That’s the battle cry now. I guess the days of Kittle Bosa, Williams, and CMC being a part of the playoff picture is now a gone deal. I get that they had to cut payroll after spending a fortune last year, entrusting the defense to a green unprepared minion, and not canning the special teams coach after week 4 was just stupidity in in-action, but it looks like Elon Musk is running (ruining) this team now.
You can even give Collins a thought though. He got a lot of pressure up the middle, but the interior run defense was atrocious. Ward was on his way out due to his tragedy, Juice got the squeeze, Hargrave was a nothing-burger, Deebo got the heave-ho, so they took a lot of money off the books. So, they could have kept at a minimum Banks and Greenlaw. Fuck the risk with Dre. His 1.5 quarters on the field made the 49ers look like contenders.
Without them we are fucked. Yay! We have 20 picks in the next 2 drafts! The Rams and Seahawks have more than likely passed us in the talent level, and we look to be in rebuild mode amd battling for the cellar with the Cards.
I guess if they nail this draft, they can rebuild the O line, the D line, the thin LB corps, and the thin CB position. But hey we’ll draft a TW and WR in the 1st and 2nd rounds. I have little to no faith that we are gonna improve much over last year. And that was WITH a lot more talent.
Huzzah!
Forty Niners Forever 
Niners sign former Dolphins DB Siriani Neal for 2 years..Doesn’t move the needle much but it’s more of another Brant Boyer Special Teams player upgrade as he’s been on 2,074 ST plays in 7 years..As bad as their ST sucks this guy could only help..
Good article in the Chronicle about the Niners and drafting late round RB. My neighbor has a subscription to the Chronicle and he gives it to me when he is done. Evidently a coach Bobby Turner who has been with the Shannahans since Mike was a HC, he goes through and evaluates RBs and picks out ones who fit the Shannahans schemes. I would say so far he has done a good job of bringing in 4th,5th, 6th round picks our drafted players.
This kid is on my wishlist.
No clue where he’s likely to go Irish Kevin but, I’m hoping he’ll be on our radar. Does KR duties as well.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/stats/_/id/4882093/bhayshul-tuten
He makes this list in the top 10 with a reference directly to Kyle’s system. Hope we have him on the radar.
https://www.nfl.com/news/2025-nfl-draft-ranking-rb-prospects-no-1-to-31
I’ve got Harmon on my wishlist 😀
https://www.ninersnation.com/2025/3/19/24389171/49ers-news-john-lynch-oregon-scouting-pro-day-derrick-harmon-pre-draft-offseason-prospects-linemen
Still baffles me why the Niners wouldn’t take a flier on Azzez Ojuari? Shit he signs a 1/4M with Eagles and the Niners looking for a cheap signings like that for a Defensive upgrade made no sense..
Very frustrating off-season with a F grade as York put his foot down dumping players for money relief..
This blog needs to draft itself a YouTube subscription for non stop classic rock videos! The Niners are probably going for a rebuild and Shanahan is one season away from being canned…but let’s rock out, dudes!
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/john-lynch-we-have-big-things-coming-our-way-had-to-clear-room
BA has a big payment guarantee vesting on April 1st. If the 9ers really are thinking of trading him it needs to be before then as it makes zero sense after April 1.
Two obvious problems are his serious injury with an unknown recovery time (mid season?) and a large contract to be assumed by the new team.
So what would the 9ers get other than cash? I would guess he’s worth a 5th rounder.
I guessed a 4th for Deebo which turned out to be optimistic.
They’re desperate to recoup the money threw away 12th. Contracts for sale. CHEAP!
Bargain shopping perhaps?
https://ninerswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/niners/2025/03/20/2-pre-draft-meetings-may-hint-at-49ers-plan-to-replace-trent-williams/82549265007/
That’s more than likely what they will do pick OL’s in the mid/later rds. Unless one or two of the projected tackles make it to 11. They need to plan on Williams replacement now. I still feel we go defense hard and heavy in the lower rds. But, you know we are gonna get some rb’s and wr’s somewhere.
Best scenario for the Niners is if 3QB’s get drafted before their pick and it could happen with Jaxon Dart shooting up the draft boards leading to better options on the OL/DL first pick..
