Re-doing 2020 (e.g. a few terrible decisions that killed the 49ers)

Originally posted by Hysterikal:
Should just start a "I did these moves in Madden so I am clearly the bestest GM in Universe!" Thread

I get the feeling too, this is also someone that makes a save point before every game...so in case of a bad injury or mistake, he can just go back and do over....

I think one thing that is curious is that the FO wanted to keep the team from last year intact, acknowledging the window, yet went ahead and traded Buckner for longer term success. While I understand they were able to get a high pick for him, if they were all in for this year, the logical choice was just to not pay DeFo and let him go as a FA but keep him for this year. Armstead could've been franchised and had to prove himself for one more year.

But I understand their thought process. They thought the team was better than it was and they couldn't foresee the injuries. Although the cardinals game, most players played through.


Restructuring Fords contract is what made no sense at all though. Why would you ever do this for an expensive player with injury problems who is logically a trade or cut candidate? That decision was straight up awful and I see no real good reasoning there.


Which brings me to my next point. Has this FO had a big contract given that paid off so far? Too early to tell for Kittle, but Kwon, Ford, Ward, Armstead,Richburg and Jimmys contracts don't look that good long term right now.

The best contracts they've handed out were low risk high reward - Sherman, Mostert, Kwaun Williams, Hyder, Verett.

NJuice is probably the only contract I feel like actually paid off, even though its a lot of money for a FB.

Originally posted by English:
Perhaps the OP would have done better to slightly rephrase the opening post. Injuries have destroyed this season and I am not convinced that any team could have come through the damage we have had without looking dreadful. When assessing our rookies it is worth remembering that there was no preseasons etc and with Kinlaw that we lost our edge pass rush. Like, all of it.

It would be better, though, if posters eased up with the snarky comments.

Not trying to be snarky, just pointing out the cap ramifications and how some of these ideas made no sense cap wise.

Originally posted by SkyZer0:

Originally posted by AB81Rules:
As for the OP.

DeFo again costs $23.378M

Ward costs $3,906,250
AA $6M
Cutting Dee would have cleared $9,465,625 if Dee was cut(Ford had a $15,865,625 cap number), or the $9,554,991 if Dee was redone.

That's $19,371,875 if Dee was cut, or $19,461,241 if Dee was redone.

Even if we got DeFo to take just the $12.378M in 2020, we'd only would have saved $7,083,241 if Dee was redone, or $6,993,875 if Dee was cut.

Plus we would need cap room to have signed Garland, Hyder, Blair, difference for trading for Williams, plus the fact we redid both Dee and Tomlinson just to have cap room, so this offseason plan wasn't doable. Plus we used $3M to extend Kittle.

No offense to anyone, but I wish people would research the cap before making posts or threads like these.

Originally posted by WestCoastForever:

Originally posted by Young2Owens:

Sorry but the premise of this thread is a fallacy. The only thing that killed the Niners this season is injuries. If Jimmy plus half of the guys that are out were healthy, we'd still be in the playoff hunt.

This all the way.

Not only would we be in a playoff hunt we would be first in the NFC.
Arizona If we had Deebo Samuel, Aiyuk and Kittle healthy for half the game and not a third string center that would've more than made up for the 20 yards away we were from winning.
Philadelphia that game is self-explanatory.
Miami are you kidding me with Brian Allen who gave up 150 yards and essentially three touchdowns we would've won that game no matter what people say if we were healthy and had a pass rush. Mostert had what 90 yards at the half.
We absolutely own Green Bay that game would've been pretty easy especially with Sherman, and like I said before Seattle's defense is so atrocious that game would not of been too difficult but I'll call that one a loss.

So all of the people claiming doom and gloom it is simply a question of being relatively healthy. Nothing more, all the teams in the NFC are severely deficient in someway except the 49ers and to a lesser extent the Saints would be the next best team even though their defense isn't that great or consistent.

It just really sucks because this year it would've been so easy to get to the Super Bowl

Buckner and Armstead move was right one. BUT we should have traded down from 13 for a slew of picks. (Where's the quality over quantity guys now)

Ward should not have been resigned at that price. Resigned period really.

We got rid of Kwon's contract. Getting rid of Ford hopefully is next. And hopefully moving on from Jimmy

Originally posted by krizay:
Buckner and Armstead move was right one. BUT we should have traded down from 13 for a slew of picks. (Where's the quality over quantity guys now)

Ward should not have been resigned at that price. Resigned period really.

We got rid of Kwon's contract. Getting rid of Ford hopefully is next. And hopefully moving on from Jimmy

I'm fine with Kinlaw, I think he'll be a beast in a few years.

Yeah Ward was a mistake, I'm hoping someone will trade for him, it saves an extra $3.5M.

Not only was Buckner superior to AA but he played the more important defensive tackle spot. Something AA just doesn't fit at.
That's why you could argue we should of paid him even at a higher price. They gambled on being able to draft a replacement and the jury is still out on that one but a lot things were botched here. We could of signed AA years ago at a much cheaper price tag. Instead we waited to see who would turn out better him or Solly and the Solly pick was always a disaster.

Originally posted by tjd808185:
Not only was Buckner superior to AA but he played the more important defensive tackle spot. Something AA just doesn't fit at.
That's why you could argue we should of paid him even at a higher price. They gambled on being able to draft a replacement and the jury is still out on that one but a lot things were botched here. We could of signed AA years ago at a much cheaper price tag. Instead we waited to see who would turn out better him or Solly and the Solly pick was always a disaster.

Uh, AA was drafted in 2015, he wasn't eligible for a new deal until 2018, that was just 2yrs ago, not YEARS AGO. Plus it's easy to say sign him for cheaper back then, but would he have signed a new deal? We tried to sign DeFo last year but he refused to sign a new deal.

Originally posted by RDB4216:

Originally posted by Hysterikal:
Should just start a "I did these moves in Madden so I am clearly the bestest GM in Universe!" Thread

I get the feeling too, this is also someone that makes a save point before every game...so in case of a bad injury or mistake, he can just go back and do over....

He should have at least done this in NFL 2K5. At least we would give him credit for playing a good football game.