Jacob Wilson....I assume that's his name? Doesn't ring a bell....but my father might know him, perhaps. He's way more involved in our 49er Club than I am. Good post. I like what we have with Ahkello Witherspoon, the Corner we drafted last year. That dude is gonna be elite for sure. If we could draft another Corner (Johnson must go!), and maybe a pass rusher, that would be awesome. Or move Jimmie Ward back to Corner; he did alright there, but he can't stay healthy. I'm gonna miss Staley when he retires. I hope he makes it into the HOF. Hopefully Trent Brown heals well from his recent shoulder surgery, and steps up his development. And we need Joshua Garnett to not be a bust. Please God, don't be a bust Josh.
You do realize the Bay Area teams were the closest teams to Portland for both baseball and football until the late-70’s, right? That means for many, like my dad’s generation, they grew up rooting for Bay Area teams. Then, their kids came up rooting for the same Bay Area teams, one, because it’s common to follow the teams of your parents and, two, the Seattle teams suck.
Garnett sure looks like a bust up to this point, even when healthy I wasn’t very impressed. I do know that I trust Lynch a hundred times more than I ever trusted Baalke. Thank god that dudes gone. There’s a lot of potential on the defense, I REALLLY like Foster when he’s healthy. He could be as good as Willis.
Definitely agree that Baalke was horrible. Yeah, thank God that dude is gone! I'm kind of on the fence with our Defense. I have never been sold on Armstead; I thought he was a 4th rounder, not a 1st. And he's shown me nothing to make me think otherwise. I think we should trade him to another team and draft Chubb. Him and Buckner would tear shit up. Also wasn't impressed with Thomas. I thought he was worth a 2nd or 3rd round pick. He's too small to play interior, and he's too slow to play on the outside. Just my opinion. Foster.....if he can stay healthy and "stay OOOOOFFFF the WEEEEEEED", then yeah: he'll be an All-Pro for sure. He could definitely benefit from having Willis there to mentor him; both on the field and off. I wonder if the coaching staff would be up to having Willis coach up our Linebackers and mentor Foster? That would be fucking awesome.
That's my take. Bandwaggoners my dad's age gravitated to DAL and PIT. Bandwaggoners my age went with the 49ers. Bandwaggoners my younger cousins' age went with Green Bay and New England. Bandwaggoners in SEA got lucky with the last decade of the Seahawks, such that people who didn't know that Jim Zorn was a QB before a fired coach now wear a 12th man jersey and think they're the shit b/c they're popping $12 Pyramids watching one of the best defenses of all time. I don't hate the Niners. I really liked watching Joe Montana and Jerry Rice (even when I was a kid living in CA, I still liked the Seahawks, but we got 49er games so I watched them a lot. And they were pretty damn good). It sickened me when Navarro Bowman got crunched in the NFC Championship game.
Oh man! I was a 49er since TV games began. YA and the boy were it! Then it was a long painful drought until we got Joe Montana. Of course that coach was kinda special too. The world changed and it was good!. Then we got.... Fuck! Done with Football.
That long painful drought was somewhat eased by John Brodie and Gene Washington. Very good players I always felt kinda sorry for. Their team was decent, just not good enough.......their misfortune to be in the same league at the same time with Green Bay and the Purple People Eater Vikings......
It's actually just a personal thing. My grandfather had season tickets to the 49ers. When i was very young he took me to my first football game at the Stick. John Brodie was the starter back then. We are talking a while ago so i just have a personal bias against the Cowboys because of course they were always the ones that beat the Niners. On the flip side of that i was always a Steelers fan during the playoffs so i could root against the Cowboys.
My grandfather was also a 49er fan. In fact I'm the 4th Generation of 9er Faithful in the family. My father had season tickets for 10 or 12 years to the Stick, from 1978 until 1990 (or thereabouts). Same seats in the end-zone. He was there when Clark made "The Catch".
That would have been awesome. That was the very game they finally put the Cowboys to rest for a while.
