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  1. We haven't even seen one down of football post-Adam Peters hiring, yet it is so apparent what a single offseason means when you have proper football people in charge. I am pretty energized and reinvigorated as a fan of the franchise but at the same time so frustrated and how quick 20+ years of the football equivalent of the twilight zone infected this once pround franchise. I was 19 when Snyder bought the team and will be 44 by the time this season kicks off.
  2. Hard to predict anything for 2024 yet since we don't know the make up of the roster, but I am pretty sure that without a major overhaul, and at least 75% of the draft picks hitting from Day 1, it is doubtful the playoffs are in play for next season, and I am not even frustrated about as it feels like we have an organization in place finally to build a really good time the right way, but that doesn't mean the winning is going to start in the first season of the new regime. I am probably going into 2024 without looking at the W/L record and more about the make up of the team and them trying to establish an identity/.
  3. Predicting what QB's will or won't succeed in the NFL is extremely tough because there is just such a difference in the college game and NFL game. I also think that the first 2-3 seasons of a QB's career can really make or break them depending on the organization, coaches, roster, etc etc......I think we see cases of QB's with a lot of talent get drafted into terrible situations that don't do a lot to benefit their development and by their third season they are already so behind the curve. Sometimes it is that the QB turns out to just not be that good, but I think other times the environment of their early NFL career absolutely failed to foster success.
  4. I think for me the main reason Gibbs isn't mentioned (by some) as an all time great in the top tier of head coaches is the reason he should actually be put there.....because Gibbs won a Superbowl with 3 different versions of a championship team. When you look at the Walsh, Belichick, Noll, etc etc etc.....the main difference is that they either had a bonified HOF Franchise QB for the entire run and/or pretty much the same dominant roster the entire run. Belichick is the exception on the roster as a whole, but Tom Brady was there the entire run and look at what Bill has managed to accomplish without Tom Brady prior and post Brady...... To me Gibbs (and his coaching staff) truly felt like the difference makers on those championshop teams. Perhaps the '91 team was so stacked and primed for a run that it might have been a little easier on Gibbs but definitely the first two superbowls did not feel like they necessarily had the best roster in the NFL but Gibbs was able to game plan and scheme to counter the strengths of their opponents so well and it wasn't like the modern day version where you look for the opponents weaknesses necessarily, it was more attacking their strengths by giving them looks and formations they couldn't deal with. I remember so many experts thought the Orange Crush defense would bottle up Washington's offense, so Gibbs used a lot of presnap motion to force those linebackers to have to over think everything instead of just read & react. It was truly coaching excellence on display.
  5. The complete opposite of whatever culture was going on under Snyder?
  6. Funny thing is I wouldn't even take it as an endorsement of Howell as the long term solution if they decided not to draft a QB, only that they don't view the top choices as long term options either. Like I said, if Peters and his team think one of the QBs available can be that guy eventually, sure draft the guy, but #2 is way to high a pick to pass up elite talent in favor of someone you think might turn into something eventually. I also understand that it would be the case regardless of who you draft, but I think missing on a QB that high is bigger detriment than any other position because in most cases elite skill position players start to impose their will immediately where as a lot of elite QB's will look up and down their rookie year. I just think Peter's track record suggests that he sees building a solid roster, then dropping a QB into the mix afterwards as a valid option.
  7. Mahommes is too damn good to expect to draft "a Mahommes" I don't even think the Chiefs knew when they drafted Mahommes that he'd be Mahommes like this.....you can try to look for similar qualities and attributes, especially how they might fit the offense you plan to run, but I wouldn't approach the draft assuming any QB you select is going to turn into a QB of that level. The best approach is (if they even plan on taking a QB) is do your due dilligence to where you draft who you think the best player is but also if you don't feel any available options justify being taken at #2 then don't feel pressured by the moment and go a different direction and take a player you think will be elite or make a trade and get a bounty.
  8. Purdy doesn't look that much different than Jimmy G did in that offense overall, but I do also think the 49ers have a better roster for Shanahan's offense now than they did during the Jimmy G years. The Deebo Samuel/CMC 1-2 punch is just a lot for defenses to handle, which doesn't even include Kittle who can often be uncoverable in the middle of the field. That isn't an insult or compliment to either one necessarily, but we saw what Jimmy G looked like as soon as he left that system and roster. I think the big difference in the last month or so is that the 49ers defense isn't showing out against some of these good offenses the way they were earlier in the season so you are seeing the 49ers look normal rather than several levels above the competition the way they had in the past. Purdy threw a good number of pretty terrible passes, not just routine incompletions, but pretty bad turnover-worthy passes that the Lions defenders just couldn't come down with. The big thing I do give Purdy credit for is his mental game. He never lets the bad stuff get to him. He might only have one quarter of good play during some games, but it is usually in clutch situations. I still don't put him anywhere close to a Top 10 QB overall, but I think you can win with him more than not, but by that same token I am not building a franchise around him. I think if Purdy has a similar 2.5 Quarters against the Chiefs as he did against the Packers & the Lions, then the Chiefs are going to put enough cushion on that game where a good 4th quarter isn't going to be enough. The Packers I sort of get because Jordan Love is super young and inexperienced, but the Lions absolutely folded today. As soon as the 49ers stopped tripping all over themselves and actually made it a competitive game, the Lions just froze under the spotlights. The Lions WRs dropped so many passes late in the game that would have been difference makers.
