NFL Week 8 -- Primetime blues

[Cosmo]

It would kind of send a shirtty message to QB2 as well, wouldn't it?
"This play is so dangerous that we don't want QB1 to run it. QB2, get in there! You're expendable!"

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!

 

[qtlaw]

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

 

[Cosmo]

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

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

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,

 

[Regan MacNeil]

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.

 

[qtlaw]

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,

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.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

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

 

[Cosmo]

I never got that sense from following the team.

 

[outofplace]

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

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.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

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

 

[DanOregon]

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?

 

[DanOregon]

Why would any coach sub out their QB1 on a play that puts that player at risk? Might as well announce that it's coming.

You're smarter than that, Dan.

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...