2014 offseason thread

[BINGO]

Michael Crabtree - WR - 49ers

The 49ers are expected to approach Michael Crabtree about a contract extension this offseason.

Crabtree is owed $3.5 million entering the final year of his rookie contract. The 49ers had to be pleased with his 2013 recovery from Achilles' surgery, as Crabtree returned late in the season and made an impact. He's 26 years old. Re-signing Crabtree could be much cheaper now as opposed to next winter.
Source: CSN Bay Area

Feb 5 - 10:25 PM

 

[NinerSickness]

Michael Crabtree - WR - 49ers

The 49ers are expected to approach Michael Crabtree about a contract extension this offseason.

Crabtree is owed $3.5 million entering the final year of his rookie contract. The 49ers had to be pleased with his 2013 recovery from Achilles' surgery, as Crabtree returned late in the season and made an impact. He's 26 years old. Re-signing Crabtree could be much cheaper now as opposed to next winter.
Source: CSN Bay Area

Feb 5 - 10:25 PM

Great. More DumbDumb at 10 times the cost & more Crabtree at 3 times the cost & more DumbDumb over-estimating his abilities.

 

[BINGO]

Anquan Boldin - WR - 49ers

According to ESPN 49ers reporter Bill Williamson, the team "would like to keep" free agent Anquan Boldin.

Same goes for free agent S Donte Whitner and K Phil Dawson, per Williamson. The Niners are currently sitting on just over $7 million in salary cap space with a number of youngsters to extend before their rookie contracts expire. Ideally, San Francisco would find an alpha-type No. 1 receiver in May's draft.
Source: ESPN.com

Feb 5 - 9:35 PM

 

[Dodub]

Michael Crabtree - WR - 49ers

The 49ers are expected to approach Michael Crabtree about a contract extension this offseason.

Crabtree is owed $3.5 million entering the final year of his rookie contract. The 49ers had to be pleased with his 2013 recovery from Achilles' surgery, as Crabtree returned late in the season and made an impact. He's 26 years old. Re-signing Crabtree could be much cheaper now as opposed to next winter.
Source: CSN Bay Area

Feb 5 - 10:25 PM

Smart move. We were a different team once he came back, no doubt about it.

 

[Dodub]

Anquan Boldin - WR - 49ers

According to ESPN 49ers reporter Bill Williamson, the team "would like to keep" free agent Anquan Boldin.

Same goes for free agent S Donte Whitner and K Phil Dawson, per Williamson. The Niners are currently sitting on just over $7 million in salary cap space with a number of youngsters to extend before their rookie contracts expire. Ideally, San Francisco would find an alpha-type No. 1 receiver in May's draft.
Source: ESPN.com

Feb 5 - 9:35 PM

I don't know how likely it is that we bring anyone back except for Dawson, we just can't afford to do anything big in FA this year. We have our own guys to extend.

 

[NinerSickness]

Smart move. We were a different team once he came back, no doubt about it.

That's a reflection of how much Kyle Williams sucked more than it's a reflection of how good Crabtree is.

GMs who fall in love with good (not great) WRs are light weights. Crabtree is looking at double digit millions. Not anywhere near worth it.

Crabtree is SO replaceable.

 

[Dodub]

That's a reflection of how much Kyle Williams sucked more than it's a reflection of how good Crabtree is.

GMs who fall in love with good (not great) WRs are light weights. Crabtree is looking at double digit millions. Not anywhere near worth it.

Crabtree is SO replaceable.

If you think that Baalke is a lightweight then that is on you but I completely disagree. This team was considerably better as soon as Crabs came back, without him we are either a first round exit in the playoffs or don't even make it.

You feel in love with a good not great WR last season in Mike Wallace and wanted to pay him a similar contract.

Again, it is easy to be an armchair GM and criticize the real deal but I like what our GM has done and I trust him to make the right moves.

 

[shouldakepowens]

HEEEELLLLLLLL NOOOOO it doesn't make Miller expendable. A RB's best friends are his OL and his FB, the fact that Lattimore did so well with a lead blocker means that he will just that much better with one in front of him. It does mean that he needs to be a more patient runner but I'm hoping that he learned some of that from watching Gore this year.

One million percent agree

 

[NinerSickness]

This team was considerably better as soon as Crabs came back, without him we are either a first round exit in the playoffs or don't even make it.

You feel in love with a good not great WR last season in Mike Wallace and wanted to pay him a similar contract.

Significantly better than Kyle Williams isn't saying much. And Mike Wallace is a rare kind of WR who is not easily replaceable; that kind of deep threat is extremely hard to find. You can find lanky, possession WRs in every draft.

 

[dredinis21]

Significantly better than Kyle Williams isn't saying much. And Mike Wallace is a rare kind of WR who is not easily replaceable; that kind of deep threat is extremely hard to find. You can find lanky, possession WRs in every draft.

Sick, please explain to me what is so special about Mike Wallace that is, in your opinion, so hard to replace. I don't see it. I am not discounting that Wallace isn't a good WR, but he isn't this rare gem you have made him out to be over the past two-three years.

