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the latest clickbait to bait me into a click:

6 Biggest Losers Left Scrambling After NFL Free Agency Day 2

SF was one of the Six Biggest Losers. 12 free agents, out the door.

To the contrary, they are a winner.

1. They weren’t going to win the Super Bowl with the group they had
2. Dumping guys that weren’t going to help them achieve that goal puts them on track to immediately develop a team that can win a championship. 
3. The decks are now clear to, once again, start the quest for #6. 

The way the NFL is structured, teams have a window to win it all.  Once the window starts closing, the best teams quickly pivot to creating a new window.  The crappy ones keep trying to prop the window open.  

As Bill Walsh once said (paraphrasing), “It is better to let a guy go one year too early than one year too late”.

Agreed. The Niners were getting too old, too expensive to spend big on free agents. Teams like the Ravens and Chiefs have shown that to sustain success, you need to be ruthless about casting off older, non-elite talent, and keep infusing with youth and cost control through the draft. 

As a general rule, early free agency contracts are overpays. Yes the cap is going up, but guys like Banks and Moore are below average players, being paid like above average talent.  Huff was always overrated due to the splash play factor, but was weak in coverage, and Greenlaw is very good, but may or may not get back to that level. For a linebacker losing a step can take one from elite to mediocre. That's not how you build for long term success. 

You draft your core, you supplement with undervalued parts at the free-agency aisle (see ward's first contract), and pounce when you get the opportunity to add elite talent at the right price like we did with CMC and Trent. To that end, I like the Demarcus Robinson signing as a solid WR2-WR3 for WR4 money. 

I am cautiously optimistic that coaching and special teams improvements, combined with some reversion to the mean on injury and red zone luck, will lead to a successful season.

"Ruthless" has to be one of the most important attributes for any professional team manager.

[GK3]

1741808755[/url]']
the latest clickbait to bait me into a click:

6 Biggest Losers Left Scrambling After NFL Free Agency Day 2

SF was one of the Six Biggest Losers. 12 free agents, out the door.

To the contrary, they are a winner.

1. They weren’t going to win the Super Bowl with the group they had
2. Dumping guys that weren’t going to help them achieve that goal puts them on track to immediately develop a team that can win a championship. 
3. The decks are now clear to, once again, start the quest for #6. 

The way the NFL is structured, teams have a window to win it all.  Once the window starts closing, the best teams quickly pivot to creating a new window.  The crappy ones keep trying to prop the window open.  

As Bill Walsh once said (paraphrasing), “It is better to let a guy go one year too early than one year too late”.

Agreed. The Niners were getting too old, too expensive to spend big on free agents. Teams like the Ravens and Chiefs have shown that to sustain success, you need to be ruthless about casting off older, non-elite talent, and keep infusing with youth and cost control through the draft. 

As a general rule, early free agency contracts are overpays. Yes the cap is going up, but guys like Banks and Moore are below average players, being paid like above average talent.  Huff was always overrated due to the splash play factor, but was weak in coverage, and Greenlaw is very good, but may or may not get back to that level. For a linebacker losing a step can take one from elite to mediocre. That's not how you build for long term success. 

You draft your core, you supplement with undervalued parts at the free-agency aisle (see ward's first contract), and pounce when you get the opportunity to add elite talent at the right price like we did with CMC and Trent. To that end, I like the Demarcus Robinson signing as a solid WR2-WR3 for WR4 money. 

I am cautiously optimistic that coaching and special teams improvements, combined with some reversion to the mean on injury and red zone luck, will lead to a successful season.

"Ruthless" has to be one of the most important attributes for any professional team manager.