The 49ers are getting down to the end of the preseason tonight with a game against the LA Clippers, uh, Chargers, here in the friendly strip mall of Santa Clara. Overall, the team has looked pretty sharp on both sides of the ball (the turnover debacle in Denver notwithstanding). Special teams has been spotty at best, and there have been way too many penalties, but overall I have a pretty good feeling about how the team looks. They don’t look as retarded as they did last year, but again, preseason can be deceiving. Just ask Aluminum Mike Singletary and his stellar 4-0 preseason record in 2010. Teams aren’t game-planning for specific opponents, and many games (like the KC and Minn games) are determined by the 3rd string players.
Be that as it may, there has been a flurry of team activity recently. Ahmad Brooks was cut loose (and subsequently signed by the Packers), Vance McDropsy was traded to Pittsburgh with our 5th round pick next year, for a 4th round pick, and we traded our 2019 5th round pick to the Deetroit Lions for once-and future star first round pick in 2015 guard Laken Tomlinson. Sure, it’s a small price to pay for a 1st round pick, but he has been very underwhelming on a team that is desperate for line help. My thought was he didn’t fit their system, but we’ll see. He’ll be holding down the left guard spot as Joshua Garnett heals up.
I love the fact that we are giving George Kittle the opportunity to take over the TE position, as Vance can’t dance couldn’t consistently catch either. All of our previous TEs Bell, Celek, and Dray among others, left little impression as well, so the job looks to go to Kittle. The backups will be a fight with the other 5 on the roster. Hikutini, Bell, Celek, Nelson, and Paulson.
After the game, we’ll take a look at the 90 man roster and see who stays and goes . . .
Forty Niners Forever 
This is the best set of WRs in a good long while. Run game should come around at some point. Hyde struggled early but seems to be getting a little better in the new system.
Buwwitt and Skeebers have a labor day barbeque . . . not that there’s anything wrong with that. I mean the gay part.
Damn. Osweiler is going back to the Broncos? What a joke. He led them nowhere last year, and they are giving him the backup job? Wow.
Elway has to be thrilled at the play of Lynch and Siemien.
I wonder what part of that 16mil is gonna be the Bronco’s or if Cleveland had to eat it all. Anyway, fuck em both. Never was an E.lway fan and that is saying something being a die-hard Stanford fan.
Winder I think the Broncos pulled off a coup with Osweiller.
They laundered his Contract through Cleveland, (who had money to burn).
Cleveland,, in turn, bought a Draft Pick with him from Houston.
Now, Denver trims off $775G for Cleveland, who eats $15.225M of Osweiller’s $16M.
Cleveland. The mistake by The Lake. For good reason.
Gotta wonder if Elway is taking him back just to suggest he wasn’t wrong to select him in the first place?
The NFL…..WHAT a racket.
Funny thing is, if Elway had gotten Kappy last year they would have made the playoffs.
Elway may be a horse’s ass but he isn’t stupid. He has 2 shitty QBs and knows it. Well, now he has 3.
That division is wide open. We all know what San Diego is gonna do even though on paper they got better. This year sometime Mahome’s (sp) is gonna take over for Smith. And the Raiders hopes fall on Carr. Not sure how that one is gonna turn out.
The Raiders are the team to beat. But their hopes rest entirely on the shoulders of David Carr. Denver has a great defense but nothing else. KC either shits or gets off the pot. The LAClippers suck.
They are going nowhere.
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