One more Chip, still 5 rings: Official 49ers 2016 Offseason Thread
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Ex-49ers LB Willis working at tech startup in Silicon Valley
Seven-time Pro Bowl linebacker Patrick Willis is smashing stereotypes instead of running backs after retiring from the NFL.Our guy making moves
The former San Francisco 49ers standout is now an executive vice president at a Silicon Valley-based company called Open Source Storage.
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When your feet hurt you simply can't do sh!t
I know people laugh about toes and stuff but when they hurt that's when you realize it's not a joke
Good luck to him
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
lookin malnourished as fock
Breh is not gonna be back in shape - strength and getting his weight up a bit - by the season. Hope his accuracy is amazingly improved because he's getting killed if he runs
What Went Right
They held onto Colin Kaepernick. As toxic as the relationship between Kaepernick and the San Francisco front office appears to have become, there wasn't a real reason for the 49ers to trade their former starter at quarterback. They have plenty of cap space and didn't use most of it this year. Their other option at quarterback is Blaine Gabbert, so it's not as if they're set at the position, even if Gabbert outplayed expectations last season. They would have been selling as low as humanly possible on a Kaepernick trade, given his subpar performance and injuries last season, and if anybody can rehab Kaepernick in a system that plays to his strengths, it's Chip Kelly. If the whole thing goes south, they can cut Kaepernick next year and not feel guilty -- nobody's expecting the 49ers to win this year, anyway.
They built around the lines with their draft picks. The 49ers have fallen from grace for a number of reasons, but it's not a coincidence that their run atop the league a few years ago coincided with dominant work on either side of the line of scrimmage. Those days are gone, but it's logical for the 49ers to go after players to rebuild those positions. San Francisco used two first-round picks on players whom Carolina Panthers GM Dave Gettleman would describe as hog mollies.
Oregon defensive end DeForest Buckner will slot in alongside former college teammate Arik Armstead in service of Kelly, their former coach at Oregon, while Stanford guard Joshua Garnett should step into a starting role immediately after the 49ers struggled to replace the departed Mike Iupati last year. I'm not crazy about the 49ers trading up to grab Garnett, but since they moved from the top of the second round to the bottom of the first round and picked up a fifth-year option on Garnett in the process, it's more defensible than most.
They hired Chip Kelly. Kelly isn't a safe bet, and his run as a personnel executive was disastrous, but he managed to get a lot out of Eagles teams with some pretty bad quarterbacks, and nobody doubts his X's and O's acumen. He'll have to do a better job of managing people, but he was the most successful head coach the 49ers could possibly have hired.
What Went Wrong
They forgot to upgrade the rest of the team. Right now, with the offseason over, the 49ers have nearly $49 million in cap space to work with. I can't understand why they didn't at least try and use some of it to upgrade their roster. They can carry it over, but why not sign players to one-year deals or contracts with no guaranteed money after 2016? Trent Baalke correctly values draft picks as incredibly important assets and likely didn't want to infringe on the possibility of picking up comp picks, but the 49ers only had one outgoing free agent of any value, Alex Boone, who will likely net them a fourth-rounder.
Even if they were worried about that fourth-round pick, the 49ers could have targeted players who were released by their teams and therefore don't impact the compensatory formula. Or they could go after veterans now, given that signings after May 12 won't qualify for compensation. It's not as if the 49ers should be selling out to win in 2016, but this is a team with enormous question marks and no prospects of note at wide receiver, to pick a position. Should they have taken a flyer on somebody like Rueben Randle or Rod Streater? Should they go after Riley Cooper, who at least has familiarity with Kelly's system and flashed some competence in years past? Signing somebody like Cooper for real money would have been a bad idea, but for the minimum when your other option across from Torrey Smith is Quinton Patton or Bruce Ellington? This feels like a team that isn't actively trying to get better, which seems bizarre.
What's Next
Figure out the Anthony Davis situation. Davis isn't a dominant right tackle, but at his best, he was an above-average option on the right side and part of a wildly successful unit for the 49ers. Davis publicly suggested he was ready to return to the league after sitting out the 2015 season, only to tweet that "dealing with Trent" [Baalke] was giving him a headache. No further progress has been made on the Davis front, which doesn't help an offensive line that might be stuck starting Erik Pears at tackle next year. If Davis is out of shape, as reports have suggested, how much would it cost the 49ers to send a few personal trainers his way? And if the relationship between the two parties is beyond repair, either cut or trade Davis, because there's little sense in having him lurking just beyond the team's grasp.
