Not everything, the CEO of 49ers, Jed York, told journalists at the meetings of the NFL owners, is worthy of disdain.
The NFL has structured its low season in a sense of the media to ensure that the League creates a lot of rumors from the end of the Super Bowl in February until the opening of training fields in mid -July.
Approximately five months, there is the combination, free agency, owner’s meetings, draft and programs of access to the required means that lead to the training camp. It keeps the League humming in terms of advertising and exhibition in the absence of real games. Invites and encourages legitimate to ridiculous speculation and beyond.
Then, when the 49ers use free agency to do spring cleaning by adjusting new names, their fans and media segments are worried. York spoke with journalists in Florida, the day of the innocents of April, nothing less, and his word salad was not well received.
Certainly, not locally when Buster’s car is shooting with the giants and trade of Jimmy Butler has given the Warriors Hope approaching the playoffs.
Basically, York put everything at the foot of Brock Purdy and his imminent extension of the contract now that the 49ers will face to pay a rate according to one of the 10 best quartbacks of the NFL. That should be somewhere between $ 50 million and $ 60 million per season. It is one of those classic low season stories: a national obsession with how much money will make some sprot no real football in the field.
It makes no sense. The teams have manipulated the salary limit for years to keep players who want to maintain and use an excuse to get rid of them who have survived their use. The 49ers can still reduce their CAP number with extensions to George Kittle and/or Fred Warner or another player who will be on the list this year and also probable next season.
If the 49ers wanted to change for the Cincinnati corridor Edge Trey Hendrickson, it would only take a few blows from the pen.
Where York spoke the truth was his opinion about how the 49ers approach failed to fill out the free agency’s vacuum. The signs and not signed dissect and analyze ad nauseam in contemporary and social networks.
“Fans care. You want to win, and when you are in a world where everyone is watching the NFL the first week of free agency, the first three days, it is a frenzy,” York said. “There is a great increase in social followers because it is something to participate. And when you are not too active, it is easy to say:” AW, you don’t want to win. “
The two notable defections were Dre Greenlaw supporter and Talanoa Hafanga security, who signed with Denver’s Broncos. Coach Kyle Shanahan and general manager John Lynch publicly regretted their outings. Left Unsid was the very real possibility that Denver might not get 10 games from each player.
Hufanga was an All-Rro of the first team in 2022, an honor based on some great games at the beginning of the season. In truth, it has been that player while fought against injuries and did not seem the part of a game change when he reached the field. The choice between Hufanga and the second year security Malik Mustapha really was not an option at all.
You can’t say the same as Greenlaw, whose spectacular half or football after returning from a torn Achilles was probably the highlight of the season. But Greenlaw quickly closed it and is an open question about whether his body will remain given his heart and his desire to play.
Apart from that, does anyone really saw the defensive rulers Leonard Floyd or Maliek Collins as the difference between winning and losing? How about the defensive Tackle Javon Hargrave or the Aaron Banks guard? The Tackle Jaylon Moore obtained titular money in Kansas City when it is better to be a backup back.
All were taxpayers. . . To a 6-11 season, which must be due to injuries or game quality.
Debo Samuel did a favor at 49ers requesting an exchange and grant it. The fact that the 49ers noticed so that Samuel returns on board tells him that they need to know what they thought about their 2024 season, and another as it could arrive in 2025.
The corner Charvarius Ward served the 49ers well, but the 49ers adequately learned demommodore Lenoir as their CB1 and signed a season extension that could be a bargain. They have the second year corner Renardo Green ready to intervene and start.
Free agency is the sale of garage from the NFL, a place to find a second closed wing (Luke Farrell) and a alternate field marshal (Mac Jones) that could be helpful. There may be a bargain or two, but there is also the possibility of buying the garbage of another person and then burying it in their own garage where it goes unnoticed.
The 49ers can still add some names of current free agents or those who become warning. But the most important currency is its 11 draft selections, which give them masculinity within the draft, as well as the canvas to change an agreement like Hendrickson if they wish.
The 49ers have done little to move the needle in the low season in addition to the negative perception that comes from losing their own players. But those players were warned for a reason, and it will be interesting to see how much there is the remorse of the buyer with the teams that signed them when the 2025 season takes place.
This is not 2024, when the final game was a Super Bowl, a dream that they have touched until the extra time of the previous year. Instead, it is a business plan designed to improve a 6-11 season.
There are few more boring things than a solid business plan with the siren call of the low season on the bottom of the NFL, even if it is right.
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