Yikes. This has all been plastered all over the web-o-spheres, but really, how stupid is Chris Culliver? Here’s a guy who, on the verge of the biggest game of his young career, spouts anti-gay remarks to a Howard Stern employee on tape. Ooops. He follows that with a supremely shitty game.
The ice was thin at that point, but he did the necessary percerption-is-reality speech and vowed to spend a month hanging out at the Stud to immerse himself in the gay community and maybe figure out how to cover a tight end coming out of the backfield. Wink wink.
On his way back to respectability, he managed to blow his knee out early last training camp, and thus was lost for the season. He kept his nose clean and was on his way back to his under-the-radar status, and inheriting a starting spot at CB, what with Tarell Brown scooting across the Bay Bridge for Oaktown, and Carlos Rogers being given his outright release. However, last Friday morning, he managed to hit a bicyclist on Seventh Ave in San Hozay, and proceeded to flee the scene. In his attempted flee he clipped another car and was eventually cornered by a concerned citizen who witnessed the hit-and-run. For his concern, the citizen was then threatened to get the shit beat out of him by our (anti) hero with a pair of brass knuckles if he didn’t get out of his way. The cops arrived, and I guess Chris figured it was time to cut his losses, as you don’t bring brass knuckles to a gun fight.
Aside the societal ramifications of football players who think they are somehow bigger than the world they live in, Culliver isn’t a good enough corner to recieve the rope that a guy like Aldon Smith got (hey Aldon! Check out MY gun collection!!). So, he’s likey on a one-way ticket to Pac-Man Jonestown. A couple years spent in purgatory (with a 3 month stint in the Santa Rita Correctional Facility), and some serious image rehab. More often than not, these guys do mend their ways, at least perceptually (which is all that matters to Goodie Goodell), but other times you end up like Art Schichter. Doin’ hard time after running a gambling ring in the early 80s, and now a ticket-selling scam where he pocketed millions to gamble with.
Forty Niners Forever 
Speaking of cornerbacks, if we sign either Nnamdi, Bailey, or (urk) Rogers, you will see a lot of BLEEPs. I’d be MUCH happier with a rookie back there.
My readers and I still demand justice, and we’re all going on strike until I’m the POTD. No exceptions. I’ll once again, for the five thousandth time, bring this blog to its knees.
My faithful readers have been sending me messages of support. I will not go quietly into the night….
Culliver is an idiot. But how many idiots are in the NFL, biding their time before they present themselves on the national stage as Grade A-1 Class idiots?
I look at guys like Culliver like I do guys who take steroids and get busted in MLB. If you’re dumb enough to not be able to beat a steroid test then I don’t want you on the team anyway.
Next….
Man Cully is his own worst enemy. Making it much harder on himself than needed. Success isn’t good enough? Okay try miserable failure son.
I bet he has little support around himself out here on W Coast.
Kenny Britt to Rams:
http://tinyurl.com/p99c3zg
Press coverage from Chris Cook coming up
Somehow Culliver forgot to notice the CB depth coming out in the Draft in May.
Stupid is as stupid does I guess……
Why overpay in FA when kids from College have dreams to make it in the Pros?
And….they come at bargain rates.
Sniff……so stupid….so young….so stupid….BLEEP!
Over turning umpire/referee calls already happening in beesball. We’re dying for this in the NFL:
http://www.myfoxny.com/story/25121087/umps-call-overturned-1st-time-by-expanded-replay
Yeah, NJ. That’s my feeling with DSJ as opposed to a rook. Now CB as well. They better not go with Bailey or Rogers.
Rogers signed w/Oakland yesterday = the place 9ers go to finish up
Chuck, there’s absolutely no reason to gamble with DJax in the locker room IMO.
Contract demands not withstanding, he’s never been known for his work ethic or team first attributes.
Like Revis, he’s all about Pay Me.
I believe Baalke knows the game well enough to know, that you don’t overpay for guys with baggage.
Kenny Britt? One year, $1.4 is chicken feed. But he brings some baggage with with him.
Reunited with Jeff Fisher.
Might be a comfort zone there?
I think Fisher Drafted him in TN?
My people will not be placated!!!!!
Yeah, NJ. If they were desperate, they woulda gone after Britt. DSJ is Britt x 10.
Britt with Anthony Davis around might have been worth the 1year gamble IMO Chuck.
Both are NJ guys/Rutgers Grads.
Britt definitely has some baggage in tow but, it looks like he and Jeff Fisher are going to rekindle their past relationship in St Louie now.
Kenny is a beast, when he wants to be.
Definitely need some cover guys facing them. They got speed at WR.
Well, that or a pass rush . . .
We’ll get our share of talent next month.
Plenty of options.
A pass rush is always the answer to beating a passing game.
Many of these DBs coming out tackle well too, which is something Carlos wasn’t exactly stellar at.
Even the little guy from TCU, Jason Verrett does a nice job of getting guys on the ground.
