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Shindragon posted:I don't blame the Hawks for our downfall. I blame the goddamn Ravens. That SB loss was the beginning. Yeah. I mean, that's what really sent Jed's expectations through the roof; it was so easy to look at that game and say, "hey, we should've won that," and apparently in Jed's mind that sentence continues, "so if we don't win it by next year, there must be something seriously wrong." Some of the rest was just normal window-closing, accelerated by a bunch of failed drafts. We were really beaten up by the end of the next year, and our depth was already dropping off; I don't think there's much chance we would've housed the Broncos like Seattle did, though maybe we still would've won. But the huge shock was all the "Harbaugh's gone? gently caress it" retirements, and that's all on Jed and his prissy little fit.
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What a weird way to put that. That's the sort of cliche you use in retrospect, like "he grew so much more than anyone thought was possible". This way it's like he's predicting that the guy will fail and still suck.
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Mar 2, 2017 19:40
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Niners going all the way (to the end of the regular season, finishing with a 4-12 record)
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Alright, so the 49ers get home games against the Cardinals (in two weeks) and the Giants (in three weeks), and those look like our best shots by far to not go 0-16, given that the Rams will probably not be resting starters in Week 17. Did we really just play Eric Reid at LB?
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Peachfart posted:Cross posting from the N/V thread: I don't see why I can expect them to put in any more effort as players than I am as a fan. Woo 49ers, let's go get that #2 pick again.
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Kazak_Hstan posted:this season will end with brian hoyer starting ahead of garropolo Unlikely! But only because we released Hoyer.
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Remember when the Rams were the only reliably bad team in the division but we were all still terrified of playing them? Imagine if they’d actually fired Jeff Fisher when it was obvious how much he was holding them back.
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Bubba Smith posted:red bird legends Drew Stanton & Adrian Peterson are gonna drag us out of bad team realm, sorry guys Red birds flying high on their 20-10 defeat of the 49ers, I see.
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Goondolences. Do we have any 49ers ticket holders left?
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The difference between selling the PSLs at the bottom of the market (which this probably is) and selling on the rebound is probably less than the difference between the annual ticket price and what they'd make trying to sell those tickets individually every week — and that's putting aside the annoyance of actually doing that 8-10 times a year. But you should still try to sell your PSLs, the site is really painless and there's probably some scalper who'll give you 50% on them. rjmccall fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Nov 6, 2017 |
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I think I can quietly accept wanting good things to happen to the Rams this year just to permanently cement the Chargers as a total failure in LA. Next year, though, it'll be back to full-throttle gently caress LA.
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Leperflesh posted:Late round (and UDFA) gems will always happen, because scouting is an inexact process at best, and some players will just develop more than others once they're on an NFL team. This is also why there will always be lots of first-rounder busts. I think Darius's point was that the Seahawks won't be able to duplicate the value they got from Sherman's pick without getting lucky, not that there will never again be a 5th-round pick worth a drat. A huge part of why the Seahawks got so good so fast is that they hit on a bunch of mid/late-round draft picks several years in a row, so for awhile there all their stars were not just on rookie contracts but on especially cheap rookie contracts.
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pre:2010: 1 (6) Russell Okung T Oklahoma State 1 (14) Earl Thomas S Texas 2 (60) Golden Tate WR Notre Dame 4 (111) Walter Thurmond CB Oregon 4 (127) E.J. Wilson DE North Carolina 5 (133) Kam Chancellor FS Virginia Tech 6 (185) Anthony McCoy TE Southern Cal 7 (236) Dexter Davis DE Arizona State 7 (245) Jameson Konz WR Kent State 2011: 1 (25) James Carpenter T Alabama 3 (75) John Moffitt G Wisconsin 4 (99) K.J. Wright LB Mississippi State 4 (107) Kris Durham WR Georgia 5 (154) Richard Sherman CB Stanford 5 (156) Mark LeGree FS Appalachian State 6 (173) Byron Maxwell CB Clemson 7 (205) Lazarius Levingston DE LSU 7 (242) Malcolm Smith OLB USC 2012: 1 (15) Bruce Irvin DE West Virginia 2 (47) Bobby Wagner LB Utah State 3 (75) Russell Wilson QB Wisconsin 4 (106) Robert Turbin RB Utah State 4 (114) Jaye Howard T Florida 5 (154) Korey Toomer LB Idaho 6 (172) Jeremy Lane CB Northwestern State 6 (181) Winston Guy S Kentucky 7 (225) J. R. Sweezy DE N.C. State 7 (232) Greg Scruggs DE Louisville
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Delanie Walker has proven to be a really good TE, and it is among the 49ers’ many terrible personnel fuckups of that time that we let him walk.
