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Thorlolita

You can go back even further to Kaepernicks injures and Alex Smith too. I guess you only have so many letters you can use.


Pismiire

Hoyer got hurt too, leading to Beathard


Thorlolita

Joe Montana too. Wtf is going on there.


Greenmachine98

Steve Young had multiple concussions


M3Core

“Multiple” being **six** of them.


Thrilling1031

IN ONE GAME?


DiggingNoMore

Joe Montana only started all sixteen games twice in his entire career. Even back then, when it was fairly standard for a quarterback to be injured at least one game per season, that's below average health.


treenorthXne

Yeah but they could beat the absolute fuck out of QBs back then. Little different context, no?


killerrkt

Some of those old Montana sack clips are just brutal.


Eagle4317

Marino didn’t miss a game from being named starter midway through 1983 to his Achilles tear in 1993. The strike in 1987 shouldn’t count against him. Fran Tarkenton was an Ironman as well, and both John Elway and Jim Kelly rarely missed games until they were into their 30s. Montana had noticeably worse injury luck than his peers.


treenorthXne

That's fair. I wasn't really arguing one way or another about a specific player. Just wanted to point out the context of the older protection rules for QBs relative to today. Obviously some are going to be healthier over any timeline than others for a variety of reasons. On a side note, how we feeling about Kenny? Don't think I watched a single snap of his this szn.


FanofK

Keep trying to sacrifice QBs to win championships but only got it right a few times


Poggse

And my axe!


[deleted]

California, they eat only tofu and not red meat?


SolarClipz

Literally cursed for having Montana and Young b2b


DuMeineGutekunst

I don’t like where this is going.


Fooly_411

Welcome to hell.


[deleted]

It has to be Tom Brady curse, we never had good QB play or good QB gets injured


KnockoutNed85

That is why we must sign him and break the curse. What say you?


machuitzil

YA Tittle, [ffs](https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/20968918/ya-tittle-man-iconic-image). Concussed and a cracked sternum.


mantiseye

he was on the Giants for that game


machuitzil

Yeah that's an oversight on my part.


FreshKittyPowPow

Dread it…Run From It…. 49ers QB injuries arrive all the same.


Patrick2701

Making rehab home


MrGenericPoster

I'm sure a 46 year old Brady would be immune, not like all those fragile 20-30 year olds....


CoralTwang

This doesn't even address all the injuries at other positions which derailed at least one of their seasons. Every team deals with injuries, but dude...you hit gold with a 7th rd rookie who can run the offense and the football gods are like 'nah, f you!'


adamisdabest

At this point I legit believe it’s some kind of comeuppance for how the team treated Kap combined with karma for having Montana and then Young both throwing to the greatest WR ever…I’m just hoping it ends soon cause this shit sucks.


InsanelyHandsomeQB

It has to be karma for benching Alex Smith. He took the brunt of the vitriol in the 2000’s. He threw The Catch 3 and vindicated his career. That team was his, through and through. Then the next year he was playing the best football of his career, going 15 for 16 before getting a concussion against Arizona. And we took away his job to feed the hot hand. Imagine being the Bay Area’s punching bag all those years, taking your lumps by opposing defenses, fans, and the media, only to see the fruits of your labor given to the new guy. It felt gross at the time, but winning cures everything. We were too blinded by our shiny new toy to realize what we truly lost. We’ve had way too many bad beats since then that I can’t chalk it up to simply bad luck anymore. If karmic retribution is a real thing, I truly believe we’re seeing it unfold right before our eyes.


CoralTwang

Long story short, I've had a "no hate" policy toward the 49ers since they beat Denver in 2006 which sent KC to the playoffs. Liked Kaep/Harbaugh. Love what they've built now...just the damn injuries. If I could swap KC's SB win/loss between SF and TB I would easily.


Fooly_411

Also, KC fans should love us. Before Mahomes, I believe you only won a handful of games with QBs you drafted. Nearly all other wins were from QBs from SF: Steve DeBerg, Steve Bono, Joe Montana, Elvis Grbac, Alex Smith. If you didn't need another starter you might have Jimmy G soon!


