1203 Parting Season
Every year, the Super Bowl winners face the ultimate dilemma: which players deserve to keep with a big salary, which players should be traded for benefits, and which players are simply forfeited...... Constrained by the NFL's hard salary cap, the team's uniform team can only lay out a series of numbers, and then put the game in front of the head coach, who will make the trade-offs.
It's not easy, but it's the way to go.
For the San Francisco 49ers, the most fortunate thing is that since Jim Hubble entered the team, it only took two years to successfully reach the Super Bowl, which also means that the championship team has only been running in the hands of Hubble for two years.
Even if it's a little simpler, it's a good thing.
As mentioned before, the San Francisco 49ers' offensive team is dominated by young rookies, and a group of rookie players such as Logan Newman and Marcus Lynch have not yet reached the contract year and do not need to worry about contract extensions; The defensive group is dominated by senior veterans, and there are many players who are facing contract renewal or contract promotion, so the trade-offs naturally occur more in the defensive group.
The first is the offensive group.
In the offensive forward team, five key players – Joe Stanley, Mike Rupatti, Jonathan Goodwin, Anthony Davis and Alex Boone – have no contract issues and are all staying with the team, but the bench has undergone significant changes.
Only last year's rookie Joe Rooney remained on the team.
In addition, Adam Schneider, a former San Francisco 49ers player and offensive guard who moved to the Arizona Cardinals last year, is back on the team; San Francisco then drafted an offensive guard Ryan-Seymour for the draft. But the problem is that all three bench players are guards, and the two tackles, Stanley and Boone, have no substitutes to rotate, which will be the top priority in the next training camp.
Among the wide receivers, Randy Moss retired, Mario Manningham is still injured, AJ Jenkins and Chad Hall both moved to the Kansas Chiefs, and Kyle Williams has also returned from injury to the Kansas Chiefs, and now there are only two players left in the team: Michael Crabtreey and Ted Jean.
Although the San Francisco 49ers selected an outside receiver Quinton-Patton over the draft and traded for outside receiver Jon-Baldin from the Kansas Chiefs, it was still a drop in the bucket.
To make matters worse, Crabtree was injured at the beginning of the voluntary training camp, and the injured part was the famous "Achilles Heel", with a torn tendon and no other choice but to undergo surgery, and the doctors initially estimated that it would take at least six months or more to recuperate, and Crabtree would not return until December at the earliest.
Jim Hubble was directly dumbfounded.
The news that cannot be considered good news is that Crabtree does not need to be renewed, and Trent Balk does not need to worry about whether Crabtree should be traded for the time being; But what is annoying is the issue of Jean's contract renewal.
Jean moved to San Francisco 49ers in 2010 and was a special service player until Lu Ke joined the team, but in the 2011 season he delivered a top performance, and despite the injury in the National League final, the future became uncertain, but San Francisco still signed Jean for another year. Now it's due in the blink of an eye.
In the 2012 season, Jean was the team's second-best receiver behind Logan, and for two consecutive seasons he maintained an ultra-efficient receiving and touchdown ability.
For Jean, this is the first and probably the only chance of his career to win a big contract and truly establish himself in an important position; But unexpectedly, but it is reasonable that Jean did not have a lion's mouth. After just asking for three offers back and forth, Jean happily signed the contract.
At the time of the signing, Crabtree was not injured. If Crabtree is injured, Jean's contract is bound to continue to rise.
Later, Jean and Logan talked about it, and he mentioned Lu Ke, "If it weren't for Bambi, I might have stayed in the secret service team for the rest of my life." I knew the team had to move the salary cap to renew Bambi, and of course, I had to fight for my own interests, but if it was just a loss of a million or two million, and I was able to stay and fight with Bambi to defend the title, I think it was worth it. ”
What Jean didn't say, though, was that his agent got the news:
Last offseason, San Francisco was actually ready to cut him, because his injury may need to recuperate until the start of the new season, and the uncertainty was too great, and at that time, San Francisco had high hopes for rookie wide receiver AJ Jenkins, thinking that Jenkins could take Gene's place, so they were ready to give up Gene.
But Lu Ke took the initiative to find Hubble, which not only illustrates Jean's rehabilitation status, but also expresses Jean's important role in the entire tactical system - Jean's striking ability in the far-reaching area, there is really no one in the whole team who can replace it, and Lu Ke's long pass can also be described as a combination of two swords.
