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We thought Fitterer was promising at one time. I just can't get too excited until the next GM is hired, and, more importantly, I see some work. Until then, all the promise is just theory at best or speculation at worst.

We'll just swap Herbert and Young in the middle of the night. No one will be able to tell the difference.

Nice avatar. They're greedy, but they can't stop you from sailing the seven seas.

Yep, been hearing it all week (even before) on different media. They must be really really cheap. I also heard somewhere (maybe 99.9 The Fan) that the son John thinks he's some kind of football savant and that he and Harbaugh would bump heads, so it would never work. All that being said, Harbaugh absolutely thinks that Justin Herbert is the next best thing since sliced bread according to Greeny. They had a random conversation that gravitated to QBs and Harbaugh went on for five minutes straight about what a superstar in the making that Herbert is.

Don't know if this was posted or if anyone cares, but Adam Peters is out. https://www.nfl.com/news/commanders-working-to-hire-49ers-assistant-gm-adam-peters-as-new-general-manager

And Belichick might be coaching them if you believe some of the rumors.

Vrabel, although I think that he may be good in theory, is 54-45. I don't know that he's the best option. How do y'all know he isn't just going to be another Rivera or Fox?

How can you exclude Harbaugh? C'mon', man.

OK I've had time to think about this. The Panthers were well within their rights to decline the Jags, as that was a lateral move. So, it was probably smart, as they can keep him tied up until he leaves as an HC, or until we work out whether or not he's going to be here under the new administration. The Panthers cannot stop Ejiro from interviewing as an HC.

Really big ugly.

I think that it's more about your own outlook than anything else. Take your own medicine.

Credit Anthony Rizzuti of Panthers Wire for the grades. https://pantherswire.usatoday.com/lists/best-and-worst-pff-grades-from-panthers-2023-season/ Best: Offense 1. RB Chuba Hubbard: 77.2 2. RT Taylor Moton: 74.6 3. WR Adam Thielen: 72.7 4. LT Ikem Ekwonu: 67.4 5. WR Ihmir Smith-Marsette: 63.6 Defense 1. DT Derrick Brown: 90.1 2. CB Jaycee Horn: 84.1 3. S Xavier Woods: 80.3 4. LB Frankie Luvu: 78.5 5. OLB Brian Burns: 74.1 Worst: Offense 17. G Calvin Throckmorton: 50.6 18. G Austin Corbett: 47.9 19. TE Hayden Hurst: 44.7 20. G Nash Jensen: 34.7 21. G Chandler Zavala: 26.2 Defense 21. OLB DJ Johnson: 50.4 22. DL DeShawn Williams: 50.0 23. LB Kamu Grugier-Hill: 48.6 24. CB D’Shawn Jamison: 47.2 25. CB CJ Henderson: 45.4 Some thoughts: I have always said that Chuba is undervalued in this place. He's a hard runner and obviously hard worker as his game has seen progress every season. It's not to say that there aren't more talented backs, but I wonder what Chuba would do behind a better line. In any event, keeping him seems like a no-brainer for a league largely gone to RBBC. Ickey would probably be an excellent guard. He had a bit of a sophomore slump---some terrible...what looked to be lapses---but he's a talented enough run blocker, and would also likely thrive as a guard where he wouldn't have to think so much or move his feet as much (which appears to be athletically challenging for him). Even after all that, he was never overall terrible, unlike what some may have proclaimed. As a guard, he would greatly strengthen the interior which was quite frankly awful too much of the time (as anyone can gather by simply looking at the worst grades on offense). Smith Marsette seems like a keeper to me. He's solid in the return game, and he can give an offense a spark a few plays per game. As a four or five, I don't know if you can do much better. He plays with heart, which was lacking in the receiving department in 2023. What can Brown do for you? Get you a 100 tackles. Should be our priority on defense. From some perspective Horn may be the biggest question mark in terms of what do we do with him. The problem with Burns is that he wants to get paid more than what he's displayed on the field. He's earned a solid payday, just not a bank-breaking payday. We can let him rob us, or we can do the sensible thing which is tag him and let him test the market. If he can find someone willing to pay what he thinks he's worth, let them do just that and take the compensation. I don't believe that we should overpay for Luvu either, but he's earned a solid payday and a lengthier stay.

IDK. I copy and paste the links all the time and it always works for me.

Interesting. I wonder what he thinks about it.

Why would we not tag him is a more interesting discussion.

Any thing that causes the Cowboys some pain, I am all for.

Dollar Store Dave

I mean, easy to say at the moment.

And they were damned fools.

It's just pure speculation.

I don't understand what seems like personal hate, but haters gonna hate. I said what I needed to say. Don't cry when whatever team he coaches ends up a champion while we're still spinning our wheels. It's a damned shame, but it is what it is.

There were reports from the Chronicle that he was alienating some "faces of the franchise," although no one ever reported who those players were. Obviously these "faces of the franchise" from the following linked article didn't have a problem with him. https://www.ninersnation.com/2014/12/29/7459371/49ers-players-react-to-jim-harbaughs-departure To your point about the players vs the FO, it sounds like a bunch of B.S. spread by the FO. Scot has run with it though, but I haven't.

Fair enough.