Official San Francisco 49ers thread

[Kenage]

Re: Official San Francisco 49ers thread

I hope the Niners do the smart thing and let Wilson go. He doesn't help them at all.

[zappa55]

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As a Rice fan it would be nice to see him in a SF uniform but in reality it isn't worth bringing him back. I would welcome him back as an assitant coach for the WR and conditioning. The 49ers should still sign him for a day and let him retire as a 49er.

[zappa55]

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As a Rice fan it would be nice to see him in a SF uniform but in reality it isn't worth bringing him back. I would welcome him back as an assitant coach for the WR and conditioning. The 49ers should still sign him for a day and let him retire as a 49er.

[Kodiak33]

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Well if you read the news already, looks like we got NOTHING for T.O. They terminated Whiting's contract...

[Kodiak33]

Re: Official San Francisco 49ers thread

Well if you read the news already, looks like we got NOTHING for T.O. They terminated Whiting's contract...

[Kenage]

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They should have done the smart thing and taken the 3rd round pick. Another bad decision by the guys no longer in the organization. At least we can finally put the whole thing behind us and start fresh. I really hope they do something to fix the O-Line and if they cant get Peterson to sign a long term deal to trade him somewhere and get something that will help.

[Kenage]

Re: Official San Francisco 49ers thread

They should have done the smart thing and taken the 3rd round pick. Another bad decision by the guys no longer in the organization. At least we can finally put the whole thing behind us and start fresh. I really hope they do something to fix the O-Line and if they cant get Peterson to sign a long term deal to trade him somewhere and get something that will help.

[1StUnA]

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Looks like the niners are going hard after T Jonas Jennings and LB Edgerton Hartwell. So thats encouraging. But I would also like to see them go after Gray Baxter and Marques Douglas from Baltimore

[1StUnA]

Re: Official San Francisco 49ers thread

Looks like the niners are going hard after T Jonas Jennings and LB Edgerton Hartwell. So thats encouraging. But I would also like to see them go after Gray Baxter and Marques Douglas from Baltimore

[1StUnA]

Re: Official San Francisco 49ers thread

ERICKSON STILL COMING TO TERMS WITH 49ERS' FIRING

Former 49ers Coach Dennis Erickson struggled with the thought of a fall without football.

``It's been my whole life,'' Erickson said Tuesday in the memorabilia-filled den that served as testament to his words. ``I've never missed a season that I can remember. With my dad coaching, I was involved from the time I was in first grade.''

Fired Jan. 5 after going 9-23 in two seasons as 49ers coach, Erickson, 57, is taking an unwelcome break. It is the first time in 33 years of coaching, including the past 23 as a head coach at the major-college or NFL level, that he's not preparing for the draft or getting ready for spring football.

``The great thing about coaching is the camaraderie you have with other coaches and the times that you spend with the players. That's not there for me right now,'' Erickson said. ``It's really different for me and hopefully I don't have to go through any more than this year. But right now, it's a difficult time for me.''

Now, a typical day for Erickson includes a morning workout at a health club near his south San Jose home, talking with friends and colleagues on the phone and keeping up with football by surfing the Internet.

``If it's nice, I might go hit some golf balls,'' said Erickson, who has three years and $7.5 million remaining on his 49ers contract.

Highly successful as a college coach -- he won two national titles in his six seasons at the University of Miami and will be inducted April 6 into the school's hall of fame -- Erickson has failed to reach the playoffs in any of his six seasons as an NFL coach.

Obscured by last season's 2-14 disaster was how close he came in his first season with the 49ers. The team finished 7-9 in 2003 but suffered four narrow losses due to a poor kicking game.

That heartache would have been avoided, Erickson believes, if the 49ers had signed veteran place-kicker Todd Peterson instead of first-year player Owen Pochman. After trying out both, the 49ers opted for the youngster who proved to be worse than the man he was replacing, Jeff Chandler.

``It was basically a financial thing,'' Erickson said of former general manager Terry Donahue's decision to sign Pochman over Peterson. ``But the bottom line with kickers is you have to have a trust level that they're going to make the field goals they need to make. A veteran does that. It's hard on rookies to do that.

