Khyber53

I'm sorry. I don't have much confidence in him and his decision making. The guy was a berserker as a player and injured his own team mates by choice at times. Total meat head. You can put a suit on him, but I haven't seen anything yet that makes me think he's John Lynch.

Yeah, that O-line was terrible last season but it was also operating without both of its starting guards. Also, just about every good LT (and RT) goes through a tough second season. It's just an amazing learning curve and the physical wear and tear is rough. Tie that in with a weaker line due to injuries, a rookie QB and a coaching staff that is operating under job-security paranoia and well, dang man, who could do well there. I think he can make it and make it at LT. But we have to let him grow into the role. And let's pray that we can install a blocking scheme they can work with. We really didn't have one to speak of last year. It was just ACK! Help! Splat!

Icky hit the inevitable sophomore slump this past season. I think, with new and good coaching, he will excel at the position. If BC can come back and work beside him, we should see some improvement from that as well. Corbett coming back should shore up the other side of the line and I think we are fine at center and RT. Good coaching and better play design will help a lot. And I think we're deeper now than we were before along the line. We need receivers more than anything. And someone to design plays that doesn't send three receivers to the same spot on the field. Or guys who can stretch the defense. Or stand up to being jammed at the line. Or who will fight for a ball. Adam Theilin needs to be an asset to the offense, not the whole darned thing.

The draft picks underperformed across the board, some massively underperformed. Add in the terrible, ill-advised trade and it was epically bad. After it was done, we should have gotten hand-written thank you notes from the other 31 teams.

What the heck would make someone want to do that?

Honestly, set him free if there's not a trade partner if he doesn't sign a team-friendly deal that is more appropriate to his performance levels. A guy that is playing not to get hurt is pretty much just here to cash checks and well, we've had enough of that over the years. His stats don't warrant this much attention or such a big chunk of the salary cap. I like the guy and was amazed at how he played here at first. Then when the negotiations started, well, he just went all Meh. He says he still loves us, but man, he hasn't bought us flowers in a loooong time, yanno? If he doesn't want to be here, let him go, get the comp pick and write it off. No one year deals, no overblown contracts, just let him go. It's sad but true, there are edge players coming out of colleges every year and some of them can get both 8 sacks a season AND play defense against the run. He's a good player, but he isn't a HoF player, so let's quit treating him like he is.

Other NFL players can probably assess Burn's work on the field as much or better than you or I? They probably are looking at the money and going, man, you aren't earning that money. And they also realize that one bad contract like that means less money available for more players on a team. Burns at $27 million could be $1 million more for 27 team members... just saying.

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This 100 percent.

Let's get real. Nah, this ain't happening.

Haven't understood why so many people were so darned set on paying Russell Wilson a bunch of money. Or basically any old vet who is still riding on their past victories. The only people who are over 35 and are involved in making this team's future are coaches and fans.

Good, interesting picks, well written!

If you weren't born and raised in the mountains, then calling someone a hillbilly is a slur.

It's got to be BPA. We have so many MPAs (Meh-est Player Available) in our roster that anyone of quality at any position is going to be a plus. And this is a fill in the team draft time not a go after our guy one (not that we should ever do that again). Honestly the only positions where we couldn't improve by draft picks right now are kicker and punter. We're good there.

Luke will be a first ballot and Smitty will continue to wait until the football monarchs decide he has paid his penance. Sucks but it is true. Cam will probably make first ballot (putting Smitty yet another year behind). Thomas Davis will get in, but not on his first ballot, maybe like third or fourth. He's an amazing story and such longevity (and considering the dire circumstances he fought through), but outside of Carolina his notoriety just isn't as big. And that's a shame. Greg. Dang, we all love him but let's be honest, he didn't have a HoF career. As Cris Collinsworth once said, if there was a Hall of the Really Good, he'd be there on the first ballot. He will, however, live on as one hell of a commentator I hope. Other Hall of the Really Good players we've had could include Moose, Ryan Kalil and Jordan Gross, Longevity, great games, just not the big names nationwide that get them to the real Hall.

Really, only one. Keeping the other guy would be about tagging and trading. That is a sad bunch to be watching head to the exit door. Or one could say that has been a sad bunch of folks to be seen getting on the team bus before games. Best of luck to them.

Dang, that wasn't right.

We knew we had to drive home early after the third quarter...

Point given.

I'd say that for almost all teams, the Super Bowl is such a rare happening that almost any appearance there is an outlier.

Every year, one team loses the Super Bowl. And the pundits roll out about how terrible of a coach that team has, or what a group of over achievers they were and that they were bound to come crashing down. And yanno what? It's total bullshit. And in this case, it's really bullshit. They had the champs on the ropes and took them not just to the final bell, but into overtime. And they scored first in overtime, taking a field goal because the other team was the world champs for a reason. And then, they couldn't hold off Patrick Mahomes and one of the best assembled teams in recent history. Yes, they lost. But they aren't the losers, including their HC (and DC, too) are being made out to be. It was a good game, well fought and narrowly lost. Let that be the history, not this race to the bottom, hot takes punditry that ruins every fuging thing.

I do believe that a smart team spends at least one draft pick and picks up at least one free agent lineman each year that they believe can make the team. They don't have to be world beaters or top end free agents, but there should be a bit of new blood at all times... but just a bit and ones not directly aimed at supplanting starters. Now if one shows out and is obviously worthy of the spot, then it's an earn it situation for sure. You should always be planting seeds for the long haul, but you can't just keep going in and plowing up the orchard before the trees have a chance to bear fruit, yanno?

There's a lot of wisdom in this. Working as a team is imperative for an offensive line to become good pass blockers. I mean they really, really have to gel. And with the injuries and rookies last season, they never had a chance (plus bad coaching and play designs). It takes time to develop cohesion between the linemen and with the QB and RB to make everything work out. Stability is what this franchise has been lacking for years, so maybe it's time to not just build the foundation but give it time to cure and age properly. We have some very good stones to build with and a lot of youth to shore it up in times of need.

The analytics of our analytics work over the years shows abject and utter failure in that department. I have never seen anyone put so much work into being wrong so many times over such a long period. It's as if he had bought an analysis program that had been compiled to give the exact opposite results that it should have. The average fantasy football dweeb rookie would have hit on more success than he would have. He should return some of Tepper's money.

Don't forget the cost of Sam Darnold trade, too. We gave up a 2021 sixth rounder and second and fourth round picks in 2022. Darnold will be the back up QB for the 49ers in this year's Super Bowl and could end up with a Super Bowl ring. Man, it was just a massive pile of giveaways for nothing.