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Sims agrees to one-year deal with 49ers
Veteran free-agent offensive tackle Barry Sims today agreed to terms with the 49ers on a one-year contract that will pay him up to $2.1 million, including incentives, for the 2010 season.
Sims fills a valuable role for the 49ers as the "swing tackle." He has experience playing left and right tackle. Because teams generally keep only one backup tackle on their 45-man game-day roster, the backup must be able to play both sides.
Sims, an 11-year veteran, played in all 16 games for the 49ers last season. He started seven games at left tackle, and played well, when starter Joe Staley was out with a knee injury.
thank God this happend!
Veteran free-agent offensive tackle Barry Sims today agreed to terms with the 49ers on a one-year contract that will pay him up to $2.1 million, including incentives, for the 2010 season.
Sims fills a valuable role for the 49ers as the "swing tackle." He has experience playing left and right tackle. Because teams generally keep only one backup tackle on their 45-man game-day roster, the backup must be able to play both sides.
Sims, an 11-year veteran, played in all 16 games for the 49ers last season. He started seven games at left tackle, and played well, when starter Joe Staley was out with a knee injury.
thank God this happend!
49ers awarded sixth-round compensatory draft pick
The 49ers received an additional draft pick today when the NFL announced 32 compensatory picks for the April draft. The 49ers' additional pick will be the 37th selection of the sixth round, No. 206 overall.
Under terms of the NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement, a team losing more or better compensatory free agents than it acquires in the previous year is eligible to receive compensatory draft picks.
The number of picks a team receives equals the net loss of compensatory free agents up to a maximum of four. The 32 compensatory choices announced today will supplement the 223 choices in the seven rounds of the 2010 NFL Draft (April 22-24). This year, the compensatory picks will be positioned within the third through seventh rounds based on the value of the compensatory free agents lost.
Compensatory free agents are determined by a formula based on salary, playing time and postseason honors. The formula was developed by the NFL Management Council. Not every free agent lost or signed by a club is covered by this formula.
The 49ers received an additional draft pick today when the NFL announced 32 compensatory picks for the April draft. The 49ers' additional pick will be the 37th selection of the sixth round, No. 206 overall.
Under terms of the NFL Collective Bargaining Agreement, a team losing more or better compensatory free agents than it acquires in the previous year is eligible to receive compensatory draft picks.
The number of picks a team receives equals the net loss of compensatory free agents up to a maximum of four. The 32 compensatory choices announced today will supplement the 223 choices in the seven rounds of the 2010 NFL Draft (April 22-24). This year, the compensatory picks will be positioned within the third through seventh rounds based on the value of the compensatory free agents lost.
Compensatory free agents are determined by a formula based on salary, playing time and postseason honors. The formula was developed by the NFL Management Council. Not every free agent lost or signed by a club is covered by this formula.
York says 49ers might not replace G.M.
After five days without comment, the 49ers said their official, if still mysterious, goodbye to general manager Scot McCloughan on Monday. Team president Jed York broke his silence by announcing a “mutual parting” with the team’s top personnel man since 2005.
“It’s difficult because I care about Scot. It’s never easy to part ways with someone you consider a friend,’’ York said. “But this was in the best interests of Scot and the 49ers.”
He would not comment on the reasons behind McCloughan’s exit, calling it a “private personnel matter.”
In the short term, Trent Baalke, the 49ers’ director of player personnel, will assume McCloughan’s duties leading up to the April 22-24 draft. York declared that Baalke would be the 49ers’ unequivocal “point man” for the draft and would have the final say on selections and trades.
In the long term, though, the 49ers hinted that they might not replace McCloughan at all.
“I haven’t decided if we will have a general manager,’’ York said.
He added, in response to questioning, that neither he nor vice president of football operations Paraag Marathe would ever assume the role of G.M.
Reports of McCloughan’s tenuous hold on the job surfaced last Wednesday, when the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported a meeting of the team’s powerbrokers in Santa Clara.
Within 24 hours, several more stories reported that personal reasons were behind McCloughan’s departure.
McCloughan hinted at his problems to Sirius NFL Radio when he sent a text message that read: “Family needs to come first and I lost sight of that with my position at the 49ers. I will be back in league at some point and be very successful.”
York held his tongue until Monday evening, apparently because of an arrangement he made with McCloughan not to comment on the matter for five days. He remained quiet even at the risk of turmoil in the 49ers front office.
