Lynch and Shanny are extended. Your thoughts?

This is good. Keep them together as long as possible, or as long as they keep putting out a winning product out on the field. Any complaints otherwise is just nitpicking, and I'll say that includes myself for my thoughts on the whole Lance debacle a few weeks ago. The overall body of work, plus hitting on Mr. Irrelevant, the arrow is pointing up for this tandem. Let's go!

Guys, we all make mistakes. Yes, Lance, was a big one. It will be the one people will hang over the front office until we win a championship; and honestly, for some, they will continue to complain about it even after that. But if we are going to do that, we also have to accept that they corrected their mistake now. Will they make mistakes in the future? Yep. You and I will, too. The hope is that the niners brass don't make this type of mistake again. And if they do, god willing we will have won a Super Bowl or two.

But as, an elder statesman, I feel like this is the most stable we have been in a long, long time.

Originally posted by fropwns:
Guys, we all make mistakes. Yes, Lance, was a big one. It will be the one people will hang over the front office until we win a championship; and honestly, for some, they will continue to complain about it even after that. But if we are going to do that, we also have to accept that they corrected their mistake now. Will they make mistakes in the future? Yep. You and I will, too. The hope is that the niners brass don't make this type of mistake again. And if they do, god willing we will have won a Super Bowl or two.

But as, an elder statesman, I feel like this is the most stable we have been in a long, long time.

This 100% well said Fro, well said.

Originally posted by AB81Rules:

Originally posted by fropwns:
Guys, we all make mistakes. Yes, Lance, was a big one. It will be the one people will hang over the front office until we win a championship; and honestly, for some, they will continue to complain about it even after that. But if we are going to do that, we also have to accept that they corrected their mistake now. Will they make mistakes in the future? Yep. You and I will, too. The hope is that the niners brass don't make this type of mistake again. And if they do, god willing we will have won a Super Bowl or two.

But as, an elder statesman, I feel like this is the most stable we have been in a long, long time.

This 100% well said Fro, well said.

Agreed Even though I think Shanahan has an ego that can get in his way I don't see anyone better we can get to replace him and Lynch.

Originally posted by DonnieDarko:

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:
You really can. You expect a team to hit on a guy when they used three first round picks on them. Its an awful look if you miss you out on someone that you invested so heavily in,

Purdy was a flyer, they weren't even sure they were going to draft him at all but Griese and Slowik managed to convince them to pull the trigger in the late 7th. If they had even a slight inkling that Purdy could be this good, they would have drafted him a lot sooner. They absolutely got lucky as hell because had they let him go to UDFA, he might have very well signed with some other team and now they'd be more or less screwed, hoping to trade for Cousins or some other vet.

Lance failing was less about luck and more about poor evaluation. You went all in on a kid with 300 college passing attempts in an offense that didn't ask him to pass the ball a lot or even really play from behind much, one year's worth of games with a lot of mechanical issues that didn't necessarily make him a good fit for this style of offense.

It was a strange pick then, now it just looks like a really bad one.

Kyle wanted his josh allen type that he could mold, it was bold and it failed. They took a shot, i dont have a problem with it.

You would 100% have a problem with it if Brock Purdy was on another team.

Originally posted by captveg:
Still makes me laugh that people even bring up Joe Williams. Practically every team misses on a 3rd-5th round pick every year, yet somehow Joe Williams being a bad 4th round pick in 2017 is some measuring stick for Lynch and Shanahan.

Williams was 121st overall. In the 1979 draft Walsh, in his first draft, picked RB Jerry Aldridge in the 5th, 119th overall. The guy never took a single handoff in the NFL, either, yet nobody cares. You cannot have a more similar situation - position, draft status, experience of drafting leadership, results. All essentially identical. Yet one is some supposed referendum and another probably hasn't even been a thought in a 49er fans' mind for 40 years.

Problem wasn't a RB taken in the 3rd round not working out, the problem was Shanahan saying he had to have Williams even though he wasn't on Lynches draft board.

