49ers 2010 Roster Moves: Nate Davis clears waivers
by David Fucillo on Sep 8, 2010 1:59 PM PDT
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PrintFooch's Update: Well it is now official. The 49ers announced they have signed Nate Davis to the practice squad and released QB Jarrett Brown.
There hasn't been official word from the 49ers, but Matt Barrows is reporting on Twitter that Nate Davis has cleared waivers and the plan is to sign him to the practice squad. Additionally, since the team wouldn't keep two quarterbacks on the practice squad, Jarrett Brown would seem to be the odd man out.
This certainly goes to show the thoughts around the league on Davis, as far as 53-man rosters are concerned. If he ends up on the practice squad, Davis can sign with any team in the league at any point. However, if a team signs him they have to place him o their 53-man roster for 3 weeks (I believe that's the time frame).
If and when the 49ers send out official word on this, I'll update the story.
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well now I feel great about this
I really like T Smith but I wanted to see the team give Nate another year with a fire under his ass. This worked out perfectly. He wasn’t gonna play this year anyways and he’ll still get to learn on the PS.
He's back
Nate Davis is still our future!
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
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by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 2:06 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
They got lucky!
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
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by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
They took a risk
Got lucky
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
"I'm just like you, but 10 times better"
by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 9:13 PM PDT up reply actions
L-U-C-K
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
"I'm just like you, but 10 times better"
by SportsChicken on Sep 9, 2010 12:01 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe Niners can sell tickets to attend the Pratice Squad...
…practice. Then the Nate Davis fans can see The Future In Action and send regular updates….
Surpised he cleared waivers
Thought for sure a team would pick him up.
"Too much awesome on my feet."-Brian Wilson
"Time for the laser show, boys!"- Aubrey Huff
Not very surprising
For a third QB in the 53-man roster at the beginning of regular season, NFL teams as a rule do not pick up a project QB who (1) has no regular season experience, (2) could not learn an offense in 16 months with the previous team. They look for experienced QBs who can pick up a new offense quickly, and step in with very practice with the first team in the outside chance he would be needed.
Jason Whitlock is a liar
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
"I'm just like you, but 10 times better"
by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Yaaay, I was right again.
God it feels good. Also, I’m a little surprised that Brown was technically released yesterday. Confidence.
And then God created Saturn... and he liked it, so he put a ring on it.
Twitter me and what not.
You weren't 100% right
You said that you were sure he wouldn’t be claimed off the PS.
You weren’t so sure he would clear waivers initially.
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
"I'm just like you, but 10 times better"
by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 3:02 PM PDT up reply actions
I was the first one to even explore the possibility that...
1. He would be cut and 2. That he would make it to the PS.
And then God created Saturn... and he liked it, so he put a ring on it.
Twitter me and what not.
Nah
Someone somewhere in the universe probably said it before you.
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
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by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 9:14 PM PDT up reply actions
Inconceivable.
And then God created Saturn... and he liked it, so he put a ring on it.
Twitter me and what not.
you're right
it was me. in fact, it’s been me all along feeding these genius ideas to James. The gig’s up!
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I knew it!
What say you now James?
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by SportsChicken on Sep 9, 2010 12:02 PM PDT up reply actions
What happened to those waiver claims?
I guess teams changed their minds or did not exists. Oh well, I still think the 49ers ought to give him one more season, they gave Alex six! Davis isn’t as bad as some posters claim he is. He’s a bit of an ad-lib QB that Singletary has learn to accept.
I was wondering this too
I think that if they claim him they have to sign him to their 53, and he can turn that down. Once waiver process is over the original team can sign him to PS or if they don’t, another team can sign to their PS.
The NFC West is sitting on a pedestal if only the 49ers don't trip and fall on their way to it.
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No player in this league would turn that down.
And then God created Saturn... and he liked it, so he put a ring on it.
Twitter me and what not.
we need John or someone who knows this stuff to detail the rule
wait, didn’t he do a post on this last week??