``In this league there's a lot of ifs and ands. There's times I think about it a lot. That first year, yeah, we had some chances. We had some play-makers. And probably we should have gone to the playoffs, but we didn't.''

As his first season was unraveling, the seeds for even greater disaster were being planted. Erickson said Donahue informed him near the end of 2003 that the team's biggest and best-paid stars would need to be sacrificed for salary-cap reasons. It wasn't long before Terrell Owens, Jeff Garcia, Garrison Hearst, Derrick Deese and Ron Stone were gone.

``One day, you're in pretty good shape, competing to get in the playoffs and then all of a sudden, boom, so many of those guys are gone,'' Erickson said. ``We lost a lot of leadership. That was what hurt probably more than anything.''

Asked if owner John York and Donahue, who was fired the same day as Erickson, told him that they understood the exodus would leave him and his coaching staff in a tough spot, Erickson had a terse reply.

``You figure it out,'' he said.

Q: Did they say anything to you like, ``We're all in this together?''

A: ``That was exactly what I was told.''

Q: Then, they told you they understood the difficulties you faced?

A: ``So they said.''

Erickson said he's not at all surprised that the 49ers now say their cap problems have eased, at least affording new coach Mike Nolan the opportunity to bring in new talent through free agency and the draft.

``It's always better for the next guy in,'' Erickson said. ``That's the nature of the game. We went from salary cap trouble to all of a sudden, they've got room.''

Despite some differences with Donahue, Erickson denied there was friction between the two. He said he has spoken by phone with Donahue a couple of times since they were let go.

``Everybody says there were problems, but there never was,'' Erickson said. ``I've got respect for Terry Donahue. He hired me and gave me an opportunity. It just didn't work out.''

Indeed, Erickson and Donahue found common ground, both citing the inability to replace Owens' offensive explosiveness as the biggest reason for last season's disaster.

``You don't replace somebody like T.O,'' Erickson said. ``You just don't replace guys like him, and Minnesota may find that out with Randy Moss. There's just certain people you can't replace and T.O. was one of them.''

Erickson, whose coaching career was thriving at Oregon State before coming to the 49ers, was asked if he would have done anything differently.

``No,'' he said quickly. But then he added, ``What I would have done differently is evaluated the situation before I decided to take the job. If I knew that some of these things were going to happen, I would have never left Oregon State.

``The reason I left was because of the great tradition of the 49ers. Bill Walsh was still around. You had Jeff Garcia and T.O. Heck, I came back into the NFL with the San Francisco 49ers because one thing I had not accomplished in my career was getting into the playoffs and going to the Super Bowl. I really felt this was the opportunity to do that. As it turned out, it wasn't.''

[1StUnA]

Re: Official San Francisco 49ers thread

ERICKSON STILL COMING TO TERMS WITH 49ERS' FIRING

Former 49ers Coach Dennis Erickson struggled with the thought of a fall without football.

``It's been my whole life,'' Erickson said Tuesday in the memorabilia-filled den that served as testament to his words. ``I've never missed a season that I can remember. With my dad coaching, I was involved from the time I was in first grade.''

Fired Jan. 5 after going 9-23 in two seasons as 49ers coach, Erickson, 57, is taking an unwelcome break. It is the first time in 33 years of coaching, including the past 23 as a head coach at the major-college or NFL level, that he's not preparing for the draft or getting ready for spring football.

``The great thing about coaching is the camaraderie you have with other coaches and the times that you spend with the players. That's not there for me right now,'' Erickson said. ``It's really different for me and hopefully I don't have to go through any more than this year. But right now, it's a difficult time for me.''

Now, a typical day for Erickson includes a morning workout at a health club near his south San Jose home, talking with friends and colleagues on the phone and keeping up with football by surfing the Internet.

``If it's nice, I might go hit some golf balls,'' said Erickson, who has three years and $7.5 million remaining on his 49ers contract.

Highly successful as a college coach -- he won two national titles in his six seasons at the University of Miami and will be inducted April 6 into the school's hall of fame -- Erickson has failed to reach the playoffs in any of his six seasons as an NFL coach.

Obscured by last season's 2-14 disaster was how close he came in his first season with the 49ers. The team finished 7-9 in 2003 but suffered four narrow losses due to a poor kicking game.

