Golden Nuggets: I Guess Brett Swain Is Our Future

by James Brady on Dec 30, 2011 2:00 AM PST in 49ers Links

Thanks to Fooch for covering the Golden Nuggets for me yesterday. Internet is spotty for me at the moment. As such, we've got some quick links today. I'm really glad that Jim Harbaugh noted that they weren't likely to sign an outside receiver (for now), even if it means no Dominique Zeigler. I just don't understand the Terrell Owens talk, none of it makes sense one bit. At all. Not even a little. El zilcho. Onto the quick links for the day.

49ers looking to play Patrick Willis this Sunday if he's healthy enough to play (Examiner.com)

49ers may start Swain with Crabtree against Rams (PressDemocrat.com)

Ginn, Williams held out of 49ers practice (CSNBayArea.com)

Jim Harbaugh and his prediction that the 49ers are going to the Super Bowl (Examiner.com)

Aldon Smith: Just Enjoy This Stuff (CSNBayArea.com)

T.O.? The reasons you say no (SFGate.com)

Fangio on Willis: He looks fine to me right now (SacBee.com)

Roman: "What some might label conservative, we look at as opportunity." (PressDemocrat.com)

Ginn confident in teammates if he can't play (CSNBayArea.com)

Five Questions with Patrick Willis (49ers.com)

Whatever It Takes to Win (49ers.com)

Being a Sheep

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No sense?

Brett Swain has a total of 7 NFL career catches. Joe Hastings? not even one in pre-season. Matthews?Who is he? Gin/Williams didn’t practice today. Edwards cut. Walker broken jaw, out till further notice. Morgan Broken leg, gone for the season. And that leaves our recievers as Crabtree, Swain, Hastings, VD, and Peele.
I don’t see how we didn’t sign the former 49er. you do realize he gave us 8 years right? He will go into the HOF a 49er. We did the same thing to Jerry Rice, wich is why he’s not involved with the team now. I think he works with Seatle. We got Bobby Ingram, a Seatle Seahawk coaching our WR’s . NO LOYALTY in SF. Julian Peterson tore his acl. We droppd him. Maybet the best OLB in the game at the time.
I trust Harbaugh, but I bet if things don’t pan out everyone will look back at this moment as the pivotal moment. It could not hurt us, only help. Everybody got this pride. Meanwhile Ben Rothlrsburger cracks his skull riding helmetless on a motorcycle. Gets acused of rape, back to back, and he’s an american hero.??????? What ever hppened to giving a man a fair shake. Everone is perfect now?

by STELF BOMBZ on Dec 30, 2011 2:51 AM PST reply actions

Harbaugh

I trust Harbaugh, simple as that. We thought he and Baalke were nuts in pre-season when we didn’t go after guys like Nnamdi Asa-what’shislastname.

Even after the draft we still shaking our heads like “who the heck our these guys? Why are we trusting our future in these guys nobody has ever heard of?”

Yet here we are staring 13-3 in the face due in large part to those “nobodies”. Harbaugh made us and all the experts look like idiots. I’m willing to trust that he’ll do the same with this situation. In fact, I’d love to see Hastings tear it up this Sunday in a big way just to make me feel stupid yet again.

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by Riding The F Train on Dec 30, 2011 3:16 AM PST up reply actions

It could not hurt us

So in your opinion, there is no fathomable scenario that TO is washed up, a distraction or makes a bad play that costs us a game?

I get where you’re coming from, but you and everyone else need a dose of reality if you think TO is a guaranteed savior.

by mrg80 on Dec 30, 2011 4:35 AM PST up reply actions

Bit of a leap

but you and everyone else need a dose of reality if you think TO is a guaranteed savior.

You got that from “It could not hurt us”..?

by E-Train on Dec 30, 2011 6:23 AM PST up reply actions

lol. we are all getting worked up over this

There is a lot of emotion from both sides based mainly on TOs past. It’s not like we pass the ball anyways.

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by mcwagner on Dec 30, 2011 6:49 AM PST via mobile up reply actions

There is a lot of emotion from both sides based mainly on TOs past.

See, in my opinion, I don’t care if it’s T.O. or someone else. I just think we are dangerously thin at WR for the reasons highlighted by STELF BOMBZ first few sentences in his comment.

It’s not like we pass the ball anyways.

That is a good point.

by E-Train on Dec 30, 2011 7:04 AM PST up reply actions

We've always been thin at the position

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by mcwagner on Dec 30, 2011 8:11 AM PST up reply actions

Good point..

by E-Train on Dec 30, 2011 9:16 AM PST up reply actions

wow

TO looks like Jerry’s dad. How did we not win a Superbowl with those two?

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by mcwagner on Dec 30, 2011 10:48 AM PST up reply actions

Did you see the 49ers RB standing behind them?

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by bignerd on Dec 30, 2011 1:29 PM PST up reply actions

The man has had a fair shake by the entire league. He's on equal footing with Hastings.

