rlkats":3012fqo9 said:
As a niners fan Id like to say they should. But there are a ton of holes. The Rams are the 2017 version of the the Niners in 2012. All they needed was a good head coach. Jeff Fisher built that team and that is it. Just like Dingleberry. Harbaugh gets zero credit for building the niners.
I hope your statement is true but Id be happy with an 8-8 season.
Yeah, the Rams this year to the 9ers in 2012 is a really good comp.
This 9ers team has nowhere near the talent to make a major leap next year.
While it's true they've won three in a row, they've done so by an average 4 point margin against two other bottom feeding teams (the Bears, and Texans w/out a QB) and probably one of the most overrated teams this year (Titans).
Even if none of this year's rookies show an ounce of improvement and can just stay steady this will have been a very, very solid "building blocks" draft for them -- not a team-changing world-beater draft like the Saints just had, but a very solid one -- but once you eliminate all of the silly fanspeak about "promise" I don't think they have a SINGLE position group in which you could safely say they're even above average going into next year (I guess you could say RB because of Hyde, but he's a FA).*
*For 9ers fans who won't like this statement, by position groups I mean whole groups, so like, they're definitely above average at the tackle spots, but not safely above average across the whole O-line because their interior line play is a disaster. Garcon, Goodwin and Taylor might be right around average too, Buckner and Foster are both individually very good, Reid is average and Colbert and Spoon have upside, etc., etc.