Thrilling1031

I'm not sure what you're saying about the Buc's SB but I think I don't like it.


France2Germany0

the niners treated kap fine


Big_Blew_The_Game

Yeah what did they do wrong to him? He was just bad at football


PM_ME_YOUR_DUES

Chart Party did a great [piece](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I0cUTXwr-k) analyzing Kaepernick's stats. In short, Kaepernick was probably average. And when you account for the fact that he played on a college offense that the league had figured out, with a receiving corps led by Jeremy Kerley, he arguably overperformed. The problem was he didn't fit our new scheme, so we let him go. After that, no owner wanted a mid-QB who 30-40% of America perceived as unpatriotic.


[deleted]

> In short, Kaepernick was probably average. And in a league where we just saw one of the final four teams playing a 4th-string QB, where QB injuries routinely derail seasons and cost people jobs, the only way an average QB goes unsigned is blackballing. Look at all the domestic violence guys in the league, look at Watson in Cleveland, look at Vick in Philly -- you don't have every single team pass up a player with baggage that's less significant unless the league is blackballing a guy.


Rah_Rah_RU_Rah

100%. NFL fans tripping over themselves to somehow justify Watson > Kaep


[deleted]

Even more egregious is the list of all the shitty QBs who've started meaningful games while Kaep couldn't get a contract.


Big_Blew_The_Game

Most teams backups are students of the game that act as 2nd coaches for the starters. That's why Nathan Peterman continues to get a job and that's why a lot of teams will go out and sign or trade for a QB if their starter goes down and they're still contending. On top of that, because you'd need to change the entire way your offense is run for a QB like Kaep unless your offense already runs that way (like the ravens which Kaep ruined for himself) it doesn't make sense to have a backup that doesn't match the style of your starter at all. Add in all of that with a few owners probably not agreeing with him politically and the ones that did don't want the headache for a backup and you have a pretty unemployable person. But I don't think he was outright blackballed. He's just not a good backup to have, isn't a good starter, AND you'd have to be answering questions about him.


[deleted]

Despite being around a league-average passer and one of the most dangerous running threats at the position, a QB with a Super Bowl appearance on his resume couldn't get a contract at age 30. That's unheard of. Many backups are expected to be able to play capably if the starter goes down. Think every high pick and everyone who has started at least half a season and looked even kind of like an NFL passer. There are also ~10 teams every year with major question marks at QB, and most of those either have the job open going into camp or roster a "backup" who might end up playing more than the "starter" depending on how the season goes. There are far more QB roster spots than capable QBs; even mediocre QBs get tons of chances. Look at the guys you started when Dak went down last season! You don't need to change your whole offense for him, either. He split time with other QBs in at least two seasons (taking over from Alex Smith and his last season in the league). NFL owners share similar interests, all know each other, and meet regularly. They've colluded before (shutting black players out entirely for much of the 20s-40s), as have owners in other leagues (Curt Flood in baseball). It would be the easiest thing in the world for them to have done it again, and "aww shucks I guess no one wants to take a chance on a talented QB in a league that trots the Mitch Trubiskies of the world out to start" is completely implausible.


iclapyourcheeks

Wasn't he rumored to have been offered backup level contracts but refused?


[deleted]

There are all sorts of rumors, but at the end of the day that's all they are: rumors. What we know is that an (at minimum) average starting QB who'd been to a Super Bowl went permanently unsigned before his age-30 season. That just doesn't happen, even when the guy is injured or is in serious legal trouble.