That heartache would have been avoided, Erickson believes, if the 49ers had signed veteran place-kicker Todd Peterson instead of first-year player Owen Pochman. After trying out both, the 49ers opted for the youngster who proved to be worse than the man he was replacing, Jeff Chandler.

``It was basically a financial thing,'' Erickson said of former general manager Terry Donahue's decision to sign Pochman over Peterson. ``But the bottom line with kickers is you have to have a trust level that they're going to make the field goals they need to make. A veteran does that. It's hard on rookies to do that.

``In this league there's a lot of ifs and ands. There's times I think about it a lot. That first year, yeah, we had some chances. We had some play-makers. And probably we should have gone to the playoffs, but we didn't.''

As his first season was unraveling, the seeds for even greater disaster were being planted. Erickson said Donahue informed him near the end of 2003 that the team's biggest and best-paid stars would need to be sacrificed for salary-cap reasons. It wasn't long before Terrell Owens, Jeff Garcia, Garrison Hearst, Derrick Deese and Ron Stone were gone.

``One day, you're in pretty good shape, competing to get in the playoffs and then all of a sudden, boom, so many of those guys are gone,'' Erickson said. ``We lost a lot of leadership. That was what hurt probably more than anything.''

Asked if owner John York and Donahue, who was fired the same day as Erickson, told him that they understood the exodus would leave him and his coaching staff in a tough spot, Erickson had a terse reply.

``You figure it out,'' he said.

Q: Did they say anything to you like, ``We're all in this together?''

A: ``That was exactly what I was told.''

Q: Then, they told you they understood the difficulties you faced?

A: ``So they said.''

Erickson said he's not at all surprised that the 49ers now say their cap problems have eased, at least affording new coach Mike Nolan the opportunity to bring in new talent through free agency and the draft.

``It's always better for the next guy in,'' Erickson said. ``That's the nature of the game. We went from salary cap trouble to all of a sudden, they've got room.''

Despite some differences with Donahue, Erickson denied there was friction between the two. He said he has spoken by phone with Donahue a couple of times since they were let go.

``Everybody says there were problems, but there never was,'' Erickson said. ``I've got respect for Terry Donahue. He hired me and gave me an opportunity. It just didn't work out.''

Indeed, Erickson and Donahue found common ground, both citing the inability to replace Owens' offensive explosiveness as the biggest reason for last season's disaster.

``You don't replace somebody like T.O,'' Erickson said. ``You just don't replace guys like him, and Minnesota may find that out with Randy Moss. There's just certain people you can't replace and T.O. was one of them.''

Erickson, whose coaching career was thriving at Oregon State before coming to the 49ers, was asked if he would have done anything differently.

``No,'' he said quickly. But then he added, ``What I would have done differently is evaluated the situation before I decided to take the job. If I knew that some of these things were going to happen, I would have never left Oregon State.

``The reason I left was because of the great tradition of the 49ers. Bill Walsh was still around. You had Jeff Garcia and T.O. Heck, I came back into the NFL with the San Francisco 49ers because one thing I had not accomplished in my career was getting into the playoffs and going to the Super Bowl. I really felt this was the opportunity to do that. As it turned out, it wasn't.''

[1StUnA]

Re: Official San Francisco 49ers thread

FA Frenzy on NFL network says Jonas Jennings is signing on to be the starting LT in SF with a 12 million SB


GREAT!!!!!!!!


SB is a little steep. BTW I took this off another board so if its not true don't shoot the messenger

[1StUnA]

Re: Official San Francisco 49ers thread

FA Frenzy on NFL network says Jonas Jennings is signing on to be the starting LT in SF with a 12 million SB


GREAT!!!!!!!!


SB is a little steep. BTW I took this off another board so if its not true don't shoot the messenger

[Brandwin]

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I just heard this right now and its true 1St. The top free agent Off Lineman on the market and the Niners land them. I hope they sign a few more "key" guys before its over.

Im loving it!

[Brandwin]

Re: Official San Francisco 49ers thread

I just heard this right now and its true 1St. The top free agent Off Lineman on the market and the Niners land them. I hope they sign a few more "key" guys before its over.

Im loving it!