him for the pressure/sack with his speed. His speed rush isn't an issue.

The thing is if he's drafted in the top 10 he will be dropping into coverege very infrequently so he better be able to have more than a speed rush in the NFL.

Senior bowl was a perfect place to show what he can do since they have the pass rush drills in practice. The OL knows you're rushing so none of that trickery chit in play. Show us what you got.

He chose to bail on that and to me that's scary. If he's our pick assuming Bosa is gone I'll hope he can display those traits and get coached up but I would've felt much better about the pick had he gone to the SB and did well in those drills. Hell he could've opted out of the game with a fake injury for all I care.

Bad advice by his agent. There is a chance he gets leap frogged by a couple of guys. Can definitely see these guys going ahead of him.

Bosa
Q Williams
J Williams
Oliver
Murphy
Burns
Ferrell
Gary
Haskins
Thompson

Depends on team needs of course but if teams have too many questions about Allen's counters others can jump him at edge 2 or even 3 then other teams go in a different direction.

Senior bowl would've locked him into top 5 if he showed what people want to see. Fact that he didn't go knowing that scares me.

And no Allen would've been on the South team like the other Kentucky players we're coaching.

And Allen will put up better combine numbers than Bosa. Doesn't make him a better player and there's no way in hell there are more questions about Bosa. Don't watch the stats so much.

Bosa is a WAY better prospect than Allen. He's shown technique some guys in the NFL don't ever have mastered yet.

Him sitting out the rest of the season is not an issue to NFL teams at all. He would've only come back late November so why risk getting hurt again? He's shown enough already. Other guys skip their bowl game and it's not an issue this is more of the same. He was playing unreal before getting hurt. Teams know that. He's a top 2 pick lock unless he murders someone before the draft. He didn't quit playing. He made a business decision that the risk of coming back after injury for a couple of games in college wasn't worth it. He needs to secure his future in the NFL. **** NCAA.

Don’t know what Kevin Jones said but wink winks from a Mayock don’t mean ****. Senior Bowl is based on north/south with more or less defined schools of which players go on which teams. You can’t have a DE from Kentucky go to the North team while DBs from the same school are coached on the South squad.

We won the coin toss and picked the south team probably with Josh Allen in mind.

And I’m not saying teams will drop him becuse he didnt go there. I’m saying teams have questions about a part of his game which translates to the NFL much better than speed rush. Those questions could’ve been answered with him going to the Senior Bowl. Now those questions may still linger for teams and when you’re picking so early in the draft you’re likely to hedge your bets and want to take as few risks as possible. I think guys like Burns and Ferrell can answer the questions about them better at the combine than Allen can. Everyone can see he’s a great athlete. The questions about him are his counters, use of power moves and speed to power. Burns’ big question is his size. Something he can easily answer at the combine by weighing in around 250 and still testing well to show that the size gain didn’t hurt his movement ability. For Farrell the combine testing is key since he’s not seen as athletic as the other guys.

And I don’t mind guys making business decisions which is why the Bosa move made sense to me…no way he helps himself there is only risk of further injury. He’s already put enough on tape to be top 2 pick. Wasn’t the case for Allen.

I could totally be overthinking it but I’m having a hard time falling in love with Allen because I’m not seeing those moves from him which translate well to the NFL. You cannot be one dimensional and win in the NFL. That’s why the senior bowl practices would’ve been huge for him.

Oh well. Still some interesting rushers to look at at mobile.

AB84 latest insta post hnnngggg


Jimmy G throwing to McKinnon already.

Can't believe how many 49er fans are gonna be rooting for the Rams.

I know obviously I'm biased towards the Pats living in the area but it's like everyone forgets the Rams were our biggest division rival and the two teams are going to be compared very much these days.

You have McVay vs Shanahan with everyone riding McVay's nuts and hiring his dentist for HC jobs.
You have them going all in this year with their trades, FA signings and trade deadline moves.
You have them to blame for missing out on Myles Garrett

They win and they basically put all their chips in and got paid out. Who wants that from your big rival and division champ you're trying to bring down?
We won't hear the end of McVay's genius if he wins at 33. His dog may find a HC job next year.

Pats win and who cares? Pats get 6 SB wins, Steelers already have 6. If we're chasing one team may as well chase two. It will be that much sweeter when we win more than they have. If you're holding on to the Joe is GOAT over Brady will 1 more SB win really change that for you?

I do think the Rams have a great chance to win this game but I'm hoping the Pats have it in them to pull one more out of their ass and send this Rams team home without a SB and hopefully watch them fall apart somewhat next year.

Plus no ring for dirty ass Suh.

I want us back in the NFC West throne and don't want the Rams and McVay having that SB win swagger.

We need to really kill this offseason and stay healthy and I think we have a good shot at turning it around next year.

I'm still not sold on Saleh but the addition of Woods to "help" him will be nice. Hopefully the new DL coach can help Sully and the other guys and we're able to get Bosa at #2 overall to really help the line come together.

I doubt Antonio Brown is in our future but if we make a move at him I hope it's with future picks in mind. Use this draft to retool/add talent.