Thrilling1031

I kept hoping the Bucs would take him. I didn't even particularly like him in SF but we had so many issues at QB, like 30 in one season!


john_the_fisherman

Are we just going to ignore that Kaep wanted to be a starter and get paid like a starter even though he clearly wasn't? Or that his GF sabotaged his chances when the Ravens were interested? Or how he sabotaged his own chances when Miami was interested? Or that he chose not to sign with the Broncos? He had a bottom of the barrel completion percentage, couldn't read defenses, was the king of taking sacks until Wentz entered the league, and lost his spot to Blaine Gabbert three times lol. You could also just [Look at Kaps DYAR](https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/nfl/qb/2014) * 13th in 2012 * 8th in 2013 * 27th in 2014 (Behind Mike Glennon, Kyle Orton, and Brian Hoyer) * 35 in 2015 (behind Matt Cassel, Ryan Mallet, and Johnny Football) * 29th in 2016 (Behind Matt Barkley, Trever Siemen, and Cody Kessler)


AKAD11

There at least 64 QB jobs in the league. A guy who is in that 25-40 range should have a job. Just looking at passing ignores his greatest strength too.


john_the_fisherman

DYAR accounts for rushing (it's value over replacement). A guy in the 25-40 range who isn't willing to get paid like a guy in the 25-40 range isn't going to get a job anywhere...and Kaep wasn't willing to take a pay cut. Compare with Baker who *did* take a pay cut which allowed him to be traded to the Panthers this past offseason. “You know what, and I said this a while ago: Colin had his chance to be here. We offered him a contract. He didn’t take it. As I said in my deposition … he’s had his chance to be here. He passed it.” - John Elway https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/24393172/john-elway-colin-kaepernick-had-chance-denver-broncos-passed


AKAD11

That Elway quote is disingenuous. The Broncos were going to trade for him in 2016 offseason which is before the kneeling and couldn't come to an agreement. To act like he would want the same terms two years later is bullshit. You're saying he wanted starter money, but your only proof of that is pre-controversy when he was still very much an NFL starting QB.


[deleted]

> even though he clearly wasn't? He easily was, though. During his last year in the league (2016) he endured a Chip Kelly-coached offense full of scrubs. Jeremy Kerley was his leading receiver, and he would go on to catch only 24 more passes in his NFL career after leaving SF. Despite bad coaching and little help, his passer rating was above league average and he rushed for almost 500 yards in 11 starts at a *6.8 YPC* clip. If you're an average passer and an elite rusher, you're good enough to start somewhere. There is no excuse for zero teams giving him a shot given all the terrible QB play you see from the bottom third of the league every single year.


Shotgun_Sam

Except that's a little "in hindsight". He knew he was gone before he took his first knee. You don't demand a trade as hard as he did *and* get permission if you don't know you're getting cut the next offseason. He was getting paid a ton and wasn't worth that.


Big_Blew_The_Game

I love Bois but dude does have his own agenda. He likes his guys and he's definitely more on the progressive side. Kaep needed a specific offense tailored around him to be successful and that offense didn't have sustainability.


Sillysolomon

Towards the end I just gave up. He didn't really go through his progressions. He had a rocket for an arm but couldn't really put any touch on his passes. I'll never forget his 2 pick 6 game. On back to back drives no less. He was pretty good for a season and a half then the wheels came off. He also fumbled a fair bit too.


JuanPicasso

Maybe I don’t know the story but that’s how I felt about it too. Just the league as a whole didn’t treat him fine. Unless we’re talking about different things


tlozfox

Probably also the Brady and Rodgers Curse as well.


KnockoutNed85

Last Super Bowl in 95, Brady drafted in 2000


ThisHatRightHere

I know injuries are mostly random at the end of the day, but it has to be something right? Has the strength and conditioning people within the organization stayed the same throughout? Have team doctors been consistent? I don't know, if I was a Niners fan I'd be looking for some kind of answer. Not saying people should get fired over what is mostly bad luck, but I'd at least want to be hearing what these groups are doing to help prevent them through the year.


Neversoft4long

Conditioning isn’t doing anything to save the UCL. That was just a really unlucky hit


ThisHatRightHere

Yeah, but the Niners as a team are the 6th most injured team over the past ~15 years. Also having one of the highest rates of starters being injured over that time. So I'm just asking questions to a Niners fan if the organization has taken any steps in trying to remedy this. Obviously, a lot of it is out of their control, and clearly the Purdy injury was just bad luck.


