Well, the once overabundant amount of running backs has been waylaid by the injury bug in 3 short days. First, Marcus Lattimore was placed on the PUP list last Wednesday, due to a combination of his previous knee injury, and a more recent hamstring injury. Then on Thursday, Kendal (endzone) Hunter blew his knee out in a non-contact drill. Then of course, on Friday, LaMichael James, a guy who would have likely gotten more looks with the other injuries, turned his good fortune into a dislocated elbow, and he’ll be out for a month.
Other than that, C Marcus Martin, Bruce Ellington, OLB Aaron Lynch, and DL Kaleb Ramsey were also PUPed. Martin and Ellington both suffered minor ankle injuries, and they should be back pretty quickly. No idea ’bout the other guys. I really want Ellington on the field as much as possible.
Anyhow, who among you think this is a bit of a blessing in disguise? Sure, Gore looks to be the starter, and Hyde the backup, that was pretty much set in stone. But Hunter was a good change of pace guy, but not as elusive as LMJ, but that’s a different can of worms. Either way, the lack of depth could force the coaching staff to look to the passing game more than they might have. Having a healthy corps of WRs certainly is a change from previous years when we had scrubs and decoys.. This could be looked at as the next step in the growth of Colin Kaepernick as quarterback as well. Give him more options to evaluate, and have him read the field more rather than the one-read-and-run that was apparently the usual play design.
I’m not too concerned with these injuries, other than Hunter. For his limited role he brought a different skillset than Gore. Either that, or we have a Jewell in the rough . . .
Forty Niners Forever 
In case yer wondering, 4 bbl, 4 speed, dual exhaust.
Contrary to popular sentiment, it wasn’t the engine size. That was usually a 400 or 455.
Damn Chuck you’re a smart one.
After watching the recent interview with Jed York, I don’t think Jim Harbaugh will be coaching the 49ers in 2016. I think Jed York fears the other owners in the league and doesn’t want to break NFL head coaching comparables or precedent because then other owner will have to pay their coaches more as well. And I think Harbaugh wants to be the highest paid head coach in the NFL.
IF Harbaugh wins a Super Bowl, . . .
Unca –
Head coaches have no franchise tag and the salary cap does not apply to coaches so a ring means nothing…. although that’s what Jed York is selling and apparently you’re dumb enough to believe. If Jed York is stupid enough to let Harbaugh hit the open market – which it appears York is – then Harbaugh will become the highest paid coach in the NFL because some team will pay him that to rebuild their organization. And it won’t be an owner like Jerry Jones. It’ll be a respected owner like Arthur Blank (sp?) who can stand up to the rest of the owners and say, “I’m taking a shot and paying him more than what the rest of your believe is fair market because I believe he’s the best head coach to come available in decades.” It’ll take a respected owner to do this. And trust me, if Jim hits the open market, there will be a ton of interested from respected owner not named Jerry Jones. Jed York is an idiot for not giving Harbaugh what Harbaugh wants right now. If I was Jim Harbaugh, I’d tax Jed York (giving him the opposite of a hometown discount) in my next negotiation. Jed York doesn’t realize how important Jim Harbaugh is to Jed York’s reputation. Remember how hated Jed York was during the Alex Smith and Mike Singletary years? I do. Those good times are right around the corner.
I don’t think Jim Harbaugh will be the coach here in 2016. And I think he’ll win a Super Bowl somewhere else.
I’m saying here. If Harbaugh wins the SB in the next couple years, he’ll want $12 mill per. Jed will have to knuckle under or lose the fans.
If Harbaugh falls short, sure someone else will pay him. Jed won’t. I’ve been saying that for most of this year, since the trade to Cleveland came up.
This is why I think there’s all this talk of revamping the offense. Because Harbs is on a short leash now. He has to make it all the way rather than just be relevant. He raised the bar, now he has to clear it.
If Jed York gets stuck in your way of thinking, we’ll lose Harbaugh and say hello to 6-10 seasons with Jim Tomsula. The Super Bowl means nothing regarding Harbaugh’s contract because if Harbaugh hits the open market he’ll be the highest paid coach in the league regardless if he owns a ring. Other coaches — respected coaches — would be happy to pay him top dollar.
