tweets…around the league (starting 8/6)

dunno if this has been posted.   Mina Kimes starts the show on the Rams.

From the vid — …with all the talent, (Kittle, Purdy, Shannahan, Deebo, Aiyuk, etc) the 49ers had, they went 0 and 3 without Trent Williams.  12 and 2 with him.  With him they scored 32 points a game.  Without him 17 points a game.

Both Kimes and her guest agreed Williams had a serious claim to being the NFL MVP.

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wv wrote:

From the vid — …with all the talent, (Kittle, Purdy, Shannahan, Deebo, Aiyuk, etc) the 49ers had, they went 0 and 3 without Trent Williams. 12 and 2 with him. With him they scored 32 points a game. Without him 17 points a game. Both Kimes and her guest agreed Williams had a serious claim to being the NFL MVP. w v

Top Secret Update from my incognito position, deep in the heart of 49er territory:

On the flagship radio station this morning, there is some serious concern. Trent Williams is the glue, decidedly. They broke down all the other OL on the 9ers, and apart from Williams, the belief is that the OL is resembling the OL that Russell Wilson suffered behind in Seattle. While they value Aiyuk, and want him back, they don’t think his absence sinks the season. They do think that no Trent Williams = Lost Season.

Here’s the situation: Williams has no guaranteed money on his contract. Unlike Aiyuk, Williams is not making a scene. He’s in Texas. He’s told the 49ers that that is where he will be until he gets a new deal. No fanfare. Nothing. But the way Williams sees it, he’s the best LOT in the NFL, and he should be paid that way. The wrinkle is that the 49ers are going to have to give Purdy $60m/year at the end of this season, and Williams – with no guaranteed money – is an easy cut because ALL of his money would be freed up. No cap hit. So that’s his position, and not surprisingly, he doesn’t find that situation acceptable.

Signing Williams is going to cost some other guys on the roster, though (next year).

Bottom line is that the window is closing on this group, and a rebuild around Purdy is on the way. And they have a shaky OL heading into this season.

For those of you who don’t know much about football, shaky OLs are not helpful.

Zooey wrote:

…Signing Williams is going to cost some other guys on the roster, though (next year). Bottom line is that the window is closing on this group, and a rebuild around Purdy is on the way. And they have a shaky OL heading into this season. For those of you who don’t know much about football, shaky OLs are not helpful.

Yeah, they will be good as long as Lynch and Shan are running things, one would think, but their ‘elite’ status should end after this year.

I just hope they jump out of this years window, gracefully.

Like maybe blowing a 21 point lead in the playoffs to the Rams.   Ya know.

Shannahan 50-1 against McV in the regular season

0-2 in the Playoffs.    I could live with that.

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zn wrote:

Thanks for the report, it’s interesting to hear that stuff.

I thought so. Aiyuk is consuming all the media attention, but Williams is the far bigger issue for them. Aiyuk is good, but they have Samuels, Kittle, McCaffrey, and a stable full of other WRs, including a highly regarded rookie (who missed a lot of camp due to injury, but they like him).

Williams is the guy they HAVE to sign, or else. If they can’t get it done, they’re done.

BTW, the radio talkers are also starting to voice concern around camp. The radio talkers don’t like the tone. There’s a sense of weariness, in addition to the contract distractions. They’ve been to the NFC Championship game 4 of the past 5 years, and been to the Super Bowl twice, losing both times to the Chiefs – last year, in a spectacularly heart-breaking fashion. Their swagger is not apparent at the moment. It’s preseason, of course, and there is a long way to go, but guys are showing up to work with a little less enthusiasm, and the blabbers are concerned that the fact that all the 9ers’ hard work hasn’t “paid off” might translate to the regular season. That doesn’t “mean” anything, but it isn’t good. They don’t mention specifics, but just have noticed there isn’t the general bravado/chest-bumping/high-fiving stuff going on. FWIW.

zn wrote:

This is just an impression but it looked to me like their OL lost that game. I wonder if there’s blame and resentment going around about that.

I dunno, but the blabbers specifically mentioned that Williams did not play well in that game. They were stringing together basically the same observation wv made…

 the 49ers had, they went 0 and 3 without Trent Williams.  12 and 2 with him.  With him they scored 32 points a game.  Without him 17 points a game.

and then said “whatever happened to Williams” in the Super Bowl was uncharacteristic of him, but…yeah.

The bottom line of all this is that things are trending in a good direction here in NoCal.

nittany ram wrote:

I don’t think that Purdy is going to get that kind of money. He has great numbers because he’s a decent QB benefitting from Shannahan’s brilliance and the elite talent around him. But Purdy himself isn’t elite.  He’s a coached-up Case Keenum.  He isn’t worth top shelf QB money.

I spent all last year waiting for Purdy to reveal his limitations, but he got the 9ers to the SB. But the professional 49ers followers talk about Purdy the way we talked about Kurt Warner in 99. We saw it, and knew it was real, and laughed at all the detractors who said the Rams hadn’t played anybody yet, and Warner was benefitting from Martz’s genius, etc. The radio yakkers were laughing at the naysayers about Purdy last year. They watch him; I don’t.

So I don’t know. I keep waiting for the wheels to fall off Purdy, but they haven’t so far.

$60/million sounds too high to me, but $45m sounds like a floor to me. It’s going to be a lot of money, and he is going to take up a lot of room under the cap. The guy made $870,000 last year. He’s going to cash in next year at the going rate for a successful starting QB. Whatever the # is, it’s going to cost the 49ers elsewhere on their roster.

Zooey wrote:

Ricky Pearsall was released from the hospital yesterday, and didn’t need surgery for his injury. I don’t know how long it takes to recover from a bullet wound, but I guess it didn’t hit any organs, so no lasting damage. I would think he would be able to play this season at some point, although he was already behind because he missed a lot of camp due to injuries. Not a great start to his career, but at least the dude is alive and reasonably well, considering. Jeez.

that had to be scary. glad to hear no surgery was needed.

Brady is now an analyst.   But he’s also applied to be a part-Owner.    There’s a conflict.  NFL now sez he cant talk to players, coaches, etc, as an analyst.   And, he’s not allowed to criticize Refs.    Weird situation for a tv analyst.

I have to think that the bullet grazed him. If it hit him ANYWHERE in the chest, he would have had to have surgery. I think. There is no way he is in-and-out of the hospital in under 24 hours if a bullet went into his chest.

I decided to ask my idiot brother, and this is how it went: