Originally posted by jogr49:
Maybe I have not followed enough, but where else in the league is there a mass exodus like Niners? It has to be more than bad luck.
Glad I made the trip out to see new stadium last year. This season really going to hurt watching.
If you are talking max exodus because of both free agency and injuries and coaching then none. Still it is all timing. Free agency it is to be expected. We have let others go that have ended up with the player sucking for the most part and we ended up replacing them with someone just as good if not better and for less cost also.
Coaches are always let go, its just that very rarely successful ones are, but even if JH was retained, I really doubt that would have any affect on the player. As for the injuries that caused them to retire, Justin was obvious. Willis had signs, but just thought that he would recover, if he was in his 10th year it would have been not as shocking. It is just that as great a player as he is, we view him as superman, another average player would not shock us, but the last 2 years, he has been getting more injuries than he should and we just ignored the signs. Davis was the only one I did not see coming.
Borland-well some guys know what is important to them, money and fame means nothing. We as fans live only for the team, we don't really care for what happens to them. When we here certain things, we may go awe, so sad. the players see other players and are better informed and a lot of them have something to fall back on. Others who cling to making a team -some just love the game others know they know nothing else.