Well, wee needed a GM, so naturally, Jed picks the guy standing next to him at the urinal during the Pro Bowl. One John Lynch. Say what you will about Lynch, and I did really like him as a no-nonsense hard-hitting strong safety, but really, this is yet another shot in the dark by a team that is making a habit of being passed over by head coaching and GM candidates these past few years. The list of GMs is fairly long this year by guys that didn’t even bother to come over to the building, so this leads to someone like John Lynch. A guy with no experience in any aspect of being a GM, a talent evaluator, or anything related to football operations. He has spent his retirement from football being the color guy for Fox’s B team announcers since retiring in 2008. Yippee. He gets to learn on the job. Which leads to . . .
Kyle Shanahan salivating over his shot. He has said from day one that he’s balls-to-0the-wall excited to coach this team, mainly because he is the man. Everything goes through him now. Like his father, he’s a control freak. Which in this day and age is a good thing I’d imagine, from a football operations point of view. His GM has no experience, and the 49er front office is a clown-car of suits and bean-counters. I’d imagine at some point Shanahan pulling something akin to Harbaugh’s infamous “the men are in here” line to denote where the real power lies, because at this point there is nothing the suits can do. Not with 4 HCs in 4 years, and a revolving door/trap door policy regarding the assistant coaches and staff.
The thing about Shanahan is that as far as we can see, he is a very good offensive coach. And he KNOWS he has the power, so there’s the fact that if he turns it around he’ll be hailed a hero. And he has a couple years to play with. As with Singletary and Harbaugh before him, the TEAM is not as bad as the collective players are, and there ARE some good points to this misbegotten franchise.
The team is young.
The team is flush with cash.
The team has a great head start in the trenches.
The needs for the team are many, but We have a nucleus of good young players on both sides of the line. Enough to be optimistic? At this point, no. There are too many holes to fill before camp even starts, so we get to wait and see how both these guys, neither with ANY experience at their new positions, will do with the draft, free agency, and trades. The good news is the suits are pretty much in a position that they CANNOT meddle in any of the team affairs as there will be massive revolt if there’s even an inkling of meddling from the Yorks or our infamous red flag bearer, Paraag Marathe.
Forty Niners Forever 
Big fat no to Warren Sapp. Donimik sure.
Vegas is a perfect place for the Raiders. It couldn’t happen to a finer team.
Sheldon Adelson is out of the Vegas deal. The state of Nevada approved the $750 million deal from their end with the understanding that Adelson was in. Since he’s out, their piece of the action is likely out. So, $1.4 billion is now off the table. Not as sure as one would think, Bergs. They’ll likely have to revote on all this with a different set of investors, if they can even find them.
Hey, with reundead Al gone, I don’t hate the Raiders nearly as much as I used to. But I respect the players and what they have had to put up with. Along with their fans. Prince Not-so-Valiant moving them to Vegas is yet another slap in the face to the players and their fans.
they’ll never get another team, and they’ll abandon yet another place that has a rabid fan base all at the cost of a greedy fuck who wants a shiny new toy. Spanos falls into that category as well. His father said he’d never move the team. Tough shit San Diego.
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Unca- My Joe Montana picture did not take. Can you please delete.
Tom won another SB since this meme came out when Petey boneheaded the play call but the point is still valid.
Tom Brady Sr. thinks otherwise. And you could say Fat Ray was the MVP of Super Bowl 16 . . .
Joe runs for a TD, throws for a TD and controls the clock all game while setting up Ray for FGs 40, 26, 23 and 22 yards. One FG did come as the result of a fumbled KO return. I can’t see arguing that Ray was the MVP. Personally, I take Joe and don’t even think about the kicker. You are allowed to have your own opinion but I can’t see this one from any angle.
Settle down. Just a different point of view. You give Brady shit for relying on Vinateri and Fat Ray got 4 FGs in XVI. His last 2 FGs decided the game.
14-22 for 157 is no domination.
The 2 FGs in the 2nd half were a result of Walsh’s conservative play calling. Joe got them close enough for chip shots. I thought Bill was going to blow the game with his play calling but Joe managed enough first downs. That was the only thing about Bill’s play calling that drove me nuts, IMO he sat on leads too early some times.
The Peter’s hire is a great start to the Lynch Era. Peter’s is respected league wide as a talent evaluator which the Niners sorely need for the upcoming draft.
I like it.
On another note Teflon Mike Nolan was hired by the Saints as LB coach.
This is the approach Jed needs to take as well 12th.
Get ALL the experienced guys he can find, to give Lynch and Shanny the best support possible.
Can’t beat that drum enough. Football guys for football Ops.
After that? Leave them alone. Minimum, 3yrs, no interference.
Shanny runs a very complicated Offense.
No rookie QB is going to come through the door from this Draft and handle it either.
Make a pitch for Schaub who’s already working with Shanny in ATL right now too perhaps? He’s slated for FA in March.
Get a year or 2 from him, while getting the rookie up to speed IMO.
Ponder might have the chops to handle it, who knows?