“My integrity is more important to me than trying to get out a story,’’ he said.
Speaking from Orlando, the home of the NFL owners meetings, York declined to address the specifics of McCloughan’s departure or to address whether a settlement had been reached. The general manager had two years remaining on a five-year contract that paid him about $1.25 million a year.
The strongest detail from York came only when indicated that it was not an apbrupt decision. “We’ve been prepring for this,’’ he said.
Baalke, named the 49ers’ director of player personnel in February 2008, takes over a draft board that York called “90 to 95 percent set.” York said he had “full confidence” in Baalke and noted that he has been on the road evaluating prospects and has been in charge of organizing area scouts.
Coach Mike Singletary will not have an expanded role in the draft, even in the wake of McCloughan’s departure. “Mike is concentrating on coaching,’’ York said.
York was reserved when asked, more than once, to reflect on McCloughan’s legacy with the team. He dismissed the first such question, saying: “You’d have to ask Scot.” York was slighltly more expansive when asked a second time about McCloughan’s impact but added: “We haven’t made the playoffs yet.”
Earlier this week, Pro Football Weekly, quoting unnamed sources, indicated that football decisions may have also played a role in McCloughan’s ousting. PFW recalled the 2007 tampering case in which the 49ers lost a 2008 fifth-round pick and had to swap third-round picks with the Chicago Bears after being caught making contact with linebacker Lance Briggs.
“They looked like the Keystone Kops,” a league source told Pro Football Weekly said of an incident that left a bad taste within the Niners’ organization. “No one gets caught tampering nowadays. They did. What does that tell you about their leadership? They thought they were above the law, and they got busted.”
But York said Monday that McCloughan would still hold his job if it were strictly a football decision.
Speculation is already mounting that McCloughan could land elsewhere, perhaps in Green Bay, where he broke in as a scout in 1994 and went on to be part of two Super Bowl teams.
York said that McCloughan’s original contract prevents him from joining another team before the draft. Such an arrangement helps prevent McCloughan spilling the 49ers’ draft preparations to a competitor.
“I think that Scot is a very good personnel guy,’’ York said. “I care about Scot from a personal standpoint. I hope he gets another job somewhere.”
After five days without comment, the 49ers said their official, if still mysterious, goodbye to general manager Scot McCloughan on Monday. Team president Jed York broke his silence by announcing a “mutual parting” with the team’s top personnel man since 2005.
“It’s difficult because I care about Scot. It’s never easy to part ways with someone you consider a friend,’’ York said. “But this was in the best interests of Scot and the 49ers.”
He would not comment on the reasons behind McCloughan’s exit, calling it a “private personnel matter.”
In the short term, Trent Baalke, the 49ers’ director of player personnel, will assume McCloughan’s duties leading up to the April 22-24 draft. York declared that Baalke would be the 49ers’ unequivocal “point man” for the draft and would have the final say on selections and trades.
In the long term, though, the 49ers hinted that they might not replace McCloughan at all.
“I haven’t decided if we will have a general manager,’’ York said.
He added, in response to questioning, that neither he nor vice president of football operations Paraag Marathe would ever assume the role of G.M.
Reports of McCloughan’s tenuous hold on the job surfaced last Wednesday, when the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported a meeting of the team’s powerbrokers in Santa Clara.
Within 24 hours, several more stories reported that personal reasons were behind McCloughan’s departure.
McCloughan hinted at his problems to Sirius NFL Radio when he sent a text message that read: “Family needs to come first and I lost sight of that with my position at the 49ers. I will be back in league at some point and be very successful.”
York held his tongue until Monday evening, apparently because of an arrangement he made with McCloughan not to comment on the matter for five days. He remained quiet even at the risk of turmoil in the 49ers front office.
“My integrity is more important to me than trying to get out a story,’’ he said.
Speaking from Orlando, the home of the NFL owners meetings, York declined to address the specifics of McCloughan’s departure or to address whether a settlement had been reached. The general manager had two years remaining on a five-year contract that paid him about $1.25 million a year.
The strongest detail from York came only when indicated that it was not an apbrupt decision. “We’ve been prepring for this,’’ he said.
Baalke, named the 49ers’ director of player personnel in February 2008, takes over a draft board that York called “90 to 95 percent set.” York said he had “full confidence” in Baalke and noted that he has been on the road evaluating prospects and has been in charge of organizing area scouts.
