Two shotgun QBs.

You’d take Rosenfels over Smith/Hill?
Really?
I guess you love losing in style or something.

I’ll get to the QBs in a bit…but for now: every single offseason the last 7 years has been pathetic? Signing Justin Smith, Allen Rossum, Isaac Bruce and Takeo Spikes last offseason were awful moves? We can get into the other offseasons later, but for now please explain last offseason’s “pathetic-ness.” Maybe they didn’t sign some guys you might have wanted, but can you really call last season’s haul pathetic?

As for the QBs, could you tell me how exactly Kyle Orton and Sage Rosenfels are better options than what we’ve got?

I wouldn’t take JeMarcus Russel for damn sure over either of our QB’s. Then we also have the continously fading marc bulger. Throw in a little Delhomme and Trent Edwards form the Bills and how about Jason Campbell. I’d take Hill over all these suckas, period. And Flacco was a fluke. We by far do not have the worst QB situation in this league. And our offseason was above average and very close to GOOD.

Raiders, Rams, Bucs, Jets, Vikings, 49ers.

Tampa and NY are clearly going into a season where they shouldn’t expect much immediate success from the QB position, but will likely advance to a league-average level within a year or two.

The Rams are a franchise in disarray with a decaying past-prime QB that has no supporting cast and no one waiting in the wings.

The Raiders have cause for concern because their supposed QBotF has shown very little progress in two years, and while their skill position players look good on paper, the unit as a whole seems to be very non-supportive of a sub-par signal caller.

The Vikings have shown no faith in their returning starter, and have already made public attempts to replace the guy they brought in with a dinosaur coming off of a meh season and an injury to his old-and-busted throwing arm.

The 49ers are in a position where they’re left to choose between a mediocre stop-gap with less than a year of starting experience and an already-acclaimed bust.

Teams that are just as bad, if not worse:

Vikings – That offense is stacked and all they need is a mildly competent QB to hold things down, and they proceed to trade for Sage Rosenfels. Sage Rosenfels. Really, Brad Childress? Tarvaris Jackson was a 6th round talent reached on in the 2nd, he’s just about established he’s terrible.

Tampa – Their outlook for next season at QB is pretty bleak, but I’d give them the edge over the 49ers; Byron Leftwich looked fairly good in spot-duty last season, McCown isn’t terrible. But most importantly, they have a QB of the future which leapfrogs them far ahead of the 49ers, especially in the long0term.

Honorable mention goes to the Rams, I guess. Bulger has been terrible recently but he might bounce back next season if the running game explodes and the defense doesn’t blow leads all the time and he doesn’t have to go all Air Martz like he did before.

…So, yeah. Maybe the 49ers don’t have the absolute worst QB situation but it’s pretty down there, likely bottom 3.

PS: To those indignant about the Raiders: They signed Jeff Garcia who is probably still a competent starter if Russell doesn’t work out.

I mean Brady’s knee is not looking too good to me, and now they don’t have Cassel to fall back on anymore. Makes me appreciate Shaun Hill and Alex Smith more and more.

I’ll admit, I prefer Alex’s physical skills over Hills, but hasn’t Hill proved that he is a winner? I’m not even going to rehash the same old stats, but he is a winner. He makes things happen, even with a horrible play caller like Martz calling seven step drops every other play. Having said that I have a lot of faith in Hill, has everybody forgotten how good Smith looked those first few games of the season before the fat !)(^&(*^#$% piledrived him and separated his shoulder? He has the arm and the legs to be a great quarterback in this league. He has the physical and mental toughness to come back from the circus that was supposed to be his support during his injury. I’m not being overly optimistic (I don’t think), just realistic in assessing that he has the physical tools, and merely needs to grasp the mental side of the game. If not, I’m confident Hill can bring us some wins. I definitely prefer him over any rookie, or bust like Tavaris Jackson.

Hassleback should be there too

i think the 49ers have the worst qb situation in the league. lol 9ers fans are so delusional because we’ve sucked for so long. we keep trying to be optimistic and accept how wack our qb’s are while fans of good teams laugh their butts off when we say he have a decent qb situation. we don’t. & this long drawn out qb competition sucks. we’re all optimistic because of last year’s strong finish, but seriously, with these wack qb’s we’ll get 8 or 9 wins at the most.

I like Shaun Hill he’s a gritty, competitive guy. He dives head first without a helmet. At the very least, he’s a great back up. I want to see him with a full season as starter, just to see what he can do. He may not be flashy, but he’s a leader.

I’m warming up to Alex Smith finally. He restructured his deal for back up money in order to give it another shot with the team. Smith didn’t have anywhere to go to start, but you can bet he wouldn’t be unemployed had the Niners cut him. We can blame his shoulder for his woes, his offensive co-oridinators for his woes, or the fact that he’s a spread QB. 2009 is a fresh beginning for Smith, and he deserves it.

Nate Davis is a nice project that could be a steal, at least according to scouts. He’s not being rushed, and likely won’t have to start anytime soon, so hopefully he gets developed. Davis will likely be the starting QB in my madden franchise (91 TP).

We don’t have the best situation at all. I’d have to say Minnesota is the worst. That’s a team chasing down an aged veteran who is likely washed up (looking at 2008’s final 6 games anyway). They have Tarvaris Jackson, John David Booty, and Sage Rosenfels. Personally, I like Rosenfels over Favre, Jackson and Booty, and I think the Vikings are crazy to pursue an ancient Favre.

While Rosenfels isn’t anything spectacular, I think he could be a good enough game manager in an offense that features Adrian Peterson.

Which is why I’m comfortable with Hill or Smith. Our offense features Frank Gore, not the quarterback.

I would say that the Bucs have a worse QB situation. 5 QBs? How would practice even work? First they have Brian Griese. A 34 year old quarterback that has started a pretty good amount of time. Then Byron Leftwich, a 29 year old QB that had some success but has had injury problems. Then Luke McCown. A 27 year old QB with farely little experience. He has had some starting time as well. Then you have Josh Johnson. A second year player. In college he had a year where he threw 43 tds and 1 int. That was at a div II school so don’t be too excited. Than Josh Freeman. They traded up like 2 picks to draft him. Last year Hill was never with the first team offense in the preseason games (or at least I dont think so). How could you even evaluate 5 Qbs at the same time? Hill and Smith might not be the best 1st and 2nd QB but our Qb situation isn’t a jungle.

Shaun Hill is not going to throw as many TD’s as Manning, given, he’s not gonna throw as many picks as Favre and he’s not gonna give the game away like plenty quarterbacks rated higher than our corp. The guy has a 2 to one td to Int ratio. Of course he sat the pine for a few years, we all know this. He hasn’t had a full season, so is it fair to say these lame QB’s just getting by (Delhomme, Edwards, and Russell who’s not even getting by) are better?? If wins aren’t a stat to measure QB’s by, number of starts shouldn’t either. Let’s take into consideration how many of these QB’s have been in the SAME system for multiple seasons and they don’t have a 60 percent completion rate or 2:1 td:int ratio.

I can’t rank our QB situation, when I don’t know the starter. Maybe Singletary wants to push Hill more with the presumption of Smith possibly starting. It’s also possible for Hill or Smith to have better seasons because they are surrounded by more talent!! Jimmy Raye who is the unknown OC, is a former QB from the old school, hence the phrase use that TE, and balance in the RB with the Pass. This guy was the coordinator in Grbac’s best season as a QB, and I always thought he sucked!!

Is that what you’re referring to?

but for a FG, #%@#en Nolan