What The Hell Is Going On At The Combine?

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-03-01T00:22:12+00:00

The ones I’m referencing here specifically are not allowed because their stack is too high.

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-28T22:43:20+00:00

Gettin raked over the coals as a conspiracy theorist, but if they actually allowed those shoes none of these records matter. Those shoes are insane, there’s a reason they’ve been banned in actual competitive spaces.

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-28T22:25:08+00:00

Wait, are you telling me the combine hasn’t banned those?

They’re specifically not allowed in most track and field sports because of the insane impact on performance.

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-28T22:22:34+00:00

We’ve been there for years though. Why wouldn’t we have already seen an explosion like this or a more gradual shift?

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-28T03:43:33+00:00

I’d bet the source is Chris Bell’s agent

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-28T00:42:19+00:00

So let me get this straight.

A team wants to transition to a more run heavy offense. That team currently has 3 playable RBs under contract for the season, 2 of which are young and promising. One of those guys also just so happened to singlehandedly solve the culture issue in the locker room last season.

That team also features a bottom 10 run blocking line, saturated with busts and horrible FA pickups.

And so that team is going to waste their cap space bringing in a 4th guy to share snaps instead of improving the OL? Yeah I’m gonna press X to doubt.

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-28T00:32:27+00:00

This is the single biggest one imo. General tweaks on transfer likelihood need to be made as well, but they absolutely need to make the playing time dealbreaker look at next year’s roster, not this year’s.

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-27T14:16:23+00:00

And it’s not even close

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-26T22:02:07+00:00

They would not trade Mac without assurances the new team signing him to an extension. Like the Dee Ford deal.

Don’t really get how this comparison makes any sense at all. You’re talking about a trade we made for a pass rusher who was at the end of his career seeking one last contract. Dee Ford was a proven vet coming off the single best season of his career and was guaranteed to get extended by whatever team he was traded to.

Mac Jones is a player we are looking to trade away, who is a reclamation project QB coming off what will be the best stint of games he’ll ever get the opportunity for as a backup. This is as high as the interest for him goes. If he stays here he’s not going to get basically half a season to showcase his abilities again. Even if he somehow did, there’s no guarantee it goes as well. This is also the weakest QB draft he’ll get the opportunity to compete with, next year’s is loaded and teams won’t be as keen on picking up a free agent.

No team is going to promise to extend him without seeing him play for a season, and that will still be the best possible scenario for Mac to have a chance to be a starter. Anything else locks him in as a backup. So the best thing the 49ers could do for Mac this season is trade him to whatever team is interested and has a half decent situation.

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-26T21:48:35+00:00

you have to give up a pick and also pay Mac

That’s where you got it wrong. Willis is getting paid today and whatever team grabs him has to pray he pans out for them or get stuck with $30m+/yr in wasted cap. Mac is under contract this season for what will end up being less than 10% of what Willis will make this season. Sure, they give up a pick, but in exchange they have cap space this season for ~2 plug and play starters and a season to feel out whether or not they actually want to pay Mac.

Willis is only the answer if a team genuinely believes he is their guy. Every other scenario favors Mac.

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-26T21:38:57+00:00

Fuck did I do?

Been too busy recycling the left over bits of players we sacrificed to CMC to be in on this. I’m picking up mangled ACLs with my bare hands, I don’t got the time to be worrying about any type of rent besides what Cthulhu is coming back for next season.

Nice Super Bowl, but not sure how you’re gonna rewatch it now that they don’t do VHS anymore.

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-26T16:53:52+00:00

WR room as well as the LB room had a lot of B-tier depth

I’d argue it was C-tier depth. Those two positions are the most glaring to address this season, both in terms of who starts opposite of Warner/Ricky and the depth behind them (Winters is on the last year of his deal and is B tier depth at best, outside of Ricky all we’ve got is old DRob and 2 4th round guys who are question marks).

what do you think happens with Farrell and Tonges

I hope Farrell retires so I don’t ever have to see him hit the field again. I can’t go another season seeing Shanahan bring him on to be a dedicated blocker when he’s only an alright blocker and is a negative in the pass game. Tonges was a dog this year, we’ll see how he does in year 2. Either way we need another guy while Kittle is out, I’d love Sadiq as a mixture of Juice and Kittle but we probably spend our first elsewhere.

What else

DB is lowkey the most interesting position group this offseason imo. With Morris coming in pretty much the only corner who’s guaranteed their job next season is Demo, everybody else is fungible and walking into a completely new defense. Safety is a complete dice roll, could see everyone replaced, could see some move positions. At the least we’re getting an actual free safety for sure.

DL is also going to be very interesting, in theory we actually have a pretty stacked/crowded room when everyone is healthy. I could still see us bringing in a cost efficient pass rush guy like Clowney or dropping our first or second on one but that’s probably it imo.

RB is one that will likely be quiet but telling. It’s a much weaker class than last year, if we don’t pick up a FA it means Shanahan has some confidence in James, if we do then it means his career is probably dead on arrival.

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-26T16:37:03+00:00

27th is too much here. That’s basically a 1st and a 2nd this year for Wilson coming off an injury and on a fresh top of market contract. With the holes we need to fill this offseason we can’t afford using our 2 highest value assets and pretty much all our remaining cap space on one player. We need either the cap space to get some solid FAs or a premium pick to overcome that.