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Practice Squad Info
Article XXXIV of the CBA:
If a player on the practice squad of one club (Club A) signs an NFL Player Contract with another club (Club B), (1) the player shall receive three weeks salary of his NFL Player Contract at the 53 player Active/Inactive List minimum even if he is terminated by Club B prior to earning that amount, and (2) Club B is required to count the player on its 53 play Active/Inactive List for three games (a bye week counts as a game) even if he is terminated or assigned via waivers to another club or is signed as a free agent to another club’s 53-player roster or another clubs practice squad prior to that time.
by David Fucillo on Sep 8, 2010 2:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Nate wasn't originally on the PS though
Couldn’t other teams sign him to their Practice squads too?
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
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by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 3:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Not now
He’s on the practice squad now so Article XXXIV applies to him.
by David Fucillo on Sep 8, 2010 3:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm talking about before
When he was originally cut.
Couldn’t teams sign him to their practice squads after he cleared waivers?
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
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by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
I think so, but I’m not 100% on this. I know that can happen when the team is trimming down to the 53-man roster, but not sure about it when a guy from the 53-man roster is getting cut. So, maybe not. Why did I even answer this? ;)
by Andrew Davidson on Sep 8, 2010 3:47 PM PDT up reply actions
I think that after a player clears waivers he can take offers from all 32 teams to join any Practice squad he wants
assuming he gets no 53-man roster offers.
But it doesn’t matter anymore.
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
"I'm just like you, but 10 times better"
by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 9:16 PM PDT up reply actions
You're correct
and once he’s on a PS he can join any other PS if he wants to. As a practice squad guy he’s a free agent until the time he signs on to the active 53.
Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority
Not entirely true
He is free to join any other team, but they must sign him on their 53 man roster for a minimum of three weeks and pay him accordingly. Might be a pretty big gamble just to get someone on your practice squad.
I don't know
Smileyman knows quite a bit about the CBA.
Either way, Nate is on the PS and he’s probably not going to get claimed all year.
Let’s just put it behind us.
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
"I'm just like you, but 10 times better"
by SportsChicken on Sep 9, 2010 12:03 PM PDT up reply actions
"Couldn’t teams sign him to their practice squads after he cleared waivers?"
Why would another team do that? They would simply have claimed him off waivers, and placed him on their PS…
After all was said and done, a lot more got said than done.
Truly a lawyer's training...
impressive citation of the ‘founding documents’ for player contracts, Fooch.
by MondayMorningMontana on Sep 8, 2010 3:37 PM PDT up reply actions
Huh?
The rules are pretty simple. It’s more than likely there were no actual claims made. It’s possible that a claim was withdrawn, but it’s more likely that there were none, specifically because Jarrett Brown was released yesterday, so the 49ers knew something.
A team makes a claim, and signs him to their 53-man roster. You don’t claim a player for the practice squad, and yes, a player can turn down any offer he wants to. Also, at any time from now until he’s on our roster, he can be claimed.
And then God created Saturn... and he liked it, so he put a ring on it.
Twitter me and what not.
I bet the 49ers will assign someone to Davis to help him learn the playbook
Kind of like a Playbook Tutor…
49ers sign Joe Montana as the Playbook Tutor for Nate Davis.
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, either way, YOU'RE RIGHT !"
Why Joe? He was a WCO QB, we don't run the WCO...
After all was said and done, a lot more got said than done.
Good point...
After all was said and done, a lot more got said than done.
Ha ha
I love how it’s having to be explained to people that players can turn down a move to a team if they want to. What’s that? It’s not the National Football League of North Korea? People can choose where they live and work? They get a say in their own destiny? Can you run this whole thing past me again?
LondonNiner - member of the legendary David Carr thread, 6 March 2010.
wait really you can decline a waiver
hold up. They have the right to say no to a million dollar contract.
Every team in the league could of had him for free, no one picked him up.
I think that all needs to be said about Nate.
