49ers Front Office Approval Rating: Who even gets the approval poll?

 Man, It’s like striking Niner Gold. If there isn’t one person to Honor, then praised them all !! What a Surprise ! Suddenly, they drafted correctly and are now signing FAs who can actually help. Keep up the good work and lets go into the season ready to take the Division !!!!

Personally, I was confused about some of the moves made in the draft, which I won’t get into, but it’s going pretty smoothly this offseason. Now, I would like to see some clarity on what the office structure is, but it doesn’t matter as long as it works. The old saying is, “you don’t fix what isn’t broken.”

I know Sing has some power built into his contract, as he should, but it goes to the extent of his roster and coaching staff. With McC gone, I think Jed is the only one who can force Sing’s hand on a decision like that. As far as an increased role, I think Sing is more of a scout in the draft and FA process than a GM or decision maker. I think he scouts the players he likes and passes along his thoughts to Baalke. Do you think Baalke knew who Will James was? He played against us and Sing saw that. He likely said to Baalke and Marathe that he liked that guy to come in and compete, same thing for Paymah.

As for Baalke’s role, I could see him being promoted to GM. It wouldn’t be a bad move, but I don’t think we necessarily saw a “Baalke” draft this year. Because they worked closely on the scouting trail, I would imagine Baalke asked Sing who he needed to win. With Sing personally scouting the players, he knew who and what he wanted, and Baalke gave it to him. I’m sure Baalke didn’t just let Sing determine who would be picked no matter what, but he gave his coach what he wanted. I’m interested to see if he is still here next year and how the draft shakes out, as well as free agency.

Either way, I don’t need a determined structure if we’re winning playoff games.

They picked at need positions, and were lucky enough to have 2 firsts to address the O-line. Mays could be a steal at #2. Curious about not addressing corner in the draft, but that could be a non-issue for 2011 if Clements delivers. Trading the 4th was possibly unnecessary, but Davis > Bulaga, and clearly that was the rationale.

They haven’t gone overboard on free agents, which I appreciate because it was a limited – and very overpriced – market.

Signing Willis now is a good move, and sets the precedent that the team rewards production. Hopefully Davis gets a nice deal next. A. Smith, Goldson and Lawson could earn themselves good deals based on this season.

Too bad the City of SF can’t get a new stadium built near Pac Bell to leverage the parking lots and transportation… especially after seeing how cool Seattle’s downtown stadium is.

I remember that for a while around the beginning of the Nolan era, San Fransisco was simply an undesirable place to be for players. Part of that is wins (and the environment it creates), and part of that is other things – coaches, traditional, location, etc. And while we have not gotten the wins, San Fransisco has become a more desirable place to be simply because of the changes in the front office. We did have the whole offensive coordinator debacle, but we compete very well for free agents, undrafted or otherwise. People say they want to play in San Fransisco, agents tell players that its a good place for them to go – and I think that’s more from Sing than anything, although he didn’t exactly hire himself.

It looks smart and it looks like someone knows what they’re doing. Now that the other McC has been dismiss from his chief scout position, The first chapter may have been completed. Are you still interested ?