Free Agency, the Draft, and Kendall Hunter

by Youve been Gored on Feb 11, 2012 7:29 AM PST

Like most Faithful, I pretended not to watch the Super Bowl. The repeated stings of what-ifs and Come on Williams! shouts finally faded and I watched some of the Giant's win. It was pretty uneventful until a nice end of the fourth quarter where both teams seemed to have a chance at victory.

Which brings up this painful reverberating sentence: YES, the Niners probably would have won that game. The pace and tone of the game reminded me of most of the games they played this year A low scoring, tight, defensive battle that ultimately came down to a couple of plays. The better team won that game.

Sadly, the best TEAM was sitting down watching that stinkfest. Grr. Coulda, woulda, shoulda......

Let us not forget the 49ers were 14-4 this year. An incredible season that 30 other teams would have loved to have been a part of. If not for a couple of late game secondary breakdowns, they would have been 15-1. (They had a tough draw in the Raven's game, but a loss is a loss and they were outplayed.) Yes, they had some lucky breaks (or was that skill?) Overall the team made huge strides in becoming relevant again.....east coast bias aside.

So the question becomes how does this team make the next step?

After reaching the NFC Championship game, (no easy task) the only logical next step is the Super Bowl. Not just making it, (Tom Brady) but actually putting trophy number six in the cabinet. What pieces of the puzzle are missing?

The areas this team needs to improve upon have been well documented lately on this site and by people much smarter than me. We all have ideas as to who they should draft, who they should resign, and what Free agents they should aggressively pursue. Oh, and juggle the 30 million or so of cap room they have AND keep the chemistry AND build on the success of 2011. Easy right?

No, it is not easy. That is why the team has a GM, a gifted head coach, and a front office full of people way smarter than us to make these agonizing decisions. They proved that they have the skill in making these moves......the success of 2011 proved that beyond a doubt. There were a couple of missteps....(Ronald Johnson or Braylon Edwards anyone?) Overall, they have given us fans a team that is going to be good for many years to come.

Is a championship is our future? I trust that it is. As fans, all we can do is sit back and let the decision makers do what they do this offseason. Let them work that voodoo that they do. And they do it well.

After all, it isn't politics or anything......they aren't trying to select who is to lead this nation for the next four years.

No, it is way more important than that.

Here we go Faithful.......take a deep breath. Get comfortable in that chair. Grab your favorite beverage and get ready for the ride. It should be a fun one.

One more thing: Can we pleeeeeze get the ball in the hands of Kendall Hunter more? Gawd.

This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of Niners Nation's writers or editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of Niners Nation's writers or editors.

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great read

I also belive it would have been super bowl #6 for us damn still gets to me so my take is i would love for the 9ers to first and formost sign are important guys like rogers,goldson & brooks dont over look him he was a very good linebacker this year and he was healthy but i know he ended up with 7.5 sacks but i watched every minute of every game and he was with in 10th of seconds of haveing double that something with the maturirty of aldon and brooks himself is only gonna help anyway than i would love to see us go after vincent jackson or bowe talk about perfect fit for are offense big strong posstion recivers

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by foreveryoung66 on Feb 11, 2012 8:58 PM PST reply actions

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We don't need 8 in the box. We have 52 in the box.

by these3words on Feb 12, 2012 1:40 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs

Lol.

by Youve been Gored on Feb 12, 2012 2:59 PM PST up reply actions

agree on hunter

He is a beast and in my opinion he’s more dynamic than Gore with the ball in his hands. I would really like to see him become a center piece in this offense.

by leadoff0011 on Feb 12, 2012 7:30 PM PST reply actions

Good Read

I watched the NFCCG again this weekend and we had plenty of great moments in the game against the Giants, the biggest issue was the lack of consistent execution from our offense.

That 2nd Davis penalty really hurt and based on the subsequent runs by Gore thereafter could have had us in field goal range. Everyone talks about Williams’ fumbles, but he was trying to be a playmaker, and when guys are playmakers there’s an associated risk with that. On Davis’ 2nd touchdown it was a 24 yard punt return by Williams that gave us great field position near midfield to set that play up. I agree that he should not be back there returning kicks, but I really like his game in the wideout spot. He actually also converted a 3rd down for us in the 2nd quarter which was negated since the 5 yard hands to the face penalty gave us an extra yard. VD had a piss poor drop in the 2nd quarter, and there were plenty of underthrown (or overthrown on the deep ball to Williams) balls from Smith peppered throughout the game.

I still can’t figure out when our run game was rolling we abandoned it, we were averaging over 5 yards per carry in the game, and there were stretches where we would hammer out 3 runs in a row for 25 yards and than proceed to throw the ball 3 times in a row and punt it away. All this talk about all season long about us being a rushing team, a power rushing team, and than we step away from our strength especially when it’s working during the game?? I understand you have to mix it up with some passes in there, but make them stop in you in the run and make you throw the ball. Finally on that note those 2 Anthony Dixon runs at the start of the 4th quarter make zero sense to me at all, Gore and Hunter had been shredding the Giants apart and you bring in Dixon. BahhH!!!

I guess watching that game again wasn’t such a good idea :P

by Mapletreemarty on Feb 13, 2012 6:03 AM PST reply actions

It's been that way all year

When we are running well we want to come out and throw three passes and punt.

When we can’t run the ball we’ll come out and run it twice, get ourselves in a third and long and then try a low percentage pass and then punt.

I suspect we are getting too caught up in the “I know that you know that I know that you know that I know that this is a running down” game.

Every time Jamie Dukes says something enlightening and informative about football Jerry Rice and I mount up on our flying grizzly bears and claim pirate treasure from the moon. That's how often it happens.

by Ougadas on Feb 13, 2012 6:51 AM PST up reply actions