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by Hoopers Judge on Sep 8, 2010 2:31 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
pretty much
The Browns, Bears and Chiefs want nothing to do with him. Why are we so foolish? I bet somebody picks up Jarrett Brown. Keeping Davis is Sing’s first truly bad decision as HC.
Gimme 1 round!
by ItBurnzWhenIP on Sep 8, 2010 2:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Davis and Brown...
Are both projects so it makes sense from an organizational standpoint to keep the project that’s already been in the system for 2 years rather than the guy who’s brand new. I don’t think it’s a ‘good’ or ‘bad’ decision because we’re talking about practice squad players here and 3rd string QB’s at best this year. If anything, giving Davis one more year to mature and work towards being a professional is the smart move and worth the loss of an undrafted FA.
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by Young_To_Rice on Sep 8, 2010 2:48 PM PDT up reply actions
Browns
They drafted Colt McCoy.
Shows what they know about QBs
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by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 3:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Lol
Nate still has potential and id still take him over Caarr and definitely Smith
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by rlott#42 on Sep 8, 2010 5:42 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Over Smith?
Really?
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
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by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 9:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Have been wondering when this confusion would arise
We now have two QB’s named Smith: Alex and Troy. Perhaps he was talking about Troy? I dunno.
I know rlott doesn't much care for Alex
but I’m pretty sure he’s not delusional enough to say that Nate Davis is definitely better than Alex Smith.
Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority
Just noticed that right now
/facepalm/
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
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by SportsChicken on Sep 9, 2010 12:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Two things happened:
Jason Whitlock is a liar
A team offered him a spot on their PS but he chose the 49ers
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
"I'm just like you, but 10 times better"
by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Apparently Sing is better at poker than we give him credit for...
All that table talk about “work ethic” and “learning disability” was just a smokescreen so we could slide him through waivers…
Well played, coach.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
or it was real
and was the reason Davis didn’t stay on the 53 and was released and exposed to waivers. Remember he can be signed to any team’s 53 even now.
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It’s possible teams make the claim than actually go into a meeting to discuss whether they really want the player. I’ve heard stories before of a claim being made than later dropped.
that had to be what happened
otherwise he’d have been signed to a 53
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Nobody' want's the kid ...
.. i mean jeeez how many time’s do you say no thank’s , Five round’s in the draft , and then he was waved last year for the P.S. and then again this year that’s Seven time’s …!!
I'm your " Huckelberry "...it's juz my game ...!!
Every team has 8 players on their own PS that nobody else wanted.
Davis needs some work.. and will get that on our PS. why would another team sign him to their 53 if they knew he needed work?
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, either way, YOU'RE RIGHT !"
I don't think it says that much
Lot’s of young players are passed over and over looked early in their careers. I mean how many chances did other teams have to get a guy like Ricky Jean-Francois, Ahmad Brooks, or Dominique Ziegler? I don’t think anybody really holds that against them and most people seemed to think it was worthwhile to keep them around.
I guess you could say that it says the people who wanted to see Nate Davis start a game in the regular season were a little off their rocker, but I think most people had realized that awhile ago.
I think it says a ton
Seattle took all our other trash but wanted nothing to do with him even though they desperately need a QB of the future.
Gimme 1 round!
by ItBurnzWhenIP on Sep 8, 2010 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions
There's a reason they didn't take Nate...
… Because Michael Robinson is their QB of the future.
Touchdown Forty Niners!
To add another dimension:
Look at this from Nate Davis’ point of view, no one picked him up off waivers and coach said he needs to work harder so he can be better. What would you do next offseason? If this kid has any fight in him at all – and I believe he does – as well as an 18th century iron cannon in the place his right arm should be, he will work his tail off. There may be hope for him still. Get to work big guy, we all want you to succeed.
I'd go meet up with Jamarcus Russell
And ask him for life advice.
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
"I'm just like you, but 10 times better"
by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 3:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I strongly doubt that
He’s pissed at Davis.