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Spoeank posted:In his last season with the Niners he dropped nine goddamn balls on 39 targets so I literally do not fault SF in the slightest for showing Walker the door. He had a down year in his first year with a new QB who was still working through some serious velocity and accuracy issues. He returned to his historical rate the next year and then just kept getting better. We had a lot of bad luck with injuries and retirements, but Baalke also just let a ton of talent walk out the door over and over because he was convinced he was some genius drafter. He didn't think we needed to keep two veteran TEs and so he chose VD, which is a dumbass way of approaching a roster, especially when the players fit totally different roles.
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I don't mean to say that he was amazing when he was here, and he's definitely gotten better since he left, but  I always liked him.I dunno, I think fans tend to under-value players who are sitting around league average, as if there was some reliable way of replacing them with a better player. "League average" means average across everyone who's actually playing, i.e. mostly across starters, which is going to be quite a bit higher than the average of all the available players. Losing even an average starting-quality player means the team is probably in for a few years of throwing draft picks and FA contracts at dudes who are probably going end up being quite a bit worse than the guy who just walked; plus there's a lot of value in having people who've played together for more than just a couple weeks of training camp. Of course there are salary cap concerns the other way, and you can't just be loyal to everyone forever. rjmccall fucked around with this message at 10:14 on Nov 12, 2017 |
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Nov 12, 2017 10:12
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The road to 1-15 starts HERE.
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The unreasonable-expectations bandwagon for Garoppolo starts right here.
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Nov 27, 2017 01:57
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Gotta say that that whole drive was real pretty. Good pocket awareness, nice scramble, beautiful throw at the end.
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Nov 27, 2017 02:00
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I bet we could win 2 or 3 games out of 10 against the Broncos.
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Spoeank posted:I'm waiting for the inevitable season where Russ is just a hair too slow to pull off his houdini act and gets plastered repeatedly instead of spinning out of it and throwing an 83 yard rope TD Not an empty quote.
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We’ve had a lot of ridiculous-number-of-field-goals games in the last few years. Can’t describe it as a winning strategy, but hey.
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Does anywhere here follow college ball enough to judge how Harbaugh is doing in Michigan? I vouched for him to my grieving aunt, whose husband was a UM diehard, and I’d hate to think I was wrong. But so far it looks unspectacular.
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Alright, thanks, I appreciate the rundown.
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Who do we slip against anyway? Just the Giants? I’ll take the win.
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Extremely same.
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Yeah, their only shot at a bye is the Vikings losing out against the Packers and the Bears, so the Rams will probably rest Week 17 unless they lose to the Titans or the Vikings lose to the Packers. If the Vikings do lose, I think the Rams play to win.
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DariusLikewise posted:It depends as well on the Saints, the Rams could be playing for the 3rd seed if the Saints win out. Would you really care enough about whether you’d face the Panthers or Falcons (or anybody else with a credible shot) to actually play the game?
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If I’m the LA Rams? Carolina, probably, on the assumption that my line will eat Cam alive.
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Fisher definitely helped put together a drat good roster; the Rams had a lot of high picks, sure, but a lot of them have panned out, apparently including the huge bet-the-farm trade for Goff. He’s just not a good coach.
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I have three months to not regret the Niners completing the Quest for Six Wins.
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I think I’ve run out of capacity of rooting for L.A.
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I don't know why you're posting that when it's well-known that the 49ers gave up a second-round pick just to rent Jimmy G for six games.
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There was a hilarious snow game where we were thumping the Pats really hard in the first half, but Brady didn’t get benched, he led a second-half comeback that ultimately fell just short.
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Oh yeah, I had forgotten about Justin getting hurt. So many fumbled snaps. 
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Yeah. As much as I appreciate Hyde, I don’t think we really owe him some extreme level of loyalty.
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Huh, it's mid-May and Metapod is suddenly posting more in the NFL threads, for some reason, again.
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Benny the Snake posted:This motherfucker right here... This is quite a lot of words to so perfectly avoid saying anything. It manages to be vague enough that an inveterate racist could make it out to be a denunciation of the SPLC.
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