 

[dredinis21]

If you think that Baalke is a lightweight then that is on you but I completely disagree. This team was considerably better as soon as Crabs came back, without him we are either a first round exit in the playoffs or don't even make it.

You feel in love with a good not great WR last season in Mike Wallace and wanted to pay him a similar contract.

Again, it is easy to be an armchair GM and criticize the real deal but I like what our GM has done and I trust him to make the right moves.

 

[NinerSickness]

Sick, please explain to me what is so special about Mike Wallace that is, in your opinion, so hard to replace. I don't see it. I am not discounting that Wallace isn't a good WR, but he isn't this rare gem you have made him out to be over the past two-three years.

He's a true deep threat. He's like Desean Jackson or Percy Harvin (when healthy). He's the kind of player who's gonna make DBs play deeper, and that opens things up underneath.

If all of your WRs live underneath then the defense can play closer to the line of scrimmage.

 

[badazzk9]

A guy I would like to take a stab at is Martavis Bryant. 6'5'' 200lb and 4.4 speed.


If the 9ers are going to try to win games with fade routes they need to get bigger.

 

[BINGO]

Anquan Boldin - WR - 49ers

CSN Bay Area considers free agent Anquan Boldin the "most likely candidate" to start opposite Michael Crabtree next season.

Ace beat writer Matt Maiocco considers wideout the 49ers' No. 1 offseason priority. He expects them to draft a receiver to compete with Quinton Patton for the No. 3 role and also re-sign Boldin. It shouldn't be an overly difficult negotiation as Boldin is going on 34 years old and won't land a guaranteed multi-year contract elsewhere. Maiocco suggests a two-year, $10 million contract that includes $6 million guaranteed.
Source: CSN Bay Area

Feb 6 - 10:37 AM

 

[MHSL82]

February 3 Waiver System began for teams.

February 8-8 NFL Regional Combine, Methodist Training Center, Houston, Texas.

February 15-16 NFL Regional Combine, Atlantic Health Jets Training Center, Florham Park, New Jersey.

February 17 First day for clubs to designate Franchise or Transition Players.

February 19-25 NFL Scouting Combine, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Indiana.

February 22 NFL Regional Combine, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California.

March 1 NFL Regional Combine, One Buccaneer Place, Tampa, Florida.

March 3 Prior to 4:00 p.m., New York time, deadline for clubs to designate Franchise or Transition Players.

March 8-9 NFL Regional Combine, Atlanta Falcons Training Facility, Flowery Branch, Georgia.

March 8 Clubs are permitted to contact, and enter into contract negotiations with, the certified agents of players who will become Unrestricted Free Agents upon the expiration of their 2013 Player Contracts at 4:00 p.m., New York time, on March 11. However, a contract cannot be executed with a new club until 4:00 p.m., New York time, on March 11.

March 11 Prior to 4:00 p.m., New York time, clubs must exercise options for 2014 on all players who have option clauses in their 2013 contracts.

March 11 Prior to 4:00 p.m., New York time, clubs must submit Qualifying Offers to their Restricted Free Agents with expiring contracts and to whom they desire to retain a Right of First Refusal/Compensation.

March 11 Prior to 4:00 p.m., New York time, clubs must submit a Minimum Salary Tender to retain exclusive negotiating rights to their players with expiring 2013 contracts and who have fewer than three Accrued Seasons of free agency credit.

March 11 Top-51 Begins. All clubs must be under the 2014 Salary Cap prior to 4:00 p.m., New York time.

March 11 All 2013 player contracts will expire at 4:00 p.m., New York time.

March 11 The 2014 League Year and Free Agency period begin at 4:00 p.m., New York time.

The first day of the 2014 League Year will end at 11:59:59 p.m., New York time, on March 11. clubs will receive a Personnel Notice that will include all transactions submitted to the league office during the period between 4:00 p.m., New York time, and 11:59:59 p.m., New York time, on March 11.

March 11 Trading period for 2014 begins at 4:00 p.m., New York time, after expiration of all 2013 contracts.

March 15 NFL Regional Combine, Halas Hall, Lake Forest, Illinois.

March 22 NFL Regional Combine, Doctors Hospital Training Facility at Nova Southeastern University, Davie, Florida.

March 22-23 NFL Regional Combine, Virginia Mason Athletic Center, Renton, Washington.

March 23-26 Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida.

March 29 NFL Regional Combine, Indiana Farm Bureau Football Center, Indianapolis, Indiana.

March 29-30 NFL Regional Combine, Under Armour Performance Center, Owings Mills, Maryland.

April 7 Clubs that hired a new head coach after the end of the 2013 regular season may begin offseason workout programs.

April 12-13 Super Regional Combine, Ford Field, Detroit, Michigan.

April 21 Clubs with returning head coaches may begin offseason workout programs.

May 2 Deadline for Restricted Free Agents to sign Offer Sheets.

May 7 Deadline for Prior Club to exercise Right of First Refusal to Restricted Free Agents.

May 8-10 2014 NFL Draft, New York City, New York.

May 19-21 NFL Spring League Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.