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
"I'm just like you, but 10 times better"
by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 3:28 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, that's good, I suppose.
Davis will have more time to learn what he needs to learn, and he gets next years preseason to show the coaches that he’s serious about becoming an NFL qb.
9ers get more stability at the QB position, and maintain, if not improve, the IOF factor.
"Son, I'm going to break you like a wild horse." - Mike Singletary
... and there was much rejoicing.
Sing strikes again, IMO. This gives Nate Davis the kick in the pants Sing wanted, but still means that the Niners stand a good chance from reaping the rewards of his talent if he can master the offense.
Idolizing Robb Nen since 2002...
by Smoke on the Water on Sep 8, 2010 2:29 PM PDT reply actions
And they have a 3rd string QB who is legitimate for that role.
Hopefully not important, but it could be.
WTF?
Does Jason Whitlock have any credibility? He tweets that Davis is gone from SF and that there are waiver claims on him from ‘multiple teams.’ And then…he returns to the Niners’ practice squad.
I hate journalists that throw out random tweets or articles based on ‘sources,’ when in reality they’re just trying to guess what will happen based on 50/50 odds so they might come out ahead and appear to be ‘connected’ w/ inside knowledge. It’s pathetic. If you can report something accurately and w/ near assurance then do so. Otherwise, shut up!
"The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before." ~Steve Young #8
It is pathetic
It’s an odds game. If they think something is quite likely to happen, they take a gamble and say it’s going to happen. It’s no more insightful than gambling. If you know your subject, you can take a punt and if you’re right, claim it as a huge exclusive. If you’re wrong, move on and hope nobody remembers.
Not saying that was the case here, but no doubt that that’s the way it works in a lot of cases.
LondonNiner - member of the legendary David Carr thread, 6 March 2010.
Whitlock was biased
He loves Nate Davis more than all the NDIOF fans combined.
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
"I'm just like you, but 10 times better"
by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 3:29 PM PDT up reply actions
At least he can see Nate without heavy tinted rose-colored glasses.
These NDIOF folks worship him like the migrating Israelites did the golden calf.
/slight sarcasm
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by Hoopers Judge on Sep 8, 2010 8:32 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I don't think that's an exaggeration.
You’re right that he can point out Davis’ flaws.
But only because he loves him.
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
"I'm just like you, but 10 times better"
by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 9:17 PM PDT up reply actions
Now we get to find out just how hard Nate Davis will work. He needs to put his head down and get to work studying the playbook, and earn his stripes. Come on kid, do us right!
Love the thought ...
… of Nate going the other way and still playing the big NFL star in his hometown, cracking open champagne bottles and saying to the ladies, “That’s right baby, I’m on the P-Squad now. Not the roster – nobody is seen dead on the roster. It’s the P-Squad that everyone is trying to get on honey. Just call me P-Squad Nate Dog, sugar.”
LondonNiner - member of the legendary David Carr thread, 6 March 2010.
by LondonNiner on Sep 8, 2010 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
$5,000 a week is still a pretty darn good salary. That should buy him enough champagne to impress the ladies.
by Andrew Davidson on Sep 8, 2010 3:00 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't blame him ...
… 5K a week when I was his age – I’d have been choosing the champagne and ladies and settling for the practice squad too. Well, I would have been on the PS if it wasn’t for, you know, the not having any talent thing. Oh, and the living on a different continent thing.
LondonNiner - member of the legendary David Carr thread, 6 March 2010.
And saying Jolly Good Show!
Each time Heitmann snapped the ball to you.
"Careful Grasshopper ~ that's a god you're mauling." Master Takeo
Yes!
That’s exactly what I’d say. Then I’d drop the snap and say “bugger, Eric, I’ve only gawn and dropped the old pig skin, me old china.”
LondonNiner - member of the legendary David Carr thread, 6 March 2010.
