I know it’s early to be thinking about this, but hey, it beats thinking about the Super Bowl . . .
This is a list of free agents that the 49ers currently have.
Tramaine Brock RFA CB
Ahmad Brooks UFA LB
Blake Costanzo UFA LB
Ted Ginn UFA WR
Dashon Goldson UFA S
Larry Grant UFA LB
Josh Morgan UFA WR
Moran Norris UFA RB
Chilo Rachal UFA OT
Carlos Rogers UFA CB
Reggie Smith UFA CB
Alex Smith UFA QB
Adam Snyder UFA OT
C.J. Spillman RFA S
Joe Staley UFA OT
Will Tukuafu RFA DT
I think we can safely say that Alex Smith gets signed. Something like 3 years/24 mill.
There are a lot of guys on that list that should be signed. There are also guys who can hit the road. Chilo Rachal and Moran Norris are obvious candidates.
Guys like Tukafu, Brock, Spillman, Grant, Reggie Smith, and Constanzo shouldn’t be too hard to bring back into the fold. They are solid backups, and should stay here.
The big names are Ahmad Brooks, Ted Ginn, Dashon Goldson, Joshua Morgan, Carlos Rogers, Adam Snyder, and Joe Staley.
Ahmad Brooks had a solid and very consistent year. I have no idea what he wants, but he was a fundamental piece of one of the toughest sets of LBs in the league. Try to keep him. Ginn? As we saw with KW recently, Ginn should stay, if only as a KR/PR. His opening game heroics set the tone for the great season special teams had all year. His WR skills are awful at best. Goldson? Well, I think the Niners make an offer, but I think he’ll move on. He’s wildly inconsistent, and lacks game awareness. He is a liability in coverage. I keep thinking they’ll move him to SS, but they have Whitner now, so there’s no room. So, he goes. What likely happens is Culliver moves to FS. Morgan was putting together a very good year til he got hurt in garbage time vs TB. If he comes back at full health, keep him. If only for continuity’s sake, as the WR corps is likey to turn over greatly. Rogers on the other hand, should be given a key to the city. He solidified what was a shakey deefensive backfield upon his arrival here. He may not be the fastest guy out there, but his savvy and skills kept him in position most every play. Snyder and Staley? Their health seemed to determin how well the line played. When either of these guys went down, the line play as a whole suffered greatly. So, sign them.
I’m not sure what the front office’s thinking is going forward, but I’d like to think they are of a mind to try and keep things pretty much the same as this recently concluded season.
San Francisco 49ers Forever 
Have great confidence Harbaugh/Baalke brain trust will get the players we need to strengthen the offense. Haven’t felt that way for 10 years or so. I’m thinking they get 2-3 WRs and also a couple RBs either through draft or FAs. Prolly need to replace Rachal and Norris, agree
Why was Brock thrown into the Giants game instead of Spencer when Brown got knocked out of the game? Was Spencer so far in the doghouse that he can’t come out under even emergency circumstances? Eli zeroed in on Brock and threw the TD on him that killed us…
Excellent point snarkk. Man what did Spencer do? Propose to Harbaugh’s youngest daughter? I don’t get it.
One thing is clear- we will NOT get 100% good decisions from any coaching staff including Harbaugh’s. Yes that killed us, so LOWER yer expectations people!
Phil, this is a little late, but you don’t have to invite me to your pity party for TO. You go ahead, I won’t be offended. BTW, don’t invite Jeff Garcia, either. He won’t RSVP. He and TO kinda had a dustup a few years back, something TO implied in Playboy about Jeff’s sexuality, or some small matter like that…
Ok fair enough snarkk.
Yeah I kinda remember that and I really wish Owens woulda STFU right then. It only got worse from there for everybody. Agree, that’s on TO
Sometimes I guess the answer is to STFU!
If I only get 5 of them, here are my 5 in order of importance:
1) Alex Smith
2) Staley
3) Brooks
4) Rogers
5) Morgan
(and C0stanzo, just cause I like him and he’d be super cheap)
No to Dashon G. No Ginn. Maybe Snyder. That’s it.
My top picks:
Brooks
Staley
Rogers
Snyder
Goldson
Morgan
Alex can stay or go, I wouldn’t care. Jason Campbell would be a decent alternative, probably better under Harbaugh tutelage. Upgrading the WR corps is absolutely necessary. Here’s the FA QBs — other than Brees, a pretty bland bunch IMO.
http://www.footballsfuture.com/freeagents.html
Yikes. Shit, they are better off with Smith that anyone else not named Brees. But you knew that.