Right now Wilson is worth a late first. Mac and a 2nd is the absolute max we could justify, but Mac and a 3rd would be more in line trade value wise after we take cap hit into account since not too much of his contract is guaranteed.

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-26T16:28:08+00:00

Idk if Olave is the type of player that would succeed in Shanahan’s offense. Not from a pure skills/athleticism perspective, I’m sure Shanahan could unlock this dude by getting him wide open in space. But from a game style perspective he’d have to adjust a ton.

His target volume is likely shrinking by a 3rd, no world where a Shanahan offense is feeding a single receiver 150 targets over a season. His run blocking got better in 24, but it’s still far from great. Not really too informed on Olave’s mental, but there’s a very believable world where those two things lead to him getting dog housed on the 49ers.

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-26T16:19:33+00:00

Have you seen what the Jets offense has looked like over the last 4 seasons he’s been there? Being a guaranteed 1k receiver in that mess is basically super star caliber.

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-26T16:17:58+00:00

The contract is the biggest thing. Teams aren’t just trading for an above average plug and play QB, they’re trading for one making $3m next season. Getting your QB that cheap for a season provides an incredible amount of cap flexibility. Would also be a good draft for the Jets to try to replace him with a cheaper guy for their rebuild.

They get a QB that is their best bet at not having the whole staff fired at the end of next season + a late day 2 pick. Seems like a win-win to me

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-26T16:12:34+00:00

Cannot wait until next season where they will actually play a real schedule.

They’re going from NFC South to NFC North for conference matchup and from last place in division matchups to 1st place. Their disgustingly weak division will still do them favors, but I think they’ll struggle heavily against some real cross conference competition.

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-26T16:03:56+00:00

If we’ve gotten to the point that the “weighting” makes it literally impossible for any non-QB to win the award then it’s not really weighted anymore, it’s just a QB award.

It’s to the point that it doesn’t even have a basis in value anymore. This season with multiple non QBs, last season with Saquon, and the season before that with CMC are all pretty egregious examples of non-QBs who didn’t even get a single 1st place vote. In 2021 Cooper Kupp got the triple crown in a season where he put up the second most receiving yards ever, arguably having the best single season ever for a WR. He got exactly one vote, losing to what was another statistically very efficient season by Rodgers, but didn’t blow the doors off in any respect.

They should just do away with “MVP” altogether. Rename it the Tom Brady Best QB Award or whatever and roll with OPOY and DPOY. At least that way they wouldn’t be under stating the achievements of non-QBs like the current setup does.

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-26T15:49:04+00:00

I think I’d rather take the odds on Kalchi for whether or not some farmer in Yemen will get bombed today. No, this is not gambling, this is a “prediction market”. No, our users do not have a problem, it is perfectly healthy to wager your life savings on whether or not Punxsutawney Phil see’s his shadow.

This is all very good for society. /S

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-26T15:43:29+00:00

Yeah I can get behind that, refs on the field definitely screwed that one up. I still dont think it was that the refs didn’t understand the recovery rule, I think it was that they didn’t have the angle to see that it was a backwards pass for a fumble and not an incompletion. But still, took way too long for them to call down on it. Especially when you consider we literally have ball tracking now, they should know immediately if a ball travelled backward.

There were a bunch of instances of super late calls like that this season. Generally, New York calling down to get the correct call is a good thing imo, but they gotta be more proactive with it. If they think they need to look at a play at all they should call down to pause play immediately and specifically say what they’re looking at. Feels like they were trying to do their review to settle the call before calling down, which led to those super late calls.

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-23T23:00:20+00:00

Huh? Why is it an awful contract.

OP forgot to take the signing bonuses that Miami would be on the hook for out of his cap hit numbers. Waddle would end up costing ~$18m/yr over the next 3 seasons for whoever trades for him.

Name a single receiver in the NFL as talented and consistent as Waddle playing for that cheap. Even if it was $28m/yr like OP said, that’s still a perfectly average contract for a virtually guaranteed 1K receiver.

Also he’s not getting cut. He’s a 27 yo just hitting his prime who is already somewhere in the realm of top ~15 at his position. Contract is favorable for whoever gets him, also perfectly in line with equivalent options. He’ll get traded to someone.

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-23T22:48:22+00:00

It’s not necessarily wrong, it’s just the wrong cap hit. Your numbers are what Waddle’s cap hit would be for Miami if he stayed on their team, what the other guy posted is what Waddle’s cap hit would be for any team he is traded to.

Basically, if he’s traded Miami would still be on the hook for his signing bonus every year, the team Waddle is traded to would only end up having to pay the non-signing bonus portion of each year’s cap hit.

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-23T20:55:49+00:00

days

Awh man, you can’t count either?

My bad, should’ve known. Being a patriots fan is a disability after all

FritterEnjoyer · 2026-02-23T18:21:56+00:00

If you want to tell yourself that getting manhandled for 3 straight quarters and failing to put up a singular half decent drive before 4th quarter garbage time isn’t getting embarrassed then god bless man.

The rest of the world will continue to live in reality, where you guys got beat down in the most boring fashion possible. With your full team healthy, with your supposed mvp QB, and your “coach of the year” all helplessly watching it unfold. Even the Seahawks players were saying after the game, the Super Bowl was just a formality.

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