Archive for May, 2010

Check out this great article by Zusha Elinson at The Bay Citizen about the 49ers personal seat licenses in Santa Clara.  I am quoted in the article: 49er Financing Could Get Scary . . . .

The last time the 49ers had the same offensive and defensive coordinators in back-to-back seasons was 2002-2003 when Greg Knapp and Jim Mora Jr. were the play callers.  This season the 49ers will have Jimmy Raye returning as offensive coordinator and Greg Manusky as defensive coordinator, a position he has held since 2007.  In addition to the talent on defense the consistency at defensive coordinator is a main reason why the 49ers defense has been getting better in each season since 2007. In any sport, not only football, having the same coaching staff each year usually translates to winning.  It [...]

The 49ers gave draft general manager Trent Baalke a four-year contract extension and named him vice president of player personnel.  Baalke will have final say over draft picks and will work with Mike Singletary on the 53-man roster with Singletary having final say over the roster.  Baalke will not be in charge of budgets or the firing of the head coach, duties typically given to a GM.  Those powers will rest in Jed York’s hands.  The move shows that the 49ers are comfortable going into the season without an official general manager and would rather have a team work on [...]

Last week the 49ers showed their linebacker love for Patrick Willis by making him the highest paid linebacker in the NFL with a five-year contract extension worth up to $50 million.  No one will doubt that signing Willis now was the wise choice even with two years left on his old contract.  Willis has an NFL high 467 tackles since he joined the league in 2007 and has made the Pro Bowl every year. With the Willis signing it got me thinking about how he was a draft pick that changed the 49ers team.  The 49ers have had many players [...]

Join fellow San Franciscans and the 49er Faithful Wednesday, May 5, at 6:00PM upstairs at Pete’s Tavern- across from AT&T Park on King Street between 2nd and 3rd Streets, to learn about what’s right with the San Francisco stadium plan for a new, privately financed football stadium for our San Francisco 49ers at Hunters Point and what wrong with the plan to try to squeeze a football stadium on an undersized, underparked and transit challenged site in Santa Clara that utilized hundreds of millions in public funds and new ticket licenses. Join San Francisco City and County Planning Commission member Mike Antonini, [...]