Originally posted by ChazBoner:
Originally posted by glorydayz:
Our 2017 off season.
So far, we have a FB.
exactly. the rest of the signings are very mundane.
What is really sad is just how low the 49ers had dropped in talent... More like plummeted to the bottom. From a very successful team to a bottom dweller takes some really bad skill and mismanagement.. The fact we are signing depth , almost across the board, tells you just how bad the baalke GM worked out. Basically looking at the guys not re-signed, there is only one, and that is Tiller...that Maybe could have stayed.. Dang that is a lot of outright mediocrity for one team. Not having an impact player (P-52, Justin) is one thing. Not having starters is another. But also, not even having decent back-ups is horrid. And that pretty well summarizes baalke's stint here..
Kudos to Shalyn for recognizing this was a droopy, awful collection of "talent", and doing what they could do early on in FA to see if they could bring the talent level of backups and non-starters up to where it should be. Hence the lengthy list of guys who are now unemployed and many still have no shot at getting a job in NFL. Also the caliber of guys brot in is already a huge improvement on this team which looked, for all intents and purposes, like the loser it was. You gotta start somewhere, and getting legitimate and solid backups is a good way to go. The OUCH signing was from out of nowhere, necessitated by salary cap issues. Awful nice Kyle and especially Lynch were on the insta-dial for John Harbaw. That was a bona fide upper tier signing, and a perfect fit for Kyle's O. A huge get, to go along with bringing up the lowly talent level on the team.