Grade: C
They held onto Colin Kaepernick. As toxic as the relationship between Kaepernick and the San Francisco front office appears to have become, there wasn't a real reason for the 49ers to trade their former starter at quarterback. They have plenty of cap space and didn't use most of it this year. Their other option at quarterback is Blaine Gabbert, so it's not as if they're set at the position, even if Gabbert outplayed expectations last season. They would have been selling as low as humanly possible on a Kaepernick trade, given his subpar performance and injuries last season, and if anybody can rehab Kaepernick in a system that plays to his strengths, it's Chip Kelly. If the whole thing goes south, they can cut Kaepernick next year and not feel guilty -- nobody's expecting the 49ers to win this year, anyway.
They built around the lines with their draft picks. The 49ers have fallen from grace for a number of reasons, but it's not a coincidence that their run atop the league a few years ago coincided with dominant work on either side of the line of scrimmage. Those days are gone, but it's logical for the 49ers to go after players to rebuild those positions. San Francisco used two first-round picks on players whom Carolina Panthers GM Dave Gettleman would describe as hog mollies.
Oregon defensive end DeForest Buckner will slot in alongside former college teammate Arik Armstead in service of Kelly, their former coach at Oregon, while Stanford guard Joshua Garnett should step into a starting role immediately after the 49ers struggled to replace the departed Mike Iupati last year. I'm not crazy about the 49ers trading up to grab Garnett, but since they moved from the top of the second round to the bottom of the first round and picked up a fifth-year option on Garnett in the process, it's more defensible than most.
They hired Chip Kelly. Kelly isn't a safe bet, and his run as a personnel executive was disastrous, but he managed to get a lot out of Eagles teams with some pretty bad quarterbacks, and nobody doubts his X's and O's acumen. He'll have to do a better job of managing people, but he was the most successful head coach the 49ers could possibly have hired.
What Went Wrong
They forgot to upgrade the rest of the team. Right now, with the offseason over, the 49ers have nearly $49 million in cap space to work with. I can't understand why they didn't at least try and use some of it to upgrade their roster. They can carry it over, but why not sign players to one-year deals or contracts with no guaranteed money after 2016? Trent Baalke correctly values draft picks as incredibly important assets and likely didn't want to infringe on the possibility of picking up comp picks, but the 49ers only had one outgoing free agent of any value, Alex Boone, who will likely net them a fourth-rounder.
Even if they were worried about that fourth-round pick, the 49ers could have targeted players who were released by their teams and therefore don't impact the compensatory formula. Or they could go after veterans now, given that signings after May 12 won't qualify for compensation. It's not as if the 49ers should be selling out to win in 2016, but this is a team with enormous question marks and no prospects of note at wide receiver, to pick a position. Should they have taken a flyer on somebody like Rueben Randle or Rod Streater? Should they go after Riley Cooper, who at least has familiarity with Kelly's system and flashed some competence in years past? Signing somebody like Cooper for real money would have been a bad idea, but for the minimum when your other option across from Torrey Smith is Quinton Patton or Bruce Ellington? This feels like a team that isn't actively trying to get better, which seems bizarre.
What's Next
Figure out the Anthony Davis situation. Davis isn't a dominant right tackle, but at his best, he was an above-average option on the right side and part of a wildly successful unit for the 49ers. Davis publicly suggested he was ready to return to the league after sitting out the 2015 season, only to tweet that "dealing with Trent" [Baalke] was giving him a headache. No further progress has been made on the Davis front, which doesn't help an offensive line that might be stuck starting Erik Pears at tackle next year. If Davis is out of shape, as reports have suggested, how much would it cost the 49ers to send a few personal trainers his way? And if the relationship between the two parties is beyond repair, either cut or trade Davis, because there's little sense in having him lurking just beyond the team's grasp.
Grade: C
Disgustya Stallone
Man Who Owns 2 Microwaves
every time this thread gets bumped I'm always like "aww sh*T what happened now"
Bryan Danielson
Jmare007 x Bryan Danielson x JLova = King Ghidorah
Yo, I was thinking the same thing when I saw it bump..... scariest thread on the site!
quote for fukkin truth.
gonna be a long season. Do we even have any receivers :mjcry49ers:
Nobodies been arrested, suspended or has retired
But my bay area folk the Sharks really finna make the stanley cup finals
If you would have told me the Dubs weren't gonna make the finals, but the sharks were gonna make the SCF. I would have thought you were
Shows you how crazy sports can be sometimes. Now watch Gabbert fukk around and win MVP
But my bay area folk the Sharks really finna make the stanley cup finals
If you would have told me the Dubs weren't gonna make the finals, but the sharks were gonna make the SCF. I would have thought you were
Shows you how crazy sports can be sometimes. Now watch Gabbert fukk around and win MVP
The cap floor is over a period of 4 years at 89 percentBy the way, have we hit the cap FLOOR yet?
feelosofer
#ninergang
I'm glad to see PWilly making moves off the field. Dude really is an inspirational success story.
