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Jimbo
The Franchise Player
Everybody seems to think Shanahan and Allen have a plan, including themselves. Because it's impossible to improve the team through FA thanks to the NFL's, and North America's, biggest assholes it appears to me "The Plan" is to depend on our OWN players getting better. Is that REALLY a plan?
Most of us agree we need to improve the secondary and the RT spot. We lost Hall. He may not have been elite but we have yet to replace him with someone better. We appear to be replacing Polumbus with a couple of guys who, on paper, are more mirror images of him than improvements. And I'm sick of hearing about Compton. He's a freaking raw 6th round pick who didn't play a down last year and you're depending on him to fill a huge spot vacated by a guy who won't be back and another guy we spent a 2nd round pick on and cut.
We may or may not, depending on promises made for 2014, be losing Fred Davis. Yes we won without him but you have to wonder if our offense would have become even better throughtout the season had he not been hurt. Therein, lies the rub. We lost Rak, Davis, Merriweather and others to injury fairly early on and lost Jackson to suspension. Could having these guys back make us better? Possibly, but there are still holes and we've done NOTHING to fill them with better players than what we had.
We cut a starting CB and don't yet, and probably won't at this rate, have money to replace him. Do you REALLY believe the guys we already have on the roster are better? If so, why were we trying to acquire Aqib Talib, and God knows who else, with Monopoly money?
It looks to me, at this point, like we're hanging our hat on the players the team was able to retain, as well as this year's draftees. THAT'S "The Plan" and it's a HUGE gamble but what else can we do.. I just wish they'd stop saying ,"We have a plan" and just come out and tell the fans AND the mediots, "Because the NFL decided to play by their own rules and screw us without due process, and because we don't have the balls to go 'Al Davis' on their asses, we're not going to be players in FA until next season. We're just going to go out and fight with who we have and hope it gets the job done". THIS would give me a lot more respect for both Shanahan and Allen.
And while I'm at it.......DEATH to Goodell and DEATH to Mara. Fargin' Bastages.
This concludes this edition of "Rant On".
Most of us agree we need to improve the secondary and the RT spot. We lost Hall. He may not have been elite but we have yet to replace him with someone better. We appear to be replacing Polumbus with a couple of guys who, on paper, are more mirror images of him than improvements. And I'm sick of hearing about Compton. He's a freaking raw 6th round pick who didn't play a down last year and you're depending on him to fill a huge spot vacated by a guy who won't be back and another guy we spent a 2nd round pick on and cut.
We may or may not, depending on promises made for 2014, be losing Fred Davis. Yes we won without him but you have to wonder if our offense would have become even better throughtout the season had he not been hurt. Therein, lies the rub. We lost Rak, Davis, Merriweather and others to injury fairly early on and lost Jackson to suspension. Could having these guys back make us better? Possibly, but there are still holes and we've done NOTHING to fill them with better players than what we had.
We cut a starting CB and don't yet, and probably won't at this rate, have money to replace him. Do you REALLY believe the guys we already have on the roster are better? If so, why were we trying to acquire Aqib Talib, and God knows who else, with Monopoly money?
It looks to me, at this point, like we're hanging our hat on the players the team was able to retain, as well as this year's draftees. THAT'S "The Plan" and it's a HUGE gamble but what else can we do.. I just wish they'd stop saying ,"We have a plan" and just come out and tell the fans AND the mediots, "Because the NFL decided to play by their own rules and screw us without due process, and because we don't have the balls to go 'Al Davis' on their asses, we're not going to be players in FA until next season. We're just going to go out and fight with who we have and hope it gets the job done". THIS would give me a lot more respect for both Shanahan and Allen.
And while I'm at it.......DEATH to Goodell and DEATH to Mara. Fargin' Bastages.
This concludes this edition of "Rant On".