Originally posted by Jcool:

Originally posted by captveg:
Still makes me laugh that people even bring up Joe Williams. Practically every team misses on a 3rd-5th round pick every year, yet somehow Joe Williams being a bad 4th round pick in 2017 is some measuring stick for Lynch and Shanahan.

Williams was 121st overall. In the 1979 draft Walsh, in his first draft, picked RB Jerry Aldridge in the 5th, 119th overall. The guy never took a single handoff in the NFL, either, yet nobody cares. You cannot have a more similar situation - position, draft status, experience of drafting leadership, results. All essentially identical. Yet one is some supposed referendum and another probably hasn't even been a thought in a 49er fans' mind for 40 years.

Problem wasn't a RB taken in the 3rd round not working out, the problem was Shanahan saying he had to have Williams even though he wasn't on Lynches draft board.

Wasn't he a 4th round pick ?

Didn't Bobby Turner also really like him and didn't he keep tabs by reaching out once or twice a week ?

Didn't Lynch reach out to Utah HC Kyle Whittingham and Joe Williams himself before deciding to put him back on the draft board ?

Do we ignore context on the Webzone to push a narrative ?

The answer to all the questions above is yes.

Originally posted by Jcool:
You would 100% have a problem with it if Brock Purdy was on another team.

If there was no brock then either jimmy woulda stayed or they woulda kept the lance project going. Purdy was a wrench that was thrown in that changed everything.

so no

Originally posted by DonnieDarko:
If there was no brock then either jimmy woulda stayed or they woulda kept the lance project going. Purdy was a wrench that was thrown in that changed everything.

so no

Would've kept the Lance project going. Might've still brought in Darnold. Zero chance they bring Jimmy back.

Originally posted by English:
Totally disagree. I put the blame on injuries. As to your comment about us being one or two injuries away from being a sub .500 team, have you been paying attention the last few years? Obviously not. Well, try to. The last few years we have had some of the deepest injury lists I have seen and yet we have stayed in contention. But now all of a sudden, two injuries will take us sub .500!

The stars are ageing and the youngsters are mediocre? Aiyuk 25, Banks 26, Bell 23, Bosa 25, Darnold 26, Greenlaw 26, Hufuanga 23, Jennings 26, McCaffrey 27, Mitchell 25, Purdy 23, Deebo 27, Warner 26. And aside from Deebo and McCaffrey, these are all guys that figure as mediocre in your view.

I don't recall seeing this volume of wrongness in one post for a long time.

He just so badly wants failure to talk about being right about Kyle and Jimmy. It's frankly embarrassing.

Originally posted by 9ers4eva:
Would've kept the Lance project going. Might've still brought in Darnold. Zero chance they bring Jimmy back.

Im just saying we'd have options

Originally posted by Jcool:
You would 100% have a problem with it if Brock Purdy was on another team.

if Brock was on another team, we don't even know who brock is today

Great move!!
Cheers to you Jed. 🍻

Originally posted by 9ers4eva:

Originally posted by DonnieDarko:
If there was no brock then either jimmy woulda stayed or they woulda kept the lance project going. Purdy was a wrench that was thrown in that changed everything.

so no

Would've kept the Lance project going. Might've still brought in Darnold. Zero chance they bring Jimmy back.

I think they'd of brought in darnold and/or made a trade for cousins. I don't think they'd of rolled into this year with Lance at the helm, at least not without giving him a ton of competition.

We probably wouldn't know how good Brock is if he went somewhere else. I'm just glad we have him. He really has saved our behinds so far from a colossally bad situation.

i also don't think we would of kept jimmy, I think that relationship is/was toast.

Originally posted by tankle104:
I think they'd of brought in darnold and/or made a trade for cousins. I don't think they'd of rolled into this year with Lance at the helm, at least not without giving him a ton of competition.

We probably wouldn't know how good Brock is if he went somewhere else. I'm just glad we have him. He really has saved our behinds so far from a colossally bad situation.

i also don't think we would of kept jimmy, I think that relationship is/was toast.

Mightve looked at Cousins too for sure.

Pats paid Bledsoe a kings ransom too before they knew what they had in Brady. Sometimes it's the things you least expect thst work out the best. Rams and Trent Green as well.