I've enjoyed this exchange
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
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by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 3:31 PM PDT up reply actions
Depends
Is it per week of the season? Then it’s only around $85k, not exactly ballin’ money. If it’s year round, then it’s not too shabby at a quarter million. Either way he’s not ballin’ by NFL standards.
by mr. instigator on Sep 8, 2010 3:15 PM PDT up reply actions
Still, to play a game for a living at $5K per week isn’t exactly “roughing” it.
by Andrew Davidson on Sep 8, 2010 3:20 PM PDT up reply actions
At least until the first blitz
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
It's $5,200 a week for the 17 week season
So when you include whatever he made during the preseason, he’ll end up making somewhere in the low 100K. Not bad money for a kid right out of college, but no where near the big money I’m sure he’s hoping to make.
Don't trust this guy. He lies.
Ah man. Good for Nate and all, but I had pretty irrational hopes for Brown. Gotta love that cannon he has, and he seemed like a good kid.
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by theghostofjasonellison on Sep 8, 2010 2:54 PM PDT reply actions
Yet again ...
… Alex Smith is overshadowed by Nate Davis. It’s incredible how much we talk about him – he must be the most talked-about fourth-string quarterback in the NFL. Smith was made captain today and we still only talk about Nate – me included, we all do it, we cannot resist it. It’s a good thing, I think. Smith is under less pressure going into week one because his fan base is obsessed with a practice squad kid who has never played a snap in the NFL!
LondonNiner - member of the legendary David Carr thread, 6 March 2010.
I'm sick of him.
In such a WHYDFML league, he sure gets a lot of love. I wanted him gone, but it doesn’t surprise me that nobody else wanted him either.
by mr. instigator on Sep 8, 2010 3:12 PM PDT up reply actions
captain
We had an earlier post about the team captains.
by David Fucillo on Sep 8, 2010 3:20 PM PDT up reply actions
I know ...
… it certainly wasn’t a negative comment about NN, or any of the people that have posted on either or both subjects. I have posted here but not on the captain thread so I am culpable too. Twice as many comments here as in the captain thread – just interesting, I think, the way Nate dominates, given he’s kind of a nobody. I just find it interesting.
LondonNiner - member of the legendary David Carr thread, 6 March 2010.
NDIOF
Kory Sheets and Thomas Clayton used to get more comments than Frank Gore too.
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
"I'm just like you, but 10 times better"
by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
And the Thomas Clayton ones ...
… were just from Ninjames. He loved that bad boy even more than Ziegler.
LondonNiner - member of the legendary David Carr thread, 6 March 2010.
He had a really big fanbase
I never cared for him but still…
I guess these guys are more intriguing since we know less about them and they haven’t let us down yet.
It’s all upside for them, they can’t really get worse.
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
"I'm just like you, but 10 times better"
by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Frank Gore is awesome
Did you know he’s shorter than Fooch?
That’s 3 comments right there.
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
"I'm just like you, but 10 times better"
by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 9:18 PM PDT up reply actions
Makes sense...
Figured he’d get signed to the PS. Now he can continue his development…and will have to prove he belongs on the roster by his work ethic. Should be a good situation all around.
"If you can accept losing, you can't win." ~Vince Lombardi
Tweet Tweet.
At least it puts to rest the Brown is better than Davis talk.
The 49ers thought that Davis was worth having more than Brown.
Gazing into the crystal ball...
Once Troy Smith learns a little about the offense (say, week five or so), the 49ers will cut David Carr, promote Smith to backup role, and bring Davis up to be 3rd QB.
And then, maybe, just maybe… sign Brown to the practice squad.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means" - Inigo Montoya
as long as David Carr’s helmet from the future stays, I’m ok with this happening.
by Andrew Davidson on Sep 8, 2010 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Doesn't J. Brown have that helmet too?
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
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by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 3:35 PM PDT up reply actions
The outlines of a long-term strategy come into focus...
