Since we have almost reached the merciful end to yet another lost season, the sentiment around my abode is, what now? Do we burn the fucker down and start from square 1? Or do we try to rejigger the front office together from the scraps of a misbegotten group?
Here’s what we got:
OWNERSHIP
Denise DeBartolo York Co-Chairman
John York Co-Chairman
Jed York CEO
John M. Sobrato Co-Owner
Mark Wan Co-Owner
Gideon Yu Co-Owner
EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT
FOOTBALL OPERATIONS
Trent Baalke General Manager
Paraag Marathe Chief Strategy Officer and EVP of Football Operations
BUSINESS OPERATIONS
Al Guido President
Hannah Gordon General Counsel
Brano Perkovich Chief Investment Officer
Scott Sabatino Chief Financial Officer
Patty Inglis Executive Vice President
As much as that OWNERSHIP group needs to be jettisoned, we have no reality scenario where that happens. Stripping Jed of his toy would be most excellent, but I don’t really think Daddy and Mommy Dork will usurp the young drooling one. Sobranto Wan and Yu (aka Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe) are not on my radar and I have no idea the pull they have within the front office machinations. Which is a problem in itself.
The EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT team is where we need a whole new group. Baalke has turned from Exec of the Year to Doormat of the Decade as he has overseen the mass exodus of talent from the team while wasting stockpiled picks on ACL guys, shitty punters, and little help to the team’s roster. Paraag seems to be the biggest fly in the ointment. His stink has been all over the team going back to the Nolan days when he was supposedly helping with red flag rulings. He famously challenged and unchallengeable look at a field goal and it cost the team a game, IIRC.
The BUSINESS OPERATIONS group? Who knows? Al Guido sounds like the right guy for the job if you are building a parking lot in Trenton New Jersey, but running BIZ OPS? Fuck it. Anything associated with the big stink coming out of 4949 Centennial Blvd. should be canned.
I’ll deal with the coaches later.
Forty Niners Forever 
Baalke still sucks and Jed must go. Grab a hot knife and attack the butter immediately!
“You’re Fired!”
The two words demanded by fans.
Kappy gets the Len Eshmont award. I guess the team wasn’t fractured about it.
Still and all, happy trails . . .
lol, wtf, and I thought we were already at the curb.
Yeah, for whatever small bit it is worth, the team is fully behind both Chippy and Kappy. Seems very odd to say the least for a 2-13 team.
The takeaway? Fuck if I know . . .
Mitch Trubiski, a guy that some draftniks (Walterfootball for one) have us taking in the 1st round (if we don’t get the overall #1) of the draft played pretty well tonight in the Sun Bowl. Some other draft boards (CBS sports.com) have him going to Cleve at the 1. A #1 QB? I think not, but I didn’t see Wentz flying up the board like he did last year either. Not that this is a deep QB class, but Trubinski is behind Kizer and my guy Deshaun Watson.
BTW, so sad to see St. Jim drop the Citrus Bowl. If he ever gets a quarterback . . .
Yeah the QB play in these college games suck. It’s painful to watch at times. Plus there are too many bowl games…..way too many.
chuck- I think the only take away is we have cemented a losing mentality. Unless we have some earth shattering news in the next few days I’m afraid we are in deep shit. The only way to dig us out of it is to totally clean house and hopefully we can clean some of it off.
When the leadership sucks the results are predictable……..lots of losing. Niners are just the latest example.
Yeah, it’s hard to figure what the hell is going on. The front office is a mess, the team stinks on ice, yet the players are behind the coach? We are young and thin as hell. But there have been some decent stretches on both sides of the ball.
Still and all, we suck, and we don’t have enough talent. We have a front office miasma of execs and bean counters who have no football knowledge.
There IS young talent on this team that need direction, and the new GM needs to hit a draft, and this team can easily be in the 8-8 range.
Parity in the league has proven this over and over. Speaking of parity, this is about the weakest season of football I’ve witnessed as a fan. There aren’t even enough QBs to fill the 32 starting spots.
Hey, Skeebs is bemaoning Kappy’s award. Like the closet racist that he and his ilk is. As is Kevin Fagan? Boo hoo. Figures that one of the ex-players would stand against it. BEt they had to dig for a while to find him and his trailer. Even a semi-decent D lineman who’s claim to fame is, uh, playing on a stacked team. NoFear quits on the team!!! What a pussy! Ha ha! I’m sure he’ll come back to the fold if we draft a white QB.
Maybe they should ask Frank Gore if he’s disappointed. Or Bryant Young. Or NaVorro Bowman. Or Steve Young. Or Joe Montana.
Sniff……boo hoo…….
Give your award back, Fagan, if you are so ashamed.
Glad you scrutinized the infamous ‘Corporate Tree’ Chuck.
It’s embarrassing that the business is Football, and we lack any recognizable football guys in said ‘Tree’.
I’ve beaten that mule to death and, still can’t understand the blind arrogance the York’s take to addressing it.
Keep firing football guys while keeping the wannabe’s in the power structure.
Genius!
Said absolutely No One.
One thing Jed, (or Dr Daddy for that matter), has failed to figure out is, that football guys make football teams run with little or no intervention from the Ownership sector.
Put good football people together, pay them well, provide them the needed resources, STAY THE FUK AWAY.