T.O. coming off a debilitating knee injury is just as unproven as Hastings is. He has nothing left to give us. You want to sign the guy because he’s a former 49er, which is silly because this is a business. This isn’t some camp to help T.O. feel better about himself.

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by James Brady on Dec 30, 2011 8:47 AM PST up reply actions

Didn't Zeigler also tear his ACL last year?

by E-Train on Dec 30, 2011 9:24 AM PST up reply actions

IN Harbugh we trust!

by Moflush on Dec 30, 2011 4:36 AM PST via mobile reply actions

TO going to the IFL? bahaha

by mrg80 on Dec 30, 2011 4:46 AM PST reply actions

What do I expect?

the same I held for our previous 3rd and 4th receivers: little to nothing.

by salary_cap on Dec 30, 2011 9:35 AM PST reply actions

More like their first pick in the 2012 NFL draft is the future.

by bmcrae83@yahoo.com on Dec 30, 2011 11:26 AM PST reply actions

Dwayne Bowe is a free agent after this season, hope Niners go after him ?

by bmcrae83@yahoo.com on Dec 30, 2011 11:32 AM PST reply actions

he is a 2nd tier WR playing the 1st tier spot on a average to below-average team. We are already have plenty of 2nd tier WRs as is.

by danknerd49 on Dec 30, 2011 11:36 AM PST up reply actions

There is no way Dwayne Bowe is a 2nd tier WR

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by James Brady on Dec 30, 2011 3:53 PM PST up reply actions

he is

top tier is the level of Calvin Johnson and Larry Fitz…

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by manraj7 on Dec 30, 2011 3:53 PM PST up reply actions

... Read what he just said.

He’s calling Bowe a No. 2 receiver. As in he’s not worthy of being a team’s No. 1.

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by James Brady on Dec 30, 2011 3:54 PM PST up reply actions

Dwayne Bowe

Even if he was “2nd tier”, as you put it, you don’t think adding a guy like Bowe to the team would help? Your comment sounds very dismissive, almost as if to say you would not want to have a player of his calibour on this team. Bowe is an instant upgrade at the WR position for any team. He has exceptional hands (along with great instincts for the ball), very good speed, and an ability to break tackles using not only his quickness in and out of cuts, but also with his strength and timing (something we’ve seen from guys like Josh Morgan for instance, who is surprisingly good at breaking off tackles). Have you not seen Bowe play?

No offense, as I’m sure you have your reasons for considering him a 2nd tier receiver, but I simply disagree with you. Bowe is a pro bowl receiver.

by Waiting4JoshMorgan on Dec 30, 2011 4:52 PM PST up reply actions

Harbaugh elevating a PS guy

is an affirmation that this is a system based offense, not an offense built around individuals. I believe they’ll bring in a WR FA next off-season, but to try to bring in someone one or two weeks before the playoffs begin and try to teach them what is, by all accounts, a pretty complicated system, would be less productive than people think. You can’t just say “go long” to the WR, Harbaugh/Roman’s offense doesn’t work that way. Also, nobody’s mentioned it (I think) but Harbaugh/Roman also demand WRs who can block – and that also requires understanding the scheme. I actually would love to see TO back in SF to retire (I don’t care about the “distraction” stuff, I think that’s a bit over-stated), I just don’t think there’s time to get him on the same page with the offense.

by mwright84 on Dec 30, 2011 12:10 PM PST reply actions

“Harbaugh elevating a PS guy is an affirmation that this is a system based offense”

… and also (although more debatable in this case) affirmation that he knows what he’s doing. If Bruce Miller is any indication—a converted defensive player playing fullback, and doing a darn good job? That type of stuff doesn’t happen unless someone like Harbaugh makes it happen. I don’t miss Moran Norris, a nice guy who, when healthy, contributed to Frank feeling comfortable in the backfield and opened up quite a few lanes for him back in ’06.

As for T.O., I share your sentiments.

by Waiting4JoshMorgan on Dec 30, 2011 5:05 PM PST up reply actions

been a long time since I posted in one of these...

by manraj7 on Dec 30, 2011 3:53 PM PST reply actions

Jason Hill and Dominique Zeigler

any takers?

I’ve always liked both receivers. For a while, I even compared Z to Randy Moss because of the smooth nature in which they both play. Granted, Z only played in a handful of games it seemed, but from what I saw in that small sample, he was, for lack of a better word, fluid. I thought he had a chance. Hill on the other hand didn’t show anything spectacular, but correct me if I’m wrong, didn’t he establish a strong rapport with Alex Smith? He showed that in the preseason. Smith likes those types of receivers, right? That is to say, someone he feels comfortable throwing to.

The Swain signing was puzzling to me at the time given the option to bring in Z. Even more puzzling, still, is the fact that there’s even talk of T.O. (love his game) despite the fact that Hill was, and still is, available. Am I missing something about the latter? If they need a wideout who can also play special teams, than you can’t go wrong with Hill as he proved himself in that category.

by Waiting4JoshMorgan on Dec 30, 2011 5:17 PM PST reply actions