I could easliy see Baalke taking a guy like Stanley Jean-Baptiste and converting him to S.
Another kid, Dontae Johnson from NC St could go that route too.
Many of these taller CBs don’t run extremely well but, they’re fast enough to consider in our Secondary system I think.
Get speed where you need it, Slot CB for example and, maybe, take a chance with a project guy or 2 later in the Draft.
Maybe consider CB Kendall James from Maine in that scenario?
Lots of options this year.
If we could land a faster S, like Calvin Pryor or Deone Bucannon, along with a fast CB like Verrett or Fuller, we’d be sitting pretty.
Pryor would involve dealing up for in RD1 however.
Deone could be there in RD2, maybe 3.
Fuller is a guy I’d like to have an option for at Pick 30.
Both Fuller and Bucannon posted 4.4s, Pryor 4.58 and Verrett a 4.38.
Good mix of options, both at the top of the Draft and, likely throughout.
Then there’s the WR needs.
Baalke gets paid to predict where these guys should get slotted and, there’s always other GMs looking to make moves to screw those plans up.
Quite the shell game.
Free Spitblood from Chuck’s oppression! The people have spoken!
49ers’ offensive coordinator accepts college head coaching job
If only
http://tinyurl.com/p3lbtu5
Now we know why he can’t buy a HC job. Alex D. Smith Jr. High School coach would be a scar on anyone’s resume.
Correct
But I think Roman has presented enough of a body of work (by not winning the big one 2X) that he doesn’t “need” the HS on his resume. Tho Alex improved alot under Har/man…
As for me I don’t give a damn about the locker room, just the play on the field. Just win baby! Oops…. wrong team.
Nice, Phil. Almost! Funny thing is the ‘author’ of the story.
Rashaun Woods. EVERY comment is disappointed that it isn’t real.
Sad, but true.
Can the Niners give any more of their sloppy seconds to the Raiduhs? Can we give them Roman to be their new OC?…
Donald Trump approached about party ownership in the Bills. Pigs get fat, if you bring Trump, you all get slaughtered. The NFL is becoming a joke, right before our very eyes.
More black helicopters for those who realize black helicopters are circling our homes now on a daily basis.
http://www.amishrakefight.org/gfy/
Paranoid anyone?
April 1st makes me paranoid. Never know who’s out to getcha.
There’s talk of Ahmad Dixon Baylor safety being a 2nd day steal ion the draft.
Big hitter, the Lama . . .
Jackson signed with the Skins.
Looks like some of us are up late 12th 😀
You work graveyard right?
I do -Good thing I follow a West Coast team huh?
Well our pursuit wasn’t exactly full press desperate like Skins I guess = throwing gobs of money around. We’ll just have to find a passing/return game w/o DSJ
I agree Phil –
I personally didn’t think he’d take to the team approach we foster in SF –
He’s too much of risk IMO –
At a bargain price I’d have entertained the risk but…..I won’t lose any sleep over him.
Gimme a guy that loves to play for the Ring, not the Contract.
A deal similar to that which Kenny Britt did would have worked for me.
If RG III continues to get pummeled as he has and balls don’t go DJax’s way, he’ll end up as the 2nd coming of Albert Haynesworth in DC.
PFT reporting DJax will sign in DC today –
I hear the gangs in DC are pretty well represented – He should feel right at home.
Adam Schefter reporting the 49ers were interested, but guarded. I just need one guy in the 49ers organization to tell me the truth. I have trust issues.
When can you really trust the media anyway?
They’re all whores for a story.
Sure we might have been interested but, not at the prices he’s looking for.
As you suggested, Baalke looks for bargains.
DJax doesn’t roll that way.
Awwww. Looking for forthrightness from an NFL team is like looking for integrity from Congress.
Not gonna happen . . .
Wow. DSJ got $8 mill a year? Might as well start calling Danny Snyder Jerry Jones Jr. Trade away all your draft picks for a QB and then leave him dangling while he gets beaten to a pulp. Forgo getting O line help, yadda yadda yadda.
How to buy your way into the cellar in 5 easy steps.
How much you think Crabs will ask for?
He’s going to want between $9 and $11 mill I think. Somewhere like Vincent Jackson and his 5/$55 mill deal.
I figure about the same too $10-12 mil, I don’t think he gets a contract from the Niners at that money though.
Right now Crabtree’s only worth 8 million a year, and I don’t think many teams with a qb would pay him more. A team without a qb might but hopefully Crabtree won’t go to a bottom dwelling team again. If Crabtree wants more than 8 million per year, he’s going to need to have a huge 2014 season. It could workout that way for him. Frank Gore’s old. Our line is still intact. We have compliments in Boldin, Patten, Vernon, Baldwin and McDonald Kaep’s heard the criticism and is entering into his second full year as qb. Could be a great year for Crabtree. He could be a nice fantasy football sleeper.
I think he is worth 8 mil too but figure he asks for 10-12.
