2024 San Francisco 49ers, Boom or Bust?

[94Smith]

Kinda how you guys keep saying THIS will be the year a Kyle Shanahan team won't choke.

Like I always say in retort to this , it's easy to not choke when you are not even invited to the dinner.

 

[Torc]

This is Purdy's 3rd year, so why do they need to sign him to a major contract next year? He could easily playout his contract and then either resign with them or play on the franchise tag, as I don't see him going anywhere unless he completely falls apart.

From what i am hearing McCaffrey is being shut down for the preseason because of a nagging calf strain, the same calf strain that slowed him in the playoffs and super bowl last year. Those things can linger all season, not expecting much from him this year.

I don't necessarily feel like Purdy's contract is what will derail them. It is all the other's that need to be resigned. Like their starting CBs, Hufanga, Greenlaw, Deebo is coming up again, along with Kittle...I just looked it up and they will finally need to start making financial decisions on who stays and who goes.

Teams always sign important players before their final year starts, if they can. They're not technically signing a new contract, they're signing an extension, so (if I'm understanding the cap stuff correctly) signing them to their extension before their contract is up allows them to spread the cap hit of the signing bonus across another year, prior to any increase in actual salary. It also prevents their salary situation from being a distraction.

And you're absolutely right - I don't see them having problems signing Purdy. I see them having issues retaining the other high value players they have. That's the luxury a QB on a rookie contract gives you. We have first hand experience with that.

 

[94Smith]

Well, I didn't.

The whiners are the NFC West team to beat, and probably the NFC team to beat. This year. Next year, they start paying Purdy. Or do you think they'll be able to pay the highest paid offensive player AND the highest paid defensive player (Bosa) at the same time?

Purdy is likely to get an extension next year yes, it is likely to be really large. Apparently though, the beat writers claim it won't start kicking in for two years though? I have little understanding of the ins and outs of the salary cap however. For example, Tua Tugovailoa just signed his contract but his cap hit this year is 9 million and 2025 its 40 million. 2026 55 million. It will affect Charvarious Ward and dre greenlaw resignings next year. We will know shortly into this year if some of the new LB acquistiions can replace Greenlaw. A DB high round pick will likely occur in the 2025 draft. Deebo and Kittle are free agents in 2026, so could lose Kittle at this point. He will be 32 then, though. Deebo will be 30. Brandon Aiyuk would be 28 which is why I kind of wished they would have prioritized his contract, but that doesn't seem to be the case

 

[Maulbert]

Like I always say in retort to this , it's easy to not choke when you are not even invited to the dinner.

I'm sure that's kept you warm for 30 years.

 

[GeekHawk]

I'm sure that's kept you warm for 30 years.

Most important things for each millennium since the start of the Common Era:
First millennium - fall of Rome
Second millennium - the Renaissance
Third Millennium - Seahawks with Superb Owl 48

 

[Ostatehawk]

1991 would like a word.

 

[94Smith]

2014 was 10 years ago guys. Pete's gone, Wags is gone, Sherman retired, Earl flamed out, Chancellor was a bulldozer that bulldozed himself out of the league, Wilson flaked out, Lynch is making TV appearance. It's over guys. Man you are starting to sound like 49er fans in the down years of the early 2000s. Clinging to the past with little hope for the current season

 

[Maulbert]

2014 was 10 years ago guys. Pete's gone, Wags is gone, Sherman retired, Earl flamed out, Chancellor was a bulldozer that bulldozed himself out of the league, Wilson flaked out, Lynch is making TV appearance. It's over guys. Man you are starting to sound like 49er fans in the down years of the early 2000s. Clinging to the past with little hope for the current season

And 1994 was 30 years ago. We've established how time works. 49ers have the upper hand right now, no one has denied that. You're just playing your greatest hits of taunts because that's all you've got. No one cares how far you got if you don't ring the bell. 2 blown 10 point leads in the big game. And 25 as an OC. That's what people know.

Enjoy your Shanahanigans.

 

[Torc]

2014 was 10 years ago guys. Pete's gone, Wags is gone, Sherman retired, Earl flamed out, Chancellor was a bulldozer that bulldozed himself out of the league, Wilson flaked out, Lynch is making TV appearance. It's over guys. Man you are starting to sound like 49er fans in the down years of the early 2000s. Clinging to the past with little hope for the current season

Not one person here has mentioned any of those players or that era until you did. We're talking about the whiners here, and for the most part people acknowledge that they're the team to beat. That was in the first post. Then again, the Buffalo bills were the AFC team to beat for a good chunk of the 80s, and no one talks about them anymore.

