The front office continues to make a little headway in my eyes of not being the blind mice they appear to be. After what looked like a very successful draft weekend, they go ahead and sign George Kittle to a four-year, $76.4 million contract extension that includes $40 million guaranteed, per Ian Rapoport.
And yes, he’s the highest paid TE in the league, by a skosh. 78 catches, and 1,106 yards, and 8 TDs attest to his production. Another great year in a great career. So, all that’s left is to sign our quarterback.
I’m thinking this will be handled fairly shortly. Or some time before May 27th. The first day of the mandatory OTA workouts.
Forty Niners Forever 
A major WTF?
Was this a Tim Allen 400HP golf cart? How do you in a golf cart? Pull a Sonny Bono on the downhill with a tree?
Way to go John..
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/agent-jeff-sperbeck-dies-after-golf-cart-accident-involving-john-elway
Die in a golf cart. Duh
Walsh never made the O-Line a priority. His only 1st rd pick was Haris Barton. His reasoning was that he can design and call a play around a weakness on offense. You can’t hide a weakness on defense. Reading that in one of his books is where I got my affinity for wanting D-Linemen for high draft picks. Walsh and Siefert took a lot of heat for drafting so many D-linemen. It seemed to work well over the years.
Our biggest problem last year is we couldn’t stop the run. when that happens, teams run the ball and give the opposing offense less chances to get in a groove. That happened to us often last year. A QB and a play caller haver to find a rhythm. Taking away 2 or 3 drives a game is asking for the offense to be perfect. That was Singletary and Nolan.
I think Shanny does a great job of play calling. Any decent play caller needs opportunities. Not being able to stop the run is exactly how to minimize opportunities. Hence, this why we drafted the way we did. To get the offense back on the field sooner. I am right with them on this draft.
I just hope Trent Williams stays healthy. We lost a very good swing tackle to FA.
Opportunities? Uh, we lost 5 4th quarter leads WITH possession.
Our red zone offense went from 1st to 28th. That was all execution issues?
Yeah, we had injuries. Yeah, Purdy missed some shots. But play calling and closing games and clock issues are still a problem with Shanahan.
Shanny can call plays, but players need to execute. The many O-line injuries hurt. The WR and RB injuries hurt. I know, next man up, but the starters are the starters because they are better players who execute better. We had one of those injured years. I accept that and like how we re-loaded with younger players. Younger players usually get injured less. I think Shanny’s play calling is really good.
The only problem I have with that theory is the injured team HAD leads in the 4th quarter that they gave away. AND possession of the ball.
With the injuries on the O-line last year, we couldn’t run the clock by running the ball. We became predictable. It’s the defense that gave up the lead. And with not being able to stop the run, the other team dictated to us instead of the other way around. It is a tough situation for the play caller and the players.
I know it’s comforting to have a scapegoat. My scapegoat is the unfortunate situation which we addressed in the draft. Your scapegoat is Shanny. I understand. We will just have to agree to disagree.
Sometimes it’s really good and sometimes it’s infuriating. When I know it’s coming you can bet they do to.
Talking about Shanny’s play calling
Yep. And his conservatism on 4th downs is annoying. Not to mention clock management.
We signed an undrafted FA named Stone Blanton. He is 6-2, 230 and had 125 tackles. You don’t make that many tackles by accident. We might have a great find here. Now, if we can just get some of his whiskey!
Now that’s a super cool football name Stone Blanton are Private Eye 👁️either way it kicks ass.I’m up for the whiskey 🥃 shots! Kids got good size but only chance is a practice squad guy which would be cool,Stoning some teammates in practice..
Sounds good!
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