After careful consideration, Hubble made a trade-off — and then, San Francisco signed a one-year contract extension with Jean; In addition, Jean also joined Lu Ke in Los Angeles for offseason training in an effort to keep up with the pace of preparation for the new season.
Now, it's time to return the favor.
What's more, Jean didn't stay for charity, he got himself a four-year contract of 30 million and a deposit of 15 million - although this contract is slightly lower than the Carolina Panthers' five-year transfer offer of 40 million, but it is really higher than the six-year 32 million signed by Crabtree in 2009, and Jean is already satisfied.
Although San Francisco kept Jean, the team's wide receiver lineup is still riddled with holes.
Rookie Parton Sleepy aside, Jon Baldwin, who was traded from the Chiefs, is a joke -
He was the Chiefs' first-round pick in 2011, the same rookie as Lu Ke, who was generally favored as a top-three rookie that year, but fell to the 26th pick in the first round because he was too grumpy before being selected; Later developments also proved the correctness of the scout's report, who was sidelined for four months after a physical collision with his teammate Thomas-Jones in the locker room during halftime break in the second week of pre-season.
After returning from injury, he also performed well below expectations, having been inactive for the past two seasons.
San Francisco traded AJ Jenkins for Kansas' Jon Baldwin, and the two first-round rookies swapped places without knowing what fate holds forward.
In the rest of the training camp, wide receivers are still a big problem for the team.
Then there's the running back and the close end team.
There hasn't been much change to the close end lineup, with neither Vernon Davis nor Logan Newman having contract issues, then last year's rookie DeMarcus Dobbs was promoted from the sparring team, and last year's rookie Garrett-Celek, who was in the main lineup, is slowly growing up enough to be a substitute.
The team was still on top of the draft, selecting Vance-McDonald with the 55th pick in the second round to complement him.
The running back team is still led by Frank Goyle and Marcus Lynch, Anthony Dixon was traded to Buffalo Bills, Bruce Miller is out for the season due to injury, and Kendall Hunter and RaMichael James will be substitutes.
Overall, the offensive team is still dominated by the youth army, and there are not many changes, and the bench lineup and wide receiver lineup of the offensive forward line are still the focus of the team's attention, and the biggest regret is the transfer of wide receiver Kyle Williams - he was injured unexpectedly in the regular season, and he was never able to play as a player for the San Francisco 49ers.
This is followed by the defensive group.
The whole change is very drastic.
On the defensive front, Pinnacle Isaac Sopper transferred to the Philadelphia Hawks - Sopper and Schneider were very good friends at the beginning, and Schneider transferred and Sopso Plus took the position last year; This year, Schneider returned and Soboga transferred, and the two of them never seemed to be able to continue their lead.
Interestingly, Glenn-Dorsey, who took the place in Soboga, is on a transfer from the Kansas Chiefs. There has been a lot of back-and-forth between the two teams this offseason.
Two defensive forwards, Justin Smith and Ray McDonald's, remained, but the bench underwent a major reshuffle.
On top of the linebacks, the four starting linebacks Patrick Willis, Navoro Bowman, Ahmed Brooks, and Aldon Smith all have no contract issues, but the bench players have also been purged and all six players have been replaced - which also means that the San Francisco 49ers' formation and tactics in the third gear defense must be rearranged.
In the second-line defense, the high-priced transfer of professional Bowl safety guard Dashan Goldson to the Tampa Bay Pirates was the team's biggest loss in the passing defense, and five fresh faces competed for the starting position above the other positions of safety guard and corner back.
The substitute lineup of the defensive group has basically been replaced, and more than ten players have left the team; Although the starting lineup has basically maintained the status quo, it will face more shocks and challenges for the confrontation at critical moments such as the third-gear defense and the red zone defense.
At the end of the day, Hubble has only been in charge for two years, and the contract for the main team is relatively stable, and the dilemma that needs to be faced after winning the Super Bowl has eased a lot; Still, the overhaul of the bench is bound to be an unknown factor in the new season, which can get better or worse.
The 2012 season was marked by a lot of mistakes in key moments in the defensive team, especially in the playoffs, and the team has maintained its basic framework, but in 2013, all players will be a year older, especially the linebacks and defensive forwards - all but Aldon are veterans, which means that bench depth is even more important.
Now, with most of the bench players replaced, things are becoming more and more uncertain.