It ain’t my way of thinking. It’s Jed’s. If Harbaugh falls short, say, both of these next 2 seasons, what then? Harbaugh is going to want a mega deal. I don’t think Jed pays it seeing as they’ve fallen short 5 seasons in a row.
Maybe he will. I don’t know. But based on the contracts they’ve decided to re-up, and ones they haven’t (player-wise), it sure seems to me they won’t back the truck up for him.
Besides, you are saying he won’t be here as well, so I don’t get how your point is different than mine. My point is the ring means EVERYTHING to Jed. He’s not satisfied with being relevant. He wants the ring. Whether that means giving Harbaugh the money should he fall short these next 2 season is the issue here.
If he wins it all, case closed. If not, well, that’s where things get interesting.
“I don’t think Jim Harbaugh will be the coach here in 2016. ”
Harbaugh won’t be the coach here in 2015.
” And I think he’ll win a Super Bowl somewhere else.”
There goes two years of sobriety down the drain. Glad to have ya back as a full-fledged member on the drinking team once again.
Annnd more good news . . .
Per Bleacher Report, Michael Crabtree is out 1-2 weeks with an undisclosed injury.
He’s allergic to training camp is my best bet.
Spitty, your point that Jed doesn’t want to rock the boat is ludicrous. Stupid even for you.
If Harbaugh wins the SB, it won’t matter. $11 mill? Sure. No one would blink. Including the owners.
What is Carroll getting? Well, it hasn’t been released how much his extension got him. He’s got 3 years on his new contract though. I’d figure between $27 and $30 mill.
Unca – Answer me this hypothetical question if you would be so kind. You make a 10 million dollars per year and your dog needs a $50,000 surgery to live another five or so years. You think $50,000 is a lot for poor Fido but the wife and kids love that damn dog. You call around to other vets all over the United States and Canada and nobody in North America has the “know how” to save the poor beast. The vet that quoted you $50,000 has told you his quote is firm. What do you do?
Unca,
The lesson here, you stupid fucker, is that the price on the street is relevant to both your pockets and how limited to commodity. Now if you talked to friends and told them you paid $50k to save your dog’s life, they’d laugh at you. But you’re a man. You can take it.
Jed York’s pockets are plenty deep to absorb a $15k per year hit. I estimated last year that owners each netted $500 million or half a billion year year. $15 million for Harbaugh per year is a drop in the bucket. So why not pay it if you’re Jed York? In my opinion, Jed York is letting Fiddo die because he doesn’t want his friends laughing at him.
If you disagree, offer up a better alternative answer. Anyone?
Harbaugh and York were negotiating. At least I assume when Jed says, “We’ve agreed (just recently) to stop the negotiation process until the end of the season,” that means they were negotiating and now Jed won’t pay Harbaugh what Harbaugh’s asking for. Are you following along so far?
Why won’t Jed pay Harbaugh that money? Jed has everything to lose. Harbaugh, REGARDLESS OF RINGS, has all the leverage. Would you like me to re-hash for you the recent NFL hires?
Why won’t Jed York pay Harbaugh? The only other possible answer to this question is the stadium. I honestly don’t know how much the York’s leveraged their personal net worth to get the stadium deal done, but even that doesn’t matter. You go out and put Jim Tomsula behind the wheel of a Lamborghini, and he’s gonna put it in the ditch. And you can’t sell tickets to a ditch party with sweaty Tomsula. The one benefit for York is that he’s got Harbaugh in the new stadium for two years. After that, Jed York’s gonna fuck this team up sideways and backwards.
This should read, “Jed York’s pockets are plenty deep to absorb a $15 million dollar a year hit for Harbaugh’s salary.”
Jed has a timetable in his head of 5 years. If Harbaugh doesn’t come through in 5 years, he’s not going to pay top dollar for a coach that hasn’t won it yet with the talent Jed and the front office put together for him. That’s the deal in a neat little package.
Capische, skippy? This ain’t about saving face or anything like that. These guys are rich as fuck. If Jed KNEW he’d win 3 Super Bowls with Harbaugh, he’d pay him $15 mill per. Do you think Jed gives a hairy rat’s ass what Jerry Jerk-off thinks? Or re-un-deal Al thinks? Fuck to the no.