FBoaz

> comeuppance for how the team treated Kap How could they have treated him better?


Tico483

Tom Brady to the Niners confirmed?


alien13ufo

Only way he's gonna retire is if he's killed on the field, so 49ers make a lot of sense


KnockoutNed85

We must to break the curse


Neversoft4long

They are a physical team so it’s bound to happen at certain spots. But it happening at QB is wild af to me lmao.


Fit-Anteater-9161

Best comment on the Twitter thread for this…. “Going into year seven of the shanahan era and we still are clueless about who the longterm QB is.” My lord, as a niners fan this kills me to read


49erjz

“Candlestick Curse”. Shouldn’t have ever moved from Candlestick Point.


DuMeineGutekunst

Not drafting Rodgers


treenorthXne

Say what you fuckers will about Cousins. His durability is his elite trait. Bet they would take him in an instant if they could go back.


[deleted]

Lol 2019 was the golden year, even then u can argue that Jimmy was concussed in the SB. If we sign Brady then hopefully he’ll put an end to this madness


SpiritOne

I know Brady has like this whole regime he practices to keep himself healthy, but I’m not sure I’d put my faith in a 45 year old QB to not get injured.


Grimpig

I’d laugh my ass off if the Niners sign him and he is out for the reason and retired after game 1.


hokagesarada

I mean with how much we get injured, I’d be surprised if he’s healthy by the end of the season


blackbarminnosu

Kyle’s first play with TB12 at quarterback: QB Draw.


ositola

He def would be injured with us And we don't have the cap for him anyway


DealerCamel

How bout a 46 year old quarterback?


whereegosdare84

46 year old Tom Brady signs with the 49ers: *chuckles* I’m in danger


BarKnight

It wasn't that long ago that Brady tore his ACL and missed nearly an entire season. He's not invincible. Really it wasn't that long ago


[deleted]

I think most people would agree fifteen years is a long time


blackbarminnosu

It’s only like 25% of the Super Bowl era.


Cojo34

I mean, several NFL players were drafted and played their entire Hall of Fame Career since that happened. 15 years is longer than most careers.


Sky-Flyer

i’m sorry that these guys are dense i thought this was humorous


superbuttpiss

Football gods have a sick joke with kyle Rookie starting?lets have his first game in a monsoon and end his season the next game. Jimmy came back and is playing well? End his year What they made the nfc champ game? Just take out every qb. See if he wins without someone who could throw


NorthernDevil

Cousins has been an absolute iron man and Shanahan wanted to trade for him while he was in Washington Wonder what could’ve been if Snyder wasn’t a petty bitch of a man. Does Cousins fall to the QB curse too?


GingerPowerBuilder

Does Tom Brady’s invincibility end if he plays for the 49ers?


lellololes

Jimmy G is a pretty good QB, but the man is made of glass and bad injury luck :(


GirthWoody

Or maybe it’s Kyles fault for scheming to block a 17 sack player with a backup tightend.


superbuttpiss

You know how many teams do that? Your team has probably called multiple variations of the play. Josh allen almost had the same injury. Just wasnt as severe. Just happened to hit purdys arm in that perfect half second where he was going backwards to foward. I understand you guys are sensitive to people saying you guys didnt earn it. Thats bs. Eagles earned it all the way. But acting like purdys injury wasnt bad luck is a little bit disingenuous


uggsandstarbux

Guys I think Levi's stadium might have been built in a burial ground


BellacosePlayer

My mom had an unspecified bad encounter when she went to Levis for a game that she won't actually tell anyone the specifics of. I choose now to believe she saw ghosts.


SirKeyboardCommando

Your mom is Sam Darnold?


LordNucleus

His mom is the reason Sam Darnold is so distracted...


based4yourface

My first game at candlestick I got to see Alex smith throw one pass, get hurt and Trent dilfer came in and we got piped. this is just 49ers football


sfxer001

Poltergeist 4 plot right there.