Yeah, I don’t know what happened with Spenser. He vanished. Same with Braylon. Once in the doghouse, there was no way out. Some weird shit behind the scenes, I’d guess. But you can’t argue with the results.
Seely was supposed to get an interview with the Colts for the HC job, but that got nixed when the Colts today hired Ravens’ DC Pagano as their new HC. I find it interesting they didn’t interview Roman, since he coached Luck for two years at Stanfurd — that would seem a natural type of relationship to exploit. Could the Colts actually be thinking of NOT taking Luck? I can’t imagine it, at all…
the players at Stanford didn’t really dig Roman. I think he must be more of an X/O guy. Plus, Harbaugh was the one doing a lot of the work with Luck…..
I’d sign Alex for 2 years but I’d rather not go 3 if Kappy is doing what I hope he’s doing under Master Harbaugh’s teachings over the next year or two.
I’d go 2 years and option, max, on Alex. He just is not that good, but the alternatives at the moment are similar or not much better.
If this defense wasn’t damn Super Bowl worthy, the team is 9-7 or 8-8 and not in the playoffs, and everybody is still on Alex’ case…
Alex had no one to throw to all year (besides Davis). And he still had a very good, productive year. GIve him a couple of receivers who can separate AND catch the damn ball and you’ll see some more growth there……
Kawakami says to trade Kappy to move into top 15 of first round in draft and pick up Floyd from Notre Dame. Bold idea. I kinda like it.
Why would anybody give a top 15 pick for a 2nd rounder that hasn’t played? Unless you throw somebody else in with good value. I wouldn’t do that. I want to see Kaepernick play, he’s got some tools, and under Harbaugh, might become something. IMO it won’t take much for somebody to overtake Alex. Alex prospered this season because Harbaugh put him in a system straightjacket to limit his turnovers. That is clear. Get somebody else that can make plays without creating a ton of turnovers, and that guy takes over the job…
you give up your 15th pick, get Kappy and get our pick at the end of the first round……
No way I do that deal, unless Baalke and Harbaugh think they made a mistake taking Kaep…
I’m not saying I think it’s a slam dunk, just that it’s intriguing. And there’s nothing about Kappy that says “can’t miss”. If you think there’s a “Dez Bryant” (minus the insanity) in the middle of the first round, I’d probably trade Kappy to move up and sign Alex to a 3 or 4 year deal.
and when I said “Dez Bryant” that was just the first name that popped into my head of a young, current receiver who is an impact guy who got drafted in the 1 round. There are obviously other examples. Good luck getting that guy’s head straightened on right, though……
regardless of what you think about this dude, if you listen to this post game speech by Ray Lewis 3 or 4 times you can’t help but want to follow this born leader on the football field……
Hard to get past the murder, though . . .
I’ll tell you what happened to Spencer…He was not added to the playoff roster fot both the Saints and Giants game.So tough to help out when your not suited up.So yeah you can add him to the list Chuck for one who won’t be back.
And Norris ,Rachal, and im sayin Ginn won’t be back,they will either go FA sigining or draft a WR/ return guy.
Snarrk is back trashing Smith- do you get bile injections? Now there the is one who should paired
with Death Threat..
Alright here’s some of my choices in the draft at WR…
Probably knowing we won’t move up which will elimnate Blackmon…Jeffrey..Floyd …i am holding hope on these guys being around. And I want Size and strength which is great becausethis draft is DEEP at WR
Really like Dwight Jones 6’3 226 North Carolina Dude’s a Stud
Ruben Randle 6’4 207 LSU
Mohamed Sanu 6’2 215 Rutgers
Marvin McNutt 6’3 216 Iowa
Tommy Streeter 6’5 215 Miami
Stephen Hill 6’4 206 Georgia Tech
Nick Toon 6’3 217 Wisconsin
Jordan White 6’0 215 Western Michgan sleeper pick Brandon Bostick 6’4 240 Sleeper pick projects to be a TE in pros
Thomas Mayo sleeper pick
Justin Criner 6’2 220 Arizona
Jarrett Boykin 6’2 215 VT
Greg Childs 6’3 217 Arkansas
Devier Posey 6’2 209 Ohio St
Rashaad Carter 6’2 210
Jeff Fuller 6’4 217 Texas AM
Chris Owusu 6’2 201 Stanford…Should pass on to many concussions already, but being a Stanford guy Harbaugh might take a flyer last round or FA
Now some smaller Shremp WR/KR/PR Guys…..