What we have all seen the last couple of years. Giants baseball
https://tinyurl.com/3674ua75
Yes. And here’s another article you might like if you haven’t seen it, how Buster is intent on bringing the fun back to baseball at China Basin.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/44304329/mlb-2025-buster-posey-san-francisco-giants-president-hall-fame-catcher
Thanks Paul that was a wonderful read. Reminds me what it means to be a proud Giants fan. I wish Posey and the Giants all the best in the world.
Read recently that Lynch spent significant time with this LB at the Oregon pro day.
By comparison, he’s smaller than Emmanwori.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/4602389/jeffrey-bassa
Stat-wise, Emmanwori outperforms him as well.
Obviously the question remains, how high would they be willing to invest? Bassa would be cheaper but not likely to contribute right away.
Starting to think a trade down would make sense if they miss elsewhere.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/player/_/id/4869523/nick-emmanwori
I can see us trading back from 11 if their mark isn’t there. The way things are going that just might make some sense. This is the time of year where most of what we read is just smoke.
As good a player Emmanmori might be the Niners DB/Safety’s are more the strength of the team with Lenior,Green,Mustapha,Brown etc .Just think it would be a reach at 11 for him.
Definitely rather get OT Membou,are Campbell if available,Jalon Walker LB/Edge are Graham if he slides to us..Bassa is more of a 3rdRd pick but I like his enthusiasm and leadership quality’s.Think the Niners are high on Dee Winters too at LB as he improved a lot down the stretch..
Pound both lines HARD,add a Center Zabel?Jared Wilson?
David Lombardi says Purdy’s contract will be between $58m and $68m per year. His basis for this is the league wise average of the percentage of salary cap paid to the QB.
Lombardi uses his spreadsheet analysis of situations as the backbone of his opinions. He did a recent video bit with Greg Papa where Papa disagrees with his take.
Papa argues against doing too much with the Purdy contract based on Purdy’s decision making last year where Purdy made some notable mistakes and did regress.
I’m in the Greg Papa camp. If the 9ers pay “market rate” whatever that currently is for Purdy I think the signing will come back to haunt the team for the foreseeable future as it means an overpayment for Purdy as a QB.
Purdy is probably a top 10 QB because he is in the Shanahan system which suits his skillset perfectly. Good for the 9ers, less valuable for other teams.
I’m a big fan of Purdy, but still a realist.
That’s been my take as well. $50M/yr was my prediction going in. Might just force the FTAG while they see what comes from Mac? Can’t see going into Dak range money simply because the market says it should.
Last I heard the QB FTAG was under $45M.
Can’t see them going toward $60M since he has some questions around bad weather performance and deep ball accuracy.
You never know until they put on the pads and play, but Kenneth Grant is being compared to Vince Wilfork. If he is anywhere close, he should be our guy. I do know he can plug up double teams and pass rush some. Having somebody like that can move a team to play the 3-4. Even if a team plays a 4-3, you need somebody who can play the 0 to 1 gap. Grant seems like the perfect pick for what we need.
Grant is another guy I could live with in a trade down scenario. Don’t think he’s worth a pick at 11 but I like his ability to clog up the middle and stuff the run.
Wilfork was a big reason NE won so many games. But you don’t find players like that very often even if they are the same size.
As April 1st approaches, the ticking time bomb is ready to go off. 12th, that article is what I’ve been saying since last year.
The 49ers CANNOT reset the QB market value. They can only go by what is out there. His number should be somewhere around $53-$55 mill. Unless choir-boy is getting greedy.
Thing is, we are already on the edge of being irrelevant. If they trade Purdy, we are in the shitter for the next 5 seasons as, who the hell is gonna be the QB? Josh Johnson? Mark Sanchez? Everyone is signed and Rodgers is a fucking disaster. Might as well try to get Alex Smith to unretire.
If they trade Purdy, it’ll be a cold day in hell before I give this team a second thought.
They are in NO position to play hardball with Purdy.
They can do whatever they want with deferred money, signing bonus, guaranteed green, whatever. But their only choice is to sign him. Or they have written off the next 5 years.
We can tag him for the next two years but that should only be a last resort. I am hoping he decides at 55 its a nice number.
It might not be the Niners fault this has gone on so long. Could very well be the agent. But our track record says it probably is on us.
Hah! Yeah, Winder. That’s my baseline. I just wrote a new thread and my guess is 4/$225.
Which works out to $56.5 per.
The QB tag is only $40 mill. Fuck it. DO IT!
If Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes is gonna all of a sudden go hipster-doofus gansta, pin the tag on the Purdy.
New thread is up.