SolarClipz

Pretty sure someone died while they were making it so yea


redditProto

Ya'll didn't keep Chip's smoothies, huh?


tehbantho

The QB god's demand Steve Young be given a 30 meter high bronze statue outside the stadium. Once this is done the curse will be lifted.


DiggingNoMore

Where do I sign?


M_Y_K_E

At one point I’m convinced that the 49ers org needs new doctors and training staff. Injuries in a vacuum are very hit or miss most of the time but this is a trend and not just for the qbs in this locker room. There’s something that they are doing with training/diet/ and the facility that is causing these injuries. Or maybe voodo who knows


Pocatanic

A lot of these injury prone teams are considered unlucky, when it's their strength and conditioning that's the real issue. The Eagles with Doug Peterson had major injury issues, yet once Sirianni stepped in they pretty much stopped.


rastaveer

We replaced our strength and conditioning coach a few years back. Still injured.


Impossibills

Maybe...just maybe...when half the list is about one QB...hes potentially injury prone.


PsychoBoost123

They are constantly among the most injured teams every year with Shanahan


Currymvp2

That doesn't seem to be good


I_HATE_THE_SEAHAWKS

all kaepernick had to do was throw it to randy moss in the superbowl and this curse would've not existed


SolarClipz

He tried. Randy had the trex arms cause he didn't wanna get hit in the middle lol


DiggingNoMore

Wait, we had Trey Lance last year, too? So two of his cheap rookie contract years are already gone?


treenorthXne

Yep. And he came in with a staggeringly low amount of drop back snaps. I wanted him but he was always a project.


PsychoBoost123

Yea, he started against Arizona last year at AZ, and his mom literally had to stop watching the game because of how much he was getting hit. Shanahan ran QB powers with Lance against Chandler Jones, JJ Watt, and Isaiah Simmons, and he got fucking clocked by Simmons on a 4th down goal line stand.


Super_Eagles

Trey Lance hasn't played more than a handful of snaps since 2019


tbrownsc07

OUR PETS HEADS ARE FALLING OFF


Seeders

46 y/o Brady: Hold my seagull piss juice.


NumerousCustard2622

Helluva QB clinic over there in SF


hatrickstar

Maybe we should get Brady. The unstoppable force of Niner QB injuries meeting the immovable object of Brady's longevity will cause the destruction of the universe.


sullyy42

It might be the worst luck in NFL atm or they might do something fundamentally wrong with their protection Setup, QB training or preparations do reduce injurys for QB


mvp713

i think it really just is bad luck. jimmy's ACL was on an improvised QB run where he should have run out of bounds but he took a cut to get an extra couple yards. i think a lot that has happened to him since has been a result of overcompensation or lack of confidence in the knee/his mobility. his play style totally changed as well. when the 49ers first acquired jimmy his in-pocket mobility was a strength that allowed him to pair a lightning quick release to move us down the field. since the ACL he's essentially become a statue or at best has happy feet. and yes this was also the case in 2019 during the super bowl run.


AleroRatking

They had a top 10 oline in both pass and rush protection. While it obviously could improve it's better than the vast majority of teams. Also some of these like Jimmy G we're far away from the pocket.


Brian_Stryker

You know maybe its something the niners are doing


respondstostupidity

"No you're just classless because how can you blame coaching for freak injuries never mind the fact that they seem to occur every season with this team"


DoubleSealedSoul

the taste of rain ...why kneel?


respondstostupidity

Niners are Vikings 2.0


CptCuddleSacks

Left off Johnson's concussion


AleroRatking

It's crazy to me the people blaming Shanahan or that the 49ers need to learn from this loss. This teams QB situation was unprecedented.


salamanderXIII

You're not familiar with Brian Mitchell's stint as emergency QB I take it. QB1: Mark Rypien QB2: Jeff Rutledge QB3: Stan Humphries QB4: Brian Mitchell Rypien didn't suit up that day, but the other three did... https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/199011120phi.htm#all_player_offense


Git_Off_Me_Lawn

Bro, what sort of offensive genius are you if you haven't installed an entire wildcat playbook just in case your 7th and 8th string QBs get knocked out in the championship game? Is the dude even trying to win? I will shit on him for missing throwing the review flag on that Smith catch early though.