You can make an argument Crabtree’s worth less than 8 million per year. He hasn’t been nearly as productive as DeShaun Jackson. His agents’ counter argument would be injury, Alex Smith, run-first and Mike Singletary. If both sides are fair, however, they’ll look at Crabtree’s numbers only with Kaepernick and decide value. If Crabtree’s agent then wants to claim the 49er run too much, that may fall on deaf ears because both Seattle and the 49ers, who’ve obviously represented the NFC in the Super Bowl the last two years, have the same successful run to pass ratio. That ratio would be hard to attack in a negotiation.
I think Crabtree’s actual value is less than DeShaun’s. DeShaun was due 10 this year and because the Eagles did him dirty releasing him now instead of at the beginning of the free agent period, DeShaun lost two million. It’s not like DeShaun got to test the open market when all the money was available. So DeShaun’s probably worth 9 million a year. Crabtree isn’t DeShaun Jackson. Crabtree’s making 4-5 right now. I think he’d be happy making 8 per year, for four years. I don’t think Crabtree is Vincent Jackson at all. Vincent was an awesome deep threat with Phillip Rivers. Then Jackson held out in a battle with AJ Smith for 10 games. When he finally left, the Bucs knew it was going to require big money to sign Vincent and because the Bucs were basically a gutted team, they had the coin.
The question with Crabtree is whether or not he’ll value playing with Kaep. Vincent Jackson didn’t value playing with Phillip Rivers, or maybe he did but the negotiation with AJ Smith got so fucked Jackson didn’t want to stay. Jackson’s still producing in Tampa with bad qbs, but Tampa and Jackson aren’t going anywhere. Crabtree’s no Jackson (either of them). If Crabtree went to the Bucs three years ago he couldn’t produce with Freeman and that pasty tall bastard Schiano loved.
There’s also the Mike Wallace scenario that’s to be avoided. If you sign a big deal with crappy qb talent, they either forget about you or they want to renegotiate, which is happening with Wallace. So if Crabtree goes somewhere for the money, Crabtree better get a large portion of that money guaranteed throughout the course of the contract, and no $250,000 guaranteed to protect the year he’s scheduled to make the most money, like DeShaun Jackson did. (Jackson’s agent was a fool). If Crabtree can’t find guaranteed money throughout the length of the contract with a crappy team, and enough guaranteed to prevent being cut, I think Crabtree will re-sign in SF for 4 years, 8 million a year, with 20 million guaranteed. The question, in my mind, is whether or not Crabtree will actually find a team with a lot of cap space, no qb, who will pay him guaranteed money. I don’t think he will…. because Crabtree isn’t as good as Vincent or DeShaun, and he’s not as easy to sell as Mike Wallace.
I think next year Aldon gets the franchise and I could see Crabtree getting the transition tag from the 49ers with nobody offering Crabtree anything…. or teams offering and the 49ers matching.
Exactly. He’s not as far off the mark as Goldie Goldson was, but he’s not going to get $11 mill from Jed. $9 mill tops, I’d think. 5/$45 with a $20 mill guarantee?
I love how the entire NFL is spinning the Eagles dumped Jackson because of gang ties. BS. They dumped Jackson because he was due 10 million plus and Kelly thought he could do more with the money else where. Jackson’s never been convicted of anything. But now Adam Schefter is saying Jackson has a chance to clear up his past in Washington. Bullshit. He’s not a criminal. Jackson’s agent didn’t protect Jackson’s biggest year in his contract with enough guaranteed money. $250,000 guaranteed doesn’t protect 10 plus million. They dumped him and Eagles fans have a right to be pissed. But the slave owners just keep beating their slaves with PR.
Yeah, the timing of the story was way too convenient. Yeah, they didn’t want to pay and wanted an out with the fans. Not that this is working very well.
Micheal Lewis and high frequency traders? It’s all black helicopters these days, Chuck. When’s the middle class going to rise up (not that DeShaun is middle class)? The revolution is starting soon.
Regulation? We don’t need no stinking regulation. Let them regulate themselves. It’s not like they took advantage of the situation before. Oh yeah.
I’ve been saying that for 8 years now. If the haves keep tilting the game in their favor, it’ll be Bastille day all over again. I think it’ll be close to 2020 if things go as they are.
20 years? The rich have figured out a way to keep riots down. They can label you a terrorist and arrest you without observing normal rights and protocol. The new terrorist laws were enacted around the time of the occupy movement. They still apply today. Funny thing is that President Obama, that spineless coward of a president of ours, haven’t even issued a statement about high frequency trading or anything about the integrity of our market. Know why? Because Wall Street is propping up his presidency. They can hold his ass hostage. Right now hedge fund managers and investment bankers are circling the white house in black helicopters warning Obama to shut up until this all blows over.
Flash Boys, Flash Boys.
Whatcha gonna do?
When the G-Boys come gunnin’ for you?
Patriot Act, NSA, someday gonna take it all you have away.
Politics is a terrorist act.