2012 Free Agency: 49ers Should Pounce on WR Vincent Jackson

“Enclosing, we know Jackson wants to stay in the Bay Area…”

Maybe we open up the offense a tad bit more next year and maybe Alex works on throwing receivers open…who knows

I’d look to grab Bowe first, but Jackson would be great. They’ve got so much talent on this team with just a few missing pieces; it’s time to capitalize on that talent, because windows can close fast.

We would be in fantastic shape with either, however, if I had my Druthers, I would druther have Jackson (mainly cause I have seen more of him for myself). Another thing, Jackson (and the world for that matter) saw what went on in San Fran – compared to the current Charger environment. And, you would have a guy being sought after who was recently shunned by his old team. Twitter away Gang, Puhleeese!

Here’s a real scary thought. Team V Jack up with V Davis, Walker and the Stanford TE and what do you have. A D-Coord’s nightmare – that’s what!

Makes no sense. Bid VJax up so the Rams over pay, sure but let’s not get stupid.

for disappointment this offseason. I just don’t see how it can work out $-wise. I just read somewhere that he’s looking for 5 years at $50m.

We’ve got about $30m in capspace and have to sign Alex, Rogers, Goldson, Snyder, Ginn, Brooks, etc., etc.

I just don’t see us having $10m/year to sign him after re-signing our own free agents.

We have Baalke & Company in our corner. We can best believe that WHATEVER is best for the Niners, Trent B will get’er done. Look at his track record with a limited window and no real knowledge of how his team would look. And now…….

As a Niners fan who lived in SD and follows the Chargers a bit:

VJ is great in the air, and a good option to have, but he has some work ethic problems though (see long holdout lasting into 2010 season, but I assume Harbaugh can solve that), and on some blocking plays he will not go 100% especially if the team is down. He disappeared at times this year too (6 games with 1 or 2 catches, only 4 games >100 yds in 2011)

Also, his numbers are a wee bit inflated b/c of the Norv Turner offense and Phillip River just being Phillip Rivers in the previous years. The Chargers liked to use him on vertical seam routes in which Rivers (annoyingly) is sometimes instructed just to throw it up and trust his (many) tall receivers to catch the 50/50 ball, something that isn’t done often in the Harbaugh offense. That being said, it might be hard to translate his stats onto the NIners. He also wants years and relatively big money, although injuries, age, and lessened production the past 2 years probably will drive down his demands for “elite” receiver pay he was asking from the Chargers in 2010.

Just a playing devil’s advocate, but VJ would be welcome IMO for the right price. Please no 5 year, lucrative money contracts.

I really think Marques Colston is the guy the Niners should be fighting to get. He bailed out Drew Brees many times with amazing acrobatic catches. Fights for the ball every time it’s in the air. A legit play-maker and the type of receiver that would fit in Harbaugh/Roman scheme.

And if someone could clarify this for me…I believe they also run a west coast offense in NO, so the scheme adjustment wouldn’t be quite as challenging for him.

Typically 30 is when WR’s and RB’s start to lose their legs and start to go down hill

I mean come on… He is a NY Giants killer! secondly, that would allow us to dump Ginn too! Two birds one stone! You think with Jackson as a returner, we don’t get 5 yards better field position… Seeley is salivating thinking about Desean!

Brees will get resigned along with his #1. No way Colston leaves NO

Enclose means to close in on all sides, to encircle, to surround…

I think you meant “In closing.”

Younger, more potential, lower price tag, not injury prown like the other two. I’m a fan of colston but he always comes up injured during the year. Vjax seemed somewhat lazy as a player and had lots of miscommunication w/ rivers that resulted in ints. Also WAY too expensive!

Niners cap is at about $86 million right now. SSpencer should get dropped, relieving another 3.3mil. That will disappear with rookie contracts plus some. We shouldn’t spend 100% of the cap space for emergency injury replacement situations…

That leaves just over 30mil which has already been stated.
asmith=8
rogers=8.5
snyder=2
goldson=4.5
ginn=1.5
morgan,costanzo,grant,spillman,tuku,brock=5

That takes up 29.5million of that cap space we have… Those are all reasonable prices. Notice that means we let brooks walk (he would be another 3.5mil minimum). Granted there are ways to limit the impact directly on the cap space by backloading and signing bonuses but remember we have a ton of FAs to sign back next year!!! We have to be sensible about all of this if we want to build a sustainable team.

Say we do want to spend all our money, 5mil would be the max offer we could present a FA such as Bowe… My guess is he will get around 6million per year. Cuts to other players may fill up that extra room but I don’t think it is worth the team chemistry.

Bowe has shown he can be a big time play maker. Yes, it was only one season, but he caught 15 TDs with Matt Cassel throwing to him; Vincent Jackson has had Phillip Rivers and has never managed double-digit TDs. What I’m saying is that I think Bowe’s ceiling is higher than Jackson’s. Sure, Bowe’s highest TD total other than his 15 is only 7, but remember who he has had as his QBs. The fact that he managed 81 Receptions, 1159 yards, and 5 TDs last season with no Cassel and no running game after Jamaal Charles went down says a lot to me. He would thrive with a solid running game that the 49ers have.

I’m not saying signing Jackson would be a bad idea, I just think Bowe is more explosive and has more potential. Besides, Jackson has a tendency to be a feast or famine receiver. He’ll have a 2 or 3 TD game with 130+ yards, and then follows that up with stretch of games where he basically disappears.

Bottom line is, Bowe has produced more with a much less explosive offense than Jackson has had. The year Bowe had a great running game with Charles and Jones, he went off. When his offense was terrible, he still managed respectable numbers. Plus, he is a year younger than Jackson, which isn’t of great importance, but one year is one year.

His numbers with Cassel means he’s a legit option. I’m not thrilled with the big-name WR FA’s this year for various reasons:

Colston: good WR, knee surgeries already mentioned, price tag should be restrictive, wasn’t a burner before the surgeries, possible short shelf-life

VJax: older, played with a great offense with Rivers/Gates/etc. to draw attention, holdout affected his play

DeSean: simple point – never sign a head-case

Stevie Johnson: see above

Best WR options will be to have Crabtree develop and sign a mid-level WR FA, such as Manningham, Early Doucet, etc, unless a trade opens up an option like Maclin (someone I like a lot)

Tall and fast he brings explosive playmaking ability this team has lacked. He can stretch the field and has the short area quickness to be very good in this WCO scheme. Will come at much more cap friendly cost than the other bigger FA’s WR’s.

See last year