Meanwhile, the QB position remains the big prize for the franchise. The Garoppolo deal is still floating around out there, Cutler and Hoyer are skulking around looking for work, and shit, Kappy and Ponder are creeping around the edges of the light near 4949 Centennial Blvd. Shanahan has said he doesn’t want to get a stop-gap guy, but really, the options are fairly limited. Word is, Shanny likes him some Garoppolo, so we may be trading our #2 pick. Gutsy move, but he is young and, well, young.
The guys I mentioned are either unproven, proven mediocrities, or just not Aaron Rodgers. Or even Matty Ice. Cousins isn’t going anywhere. Shanahan did well with RG III in Washington, and Schaub in Houston. He CAN turn, if not shit to gold, then crap to decency. However, that doesn’t clear things up in the QB department.
I really don’t want to see us draft a QB with the 2nd pick. On the off chance Myles Garrett is there, I’d jump on that in a heartbeat. Watson? Man, he sounds good, looks good, has the tools, but is a huge risk. And Trubinski is even more green and more of a risk. The rest are 3rd rounders. Stay away from QBs this draft. So who do we get, if not Garrett? Yet another D lineman? We are apparently going 4-3, so another body on the line could be in order. Stanford’s Solomon Thomas springs to mind. He climbed up the draft board after his dominant game in the Ty-D-Bowl, or whatever the fuck it was.
Jonathan Allen is also available at what I’d assume to be as DT if we took him. Both are disruptors that could give the line a much needed jolt of electricity. Other than that, I’m ultimately curious about what the hell is going to happen these next couple months.
Forty Niners Forever 
Bears trying to trade Cutler, rumors have the Niners as a possible landing spot:
I’d rather keep aKappy than trade for cutler.
Nice pick up BTW.
I would rather pick up Cutler after he’s cut loose and dump Kap once and forever. But I think we will go in another direction for a FA QB anyway.
No more Kap, please.
I’d prefer to lay low and build in the draft. Sign. Few FAs and do it right.
BLEEP!
Kirk Cousins speculation/trade scenario:
More red meat on the Cousins to the Niners speculation, this guy thinks a deal could be at the combine:
http://www.49erswebzone.com/articles/103794-daniel-jeremiah-kirk-cousins-could-traded-49ers-combine/
Interesting to say the least. Guess we find out how much Shanny loves him some Cousins.
I have to believe after reading what he values in a QB that Kap isn’t his man for the job.
I don’t really know how good Cousins is other than his stats. I haven’t watched him play much.
Paraag putting a shine on himself:
http://www.csnbayarea.com/49ers/paraag-marathe-my-job-stay-my-lane-help-coach-and-gm
Let’s hope he really does stay in his lane.
More like casting shade. But hey, if they have all learned their lessons somehow after 14 years of tripping over their dicks, more power to ’em.
Well, not more power. Let me rephrase that. Twist in the wind, fuckers. And pray the guys you hired work out.
Cousins? That’s all well and good, but his price tag will go up if he’s franchised again. It’ll be at least a 1 and 2. Still think we should go slow on this.
Mainly because the expectations go from 4 to 10 wins overnight.
Winder, I don’t want either of them, but given the choice I’d take Kappy over Cutler. Shit, I’d take Hoyer over either of them. But even that doesn’t sound like the direction that Shanahan wants to go. He’s at least sounding like he wants a Cousins / Garoppolo type. Maybe he’s blowing smoke, but those choices will cost a lot. I’d rather use all these picks to build the roster and take a shot with a 2nd tier QB that won’t be a giant investment. A Hoyer type.
chuck- I agree. I can’t stand either Cutler or kap. But I think Kap is a cancer in the locker room and with an asshole like Cutler I think we have a better chance. I don’t know what we are gonna do but I doubt we sell the farm for Cousins. What ever happened with Schab(sp) I thought he was on our radar also.
well kap won the eshmont so you can’t say he’s a cancer. he’s not my fav but his teammates seemed to respond.
i still wanted to see more of ponder. maybe that was kelley’s fu to the organization?
ewisco- I still don’t get how he won that. I know the players vote. The whole franchise was in a losing culture last year so I guess Kap showed the most courageous fortitude while we lost.
Cleaning house continues……….Gamble gone.
Damn it…………..my computer speakers are toast……no more music. I’m deaf!
However you feel about Kappy, him getting the Eshmont says something about him. From what I heardm the players that disagreed with his stance he took the time to explain his position and he changed a lot of minds.
Then again, the players rallied around Kelly all season and it didn’t get them anywhere.
Kap should be gone. If they bring him back it will be a mistake. He’s lousy in the red zone. His passes are not accurate enough. Perhaps if we had a Jerry Rice type receiver it would help.
Having Randy Moss didn’t.
Yeah, Eric I wondered that myself. When gge team was 2-10 and Kelly said ‘this isn’t tryout tine’ in response to putting Ponder in, I was baffled. Bullshit it ain’t tryout time. 2-10 is the DEFINITION of tryout time. He looked ok (along with Narcus Rush) in preseason.
Mike Lombardi on Kap who he says is horrendous, Ponder who he knows for a fact that some in the building thought was the best QB on roster, and Garoppolo who he says Shanny was very high on in Cleveland (Lombardi and Shanny were both in Cleveland so he knows) and that the Niners are the most likely landing spot for Garoppolo but he doubts NW trades him.
The article, which you don’t really need to read now I guess:
http://www.49erswebzone.com/articles/103826-lombardi-says-kaepernick-begging-job-couple-weeks/
*NE
Lots of juicy stuff (and some boring) on this podcast Kawakami and Harbaugh:
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/kawakami/2017/02/23/tk-show-jim-harbaugh/
I’ll move that to the new thread (so I can listen to it).
New thread is up.