NFL Week 8 -- Primetime blues

Sort of the same as digging into the bottom of your bag for that Pinnacle range ball you found on the course when having to clear a fair bit of water over a par 3. Not wasting a ProV1 on that!

 

Niners get Chase Young; hopefully this stud stays healthy (like McCaffery).

 

Young hasn't been a stud for some time. He's maddening to watch. Takes too many plays off.

 

I have nothing to back this up but gut feeling, but my gut feeling is the 49ers of the Shanahan era are going to be like the '80s Yankees: Continually going for it and never getting there,

 

If the Bears don't sign Sweat, Poles should be fired into the sun. But I think they will.

Also, I'm OK with the price. The odds are more likely than not that the pick the Bears sent to Washington will produce a worse player than Montez Sweat.

TL;DR, I'd rather have Sweat even with the money than whatever DE Poles could have drafted at 35 or whatever it ends up being. I also completely get why Washington made the trade. Can't pay everyone on that line, they already paid Payne and they have a lot of other holes to fill too.

 

I'm happy they're constantly going for it; as a fan I'm not demanding a dynasty, just another taste of a SB win.

And BTW, its not like the 49ers are trading for Mel Hall/Rickey (he was good), signing and overpaying Claudell Washington, Whitson and Andy Messersmith. McCaffery/Hargrave/Young are much different.

 

I'm just hoping a bunch of stories don't come out tomorrow about Sweat having issues in Washington like Claypool in Pittsburgh.

 

I never got that sense from following the team.

 

Was it such a surprise with Claypool? I imagine fans in Chicago might not have realized, but it wasn't surprising if you had paid attention to him when he was with the Steelers. I never understood that trade for the Bears, but I'm certainly grateful.

 

Not till after the fact. He wasn't really a household name.

 

Totally agree on the Sanders era Lions unis, particularly the pants - was the grey last night supposed to be "primer grey" as a nod to the Motor City?

 

Because Garrappolo is fragile. Saints did it with Brees. Oregon State had a guy last year, Jack Colletto - kind of a Taysom Hill type - usually he ran a QB keeper out of the gun, but sometimes he threw it. Yes you expect it, but if you have a guy who can actually run or throw...