Man… You can find a scheme fit at EDGE up and down the draft. RB might be the most talented and deepest class I can remember.

I bet that is something they will be prioritizing going forward. They will lean towards experienced prospects who have high end football IQ/character (the multi-yr captain types)

One key factor is the type of players they bring in

2 hallmarks of the 2024 draft class was experience & football character

Each of the picks were at minimum 4 year college players & they all had stand out football character

Between pending FAs & an increasing aging/ballooning roster the 49ers are gonna have to fill a lot of spots in the offseason

Currently slated to have 10 draft picks & I suspect they will all of them (if not close to) plus they're gonna have to be aggressive in UDFA

DL, LB & OT would be my 3 biggest priorities going into the offseason

They have thrown bodies at LB position & depending on his return they do have the ability to re-sign Greenlaw

With DL they have the star (Bosa), depth/rotation players but they need another high end rusher

OT is depth/future

But because Hargrave is out for the season & things never worked out with Drake Jackson & others they are forced to play/depend on them more than they should

I suspect a major priority in the offseason will be addressing the DL but guys like Anderson & Okuayinonu will be a part of the rotation

So in regards to the DL it's my belief that the group hasn't underachieved but that it's incomplete

If Hargrave was healthy or if they had a true bookend opposite Bosa that the rest of the group would be better slotted

Collins ideally your 2nd or 3rd best IDL, Floyd is ideally EDGE3

Very fair point

Jed has really matured during his tenure and now has the right kind of perspective for the role

Kyle is making Jed & his family way too much money right now to even consider making a move along with bringing a stabilizing force to the organization

They are in the process of remaking the roster now

14 of the 23 players on defense that have played 10% or more of the defensive snaps are new or have less than 2 years of experience

They drafted 2 WRs, tried to rebuild the IOL & drafted a RB to pair longterm with McCaffrey

A length of the a contending window is largely dependent on how good a team is at replenishing its roster

People forget that only 8 players for 49ers played in both SBs against KC. That means that Lynch/Shanahan did a great job of remaking the team in less than 5 yrs

Some years you are the beneficiary of that luck, other years you aren't. It doesn't feel like their year. Its on them to rebound from that

It gives me a headache when people talk out of both sides of their mouths, they acknowledge how hard it is to a win a SB yet hold Kyle to this impossible standard

It fucking sucks that they haven't won a title, we all feel but we can't lose sight of how hard it is to get there

We have seen it with Kyle

During his time in SF the team has endured the lowest of lows (on & off the field) and (nearly) the highest of highs and everything in between and has never changed or lost the locker room

Of course I remember, very happy to be talking with you again

We don't even know what Ben Johnson is or isn't. We also don't know if he wants to be a HC right now. What happens when he is responsible for an entire operation? When he doesn't have a Dan Campbell to build the culture of a team

In other words

Kyle Shanahan isn't going anywhere & while he has flaws we should be lucky to have him instead of keeping to stretch for a HC of his caliber

I say all that in order to point to the fact that when you have a good to great HC you keep them and you view their time in totality and not just base decisions on a singular stretch of games

Clearly winning a SB grants you a certain level of leeway & time but its not always the greatest indicator of how good a HC is or their ability to recreate the same level of success that got that to the title

7 active HCs who have a SB

Reid
McVay
Pederson
Harbaugh
McCarthy
Payton
Tomlin

Reid/McVay/Pederson have won one since 14'

Of the other 4

Harbaugh has won 3 playoff games since 12

McCarthy has 6 playoff wins since 10'

Payton has 5 playoff wins since 09'

Tomlin has 5 playoff wins since 08'

Why the 49ers were determined to land Evan Anderson: 'Kept reminding me of D.J.' The competition for Anderson was intense, which is why he got so much guaranteed money. One of the teams the 49ers had to beat out: Seattle.

Why the 49ers were determined to land Evan Anderson: 'Kept reminding me of D.J.': The competition for Anderson was intense, which is why he got so much guaranteed money. One of the teams the 49ers had to beat out: Seattle.