Regarding the decision by lynch and Shanny NOT to buy more FAs....i agree with their holding back because no thanks to baalke we had no idea what we had in the cupboard. WEll, it turns out...not much. so now we know. IF they had burned up a lot of that cash pile, then we could ahve ended up with guys we really didn't need. We need 16 starters by my count, but that could be up or down a tad. We needed 18 before FA and draft . We added Solly and Reuben but Reuben is hard to count not being able to play. Hopefully he isn't another ACL type acquisition. Anyway, Au Jus and Solly are our two notable starters. Reuben is held in suspencse depending on how eh does thru rest of yr. Sixteen starters is a big Chunk to bite off. At least now we know when John goes shopping he KNOWS what we don't have . Didn't know it before these two came on board.
Our best bet ...and luck....would be if CJ is truly the one. I wish i could be sure we will know at yrs end. But with the disaster at OG C OG how can you really rate your QB or not? If he is the FR QB and we can establish that, then a great yr for us. That means we can forego cuzins and get another developmental QB kyle likes. That would also make it easier for us to get the
2 ERs
2 CBs'
ILB
OLB
# 1 WR
2 OGs
Center
DL
And the big one....Depth at all 22 positions.
That is a big get but will be much easier if we have our FR QB...or at least think so. We need to buy as many of these in FA as we can as we need them now...not 3 yrs after they have learned. Then with the 5 picks in top 70, get whatever else we need. We have to recognize we will not fill out our wish list once again next yr...but we will do better than we did this yr. Also that One DL, may end up being 2..ugh. But that's ugly but could happen.
So look for Lynch to be buying like a madman, tho still disciplined this coming FA. And we will know if there are any of the current non starters that may be able to fill in some of the starter slots. Then we get what we can in Draft. But FA is where we have to make it happen, and with 12 losses or 15, it will make it harder to attract layers...esp top line players. Stay tuned.
[ Edited by pasodoc9er on Oct 23, 2017 at 10:35 PM ]
.. imagine that though
.. this is a True rebuild. I don't think that there's any team recently in the Nfl that has had to rebuild from scratch like our Niners. We have the worst talent in the League. Only a couple cornerstone players, we definitely need 2 solid offseason along with hitting on draft picks in order to start competing for playoffs again. Possibly re-evaluating DB coach along with Saleh