Kendall Wright 5’10 190 Baylor speed to burn/team him up with Kendall Hunter on kickoffs,Wow the Amazing Kendalls burning up the field.
Jarius Wright 5’9 176 Arkansas or fuck it draft both Kendall and Jarius for kickoffs and have the Wright Stuff.
Joe Adams 5’11 185 Arkansas
Ryan Broyles 5’11 185 Oklahoma
Tim Benford 5’11 Tennesee
Ty H
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Kendall Wright 5’10 190 Baylor speed to burn
Jarius
One of my sleeper picks Brian Quick 6’4 222 App St
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Yeah, if any of those bigger guys can motor then give them a look. Not that 40 times are the be-all end-all, but the Niners need someone who can consistently stretch a defense. The only one doing that last season was VD. Ginn kept losing balls in the lights and letting them clank off his flippers.
Jarius Wright, for example, isn’t big, but he’s blazingly fast, he ran a 4.27 40 as a junior, and has great hands. I’d take a shot in the 4th.
Randle’s a possible 2nd round pick. Dude has a big upside. Sanu likely is gone. He’ll go in the 1st round. The rest i haven’t really heard of. Except for Jeff Fuller from Texas A & M. His dad of course is SS Jeff Fuller . . .
Here’s an old article about Jeff Fuller now, and it makes you understand why the players loved Eddie D.
http://tinyurl.com/824bdyd
Niners could easily dump both Rachal and Snyder if they could land FA Guard Carl Nicks.The dude is awesome at both run blocking and pass protection,had only 2 penaltys called against him all year,only 27 as well plenty of all pro years ahead.
Snyder is pretty versatile. He won’t cost too much. Rachal’s days are numbered.
Chuck…..As Oddball would say What’s with the negative ways Moriraty. Carl Nicks is All PRO best Guard in the league.He’s a FA which the Saints probably can’t sign cause they have to slap the franchise tag on Brees.He is a local guy born in the City.He might want come home with alittle nudge ftom his old teammate Goodwin .Many experts are saying he’s leaving.
I think Sanu is the only WR remotely considered to be a can’t-miss 1st round WR. He won’t last, so he’s out.
After that, it’s all a crap-shoot.
Odds to win the 2013 Super Bowl — Vegas Hilton Sportsbook:
Green Bay Packers 5/1
New Orleans Saints 6/1
New England Patriots 8/1
Pittsburgh Steelers 12/1
Philadelphia Eagles 12/1
Baltimore Ravens 12/1
Houston Texans 15/1
San Francisco 49ers 20/1
New York Giants 20/1
San Diego Chargers 15/1
Dallas Cowboys 20/1
New York Jets 20/1
Atlanta Falcons 20/1
Detroit Lions 20/1
Snarkk….Who’s smoking the crack pipe in Vegas.Jesus the fuckin Niners still get NO RESPECT LIKE RODNEY DANGERFIELD.And how in Hell can the Eagles and Texans be ahead of us? Fuck why not put the Broncos,Rams,Vikings ,Colts ahead of else as well.
All those odds suck. Future bets are stupid. But looking at this, of what’s offered, I’d probably wager some dough on Houston. QB comes back, excellent D, they could do some major damage next year. So could the Niners at 20-1 if they bring most of their FA’s back and get a receiver or 2. But make no mistake about it, next year is gonna be a grind. Take a look at our schedule. 13-3 will be almost impossible…….
Totally agree. 11-5 would be great, more like 10-6 looks doable, even if everything pretty much stays the same on defense, and we get some WRs in here. 6-2 at home, 4-4 on the road. Seattle, Ariz and Rams should all improve. The West will not be a cakewalk like this past season…
10-6 still wins the west.
Wow, hard to understand what’s going on in Indy. One debacle of a season, and Jim Irsay’s gutting the front office, and Peyton is likely gone as well.
Rewind one year ago and you look at the Niners and Colts and think, hmmmmmm, which one would be one play from a Super Bowl entry?
No way would I have expected the fortunes of these teams to change so dramatically.
So true Chuck…..But once they.lost Peyton their season was over.Did anybody really.think Painter could.do shit.Not me.
Well, I didn’t think they’d tank this hard.
I think the Colts were smart. They basically tanked the season after Manning got hurt. I don’t think any team accidentally plays that badly after losing just one guy, albeit a key guy. Result? They get Luck(y). They will build a whole new team around this dude for the next dozen years, just like they did around Manning. Brilliant…
Shit, you never know with Irsay. he’s a crazy mofo at times.
