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I hear you, but we also gave up 8.5 yards per play against the Chiefs and our DL was nowhere to be found. It sucks that DL is still a need after all the investments, but that's the reality. And this DL draft class royally sucks after the the top few guys. Ideally we would be able to sign Armstead to get a true difference maker on the DL, then sign a mid-tier WR like Curtis Samuel or Josh Reynolds, then draft the best WR available in the 1st round. If we just sign Armstead and don't add to the WR room in free agency I will be disappointed.

I'm just trying to figure out what the plan is with Armstead if we sign him. I thought he played 3-tech for San Fran. So why are we even targeting him? I know DL is a big need but we can't keep spending big money on defense and ignoring the offense in FA.

Alright here's what I just heard on Arik Armstead - we asked him to give us last dibs to match his best offer. But there are ~10 teams in on him.

This is the Athletic reporter for the 49ers:

At the very least he'd make an excellent red zone target. The Chiefs took a cheap one year flyer on JuJu Smith-Schuster after some injury riddled seasons and it paid off for them. I would think Mike Williams would be similarly cheap and he'll know that playing with Josh Allen for a year would potentially boost his next contract.

Wow that is a surprise addition to comp pick bingo. I bet even Beane is pleasantly surprised.

This is a Trent Sherfield level signing. I really hope this isn't the end of our WR free agent shopping.

That article is wrong, he won't cost $19M. https://overthecap.com/fifth-year-option-projections OTC is estimating $13,387,000 because he didn't meet the requirements for any of the higher tiers. At that price you definitely pick up the option. He's arguably the best run stopping EDGE in the league and is still very young with a lot of upside as a pass rusher.

This is the first one I've seen reported: He's seen as a low 2nd round prospect.

Mahomes throws a slant to, uh, Isaiah McKenzie who runs 60 yards for a go ahead TD with 1 minute remaining. Sounds about right.

This is less than what we're paying Taylor Rapp this year... I really don't understand why Beane rushed to re-sign a depth safety. In a very team-friendly market we could have afforded to wait.

Why would we sign a starting LB? That would have been a terrible use of resources.

Yeah and I was hoping the likes of Rapp and Lewis and Morrow would be filled in by those cheap draft picks, not veteran contracts. Obviously the entire depth of the roster isn't going to be just rookies but can't these sorts of signings wait until we know what our draft class looks like?

This is where I don't understand the plan. We're prioritizing signings that have no business being prioritized. And we are apparently already almost out of cap space if Spotrac is to be believed. Do we have anything left to materially improve the offense?

Coming out in the draft the question on him was "is he a LB or a safety?" Four years later that question still hasn't been answered.

Hopefully a late round rookie or UDFA pushes him off the roster. Players 49-53 on the roster need to be on late round/UDFA rookie contracts, not veteran contracts. If we brought him in to compete nothing wrong with that.

Sure football is fun, but have you ever considered that life is meaningless and we all return to dust

Ugh I think we could have afforded that for sure, not a crazy overpay. Curtis Samuel and Josh Reynolds are still on the board.

I feel a lot better about the deal after seeing the numbers. $3.9M cap hit this year, and we can cut him next year for $3M in dead cap (or keep him for $6M), then void years of $2M and $1M in 2026 and 2027. His market must have been much worse than expected. To be honest I never understood the initial contract projections of $10M+ per year. He is best served as a backup/rotational EDGE.

Fake account.

Last year he did but I have a lot more confidence in Milano returning to form than I do Jones, and Milano is flat out a better player. With Jones it is two years in a row he has been ineffective in the playoffs, and I'm just not a fan of signing yet another 30+ year old defensive lineman. This strategy has yet to produce anything meaningful for us late in the season. But I've said my piece. I know I'm in the minority about this signing, and I get it. At his best DQ has been a very good player for us. It's weird to say this about a 32 year old player but there is upside to this signing. Just not the direction I would have personally gone in.

On Epenesa vs Floyd, I agree I would take Epenesa because he is younger. I don't hate that deal. I do think it is another instance of us spending a good chunk of cap space on a backup defensive lineman, which I have been against, but the market for that position really sucks right now and we aren't likely to be able to address it in the draft. So I get it. Epenesa at least still has some upside. On the other players, they are young but they aren't cheap relative to their position and spot on the roster. What it really comes down to for me is we are bringing back the same group of players that continually fail to show up in the playoffs. What has Epenesa ever done in a playoff game? Or even Daquan Jones. Two years ago he was out for the divisional round with an injury. This past year he was a shell of himself in the playoffs. Now he's a year older and we're giving him a 2 year deal? I was looking forward to a big shakeup on the roster this year. We can't just keep doing the same thing and expect to get over the hump. After all the cuts last week I was certain this regime was of the same mindset. I've criticized this regime for being unwilling to step outside their comfort zone. It is like after last week they felt too far out of it so they had to bring back a bunch of players they "know" even if the value wasn't there. The Chiefs wouldn't have re-signed Daquan Jones, I am positive of that. And that's our competition. I'd like us to start emulating them. I don't mean underperforming like he was a bad player on the field. But he missed 9 games last year... He underperformed in the same way that Tre White has underperformed. It's not his fault, it's just the reality. 32 years old coming off a major injury that left him hobbled at the end of the season. I expected him to get maybe a 1 year $5M deal on the open market.

That definitely isn't it. I want the roster to get younger and I want us spending our biggest cap dollars on premium positions.