This is about a team that SHOULD have 2 rings as of these past few years, if not 3. The coaching fuckups are duly noted on Harbaugh by the front office. At least that’s how I think the FO feels. If they were happy with ol’ Jimbo and his abrasive ways, none of this shit would be bubbling through the cracks.
This isn’t about how Jed thinks he looks to the other owners, this is about how Jed feels he’s given Harbaugh the keys to the Ferrari, and Harbaugh drove it into a ditch. He’s not going to pay him for not getting to the finish line.
You’re an idiot. If this is honestly how stupid you are, I’m not blogging here anymore for fear of somehow being contaminated by your stupidity through fiber optic osmosis.
First of all, you don’t know what the fuck Jed York is thinking. Your dumb ass writes, “If Harbaugh doesn’t come through in 5 years, he’s not going to pay top dollar for a coach that hasn’t won it yet with the talent Jed and the front office put together for him.” You keep thinking a ring is the sticking point. It’s not. And your dumb ass forgets Harbaugh assembled a large part of the talent. You are one stupid mother fucker. Want evidence a ring doesn’t matter? It’s because if Jim can’t win a ring here and he hits the open market he’ll get paid top dollar by someone else – Bob Kraft, Arthur Blank.
Fuck. It’s like you’re a monkey in a cage with someone dangling a shiny gold watch outside the cage and you’re dumb ass can’t take his eyes of the jewelery. It’s not about a ring. And again, you don’t know what York is thinking.
And what makes you even more of a jackass is that while talking for Jed York (which is humorous) you don’t even factor in or give Harbaugh credit for the moves he made. Harbaugh assessed that the 49ers needed a secondary, a qb and a pass rush, and that’s what the team got post haste in the off season bringing in Whitner, Rogers and drafting Kaep and Aldon Smith. Is Jed York (through your crystal ball) trying to say Harbaugh didn’t find the York’s Colin Kaepernick? Or develop Kaep? That alone is worth $15 million per year. How valuable do think Kaep is to the 49er organization?
AND… Who do you think Colin Kaepernick is going to be after Jim Harbaugh leaves to coach in Atlanta or New England? And I’m still addressing Jed York through your dumb ass, Unca, because appearantly unbeknownst to the blogging world, you have York’s proxy.
“This team should have 2 rings, if not 3?” Fuck. Honestly. You so fuckin’ stupid. “YOU!!! OUTTA THE GENE POOL!!! Year one nobody wins a ring with Alex Smith. Not Lombardi himself. Year two, Harbaugh failed with a rookie qb with only 8 games under his belt. Not many rookie qbs win the Super Bowl (and yes, dumb ass, I know technically he wasn’t a rookie). Year three, in my opinion, the best team won. Seattle and Pete Carroll were better than SF. Seattle could run on the 49ers’ D and Frank Gore was too old to do anything other than run straight ahead. If we’re talking personnel, that’s a front office problem, not a Harbaugh problem. In addition to your purely stupid rant, there’s only one guy who gets the 49ers into the position of 3 consecutive NFC Championship games – Jim Harbaugh. Who else could have done that? Unca? Offer someone up. Cower? Gruden? Not a chance. There’s no other coaching candidate on earth who could have taken the 49ers from Singletary to 3 consecutive NFC Championship games. No …….body. Offer someone up, you fuckin’ retard.
“Harbaugh drove the Ferrari into the ditch?” Fuck me. You’re a fuckin’ moron.
ESPN’s reporting a sore hamstring for Crabs. It ain’t a foot or knee, but he needs to be healthy.
Where’s the bar set, skippy? Playoffs? Yer as dumb as a bag of dicks.
It’s no great shakes to think the front office is holding Harbaugh to a standard that he himself set.
Like I said, if shit wasn’t this disjointed, we wouldn’t be getting all this rigamarole around Harbaugh, the front office, and all the angst around the trade that never was. Would we? Is this SOP in your book? Riiiiight, Do you pay attention to reality, or only the disjointed ramblings coming off your keyboard? Wake up and smell the real world.
