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The letter was nice JR but this is what fans want

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http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d81d3cf1a/article/singletary-fired-after-49ers-knocked-out-of-playoff-contention

York -- son of owner John York -- seems ready for major change around the Niners despite having to pay Singletary ...

"Money is no object," Jed York said in St. Louis. "I mean, our object is to win the Super Bowl, year in and year out be there and compete for Super Bowls. We're going to make sure we get this right."

Not that the 49ers will spend like the Redskins but we want it said to show us that our owners have the want-to-win attitude.

Sorry to bring this up again. When I read York's statement, I thought if I was a 49ers fan I'd be thinking, "Hell yeah!". Instead of reading JR's letter and thinking, "WTF does this mean?" :(

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Why do so many people think that one year totally defines JR's philosophies?

He wanted to gear up for a lockout this year, it's obvious. Once the new CBA is in place he'll be back to normal. The FO still will probably not spend on big name FAs but he's not going to cheap out every year.

It's JR's business and fans don't know diddly about how to run a football franchise. He's a self made man and I respect him greatly for that, I will always trust his decisions.

He sacrificed a lot to gear up for the lockout and I question his judgment, but his motives are sound.

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The Panthers have signed no big impact guys over the past 3 years. It is fine to go with the draft but to be a winning team like Atlanta and New Orleans you have to spend to pick up the missing pieces. New Orleans has paid plenty to shore up the defense and it has paid. Atlanta has gone out and picked up Robinson in 2010, traded for Gonzales in 2009 and so on. They haven't gone hog wild like Washington but have picked up guys in key positions that have made them much better.

In order for Richardson to demonstrate he wants to win above all else we need to draft a QB, sign our young core and pick up a DT/DE and CB through trade or free agency rather than just drafting a guy and taking 2 or 3 years to develop them. Look at Godfrey, he is still not a force and he has had 3 years to develop. We have too many projects on this team and not enough proven pro-bowl kind of guys.

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by the time he was playing for us he wasn't really "big". He was just an experiment. If he could stay healthy that was an nice bonus but they weren't holding their breath.

Exactly, if Hackett was an example of a Carolina big name signing, it just reinforces how few we have made recently. He was never very good and injury prone. We took a flyer on him but that was it.

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That's what I meant. Our biggest recent FA signing was a decent #2 receiver. Panthers don't make big FA splashes typically. It doesn't work for the Redskins, but I think that's more because Dan Snyder seems to want to replicate a 3 year old fantasy team (Larry Johnson, Willie Parker, and Clinton Portis on one team would have owned in '07, so would have Joey Galloway)

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