News from Santa Clara is mostly good. The defense is humming along now that we have a better pass rush, and the offense yesterday was led by Jimmy G at a 14-21 completion rate, and some nice red-zone work. The biggest surprise in camp so far is the fight for backup TE, where Ross Dwelley is moving past rookie Kaden Smith, and injured Garrett Celek. He of course was an undrafted signee, but spent the offseason in Nashville working with George Kittle and The Beater to his advantage.
Deebo Samuel is starting to show signs of life as he hauled in a deep pass between the CB and a closing safety, beat them both to the ball, and stayed on his feet for the score.
Worrisome is the play of backup center Ben Garland. He’s getting beat like a drum, and with Westie on the bricks till opening day, Garland will hopefully improve, or we may need to do something when cut-down day sends some talent into the void.
McKinnon and Verrett were nowhere to be seen, nut K’Wuan Williams is quietly putting together a solid camp as well. He’ll be mainly a nickel back, but since we play in the NFC West with the likes of Goff, Wilson, and now Murray, I foresee a LOT of nickel. Having him playing well will be a big help.
4 days till the Dallas game!
Ankle sprain, likely to sit out preseason as precaution.
Verrett also has a minor ankle sprain. No say on his projected return, but I’m guessing it’s the same as Bosa’s – the real games.
I suppose if Holba works out they’ll just keep him.
Oh Jesus. Starters may not even see preseason games pretty soon.
Bosa will be back when it counts, and Spoon has had a very good camp and might well have locked up the starting job over Verrett even without the injury.
As far as Ford’s tendonitis, it’s chronic and Andy Reid sharply limited his preseason play anyway. For example, he had the same blood platelet treatment in 2016 (at least) and finished the season with 10 sacks. Nothing to see here, move along.
good info.
I sprained my buttcheek. Out for the season
I guess Antonio Brown got cold feet about playing the preseason games.
Word is Jimmy G will play games 2 and 3 of the preseason.
Uh oh, it’s a high ankle sprain. Early guess? Out 6+ weeks missing the beginning of the season. Kyle said Bosa will sit out the preseason “and we’ll take it from there.”
Lynch said it not Kyle.
Huh? Lynch said on KNBR, and I’ll try to quote, “It’s the dreaded high ankle sprain.”
But, he also said this to Barrows (Barrows paraphrasing), “It’s not a full-blown high ankle sprain.”
You decipher that and tell me how long Bosa will be out. I’ll stick with preseason only for now.
Wonderful. Hopefully he’s semi-joking about it. I guess we’ll wait and see.
I think “not a full-blown” was more referring to grades of sprain. The severest grade means many months out. The lightest, maybe 4-6 weeks?
Moore is looking like he might win the starting job at FS and be the best we’ve had at that position in some time. Ditto for Greenlaw at strong side linebacker.
Yeah, I’ve been hearing a lot of good things about Greenlaw.
So much for our new fitness coaches we are now dropping like flies and it just practice. How discouraging.
Did I forget to mention that Jet had another setback and is a real candidate now for IR? At least that would let us keep an extra WR, where the competition for the last spot is daunting.
Jesus. McKinnon is the next Lattimore.
Lattimore blew up his entire knee: every ligament, nerve damage. Jet just has some swelling that he’s not used to around the repaired ACL. It’s just that he can’t go on PUP again, so if he’s out any length of time it has be IR for 8 weeks.
I get the extent of Lattimore’s injury, I just don’t think Jerick will play again. Whatever his issues are, his knee will never be able to fully recover to take an NFL pounding.
The news out of camp is that the red-zone offense is doing well.
Considering all the angst about Jimmy G’s recovery, he’s looked terrific. They seem to have put a focus on the deep ball; he’s hit several different guys deep with beautiful passes. Now if our interior OLine doesn’t collapse and of course Jimmy G. stays healthy, we’ll be looking good.
Yeah, I’m really hoping we find more depth on the interior line. Garnett is basically done. Westie is on the shelf, and the rest are underwhelming,
Kyle said yesterday that he does his player evaluations based mostly on practice NOT preseason games. LOL, really gets you excited about preseason huh?
That does make sense though since the competition level is pretty non-existent. I would just be nice to see a healthy team for once.