I wonder if Jed is practicing his speech. Maybe he’s doing it in the Cabana. Whatever, Just when I think I can’t get more pissed they just keep putting more stuff out there.
Chuck- the Eshmont award is a prestigious 49er award. To give it to a player that can’t do his job correctly is an indictment on how fucking shitty our team is. Hell, I would give it to the equipment guy before I gave it to Kap. He is not a good QB in so many ways.
Agree Winder, Kap was not deserving of it. The players vote on it so it looks like politics over football to me.
If the leak machine is still working then it looks like Kelley and Baalke are walking the plank hand in hand:
http://www.49erswebzone.com/articles/102073-schefter-49ers-expected-ways-trent-baalke-chip-kelly/
I’ve defended Baalke but have no problem seeing him get the axe. His disdain for a front line NT makes me think he doesn’t really understand how 3-4 defense works. His hiring of Chip Kelly is not a good thing for the resume. I would fire Trent and Chip. We need a culture change.
Lets hope its not another “league wide search” and that they really do find a decent GM/HC combo from outside the franchise. A football exec (Carmen Policy type) couldn’t hurt either.
IMO, Carmen Policy sucked. he and Dwight Clark drove this franchise to mediocrity.
sorry charlie, watson not impressing me. maybe a bad night throwing?
We’re still stuck with Jed as a consolation prize however.
Either way, just get football guys into the building and let them do what they need to do.
What an eff’n mess.
How many more HCs are they going to pay to fish?
Happy New Year Jed.
Same as last year.
And the year before…
You fuk’n douche.
I don’t just want football guys NJ. Baalke was a “football guy”. I want good football guys that are up to date with what the league is doing in this era. Parcells style of football is long gone and ultimately doesn’t do well with todays rules and bias towards the passing game.
It takes an extraordinary roster and driven coach to make the Parcells style football compete today and the Niners are a long way from that.
They need a consistent QB, a NT, an OLB pass rusher worthy of the name and at least one viable WR. With those 4 players and a modern coaching staff this team would be competitive overnight.
Not that I’m making light of the difficulty of obtaining those players, but if the GM (Baalke) automatically discounts free agency, and uses limited trades and then only for more wasted draft picks it is never going to happen.
Baalke had a decent draft last year which he should with 2 high picks. Buckner looks good to very good, Garnett looks average to good. Beyond that not much stands out yet but its early to evaluate.
Sunday night/Monday morning can’t come quickly enough for me.
12th I’m afraid the York mantra has been do things ‘Cheap’.
I’m fine with cleaning house so long as they get more football guys and less Moneyballers in the FO.
The Yorks are EVIL.
Let’s not discount Parcells too quickly either.
His disciple Belichick is still handling the game just fine.
It still begins and ends with a QB that can do more than run the plays that are called.
Play Defense, run the ball, and above all, score points on Offense.
At least we’ll be entertained yet again with another Coaching turnover. SMFH.
To steal a phrase from our banished compatriot, Happy New Year ya mooks!
Nolan was a football guy. There are plenty of lousy football guys.
Coughlin would be a great start. Get him to oversee the whole enchilada.
Phil and Buwwit are screaming for attenttion. Buwwit is back to posting old shit from 5 years ago.
Yeah, they are reporting Chip and Trent are gone. Jed banished? We’lll see.
We have some decent talent and a ton of cap space. We can be competitive by next year but not with the ‘football guys’ we currently have.
to nj9er comment earlier, not sure if it’s belicheat but someone on the pats can just flat judge talent. they consistently let people go who you would think they shouldn’t and they consistently find someone to fill holes. i believe that saint walsh could just flat judge talent and that’s what made those 9er teams great. i don’t think it’s a “school” thing as much as a gift. needless to say we don’t have it. and it didn’t look like the raiders had it until just recently. and in the end, that’s what it comes down to. i have no clue how to identify those people in advance. davis at least drew upon madden and other sources for picking mckenzie. who does jed have? and to be clear, it’s jed’s fault that he doesn’t have resources because he’s never tried to cultivate them.
Jed thinks Uncle Eddie rubbed off on him somehow ewisco.
He figures it’s in the genes I guess?
He’s nothing but the minion Daddy wanted him to be,
Slap a title on that melon head of his and everything ‘just happens’ in SF.
They removed every qualified football guy they had in favor of making changes, Corporate-style.
They suck.
Here’s where we are. All over again.
Now all those profits are being used to send former HCs to all expenses paid vacations.
Clueless twits.
my point was that someone on the pats can judge talent. and that’s the key. not who owns what. and jed does suck. but if he wants to unsuck, he needs to find someone who can judge talent and i don’t think that’s very easy or else everyone would be doing it.
Is it possible having Tom Brady around helps some? Kind of like when we had Steve Young. I’d sure like to find a way to get Sam Darnold in the 2018 draft. Maybe keeping Trent and Chip is how to accomplish that. Jeesh, never mind.
there’s no doubt brady helps. but he was a third round pick who had no chance of getting playing time until what’s his name went down with the chest injury. remember that. it was all “woe’s me” in NE until, oh look. and bill traded for steve so it wasn’t much of an accident like brady was. not that brady was an “accident” but he was clearly unrecognized as the QB of his generation.
6th round . . . but Brady did play his way to the #2 after passing 2 other guys.
Happy New Year Gents –
Let’s hope the pain train in SF gets back on the rails this year