As has been noted, the 9ers have, by investing picks and trades in the offense, as well as establishing him as the clear #1 from the get-go, given Alex Smith every chance to succeed in 2010. But by simultaneously adding young qb talent to the roster alongside a veteran back-up, they have created a longer-term post-Smith plan B (which is to say variation thereof alongside potential FA signings and next year’s draft).
In other words, I read this as a plan by the team to have both Troy Smith and Nate Davis in the mix as potential heirs to the starting role in various scenarios where the team decides to part ways with Alex Smith after this season, in particular the scenarios where we don’t get a qb in the first round or two of next year’s draft or a high profile FA. Whether Carr is also in with the suitors is not self-evident, but if his preseason performance is anything to go by I would assume not.
It’s a pretty intelligent gaming of the situation for a team many criticize as lacking FO intelligence/a cogent strategic vision. But it also dovetails with other recent and not-so-recent roster decisions, including e.g. the decision not to pursue McNabb, that suggest an emphasis of 2011 and beyond, not just this year.
Makes sense to me.
As far as Alex not cutting it this year...
My stern belief is that a 2011 1st round QB starts at QB in that senario.
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by Hoopers Judge on Sep 8, 2010 8:37 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
that seems like a waste of the rest of the talent on the team
the window requires “win now” which I can’t see a 1st rounder doing (though Sanchez was in a similar scenario and did just enough last year).
The NFC West is sitting on a pedestal if only the 49ers don't trip and fall on their way to it.
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Update the Story
It happened Nate is back with the 49ers on the PS and Jarrett Brown is out
top of the post
Did you see the “Fooch’s Update” at the top of the post? That’s been up there for a while.
by David Fucillo on Sep 8, 2010 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Jarrett Brown?
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
"I'm just like you, but 10 times better"
by SportsChicken on Sep 8, 2010 9:19 PM PDT up reply actions
just checked in to say
LondonNiner FTW in this thread!
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by Tre9er on Sep 8, 2010 5:05 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
I think that Sing is smart.
To me this was his thinking. He sees Davis coming along, & knows that he needs one more year before he breaks on the “53.” If he puts Nate on the PS someone might grab him. If he told Nate or not that he was going to dog him, so other teams will stay away from you. We really want you. We want you to make us make the hard choice to be the #2 QB next year. We have two years in you. We talk you down, release you the day after the we set our “53.” Nobody will want you after I am finished, clear wavers bring you back & keep it moving. After the famous “Nate Davis Pass” if Sing came out & said yea that’s our Boy! We love him! He is our QB of the future! He would not last half hour on wavers.
That’s what I think might have happen.
"Moving Forward."
I think.
That he still really effing sucks and it shows on tape, otherwise the Seachickens would have picked him up
Gimme 1 round!
by ItBurnzWhenIP on Sep 8, 2010 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Not Sing's style , he doesn't beat around the bush , he rip's it out ...!!
I'm your " Huckelberry "...it's juz my game ...!!
I like Nate Davis
but I’m also a realist. If the choice was between keeping him on the roster and picking up a guy like Troy Smith who should push David Carr for the backup job then I’ll choose Troy Smith everytime.
I think the reason Nate Davis is the most talked about 4th string qb in history is partly because most can see his raw ability to throw a football, the 49ers have had mediocre to horrible play at the position for years and that Alex Smith hasn’t filled us with confidence.
Nate is from my neck of the woods. Saw some of him in high school, a lot in college. He holds every record there is to hold for his teams at those levels. When he came out of HS people wanted to know why Ohio State didn’t even sniff him and the answer always came down to him being an academic headache.
It is strange that we are talking about Troy Smith learning the offense in a few weeks and possibly displacing David Carr and Nate Davis, according to Singletary isn’t close. That’s unsettling and may be a deal breaker for him in the league. After all many qbs have to learn new offenses over their careers. If Nate can’t do that then he’s got no value.
YEAH!
What we've got here is a failure to communicate.
"I'm just like you, but 10 times better"
by SportsChicken on Sep 9, 2010 12:05 PM PDT up reply actions
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