June 2 Deadline for Prior Club to send "June 1 Tender" to its unsigned Unrestricted Free Agents. If the player has not signed a Player Contract with a Club by July 22 or the first scheduled day of the first NFL training camp, whichever is later, he may negotiate or sign a Player Contract from that date until the Tuesday following the 10th weekend of the regular season, at 4:00 p.m., New York time, only with his Prior Club.

June 2 Deadline for Prior Club to send "June 1 Tender" to its unsigned Restricted Free Agents who received a Qualifying Offer for a Right of First Refusal Only in order for such player to be subject to the CBA's "June 15 Tender" provision.

June 16 Deadline for club to withdraw Qualifying Offer to Restricted Free Agents and still retain exclusive negotiating rights by substituting "June 15 Tender" of one-year contract at 110 percent of the player's prior-year Paragraph 5 Salary (with all other terms of his prior-year contract carried forward unchanged).

June 22-28 Rookie Symposium, Aurora, Ohio.

July 15 At 4:00 p.m., New York time, deadline for any Club that designated a Franchise Player to sign such player to a multi-year contract or extension. After this date, the player may sign only a one-year contract with his Prior Club for the 2014 season, and such contract cannot be extended until after the Club's last regular season game.

Mid-July Clubs are permitted to open preseason training camp for Rookies and First-Year Players beginning seven days prior to the club's earliest permissible mandatory reporting date for veteran players.

Veteran players (defined as a player with at least one pension-credited season) other than quarterbacks or "injured players" (as defined in CBA Article 21, Section 6) may report to a club's preseason training camp no earlier than 15 days prior to the club's first scheduled preseason game or July 15, whichever is later.

Veteran quarterbacks and injured players may be required to report to the club's preseason training camp no earlier than five days immediately prior to the mandatory reporting date for all other veteran players, provided the club has already opened (or simultaneously opens) its official preseason training camp for all Rookies and First-Year players.

A three-day acclimation period will apply to players who are on a club's roster up to and including the mandatory veteran reporting date. Players who join the roster after that date may practice (including wearing pads) and play immediately after passing a physical.

July 22 Signing Period ends for Unrestricted Free Agents to whom a "June 1 Tender" was made by Prior Club. After this date and until 4:00 p.m., New York time, on the Tuesday following the 10th weekend of the regular season, Prior Club has exclusive negotiating rights. (* or the first scheduled day of the first NFL training camp, whichever is later.)

July 22 Signing Period ends for Transition Players with outstanding tenders. After this date and until 4:00 p.m., New York time, on the Tuesday following the 10th weekend of the regular season, Prior Club has exclusive negotiating rights.

 

[NinerSickness]

February 19-25 NFL Scouting Combine, Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Indiana.

So soon???

I wish it were further off so I had more time to lick my wounds & get all amped up for the 2014 season.

 

[sjballer03]

I wonder why they scheduled the west coast Regional Combine during the Scouting Combine.

 

[Crimsoncrew]

He's a true deep threat. He's like Desean Jackson or Percy Harvin (when healthy). He's the kind of player who's gonna make DBs play deeper, and that opens things up underneath.

If all of your WRs live underneath then the defense can play closer to the line of scrimmage.

Harvin is a true deep threat? The guy caught two balls that traveled more than 20 yards in 2012 (out of 63), and 49 balls that traveled less than 10 yards. In 2011, only 2 of his 87 receptions traveled more than 20 yards, and 69 were thrown within 10. In 2010, he had a whopping six receptions (of 71) on passes that traveled more than 20 yards, and five (of 60) in 2009. Harvin has the speed to be a deep threat, but he certainly hasn't proven to be a true deep threat in the NFL to date.

 

[NinerSickness]

Harvin is a true deep threat? The guy caught two balls that traveled more than 20 yards in 2012 (out of 63), and 49 balls that traveled less than 10 yards. In 2011, only 2 of his 87 receptions traveled more than 20 yards, and 69 were thrown within 10. In 2010, he had a whopping six receptions (of 71) on passes that traveled more than 20 yards, and five (of 60) in 2009. Harvin has the speed to be a deep threat, but he certainly hasn't proven to be a true deep threat in the NFL to date.

Harvin was injured half the year, and he had a 2nd-year Christian Ponder throwing to him; that's about as bad as it gets at QB (especially for deep balls).

And being able to catch a slant and take it 50 yards because you're lightning fast still keeps the DBs playing deep. It's not always about how many deep balls a guy catches; it's also about what he opens up underneath for other players.

 

[BINGO]

Daniel Kilgore - G - 49ers

The Sacramento Bee expects fourth-year OL Daniel Kilgore to succeed free agent Jonathan Goodwin as the 49ers' starting center in 2014.

Goodwin is a free agent. Center is a popular position for the 49ers in mock drafts, but beat writer Matt Barrows sounds confident San Francisco will use its premium picks elsewhere. Kilgore has been effective in spot duty the past two seasons, seeing (limited) playing time at all three interior line spots.
Source: Sacramento Bee

Feb 7 - 2:00 PM