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This situation is super weird. Why did they even agree to an extension in the first place?

Any time there is taking money away, money that has previously been promised as part of a deal, there is more to it. Any time someone is agreeing to having that money taken away, there is more to it. We are just going to disagree on it, and that is fine too.

If we had drafted him he would've already torn all his ligaments. Like all of them. Helluva player and it was obvious but he had a Penix-like injury laundry list.

That 49ers front office has been very good, so I don't think they are about to do something stupid like just summarily cut him without any attempt to move him. I get that as a Panther fan, you have no concept of what logical and smart front office decisions look like, believe me. But if you do look around the league, especially the much better run organizations, there is actually intent that even a layman can understand. It doesn't have to be shrouded in Matt Rhule/Scott Fitterer "Trust Me Bro" bullshit. The voiding of the guarantee isn't murky. It signals the intent to move on or negotiate. I am going to say it's probably 70/30 on that one. Aiyuk already has pocketed about $46 mil from the deal, so he may not feel the need to be as aggressive as he was prior to that extension. Depends on if he really wants to be a 49er or not, TBH.

There's logic, and then there is what teams actually do. Making this all a bit murkier is the voiding of guarantees. Guaranteed money is guaranteed, and with the player not fighting it, but accepting it to facilitate whatever comes next is not typical business as usual.

I mean, seriously, that is our luck.

I doubt he would care about the other WR's. I think he'd be pissed about the QB situation. It doesn't matter, this guy is never going to be in Carolina so it's pointless to fret over it. This is Tee Higgins 2.0.

That's just chirping. Think about that from a logic standpoint. If you don't want a player back, signing someone to a 4 year, $120 mil deal isn't the way to communicate that. The whole "didn't want him" was absolutely absurd. They could have traded him or cut him or whatever. They signed a mega extension instead. The actions are the proof. Also, they aren't going to cut him. He is either gonna stay a 49er or they are going to attempt to trade him. Those are LOGICAL actions from a front office that is consistently among the best in the NFL.

From what I’ve read about this guy, he’s more trouble than what he’s worth. Don’t think he’d like being second fiddle to Tet

Well. Maybe. Maybe not. Either way, the end result is the same.

Not many of us had this team winning 6 games this season. Im still in on going to the SB. We will probably play the Jaguars. We win it all.

To be fair if we picked him he would have had a career ending injury game one

I will point out that he is far more likely to get traded than released. So these reports of "releasing him" are absolutely absurd.

Honestly, the more relevant factor recently(in the playoffs) has been lack of ability to score. When we have been getting bounced out, we are going completely cold. The current goalie situation I have no idea what to make of. Freddie is cold as ice at the moment. Kochetkov is Kochetkov, so it will all be about what streak he is on in the playoffs. Bussi I have no real read on. He's extremely sketchy but has been steady for us, overall. I do feel like he is overachieving at the moment. Koochie is the only guy playing statistically well right now but we all know how that goes. Once he gets in a rut, there is no telling how long it will last.

It’s going to come down to goalie play this year. Like every year minus 2023. And the team’s goalie play sucks right now

I doubt it on the commanders piece. They tried to go after a bunch of vets this year to try and go after a chip after Jayden Daniels great rookie season. They are the oldest team in the league right now and it kinda blew up in their face. I think they’ll go after some youth. But i could be wrong.

I am gonna have to disagree. You don't sign someone to a large contract extension if you don't want them.

We already have an established NFL look. Do we really want to mess with it like the Commanders, Jags, and Bucs (in the 2010s) did? It could end up looking way worse

Yeah I feel you. I like watching things work and come together. Where we are now is that every time he does something to get people excited the same people come in to crown him but then it goes right back to the same old. It is a compelling watch at least. The rest of the team is growing. This year’s draft class is looking like it could be pretty historic, speaking top to bottom. With the QB it is well we have 6 games left. Last week was great but that doesn’t make up for all the crap in the past even the previous week. He is gonna need to keep that up. And we saw even in that excellent performance, he doesn’t see open people very well. He has to have things a certain way or he can’t function like that. And that was a crappy defensive team despite whatever the statistical rankings were trying to claim. Lots of ball left to be played before we have to call it.

Why do we always let our good players go ? CMC was injured and we let him go . Now we face him Monday night . We know what Chuba can do . We know what Rico can do . We signed Chuba so why not sign Rico . we don't know what we have in Brooks , Let him and Eteine go at it in camp . Keep the better player . Don't let your proven players leave .

Oh, I get it. I called him Peewee for the first couple of years. He is too small to be an NFL QB. It wasn't as much of a problem in college, even in the SEC, because every player in the NFL is the size and speed of the biggest 22 on your entire college team. I was left scratching my head over the pick and what we traded to get him (and yes, that cost analysis is unavoidable). Now we're sunk into the third season and the kid just popped a frikkin' amazing game out there where he showed every mark of what you need in a top end QB. Great passing, mobility, guts, toughness (that ankle must have been killing him) and the ability to put a team on his back to claw back a win. He didn't win it with his arm so much as by getting the ball to the right people at the right time, but that is what the best do. Do I believe he's going to be our QB of the future here? I'm still out on that. Way out on that. But I'm at least intrigued. Can he replicate what he did or even get close? Can he perform well against the power opponents we have left on the schedule? Heck, can he even beat New Orleans this season? Right now, my personal feeling is that he'd make a heck of a back-up QB. He could prove me wrong and excel, though. Maddening as it is, that'd be the best outcome ever. Or he could have just hit his peak. And that would be bittersweet because then we start the whole thing over again. I don't see a reclaimation project QB out there right now that Canales can work his magic on.

The Niners didn't want him. I think to some extent they were publicly shamed into making an offer when it was revealed he was not in their plans.

I think that is a price and attitude thing. Reportedly he was a bit of a handful for Shanahan, although admittedly not enough to not sign him to that big deal. I also think this may be much ado about nothing. If we plays this season, I suspect they will likely not move on from him.