:::[Official] San Francisco 49ers 2024 Offseason Thread [NFC CHAMPIONS]:::

[red81]

it's ponder time 

 
Eric Branch  ‏@Eric_Branch   2m2 minutes ago

Gabbert in last 13 starts: 4-9, 61.3 cmp pct., 80.4 QB rating Kaepernick in last 13 starts: 3-10, 58.6 comp pct., 76.2 QB rating #49ers

 

[red81]

HOP ON THE BANDWAGON EARLY FAMILY!!! THE MITCH TRUBISKY WAR WAGON IS PICKING UP VELOCITY. 

GET ABOARD BEFORE THERE'S NO ROOM LEFT.

 

[Fozz]

 
don't think it would do very well. every segment would be about how terrible the yorks are and how they'll never live down firing harbaugh. i would be *****ing more than everyone.

 I've always wanted to start a sports Podcast 

Red could be the weekly insider/analyst/angry fan 

 

[lightweight champion]

 

[red81]

 [h1]FOURTH-ROUND PICK RASHARD ROBINSON A BRIGHT SPOT ON 49ERS’ DEFENSE[/h1]
Despite dropping to 1-4, the 49ers can find some solace in the rise of rookie CB Rashard Robinson this season.

Through five games, the season looks to be a dismal one again for the 49ers. With Arizona starting backup QB Drew Stanton on Thursday night, it seemed for a time that San Francisco would be able to grind out an ugly win, but mistakes crept in, and the game went the Cardinals’ way.

The 49ers’ rookie draft class has so far been underwhelming, with even top pick DeForest Buckner yet to really hit his stride. There has been one exception, however, in the form of CB Rashard Robinson, who through five games, has a legitimate stake for Defensive Rookie of the Year.

With injuries in the San Francisco secondary, Robinson has found playing time early on, and has earned an expanded role with his performance in those limited snaps. Over the first three weeks of the season, he played just 45 snaps, but didn’t allow a single catch on those plays, and was targeted only once.

Robinson has started at cornerback for the 49ers the past two weeks, and has risen his play even more. Against Dallas and Arizona, he was targeted a combined eight times, but allowed only four catches for 31 yards. He broke up three of the four incompletions.

Robinson has always been a talented player, but was not a guy that married that talent to academic endeavor in high school or college. He barely made the eligibility deadline before his freshman season at LSU, and was suspended indefinitely during his sophomore season—a suspension that effectively ended his college career, causing him to sit out the 2015 season and then enter the draft.

Obviously those kinds of problems are huge red flags for a draft prospect, but the hype machine around Robinson briefly took off before the combine when somebody put word out that he would run a 40-yard dash time in the 4.2s at 6-foot-3 in height—the ideal traits NFL teams are looking for in prospects, long cornerbacks to combat today’s giant receivers. He ended up only running a 4.43 and measuring two full inches shorter, at 6-foot-1, but those are still pretty attractive numbers. Robinson’s measurables may not have been enough to overcome the aforementioned red flags and catapult him up the draft board, but they do help explain some of his early success.

The 49ers snagged him in the fourth round of the draft, 65 picks after the first cornerback they drafted—Will Redmond from Mississippi State—but Robinson got the chance to leap up the depth chart when Redmond went on injured reserve.

In the preseason, his play was excellent, and he ended with the highest coverage grade among all corners in the league, having been thrown at 13 times, surrendering seven catches for 58 yards. He didn’t allow a touchdown, but notched an interception and two pass defenses, and when targeted, yielded a passer rating of just 33.5—actually worse than if the QB just threw the ball into the dirt on those 13 targets.

His college tape showed some incredible make-up speed, but the propensity to get beat often enough to need it, even in man coverage. With the 49ers this season, he has been used primarily as a man-to-man corner, but he looks far stickier in coverage and less prone to getting badly beat.

When watching him, it’s notable that Robinson tries to maintain contact all the way through his route, with a textbook hand on the hip of his receivers on most plays. At times that strays very close to the line in terms of illegal contact, but he has yet to be flagged for anything in the regular season, at least on defense.

Robinson is still far from a finished product. He is a raw player that, at the moment, is far more comfortable in man coverage than he is in zone, and that will need to expand if he is to develop into a legitimate player in this league. So far, however, he looks much better than the pick invested in him would suggest, and has the kind of potential that could reap big rewards. GM Trent Baalke was bullish after drafting him that the team had done their homework—receiving intel from a strength coach that knew him from their times at LSU—and that he was a talent worth taking a chance on. So far he has been right, and Robinson has been one of the lone bright spots for the 49ers this season.

 

[50inchvert]

 I've always wanted to start a sports Podcast 

Red could be the weekly insider/analyst/angry fan 

I'd give it a listen. Red knows his ish... I consider myself adept in football knowledge but I pick up a lot of insight in general from his analytical play breakdowns and overall observations.

 

[red81]

this would be me. everyday. it's dead on me.

 

[Fozz]

 
this would be me. everyday. it's dead on me.

 

[dland24]

Whats the downside with Ponder? I cant recall why he didnt pan out in Minnesota

Heard an interview on ESPN radio I believe a couple years ago with Adrian Peterson.  AP said that Ponder had the skills, intelligence and work ethic to be a top tier QB in the NFL. Problem was, he got so nervous, that everything that he excelled at was irrelevant because he couldnt shake his nerves.  And as soon as things went bad due to said nerves, he would go into a shell.  

I know beggars cant be choosers, but that is not the QB I want leading our team.  

 

[red81]

PFF thinks rashard robinson is a legit candidate for the DROY. interesting. 

kid is a baller, but i think we all knew that when we took him. it was the aaron lynch situation all over again. 

 

[dland24]

Kap to start week 6.  Thank you lord.

 

[ady2glude707]

We'll go from we want kap, to we want ponder, to who should we pick with the #1 overall selection?

 

[niketalker23]

Kap to start week 6.  Thank you lord.

Where you getting this?

 

[red81]

chip didn't name a starter, but bleacher report is reporting that kap is going to start next week.

if kap does start next week, let's see what he can do. one excuse nobody can use is "guys are not getting open". chip is scheming guys wiiiiiiide open, so that will not be a valid excuse. 

 

[dland24]

Kap is restructuring his deal too.  Reports are it will be complete today without an injury clause.

 

[red81]

that's great news

 

[illvine]

 

[bentrill]

Kap currently weighing 215 lbs

 

[red81]

 
Ian Rapoport  ‏@RapSheet   42s42 seconds ago

My understanding of Colin Kaepernick’s redone contract is it eliminates guarantees in 2017 & cuts off the final 3 years. A shorter deal.

 

[niketalker23]

My dude Kaep

 

[TheGodFresco]

Kap betting on himself

 

[red81]

just let it rip, kap

just let it rip

 

[dland24]

He just really wants to play.  I dont blame him after watching the s*** we have been rolling out at QB so far.

 

[red81]

the timing of chip rolling out the pistol, something i have never seen him use in phlly or oregon, in yesterdays game cannot be a coincidence. he must have been prepping for this.

 

[niketalker23]

The Blaine plane has landed...

In the Hudson.

Due to a 7torm.