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.
Forty Niners Forever 
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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