Crabtree is participating in practice! Well, not really. It’s non-contact OTAs! Uh, well, it’s not even that. It’s voluntary workouts with strength and conditioning coaches. Huzzah! Last year at Camp Alex, Michael Crabtree tried some new shoes on. Apparently that was an epic fail for him as it wiped out yet another preseason of activity for him. Of course Crabs’ take on it was to ignore his QB, and to dismiss anything resembling getting on the same page with Alex Smith. He had a decent enough year, but there were many many times where they weren’t in synch and didn’t connect. Let’s hope he can make it through a training camp w/o getting messed up. Again.
Larry Grant showed up at headquarters ready to sign his tender. He’s on board and ready to go. Dashon Goldson however, hasn’t signed his franchise tender, and the two sides are apparently in negotiation. I haven’t heard anything on either side of the deal, but seeing as how the Alex Smith negotiations went, I can’t think that Dashon is going to be very happy. I could care less. Let him walk after this year.
Frankly, I think the Niners wouldn’t skip a beat without him. His supposed greatness had a lot to do with Carlos Rogers and Aldon Smith being here rather than anything else on his part. Yes, he had a bunch of picks. M<ainly due to the fact that Rogers was much better in coverage than Spencer was, and the pass rush forced many more errant passes than previously. Plus, he broke up two sure interceptions in the NFC Championship game that could have easily turned the tide in a game that the niners should have won anyway. One was a bang-bang play, but the second one was due to his anawareness of his surroundings. Instead of Brock getting the pick, Goldson leveled him, broke up the pick, and knopcked him out of the game. The play was in front of him. He should have let the play develop instead of going for the highlight-reel hit.
The easy solution would be to move Culliver to safety, and put Cox in his spot. Holcomb is getting good press at CB for his comeback from injury, and we still have the draft to get a guy like Harrison Smith to strengthen the defensive backfield. So, I don’t see the Goldson situation resolving itself very quickly. I also don’t see the Niners budging much from whatever their number is.
San Francisco 49ers Forever 
Well, since I’m here by myself . . . heres’s the schedule:
at GB
DET
at MIN
at NYJ
BUF
NYG
SEA
at AZ
bye
STL
CHI
at NO
at STL
MIA
at NE
at SEA
AZ
BLEEP!
Where’d evberyone go?
Shit. Now I know how Spitblood feels.
BLEEP again!
Haha Chuck. He’s reduced to using his ‘real name’ ‘Spitblood’ on Inside da 49ers (Grant’s Santa Rosa PD 9er blog) to deliver his sermons…
Be wery, wery quiet… we’re hunting wabbit.
Grumpy, 39 year old crazy guy….yahhah
A week from today and we will know the route the Niners are going to take. Starting Monday I will start looking seriously at the mock drafts that are out there. Wish I had saved the early ones I looked at to see if changes were made.
Irish sure there were many changes since we all be pulling this outta our…butts
Here’s how I stack the board so far, weighted for our needs and style of football:
Guys we have no real chance at, or don’t want anyway:
1. Luck (QB)
2. Griffin (QB)
3. Richardson (RB)
4. Claiborne (CB)
5. Kalil (T)- overvalued
6. DeCastro (G)
7. Upshaw (DE)
8. Blackmon (WR)- overvalued
9. Floyd (WR)- overvalued, very risky.
10. Cox (DT)
11. Gilmore (CB)
12. Coples (DE)
13. Barron (S)
14. Glenn (C-G)- overvalued
15. Reiff (T)
16. Brockers (DT)- overvalued
17. Tannehill (QB) – overvalued, risky.
18. Ingram (DE)
19. Kuechly (LB)
20. Still (DE)
Guys who might fall to 30
21. Poe (NT)- overvalued, project.
22. Worthy (DT)
23. Kirkpatrick (CB)- risky, high chance of a bust.
24. Adams (OT)
25. Fleener (TE-WR)- good pick at 30, not so much at 21 or 22.
26. Randle (WR)
27. Wright (WR)
28. Silatolu (G)
29. Hill (WR)
30. McClellan (OLB)
31. Smith (S)
32. Jeffery (WR)- risky, depends on attitude. Boom or bust pick.
33. Mercilus (OLB)
34. Martin (OT)
35. Jones (OLB)
36. Hightower (ILB) – not a need here.
37. Sanu (WR) – risky, depending on true 40 time. Boom or bust.
38. Martin (RB)
39. Perry (DE) – not a good fit in SF.
40. Branch (OLB)
I like Crick or Criner in round two. Ladarius Green in 3 if we don’t take Fleener, or Turbin. Jarius Wright or Jonathan Massaquoi in 4. 5 through 7, trade for future picks.
NICE Grump, dang
Fleener and H. Smith top my wish list. We can’t have enough Smiths on the team . . .
The buzz is that Sanu ran a 4.41 40 on his pro day. After his disaster at the Combine, where he ran a quarter-second slower than that, he was out fo all first round conversations… now he might be back in. Just depends if that time is reliable.
I still wouldn’t be shocked by an OLB or D-lineman either.
I thought I’d never see the day, but the Niners are just minutes away from putting a shovel into the ground and beginning to dig hole that will, in a few years, be the site of a brand-stinking-new stadium for your San Francisco Forty Niners.
All I can say is…it’s about goddamn time.
Phil, I was talking about the on line Mock drafts to see what the Pro’s picked for the Niners 4 months ago vs now
Hit and miss fer them too though
Irish, Walterfootball has had Fleener on our radar for about 4 months. He’s been reading my blog . . .
I repeat: NO Whitey Fleener. Jesus H. Christ that would be a horrendous pick.
He might be better than any of the WRs who are likely to left. Or the guards, for that matter, unless Silatolu falls to us. I’m actually suspecting we might go defense with the first pick. Then receivers and offensive help after that.
I’d like an OLB or CB myself with our first pick. As of *now* my top choice would be Mercilus from Ill. The kid just makes plays. But I need to do more research. Been pretty neglect in doing my draft homework this year.
Yeah, who needs an athletic 6’6″ TE? Someone likely takes him though.
I could see safety given the Goldson situation.
If you haven’t noticed, Dennis, the Niners red zone offense could use something like a big target down by the goal line. Say a 6’6″ TE. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
So what? Fleener would just be a 6’6″ TE standing in the end zone when Alex rolled right and threw the ball OB again.
*If* we draft Fleener, he is likely to be here long after Alex is gone…
Cappy can throw him the ball, skippy.
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