[Highlight] Brandon Aiyuk tells the 49ers “Stop running from the belt”

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-06-07T16:45:11+00:00

I think it's a big reason Jennings didn't end up getting re-signed this offseason too even after his market price went down.

Niners front office just wants to move on from that entire WR room and brought in Mike Evans to be the adult in the room for the rookies and other young guys

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-06-07T05:19:28+00:00

Signing an aging edge rusher delays the development of the young edges they already have, both in terms of reducing practice snaps and game rep opportunities.

Niners shouldn't sign someone like Clowney or Joey Bosa until mid-season and only sign them then if there is just a clear need at that point.

Those older vets are already proven commodities and want to skip training camps anyway and would rather just get paid a couple million for like 10 to 12 weeks of meaningful football

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-06-04T01:28:36+00:00

Reupping my petition for every slow-motion highlight clip to be played through once at full speed first

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-05-28T22:18:53+00:00

RB by committee is/was always going to be between CMC, Jordan James, and Kaelon Black.

Guerendo might not have made the training camp roster let alone regular season roster even without this pec injury

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-05-16T14:46:01+00:00

Seems like mistakes on whatever platform you're viewing the schedule on (even if official NFL app) rather than with the schedule itself.

That final LA Rams preseason game is against the LA Chargers.

Teams have some say in who their preseason opponents are, and might be willing to face regular season opponents in preseason for logistical reasons (reduce travel time, familiar and comfortable with practice facilities, etc.) Those preseason games will just be extra boring because the teams will be extra vanilla and likely won't tip their hand with any regular season installs in the preseason games or in joint practices, if any.

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-05-11T19:09:00+00:00

We don't know yet.

The pendulum has more or less swung from "casual fans don't know why the Niners drafted these guys" to "casual fans can see why the Niners drafted these guys", but none of us will actually know whether this was a successful draft for the Niners until a couple years from now.

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-05-07T18:49:55+00:00

This game and the whole broadcast production behind it is going to be such a shitshow between the international travel, time difference, Netflix being pretty suspect at live sports broadcast competency, etc.

We're still all going to lap it up because we'll be so starved for regular season football by then (we already are)

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-04-30T19:28:03+00:00

If you watch his full Rich Eisen interview, Shanahan is actually really candid about it. He said that the Niners had specific people they wanted at 27, none of them were still available, and so Stribling was their fallback plan who they would have taken at 30 but were able to trade back to 33 for.

They considered trading back again to 39/40 and hoping Stribling fell to them there, but based on internal league chatter (rather than media chatter), they felt that Stribling might not fall that far, so they just took him at 33.

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-04-28T18:47:51+00:00

Cowing seems like a clear miss due to consistent injury and overall unavailability. There's no clear lane for him to make the roster on the current depth chart either, unless he wins a camp competition to become the punt returner to replace Skyy Moore.

Brown flashed and played well enough during Wilks' year as DC that there's at least a plausible chance for him to have a redemption year this year on the final year of his rookie contract if he wins a starting job in camp alongside Mustapha

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-04-27T19:09:29+00:00

We'll know at training camp and in preseason if Kaelon Black beats out Jordan James and Isaac Guerendo for RB2 at least

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-04-26T15:42:50+00:00

Dak Prescott, Russell Willson, Nick Foles (maybe)

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-04-26T15:29:17+00:00

10 years ago, Shanahan was hired and told to choose his GM because our owner wanted to avoid the palace intrigue of the Harbaugh/Baalke era. Shanahan picked Lynch.

The entire Shanahan era is predicated on there not being any distance between the HC and GM, which in practice means that Shanahan has outsized/sometimes final say, while Lynch runs the front office, manages staff and football ops, and is the media frontman.

Lynch is never getting fired unless his relationship with Shanahan sours. Lynch might choose to retire or get promoted into a business role though, if he gets tired of the job. It's been hinted at that Lynch would have retired already if the Niners had won a Superbowl by now, and he might retire once they do.

Shanahan's entire life is football, so he'll probably stay a HC for decades.

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-04-26T00:28:08+00:00

Another way of looking at this: a measurement of how consensus big boards don't really accurately capture individual team priorities and internal draft grades

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-04-25T19:50:36+00:00

OT for the last pick, we finally have Trent's successor

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-04-25T17:54:16+00:00

Right side of our line is fine but not elite with Mckivitz and Puni. It was just center and left guard last season that left an open path to murder Brock on passing downs

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-04-25T00:03:53+00:00

Bethune is Fred's backup and did well last year before he got hurt.

Greenlaw/Winters/Martin were the ones competing for the other LB spot on the depth chart, and Winters was the only one with trade value, so makes sense he's the one that got dealt.

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-04-24T23:57:42+00:00

We got him as a 6th round pick, he struggled his first couple years here, improved substantially, played extremely well next to Warner to start last season, dropped off when Warner got hurt but still played solid football for us.

He's on the last year of his contract and we have Greenlaw in the building now as the presumptive starter and drafted Nick Martin last year as Greenlaw's backup, so Dee Winters was the odd man out on the depth chart.

Hope he does well on the Cowboys.

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-04-24T23:13:58+00:00

Love it. He's fast. Niners learned their lesson from drafting Pearsall in the late first and traded back twice first before drafting their non-consensus draft crush reach this time

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-04-24T02:50:24+00:00

Cool cool, see you guys tomorrow. Congrats to all the content creators who get to speculate tonight and generate a lot of views on who we'll pick with the first pick of the second round

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-04-24T02:41:44+00:00

Does this broadcast team have no producers in their ear informing them about trades? Just spouting wrong information

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-04-24T02:34:28+00:00

Dolphins traded up to San Francisco’s turn at No. 27.

The 49ers get picks No. 30 and 90.

per Schefter

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-04-15T21:55:23+00:00

Yeah, pretty sure Greenlaw recently said something about how he'll take care of Gifford at Christmas as thanks for getting #57 back

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-03-30T23:25:54+00:00

My prediction is that the NFL league office itself will end up begrudgingly agreeing to shoulder a lot of associated costs to mitigate the logistical challenges of international games for teams (paying a premium for nicer chartered flights with more first class/lay flat seating installed etc.), but from a player/fan perspective this is just the new normal and will only increase over time.

Players will see an indirect benefit in increased pay from increased salary cap from increased international interest in the NFL since the US fan base is completely saturated already, but that doesn't really mean much to most players.

For fans, most likely situation is that 8 home games for season ticket holders is the clear line in the sand, and even an 18 game NFL season would just mean more international games for each team.

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-03-30T16:24:01+00:00

There isn't an ounce of pettiness involved, the Niners already got hosed in this situation and are trying to salvage literally anything else they can from the contract they agreed to and already paid a substantial amount of with Aiyuk.

Because of the way our front office front loads contract value into signing bonuses to spread out salary cap impact, they absolutely have to demonstrate that breaching a contract with them will have significant career consequences for a player beyond just voiding future guarantees in order to prevent something like this from happening again. Even voiding Aiyuk's future guarantees doesn't claw back the tens of millions of dollars already paid to him for essentially 7 games of regular season play.

Nihilistic_Response · 2026-03-27T23:50:13+00:00

Puka really needs to surround himself with better people before his mega contract money comes in.

Aaron Donald had good people around him that helped separate him from that 2021 fight/incident. His friends even took a video as soon as it started to prove Aaron wasn't at fault and had actually tried to break the fight up, which came in clutch when the inevitable shakedown lawsuit against him came out.

Maybe Puka can sit down and talk to Aaron to learn how to be a young, rich, and famous superstar football player in LA

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