Ok, Harbaugh’s limping down the shoulder with a couple flat tires. If he doesn’t inflate them, he’ll be left in the dust.
If Jed was Art Rooney, he might have the patience to wait this out with Unca Jim.
Do you think he will? I don’t. Look at what got Seifert thrown out of here.
Good to know you are once again back on the crazy train. Hit 5:23
I luv it when you guys throw the insults around. Makes me feel warm ……a real feel good moment. And worrying about a coaches contract is a real hoot. One bit of advice don’t count your super bore victories prematurely. It’s crazy out there!
“You’re as dumb as a bag of dicks.” That should be POTD.
Hey Del, I’ve got a question for you…… Did you like George Seifert?
Hey where is the keeper of the quacks…….I trust not on the sawdust floor.
I’m assuming you trolled out that question so you could remind me that George lost three NFCCGs himself. One courtesy of the infamous Roger Craig fumble, and the other two he lost to BETTER Cowboy teams in consecutive years. He also had a “shit happens” year when finishing 10-6 was only good enough to send us “Home for the Holidays.”
HOWEVER, sandwiched around those four seasons were two Super Bowl wins. And I’ll tell ya why George Seifert was a 1000% significantly better head coach than Jim Harbaugh…George never in a million years would have lost a Super Bowl to Joe fucking Flacco. Never in my life have I witnessed a team so ill-prepared for the big stage. If it weren’t for that blackout, we would have lost by 3-4 TDs easy.
Let me say that again. We lost to Joe motherfucking Flacco. I would have fired hiss ass on the spot. The San Francisco Forty Niners DO NOT lose Super Bowls. Let alone to Joe piece of shit Flacco.
Harbaugh has brought nothing but shame, misery along with added emotional and physical distress to my life. I don’t know how else to say it, but Jim Harbaugh is literally killing me.
This is pure gibberish. First of all, Seifert got out-coached year-in and year-out. Seifert and Young were dominated by both the Packers and the Cowboys. You do have a minor point that the Pack had Favre and the ‘Boys had Aikman, while the Ravens have Flacco, but Seifert was still vastly overrated.
Seifert won two rings. The first one was on the heals of quite possibly the greatest football team ever put together in the history of the NFL by Bill Walsh – the ’89 49ers. The other was the only time Seifert got past the Cowboys only after Jimmy Johnson stepped down AND Carmen and Eddie D decided to purchase an over-the-top all pro defense. Seifert never got over on anyone except Barry Switzer and Bobby Ross. He never out-coached anyone. I’m not trying to be funny. This is a serious question. Wasn’t Bobby Ross retarded? Didn’t Bobby Ross have an exceptionally low IQ? Where’s 12th man when you need him? He’s our retard expert. You give Harbaugh that ’90 team handed off to him after Walsh built a dream team and Harbaugh’d also win you a Super Bowl. You dump the salary cap rules and give Harbaugh a blank check to out buy the competition while simultaneously having the number one competitor’s head coach get fed up with the owner (Jimmy and Jerry) and Harbaugh will win you a Super Bowl in that situation as well.
Seifert had everything handed to him and he got two rings. What did Harbaugh have handed to him? Alex Smith? Jed York? “Well tanks fer nuttin’.”
Didja even notice you were potd, Spitty?
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!! My people are rejoicing.
Speaking of “Home for the Holidays.” There’s no place like it. So please allow me as I’m always wont to do and be the first to wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas.
Perry Como? Yikes…….what’s next Guy Lombardo?
Happy New Year!
Harbaugh inherited a very stacked team. Much like Seifert. Don’t kid yourself, Spitty. Nolan had a lot less to work with when he got here.
Dennis, that Lou Saban clip is one of my all time favorite clips from NFL Films.
Is 6-10 a stacked team? You’re full of shit. No stacked team goes 6-10.
This is not a stacked team. You look dumb saying it is. Of the 22 starters on offense, Harbaugh changed over half of them (13) in a short period of time.
http://www.49erswebzone.com/forum/niners/145010-2010-49ers-depth-chart-here/
“Of the 22 starters on offense and defense.”