Or is even 3 preseason games 3 too many? When I was a kid, 6 was just flat crazy. But back then, players weren’t conditioning 23/7/365. They were coming off their day jobs as salesmen, deliverymen, or the occasional wrestler/sideshow geek. They played themselves into game shape, and I guess both sides knew to not really go full on.
Nowadays, 3 games feels like a worthless slog through the Walmart brigade. Yeah, we got to see Purdy chuck and duck behind a shit line for 3 series. Woo hoo. Him being out there is seriously not worth the injury prospect. It’s good to see some of the starters in action, but then again, it isn’t when guys break their arms or otherwise get hurt in these meaningless games.
The bottom line of course is money. The owners LOVE forcing season ticket holders to buy preseason games at full reg-season prices. Parking, concessions, the whole deal are full price bend-over-here-it-comes-again time.
The best way in my head to make everyone happy is to get rid of the preseason altogether a la college football, and play an 18-game schedule. This has been the aim of the owners for quite a while. And to save the players, add another bye week.
Oh yeah, the game. Well, Purdy looked bad behind the 2nd string line and nothing got going. He should have been picked on a wildly ill-advised pass, but, Josh Dobbs cemented himself in as the 2nd string QB with a solid performance hitting passes and getting loose for nice scrambles. Maybe we can trade Brandon Allen for a lineman and keep Mordecai.
hard to say where and what we are with the newfangled defense that looks exactly like the oldfangled defense. Maybe they are slow-playing it to not give anything away, which is possible, but we looked JUST like last year with the LBs too deep and them not filling the running lanes at all. And the obligatory 3rd and 12 screens that were easy 1st downs. And the usual TE plays that saw guys wide open for 20.
Still no BA. Still no TDub. One more game Friday, and they prolly sign. Let’s hope.
San Francisco 49ers Forever 
Man, I had forgotten about this album.
Looks like Puni will get into action early?
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/49ers-g-jon-feliciano-had-knee-surgery-will-miss-regular-season-time
Oh joy. Gonna be tough sledding coming out of the gate with all these injuries.
The talks with BA are ‘progressing’ FWIW.
From some comments at NN expect a serious look At IOL for raiders is LG Kingston, C Zakelj, RG Puni with Banks and Feliciano out and Brendel hobbled.
WordPress is garbage. Have tried cut and paste numerous times
Brendel has terrible PFF scores from.2022, 2023, and last game. He is only 300 lbs.
Now is the chance for Homer’s to defend this Shanahan decision
I tried to look for those 3 pff pass ratings ratings @ 17, 30, and 40 and could not find. Maybe they were edited out and were to low.
I use the 315 lb Alex Mack as the ideal. Both jonf.and Zakelj weigh that.
My gut says puni and Moustafa are the best of this draft. Kingston may be LG next year also since banks may break the bank of shanalynch
Gotta use the little link icon (-) btom on the fat right of the tool header. Yeh, it’s a POS.
*far right
I did not know that NJ, thank you. I had the same issue as bakkentom when I tried to post a YT video a while back. The link wouldn’t show up in the reply field, though it did post when I hit reply. Weird.
The Niners should have hired J Rice as the conditioning coach, wouldn’t have half these injuries if the players did half of what Rice did to stay healthy
per pff.com Jake brendel ranked 21st of 32 centers last year. Run blocking grade of 70.5 was 15th. So the pass blocking grade must have been in bottom bitch territory.
a comment at NN had a 17.7 for the NO game. Did he play the first 3 series with purdy. The pocket collapse forced purdy to throw ball away?
So let Zakelj play majority or all game at C on Friday? Both brendel and nugent are 300 lbs and easily bull rushed.
We could trade BA to Tomlin for C Zach Frazier and picks. A collapsing pocket is a firing offense and a purdy killer.
read at 49ers web zone that Zakelj is OK with pass pro but needs work in run blocking
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/report-potential-brandon-aiyuk-trade-to-commanders-is-back-in-play
Why do teams draft injured players
https://apple.news/ADm-8Y0KDSQC9Y26acSlEYw
Trent baalke did this quite a bit. Could be a genetic defect that he and Lynch share.
Was this known at draft time. In a well run public company Lynch would be fired. There was that OT from Washington still on the board that Staley looked at days before draft.
Competent nfl managers don’t fuck up like this.
There’s nothing wrong with taking a shot in the later rounds on hurt guys.
But in Kinlaw, and now Pearsall’s case, these are 1st round picks going to waste.
very good example is frank gore in 3rd round after 2 knee surgeries in same knee while in college
One hit on 20 misses isn’t a good track record. Baalke was terrible.
Leonard Floyd injury looks bad. Fuck.
David Lombardi is reporting that Floyd was on the sideline smiling and joking around, so maybe it’s not as bad as it looked. Outside of getting to see some young guys, this is why I fucking hate the preseason.
As critical as they are to the season, why the hell are guys like Floyd even out there in a meaningless game?
Yeah. They had Purdy out there too long as well. The NFLPA should advocate for scrimmages with other teams and get rid of preseason games entirely. They could shorten the season 3 weeks.
IOW it’ll never happen.
New thread is up.