Dashon Goldson: A Guy Many 49ers Fans Love To Hate

that upsets me. He’s athletic and young and I hope he does better this year if he’s retained. He did bite on some fakes and wasn’t always keeping the ball in front of him but I suppose no safety can be perfect. I’m hoping the disarray in the Singletarian organization was at fault for all of it.

Personally, I think he got a lot of tackles due to being out of posistion. Secondly, I want interceptions not tackles. lastly, I would say witnout a doubt he gave up 5 TD’s to bad reads and pump fakes.

Maybe he had those tackles and stops because opposing teams picked on him. If the receiver is covered well, or pass is broken up, or the team just avoids him altogether it will not show on the stat sheet. I recall a lot of plays with him taking bad angles and missing takles

I am giving a pass on making judgements. I am willing to lump a massive amount of blame on the coaching staff this past season. Individually the coaches may have been good, but top-down it was a mess.

I just don’t have the expertise to judge many of the skill positions, or the knowldege to guess. But there seemed to be an overall drop in production for the team (with limited exceptions) which really has me looking once again at coaching and scheme rather than individual player issues.

That doesn’t help write articles to fill the void that is the offseason, but it is how I see it.

I can get Clements to reduce his pay and move him to safety with Smith or Mays. Sign a corner in Nnambdi or Champ and draft Peterson or Amakamura or any corner who could start opposette.

I do think he played well, but he just didn’t get notice with forcing turnovers. Also, the rest of the secondary (especially the CBs) played so poorly it makes it hard to think anyone in that lame unit was playing well.

However it seemed like I watched alot of highlights where Goldson was chasing people into the endzone. I also watched alot of deep balls completed where he would arrive a couple of seconds too late to break up the pass. If you watch footage of other safeties in the league, there are times that they are on the opposite side of the field when the pass is released, yet still manage to get to the ball to pick it off or at least break it up. The 49ers need an upgrade at the position, and could possibly sign him for depth. They definately do not need to overpay to keep him.

Goldson is a solid FS, he doesn’t deserve top FS money but i think a decent 3 year offer may do the job. If he wants to get greedy then we should just let him go.

If this CBA gets done soon enough, we should be paying a good amount of attention to this area. Goldson is by no means in the top tier, but is still a very serviceable FS. We need to offer him at best a 2nd round tender if he’s a RFA. But at the same time we should see who we can possibly attract through FA and maybe pick someone up in the draft with our mid-late round picks. Although the draft is not the most vital of the three options IMO.

Our cornerback play is just so mediocre. He IS the last line of defense, but just how often do you really want that last line tested? What I mean is, if the corner had done his job more proficiently in the first place, the safety wouldn’t be on the hook for defending the deep ball as often. (Depending on coverage scheme of course)

These constant reports saying he kept rating high on the coaching grades tells me the issue was at in least part due to coaching.

That’s right, only one that stays is Taylor Mays and he’s on a one year short leash. First, we draft Peterson or Anakamura with the no. 7 pick. There’s one corner. Second, we sign Nnamdi Asomugha for 4 yrs. at ten mil. per year. That’s the other corner. Lastly, we release Clements because he has hugely underachieved and really wouldn’t be that good of a safety. From that money that we save, we sign Champ Bailey, whom has already made it known that he would love to switch to safety so that he could extend his career. He has the speed, smarts and savvy to be a great free safety. There you go! Fully remade defensive backfield with youth, speed, talent and experience. Four new ballhawks and a top ten finish defensively. The 49ers should just hire me now I’m such a genius!

Reggie Smith – FS
Taylor Mays – SS

… all across the board on the Defense player’s regressed … Franklin , P Willy , Goldy , Manny , etc , etc … ( IMO ) this leave’s the answer to coaching or lack of , this two deep soft shell zone that was implemented on the player’s put then in a no win situation to suceed , therefore I want Goldy back because i can see through the haze …!!

Improvement can be made though. We’ll have to see if Fangio can bring out the Fangs in him again.

They said he would regress to the norm.
Which he did.

He was never an elite safety.

he promises to tackle with his hands instead of his shoulder pads.

How about some stats on missed tackles? Where does he rank there?

And also: wouldnt the niners generally good rush defense mean the opposition would pass more, and therefore mean more tackles for the DBs? I havent looked it up, just a thought.

with whichever team. He will have 4+ int’s. Trust me.

I like him, he’s not a guy I will bash, even though I know his play wasn’t good. But I’m not sure whether I want him to come back. I kinda want Mays to get starting exp.

Believe me, he will have at least 4 int’s next year. The injuries and having to call out the plays hurt him.

Eh hmmmmm, I called this spade a spade last year. Hawk my ass, he is worthless, range-less, and altogether horrid. The most overrated niners coming in this year. Plus he’s a douche, he’s slow when the balls in the air, he should be a SS.

Patrick Peterson
Nnamdi Asomugha

Nate Clements (nickel corner)

Problems solved.