Coach Mike Singletary will not have an expanded role in the draft, even in the wake of McCloughan’s departure. “Mike is concentrating on coaching,’’ York said.
York was reserved when asked, more than once, to reflect on McCloughan’s legacy with the team. He dismissed the first such question, saying: “You’d have to ask Scot.” York was slighltly more expansive when asked a second time about McCloughan’s impact but added: “We haven’t made the playoffs yet.”
Earlier this week, Pro Football Weekly, quoting unnamed sources, indicated that football decisions may have also played a role in McCloughan’s ousting. PFW recalled the 2007 tampering case in which the 49ers lost a 2008 fifth-round pick and had to swap third-round picks with the Chicago Bears after being caught making contact with linebacker Lance Briggs.
“They looked like the Keystone Kops,” a league source told Pro Football Weekly said of an incident that left a bad taste within the Niners’ organization. “No one gets caught tampering nowadays. They did. What does that tell you about their leadership? They thought they were above the law, and they got busted.”
But York said Monday that McCloughan would still hold his job if it were strictly a football decision.
Speculation is already mounting that McCloughan could land elsewhere, perhaps in Green Bay, where he broke in as a scout in 1994 and went on to be part of two Super Bowl teams.
York said that McCloughan’s original contract prevents him from joining another team before the draft. Such an arrangement helps prevent McCloughan spilling the 49ers’ draft preparations to a competitor.
“I think that Scot is a very good personnel guy,’’ York said. “I care about Scot from a personal standpoint. I hope he gets another job somewhere.”
Willis is an amazing enough player to cover for all the bad things McSucker did, but really P Willie at #11 was retarded obvious. similar to Crabtree.
Vernon however at #6 was more of a risk, that didnt pay off until this last season. it wasnt Vernon or Scotts fault, it was coaching/oc.
however aside for those two picks and also Frank Gore, everything else was pretty much trash.
even tho i do like certain guys like Manny Lawson, he was picked a little high and there were better players available.
then there were many guys like balmer, first round busts. michael robinson, middle round busts that didnt even make sense to pick.
anyways, its done and i'm glad. hopefully we get an improvement. all those years of terrible draft picks slowed the rebuilding process while having a retarded coach like nolan who loved busts.
Vernon however at #6 was more of a risk, that didnt pay off until this last season. it wasnt Vernon or Scotts fault, it was coaching/oc.
however aside for those two picks and also Frank Gore, everything else was pretty much trash.
even tho i do like certain guys like Manny Lawson, he was picked a little high and there were better players available.
then there were many guys like balmer, first round busts. michael robinson, middle round busts that didnt even make sense to pick.
anyways, its done and i'm glad. hopefully we get an improvement. all those years of terrible draft picks slowed the rebuilding process while having a retarded coach like nolan who loved busts.
49ers president Jed York gave Alex Smith a strong vote of confidence as the team's starting quarterback on Monday.
"Alex is our guy," York said. "He's our quarterback. We believe in Alex. Coach Singletary believes in Alex. I think it's great this is the first time he's had continuity at the offensive coordinator. When you have some weapons around him with Crab (Michael Crabtree) with Vernon (Davis) with Frank (Gore), I think Alex is poised to have a good season for us."
The Dolphins are believed to be targeting a third-round pick in trade talks regarding LG Justin Smiley.
The asking price would be reasonable for a 28-year-old starter if Smiley wasn't so injury prone. A fourth-round pick that could escalate to a third-rounder based on starts may be more realistic. The Miami Herald speculates that Cincinnati, Seattle, Atlanta, and San Francisco could have interest.
"Alex is our guy," York said. "He's our quarterback. We believe in Alex. Coach Singletary believes in Alex. I think it's great this is the first time he's had continuity at the offensive coordinator. When you have some weapons around him with Crab (Michael Crabtree) with Vernon (Davis) with Frank (Gore), I think Alex is poised to have a good season for us."
The Dolphins are believed to be targeting a third-round pick in trade talks regarding LG Justin Smiley.
The asking price would be reasonable for a 28-year-old starter if Smiley wasn't so injury prone. A fourth-round pick that could escalate to a third-rounder based on starts may be more realistic. The Miami Herald speculates that Cincinnati, Seattle, Atlanta, and San Francisco could have interest.