My current day 1-2 mock using the cbs big board and making some assumptions on who will fall a pick or two

1. Bosa - Edge
2. Kelvin Harmon - WR
3. Chris Lindstrom - G

Improve the outside pass rushers. Give Jimmy another weapon and improve the OL.

Use free agency to get another edge, bring in Earl Thomas to help the secondary come together in this scheme and help the young guys along with Uncle Sherm and sign some linebackers to play with Warner.

I don’t think Harmon is a guy Shanny will like. Seems clear he wants quicker receivers that can run all the routes.

Goodwin thinks he’s the AB of our team? He’s available three games a year. Sucks because he has a chemistry with jimmy and seems like he was coming into his own…but damn I don’t want to rely on him again.

Also, we are about to get into a bidding war for a kicker. Hopefully we can get him to accept a 2yr deal. I feel like all this Chicago talk is simply to drive the price up…money talks with him as it’s his chance to cash in.

His family did stay in Chicago and he clearly likes it there but fuk that. They can just tag him. They have the money to do it. If he wants to play for Chicago that bad and he wants to "retire" as a way to get out of it let him. Maybe we can get a pick out of Chicago.

I do like Robbie a lot and think if we want to make a run at it and turn things around we need a reliable kicker. We've seen what could happen to good teams with bad kicking. You don't want to end your season with a missed kick.

Hopefully we get a deal done. We've been pretty lucky on the kicking front recently. Don't want to go with an unknown.

As for Goodwin, confidence isn't a bad thing. He is a pretty good WR when he's healthy. Last year was a tough year but he does help our offense when he's out there. He's nowhere near Antonio Brown of course but whatever.

I'd like for us to sign Tyrell Williams in FA then grab a WR1 type of guy in this draft. I don't know how realistic the Antonio Brown thing is. If it happens I'm hoping we only send next year's picks.

Goodwin is a fine receiver but we can’t be fooled by that stretch he had when Jimmy G first got here. He can’t be trusted to stay on the field and even when he’s on the field he’s had catching problems. I like him and feel for him and his wife but on a good offense he should be the 4th option.

I actually would like John Brown as a signing. He was playing really well until Lamar Jackson came in. Always been a fan of his. He isn’t the most durable guy but he seems like someone Shanny would want as opposed to a bigger, slower guy like Tyrell Williams.

Assuming we don’t get AB I think we could have a nicely upgraded WR corps with Smokey Brown and a 2nd round WR.

Wes Welker is the new WR coach.

Love it.

I think it is a great move too. Trent Taylor should get a lot from him.

Does Welker have any brain cells left? Between all the concussion and ecstasy he’s gotta be close to a vegetable.

Not sure Wes hiring means much but at least he has some experience and we seem to have smaller receivers so maybe he can help them.

Heard something about AB and domestic violence. That should put a cork in him coming our way, or will it?

Not sure how much interest we really had with how he could affect team chemistry. But I do think the issue is a non issue. He wasn't arrested so for all we know some chick wanted money and made a scene.

Either way I'm torn on Brown. Love the talent but I love the chemistry on this team, don't know if Antonio brings what we want. Too much Me first in him.

Welker won't help just Taylor. He knows how to run routes, how to prepare for games as a WR and he's played with two of the best QBs in history of the game. He's a great addition.

Can’t wait for free agency. Really hope we’re big time players this year. Here’s my list of players I’d most like to add to our team when taking into consideration their value and what they’ll cost.


1. S Earl Thomas. 30 years old with still a lot of career left, such a great player and a good dude. Perfect for our scheme and you know how much he’d love to stick it to Seattle. Don’t see him getting a mega deal either.

2. DE Brandon Graham. Loved this guy since he was at Michigan. PFF rated him higher than Demarcus Lawrence this year as he had more QB pressures. He doesn’t put up great sack totals but he’s a good pass rusher and good against the run. I see him as a mega sleeper in the FA market. Super good player that I don’t think Philly can afford to retain. Pair him with Bosa or Josh Allen…hnnnngggg.

3. WR Antonio Brown. One of my all time favorite players. Shanny would fall in love. But is last year a reflection of the person he’s become? And if so is he worth next years first or this years 2nd and some more? Not sure. But I know he’d make our offense so fun to watch.

4. OG Roger Saffold. Another guy that we won’t have to break the bank on but could be the piece that gives us one of the best offensive lines in the NFL.

5. WR John Brown. Cheap, Shanahan style player and one of our weakest positions. He looked really good this year with Flacco. He usually looks good when he’s healthy.

6. LB CJ Mosley. Solid player at a weak unit.

7. LB KJ Wright. Same with Mosley, but probably cheaper, albeit 4 years older. Seattle scheme.

8. DE Zeke Ansah. Not the biggest fan but he could come cheap this offseason and has 10 sack potential.



I didn’t include a lot of the pass rushers because I’m assuming they’re either getting tagged, resigned or they’ll be too expensive to make any other noteable signings.

Sounds like a real possibility Arizona might consider Murray with the first pick. Let’s hope.