He could Jerry Jones into a clusterfuck debacle of epic proportions. They still are an old defense, they’ve got shakey WRs, no run game to speak of, and a whole new front office.
No intelligent football person thinks tanking the season for a draft pick, any pick, is a good idea. Besides, if that was the plan, you don’t nearly blow it by winning 2 games..
Brilliant?? well not if they don’t develope a defense. Manning was one of a kind, he had very talented recievers. the Colts D was there weakness and it showed this year. With out Manning they were worse than awful!!
Tanking? I don’t think so at least not on purpose. No way…..not in football.
Well looking at those odds for 2013, I want to say that I heard/read somewhere that before the season started the NY G were 100/1 odds to win the SB. so all those NY fans that jumped on that could be hitting big pay day soon!!, Early odds are a crap shoot at best. I wonder what Indy’s odds were of winning the SB at the end of 2010??
They were at 9.5 in wins. That’s all I know.
Your dog looks ready for a treat. Chomp!
Aldon Smith busted in Miami Beach for DUI.
Nobody hurt. I’ll start to worry if he does it again…
Yeah. Weird, it says he was arrested Fri night but he was booked at 9:32 am Sat. What’s that all about? If he was arrested Fri night (presumably before midnight) what took so long to get him booked into jail?
“Aldon Smith was observed swerving in and out of lanes on the MacArthur Causeway in Miami Beach before being pulled over at 4:33 a.m. Saturday, a police spokesman said Sunday. Smith, the 49ers’ rookie defensive end, was arrested and spent 3 ½ hours in a Miami-Dade County correctional facility before posting a $1,000 bond and being released.”
-from Barrow’s blog
I thought Joe Staley is signed through 2017? Did I miss something?
Thought so too. Why do you ask?
I haven’t had a damn thing to drink since our loss last Sunday night. Too depressed. The Niners are trying to slowly kill me by turning me sober again.
Judging from all the comments Berger posted the other day on Skeeb’s blog he hasn’t gone that way. Au contraire mes amis dude has hosted a drinking and music fest over there. You should ask him how he can be happy, what’s da secret?
Still enjoying the after-glow of the season over here. No worries
Looking at the final NFC West standings, heck even my call of 9-7 woulda won the Div this year. Assuming similar few losses against Rams, Cards, ‘Hawks…so gotta agree 10-6 prolly do it next year. I’ll make that call right now: Niners 10-6 next year. Yeah snarkk it’s gonna be tougher in 2012 but we’re going to have a better offense too.
Listened to the NFC title game again- really for the first time since the audio and video sucked over here after halftime. Our defense was awesome in that game as were special teams “except for” returning punts. Lowell Cohn (not Chuck!) makes the point that KW shoulda been out of the game as a punt returner after he had to dive for a punt in 3rd quarter (?). “Game was too big for him” sez LOL. Who to put in? Culliver or Reggie Smith both have experience at the position. LOL sez the game was too big for Harbaugh as he kept KW in and this is because JH is a rookie coach and he did not manage the game well in those respects. Maybe true, prolly:
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20120128/SPORTS/120129451/1010/SPORTS?p=all&tc=pgall&tc=ar
Are the Niner coaches leading the NFC in the Pro Bowl?
I haven’t even been paying attention. Watch a meaningless exhibition with no hitting or the red carpet at the SAG Awards? I bet Diane Lane looks good in Versace.
I’ve seen enough. INT then lateral, lateral and give the ball back.
What a joke. Back to the red carpet.
Grab some thirsty, meat!
Yeah the Pro Bowl …… pure joke. They may as well have played with flags.
Yeah, I watched about 10 minutes, and had to laugh. I mean all the players were. The pass rushers were pretty much standing there. On the extra points it looked like the D lines were doing the wave.
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I went to the pro bowl in 1998, and at least they TRIED. That one had the only ejections in pro bowl history (Niner Steve Grogan and Chief Derrick Thomas). Funny, I saw a hockey all star game about 15 years ago, and it was similar. all offesne no defense. No hitting. I remember Joe Gastineau trying to take Montana’s head off in one.
Ha ha, the pro Bowl really?? Baseball is the only sport that has a true all star game. And that is because the best pitchers “Want” to strike out the best hitters. and the Hitters “Want” to get a hit off the best pitchers. Where as Football, Basketball, and Hockey there is too much potential to get hurt if a player goes all out, career ending type injury!! So it is usually a total offensive blow out! I mean come on the Basketball all star game is like 145-135 or some such non-sense.
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