Truly the doldrums where it comes to football news. I guess the big excitement is Brock Purdy got engaged. Woo hoo. Hope the kid has a bright future as the latest stud 49er quarterback, but this team seems to have very persistent problems keeping their quarterback upright. That the 49ers were SO successful with their 3rd string, 262nd, and last pick in the draft, is pretty fucking amazing. Trey Lance of course had one game in a hurricane, and one quarter where he was used like Ken Willard, Jimmy G was fine until he wasn’t, and Brock took the league by storm till he got hurt.
Which brings me to the issue of beefing up the O line. For all intents and purposes, they did little but get weaker at right tackle as the 49ers didn’t want to pay Mike McGlinchey for his fair to middling pass blocking, and instead left that to Colton McKivitz. And they let Daniel Brunskill go in free agency.
McKivitz is promising as a pass blocker, and his only start was against the fairly fierce LA Rams. He graded out at a solid 69.4 grade in his 71 plays last season, and 84.6 in the LA start. But, after Trent Williams and KcKivitz, we have bupkis. Backups Jaylon Moore and Matt Pryor have not shown anything resembling consistent pay.
After that we have UDFA D-II standout guy Joey Fisher, who couldn’t make it through rookie mini-camp and seemed bothered by the 75 degree heat, so he doesn’t look to stick. Nick Zakelj looks to be moved to center to find a spot on the roster, Leroy Watson is a waiver-wire pickup from last year, Ilm Manning is a smaller small-school (Hawaii) standout UDFA who seems to fit the long-standing idea of drafting smaller quicker guys on the line. He however, is also pencilled in for a move to center.
Feliciano, Gutierrez, and Luciano are all varying flavors of who knows. My hope is we can grab some kind of overpriced vet during the cut-downs, but maybe the front office has a better sense of what these guys can do. I mean, I hope so, but the depth is a big worry seeing how old Williams is, and how green/untested Mckivitz is.
San Francisco 49ers Forever 
The good ole days.
Purdy has already proven he has the heart of a lion but he really does look pretty frail. I hope they have him on a strengthening program which I am sure they do. First time I saw Montana real close I thought the same thing I think at that time he weighed about 180.
Yeah, funny thing about Joe is all the press was giving him the Joe Cool nickname, but the O linemen called him bird legs.
Met him and Dwight Clark in 1982 about a month after SB XVI, and Clark was huge. 6’4″ 210. Big shoulders. Joe was tiny. I’m 6’2 and there’s no way he’s 6’1″.
It’s pretty amazing how long Joe lasted given his size and the rules in place. If he had the rules that Brady had, he would have put up monster numbers and lasted a hell of a lot longer.
I agree he probably would have lasted longer.
He would have lasted a lot longer if he’d never met the fucking Giants LB’s.
One thing though I never saw Joe play with deer eyes even after he got hammered. Unlike Young after Sapp fucked him up he was never the same.
Deer in the headlights eyes.
Can safely say I’ve never heard of that band.
Test.
Weird. Names have disappeared. Flav’s blog the same.
wordpress was making me sign in for awhile but it hasn’t for a few days now.
Hmmm, names not back yet. Weird.
And they are back
Haven’t heard this one in a loooong time.
Man, we have warning track power these last 10 games.
New thread is up.