  9. Yeah I feel like there are certain bulletin board generic things that are fed to the play by play guys going into the game, like let's say a specific player who hasn't been mentioned the entire game makes a good or bad play and the commentators need to say something about them, they probably have a checklist sheet. That and, a lot of players are talked about based on outdated information. For any commentator to refer to Chase Young as a premier Dlineman in the NFL currently, hasn't been paying attention to his play this season. Hell, even 49ers fans around here have admitted for the last month or so they got fleeced.
  10. Despite the flaws I feel Kirk Cousins has in his game, let's face it, the 49ers went to a Superbowl with Jimmy G, and now back to back NFC Championships (potential for a SB win) with Brock Purdy. Let's not act like Cousins with that roster couldn't at least do the same thing. EDIT: I forgot to hit the reply button, this was obviously a reply to some of the Cousins to SF chatter a few pages back.
  11. I think 20 years ago GM's were often having to choose between a traditional pocket QB and an athlete that they felt they could coach into being a QB eventually, but that is no longer the case and if you are picking a QB as high as #2 the standard should no longer be having to choose one skill set over the other as QB's are coming out of college with the ability to do both things naturally. I don't watch enough college to even assess all the QB's but I keep hearing from a lot of people that there is Caleb....and then everyone else, and I know that there is no QB regardless of potential that comes out of college a finished NFL product, but I don't want to settle for a QB at #2 that the front office and coaches feel is a "project" If you are taking the leap at QB that high up in the draft it better be because you feel that QB has what it takes to lead a franchise in a season or two.
  12. The issue with McLaurin going forward (maybe not in 2024, but beyond that) is not whether he can be productive in the offense, but can he continue to be the featured #1 go-to WR and if not what do the numbers in his contract look like and/or if he makes to the end of the current contract how much are you willing to pay to keep him around for a different role versus how much he will be asking for. Me personally, I want Terry to retired a Commander even if it means a reduced role in another season or two. It's just that I don't know if the business-side of the sport will find a way to make it work with the direction the franchise is going.
  13. Overdraft fees were such BS to begin with, especially in a world that is so digital now. If you have multiple accounts, the idea of being charged $35 or more simply for an electronic transfer of funds is outrageous. I am glad Biden did this, however I wonder if Banks will eventually work on a way to re-word the fees somehow so that they aren't technically "over-draft fees" anymore. Who knows.
  14. I think the media overreacts way too soon to how young QB's look early in their careers. Jalen Hurts is a great example. He was on the verge of being ran out of town after his second season. Then puts up a great season last year and is suddenly the toast of the town and Eagles fans & the media act like they knew from the start he was going to be great, then we get to this season and the minute the roster around him isn't performing up to the level they were last season Hurts is back to looking like he did beforehand. You got Purdy with a championship roster around him and he looks very good for a lot of the games, but a few times this season when they ran into defenses that could take the easy stuff away Purdy struggled and made mistakes. I don't think it is abnormal for mid-tier QB's to put up great numbers and have random isolated great seasons, but the elite QB's do it every season despite the roster around them. They elevate the players around them. Someone showed Purdy's numbers compared to Jimmy G's while he was on those great 49ers teams and while Purdy's were a little better, they were virtually the same, yet no one would ever mistake Jimmy G for an elite QB. I think when it comes to drafting a QB, the odds that you will end up with an elite Top 3-5 QB are tough because there are a lot of elements & intangibles about a player beyond their talent that you can't predict ahead of time. First & foremost you want a QB you feel you can develop into one you can win with, and then the hope is that they continue to develop beyond that base level over their third, fourth (and beyond) seasons. I don't want to draft a QB with a savior complex in mind. Yes the QB is probably the most important position on the field, but I still am not drafting one with the hope that they single handedly drag the team across the finish line, because there are only a very small amount of QB's with that ability.
  15. Both winning QB's today had under 30 attempts passing. Howell might be good, he might be bad, but what we were doing wasn't a recipe for success.
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