Seahawks fans are totally in the honeymoon phase. We got the most coveted available coach in the offseason, who is specifically addressing some of the complaints people had about the previous coaching staff. It's the preseason, it's all about hope. We know darn well that we haven't seen how Macdonald's schemes will translate here with the personnel that are in the building. Not to mention how the offensive scheme will translate to the NFL. We get it. But...it's NOT over. it's just getting started. Pete's gone, no need to cling to the past, it's all about building for the future.

 

[Torc]

Purdy is likely to get an extension next year yes, it is likely to be really large. Apparently though, the beat writers claim it won't start kicking in for two years though? I have little understanding of the ins and outs of the salary cap however. For example, Tua Tugovailoa just signed his contract but his cap hit this year is 9 million and 2025 its 40 million. 2026 55 million. It will affect Charvarious Ward and dre greenlaw resignings next year. We will know shortly into this year if some of the new LB acquistiions can replace Greenlaw. A DB high round pick will likely occur in the 2025 draft. Deebo and Kittle are free agents in 2026, so could lose Kittle at this point. He will be 32 then, though. Deebo will be 30. Brandon Aiyuk would be 28 which is why I kind of wished they would have prioritized his contract, but that doesn't seem to be the case

I think that's because of the whole "it's not a new contract it's an extension" thing. His salary would stay the same (around $1 million) for the 25-26 season, the cap hit for that year would be the prorated part of whatever signing bonus he gets for signing the extension. Then in 26-27 his salary numbers (plus the prorated bonus) would impact the cap.

 

[IndyHawk]

That’s what you guys said last year . And the year before . And tbe year before . The only thing that would derail them from repeating as nfc west champs is injuries like 2020. After this year it’s all going to be about Purdy and draft success or failure

One year we will be correct

 

[rjas77]

2014 was 10 years ago guys. Pete's gone, Wags is gone, Sherman retired, Earl flamed out, Chancellor was a bulldozer that bulldozed himself out of the league, Wilson flaked out, Lynch is making TV appearance. It's over guys. Man you are starting to sound like 49er fans in the down years of the early 2000s. Clinging to the past with little hope for the current season

That’s true, but at least the Seahawks got a ring in this Millennia

 

[CouchLogic]

Nonsense aside...


SEA/SC throwback uniforms game is going to be badass.

 

[MORGULON]

Like I always say in retort to this , it's easy to not choke when you are not even invited to the dinner.

No my friend , we choked and we're not invited to dinner.

Your team is good and their going to do well . I'm pretty sure of it.

Yes , I still hate you.

 

[jammerhawk]

2014 was 10 years ago guys. Pete's gone, Wags is gone, Sherman retired, Earl flamed out, Chancellor was a bulldozer that bulldozed himself out of the league, Wilson flaked out, Lynch is making TV appearance. It's over guys. Man you are starting to sound like 49er fans in the down years of the early 2000s. Clinging to the past with little hope for the current season

OK 94, maybe so. Thanks for your superior reminders of how great thou art and how our team sucks

However notwithstanding your team's recent appearances in the post season, when exactly was the last time your guys actually won a Super Bowl? Oh yeah, 1995, LOL. At least our team has won a Bowl this millennium.

All world potential undoubtedly, but little delivery in the end from your Digits. Sooner rather than latter the wheels will start to fall off, of course then there will be the usual rationalizations. I wish your team nothing good and lots of bad luck.

 

[bileever]

And once again, despite CMC's injury and all the off-season contract squabbles, the 49ers came out looking like world-beaters. No Hufanga or Dre Greenlaw and their first-round pick gets shot the week before. But nothing stops the 49ers because Shanahan has clearly sold his soul to the devil.

Oh, and the thing that hurt the most: The 49ers pick an offensive lineman 22 picks after the Seahawks picked Christian Haynes and it looks like Dominick Puni is going to be a star:

Why 49ers Rookie Right Guard Dominick Puni is a Game Changer

Jordan Mason got all the glory when he ran for 147 yards and a touchdown against the Jets. But he couldn't have performed that well without rookie right guard D

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The announcers couldn't stop talking about him on Monday night. Ouch.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Yes, we know, the Niners float in midair. Blah blah blah.

 

[Hawknight]

But there was a time when we owned those Niners....LOB days were so so great! I"m hoping for a repeat with MacDonald

 

[Glasgow Seahawk]

Still think the window is open for as long as Trent Williams plays and when the Qb's future extension kicks in. Nothing lasts forever though and they've had a couple of shots at a ring.

It's a league set up so teams don't dominate. Teams eventually adjust, bad drafts etc. Chiefs window probably lasts until either Reid retires soon or Mahomes gets a bad injury/Kelce retires. They seemed to get through last year despite poor receivers.

 

[Chukarhawk]

9ers are loaded and look like they are on track for a super bowl run. That said, next year they have to start paying people. Steady decline after that.