Forty Niners Forever

According to NFL Media, Monday’s discussion between Brandon Aiyuk and the 49er brass appears to have been productive. It was a “good meeting” and the 49ers plan to move forward with Aiyuk on the roster this season, Tom Pelissero reported Wednesday.

If this does come to pass, then it seems they learned their lesson in getting players signed before the fucking season starts. As we all know, they dillied and dallied with Deebo and Bosa to the detriment of both players and the seasons that followed.

BA and Purdy already have a good thing going, and with an even stronger set of wide receivers this season, getting them all on the practice field together is crucial. I’ve been saying all along this would happen, but I’ll be very glad the sooner it happens.

Here we go again. BA saying he’s not getting what he’s due. The front office dithering around. The team has $32 mill in cap space. Yet I guess they feel the need to drag this out as long as possible to get everyone frustrated and cranked.

Either trade him and move on, or sign him. You KNOW how this usually works out.

Needless stupidity from the front office.

The 49ers are once again dicking around when they shouldn’t be dicking around. They dithered around too long with both Deebo and Bosa, to the detriment of their following seasons, and now they are dicking around with BA. They would be nigh retarded to not sign him, seeing as he and Purdy have a very good thing going, and the time is right to go for the chip.

The sticking point appears to be the team offering $26 mill per and BA wanting something in the neighborhood of $30 mill. Get him signed at $30 per. The diff in terms of fucking NFL contracts is negligible. Granted, one year of BA is more than I’ll make in my entire life no matter what he signs for, but that’s the story of the game. Billionaires fucking around with mulit-millionaires.

Ooooh, but what about the salary cap, Unca? Fuck the salary cap. After the 2024 season, there will be a LOT of changes. The window is wide open RIGHT NOW. They need to take advantage while the team is relatively young and healthy, and Purdy is on his rookie deal.

Get it done for fuck’s sake.

The 49ers are busy busy busy trying to keep this offense growing and continuing to flourish by signing CMC to a 2 year extension to the remaining 2 years on his current deal, upping his pay to $19 mill per and keeping him here through the 2027 season. Much more inline with the top RBs in the league, and fitting of a guy who joins Roger Craig and Marshall Faulk as the only guys to get 1,000 rushing and receiving yards in the same season. Plus the 21 TDs. So that is money well spent.

They also signed TE Logan Thomas, a (soon to be) 33 year old vet who has had legit success catching the ball with 94 receptions, 820 yards, and 5 TDs his last 2 seasons.

Wither Aiyuk? Well, the tide is still out on that one. BA has officially missed the start of mandatory mini-camp. And if you think Cee Dee lamb, another no-show to the mandatories, has something to do with BA’s holdout, you are correct.

This’ll likely be a running game of ‘who blinks first’ for their payday, so we all get to watch from the sidelines as these 2 go through the machinations of contract negotiations.

Whooopie! Thing is, for all intents and purposes it looks like we sign BA to an extension and kiss Deebo goodbye after 2024, or we don’t sign BA to an extension, and re-up Deebo after 2024. Since the imerative is to have the team together THIS season, I’d prefer the extension, and then deal with Deebo later, but hey. I’m not a billionaire. Or even Brazillionaire.

Something happened! Not Brandon Aiyuk yet, but Jauan Jennings signed a 2 year $15.4 mill extension, with $10.5 mill guaranteed. Seeing this happen gives me hope they will wrap up BA fairly quickly.

They HAVE to know that this is their best chance RIGHT NOW to go all the way and take the crown. Mainly because of the impending cash drop for Brock Purdy.

As of now we have no idea what the contract will be, who will stay, who will go, and what the fallout is in the end. So, this team with BA has their best chance of winning it all.

Hey, the Giants had a couple nice comebacks, but all is quiet in the football world. BA is gonna get signed at some point, hopefully soon enough to not miss too much of minicamp.

We will see.

Fuck wordpress.


Had a nice post written about Jim Otto, and fucking wordpress lost it.

Mr. Raider, and one of the original Raiders from the 1960 team, he was likely one of the toughest guys to ever play the game based on the 78 surgeries he endured during and after his playing days. He had so many knee operations that they just eventually cut that leg off in 2007. He nearly died 3 times due to infections stemming from joint replacement surgeries, but through it all he was never down or bitter about the pain and suffering the game brought him.

He famously owned a Burger King an Auburn and could often be found working behind the counter and talking to fans as he worked. Met him a couple times on the many ski trips to Tahoe from the Bay Area.

He was 86 and suffering from Alzheimer’s. He died in Placer County, pretty close to that Burger King. Truly a great Hall of Fame player and man.

RIP Jim Otto

Jared Goff signed a 4 year , $212,000,000 contract with the Detroit Lions, including $73,000,000 signing bonus, $170,611,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $53 million.he number that

So this is that is pretty much the bench mark. I don;t see Purdy beating that, but he’ll be close. Something like 4/$50 mill.

Aiyuk? Who knows? He’ll get signed though.

Of note, we have two Thursday night games, two Sunday night games, and two Monday night games.

No out-of-country games, so that’s a plus. But we start with season with a Monday night game followed by a trip back east to play the Vikings. At east out Thursday games are all west-coast affairs, with one being in Seattle and the other at home.

In the NFL’s laughable nod to player safety, shouldn’t at least one of the Thursday games be scheduled after a bye week?

Well, at least we don’t travel overseas. And Brazil? Wow. Sure glad we dodged THAT bullet. Other than that, here’s the placeholder for the announcement of the schedule. Jolly Roger leaves no chance for a money grab hype fest to go by unmined, so here we are with 32 teams dropping tweets, instacraps, tiktoks, and all other means of social media droppings, so watch the hilarity at 5:00 PM PT for the shenanigans. Shanahananigans?

I’m gonna be building a fence after work, so I’ll find out the thrilling news a bit later.