I just hope they don’t take Pick 2 and spend it on a QB in April.
Plenty of better talent available on the Defensive side that could warrant that Pick.
I’m not ever worried about the draft anymore. My guess is by that time we will some of the best football minds at work and we will get some real players. I think there will be a plan in place and I feel in my gut that it will be a good one. I couldn’t be happier right now.
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I know what your point is NJ but I think you are over doing it. To me it’s been clear that Baalke has been in charge of this franchise since 2011 and Jen has gone along with his decisions. Parang has certainly involved himself outside his defined area but that is not the overriding concern for me, Baalke was.
Lynch is clearly in charge and Shanny holds the 53. Para age will likely revert to contracts, Lynch referred to “elephants in the room” and I figure that was one of them.
Lighten up and let’s see what happens, Lynch has brought in a top talent evaluator and that’s a great start in my book.
Huh. Peters is actually a very solid hire. Lynch brought some gravitas with him.
yeah, the guy has some creds.
Happy happy joy, joy Winder.
Let’s hope Jed has learned a lesson after all this dysfunction in recent years.
Can’t squander this Draft position either.
Very important to our success, or failure, to get the pieces in place for the near future.
Heard that NE might be willing to part with Garoppolo for our 2nd RD Pick.
If so, sliding back from Pick 2 for an extra Pick, might make that a decent option to getting a starting QB all the more palatable.
Problem there is Cleveland, who is holding a ton of Picks to offer up.
They have no QB worth a sh!t either.
Wait out Belichick. This season may be a wash regardless so I wouldn’t throw picks at Garoppolo. I’d throw money at Cousins. Point being, we can’t give up picks at this point in our development. We need all the high picks we have for players.
Cousins is likely to get ERFA-Tagged Chuck.
DC knows full well that Shanny and Cousins are tied at the hip.
All DC has to do is apply the tag. After that, it’s not about $$$. 2 1st RD Picks are also attached.
I wouldn’t touch that deal with the proverbial 10′ pole.
Agree that our Picks are extremely important as well.
If Garoppolo can be had for a 2ND, that is reasonable IMO.
Schaub is already in the Shanny System and won’t cost anything by comparison to Kaep or Cousins.
By the same token, DC will be committing a Brinks truck worth of $$$ to keep Cousins on their payroll as well.
See how they play it…
Super Bore week is when some of the former players come out of the background and end up on these sports programs. Apparently even an lady astronaut was parading around in her space suit down in Houston getting attention for the space people. She of course knew nothing about football and could care less. That’s about right for Super Bore week.
I am getting kinda jazzed about the SB. My brain tells me not to bet against the Pats but my intuition says ATL is gonna pull it off. It all comes down to whichever D stands out. Defense wins championships and it has always has. Atl 34-27
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NJ- Lol, “happy happy joy joy.” I am definitely not giddy about the events that have transpired but I am very pleased and ‘happy’ at he direction things seem to be heading(the draft). This organization has been shooting itself in the feet for so long now that until I actually see some change I will remain guarded. But, what I have seen so far makes me somewhat optimistic I would really like to finalize the Shanny hire and hear what he has to say. I am also waiting for Jed’s next presser and that should give us an idea of how things are with the FO (meddling) situation.
For me Winder it’s really simple.
Football guys for football.
Business guys for business.
Neither side cross that line, except to offer help to improve the football team.
Yeah, I don’t think it’s that close, Winder. 35-21 or something like that.
The hope is that Jed falls on his sword and says “I need to distance myself from the day to day and let the football guys run the show . . .”
yep
Jed can go back to feuding with his neighbors over the cabana.
And skkkeebers is still whining. . . .
How is the Asylum of Niner Nuts?
Well, Phil is still waiting for approval from anyone, skeebs is whining, Buwwit/bakken are notably absent. As is NoFear. Funny how they come and go together.
Oh wait. Buwwitt has Kaepernick following our old WR coach Johnnie Morton to the Jets.
There’s some meaningless conjecture. Seeing as Kappy was talking to the Jets last year and he bought a place in NY. I guess he was waiting for Morton (!). What a maroon.
Do they get any drugs at the Asylum? Skeebers probably insists his patients “bend over, boys…”
This from Lynch today regarding Paraag:
Without prompting, Lynch went on to discuss football analytics, which has been one of Marathe’s areas of expertise. Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels noted 49ers director of football administration and analytics Brian Hampton was part of his interview with the team.
Today, Lynch said he was open to using analytics, but didn’t anticipate they would play a major role. The takeaway from what he said: Lynch – not Marathe – would determine how much analytics would be used.
“People talk a lot about analytics and what role they play in football,” Lynch said. “I want to explore that. I don’t think it’s going to be a big part of what we do, but I think to ignore it would be foolish. Anything that help us get better, I’m going to embrace. That’s where we are. I can tell you that thus far (Marathe has) been a tremendous resource.”
The article:
http://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/Lynch-addresses-Marathe-s-role-in-49ers-10900694.php