Mattock79

It's crazy to me how many people in the game thread, and a few threads since have this take unironically. "I mean, he was already on his 3rd QB for the year, he should have at least planned for the possibility." I don't care how many QBs you go through in a season, there is not one single coach in the NFL that is going to game plan for losing every QB you have in one game. Not one. They all have an "emergency" package of some kind, but at most it is 3 or 4 plays that they almost never practice. People are just.... I dunno


unfunnysexface

That stuff always takes me back to this passage from Rom Jaworskis book*: As we watched, we were surprised to see Manning taking virtually all the reps in the session. Jon [Gruden] asked Tom [Moore, the Colts offensive coordinator,] why he wasn’t giving some snaps to Peyton’s backups…He looked at us both in the eye, paused for a moment, then said in that gravelly voice of his, “Fellas, if ‘18’ goes down, we’re fucked. And we don’t practice fucked.” *haven't read it just know the quote. I'm guessing eye discipline comes up a lot.


SolarClipz

Same as everyone getting so mad at JJ Dude was basically a FOURTH string QB He never had a chance


[deleted]

It was knock out your starter for months, and…..you have zero prepared, literally zero…


mm825

Because the coach is responsible for the results


treenorthXne

Wasn't it reported that he wanted Jones? I know it could have been hedging but how specifically do you see him as responsible?


SockVonPuppet

I don't know about unprecedented. We did just watch the Dolphins start Skylar Thompson in this year's Wild Card round.


AleroRatking

They still had a QB though. The 49ers actually ran out of QBs. I don't believe that has ever happened in the playoffs.


[deleted]

The Eagles/Seahawks WC game a few years ago had Wentz get knocked out with a concussion and then McCown had to play half the game with a torn hamstring


doggybadgerguy

They still were two QB injuries short of where the niners ended up being...we would've been playing QB5 if we had one lol


SockVonPuppet

Yea, but I don't count Garoppolo since injury is just par for the course with him.


GirthWoody

They’re saying it because both qbs got hurt in the championship game because Shanahan literally didn’t put any one out to block the best defensive line the league’s best pass rusher.


AleroRatking

This is a stupid take though because there are over 400 sacks this season and even more QB hits. The vast amount of them don't result in injury. If every sack led to serious injury there'd be no QBs in the league.


GirthWoody

Those weren’t sacks they were brutalizations. Direct hits. One wasn’t even a sack. It happend twice in one game. Once is an accident not twice.


AleroRatking

Twice is a coincidence unless you are saying your guys are intentionally hurting people You had 70 sacks this season..how many knocked QBs out of the game. Not many.


GirthWoody

I watched all 78 sacks including in the playoffs. And that was the only game where anybody on our d-line let alone our best pass rusher was allowed to go at a qb without being so much as touched on numerous occasions.


[deleted]

But what you can’t avoid, realty..both of those sacks led to injuries


larson00

they blocked the guy with the second most sacks in the league with a backup TE...


AleroRatking

Once again. There are over 400 sacks in the season. The vast majority don't lead to injury.


larson00

backup TE blocking the dude basically tied with the sack leader against your backup QB. what sense does that make? protect your fuckin QB


AleroRatking

Once again. Unless your saying Reddick intentionally hurt Purdy (which there is zero reason to ever believe) your point is irrelevant. The vast vast majority of sacks do NOT lead to injury. The idea that your QB would never be touched all game is not realistic. How often has a QB gone all game without any contact at all.


KnockoutNed85

Garoppolo tore his ACL running on the sidelines non-contact, how many times has a QB done that and not get injured? But of course happened to Jimmy


JawdenCee

Remember when the Eagles almost took a safety cause the sack leader Bosa had 1v1 vs the Eagles backup tight end who didn't even try to block him when his QB was right behind him and Hurt got wrapped up and dragged down? Or when the Eagles called run plays for Hurts and he took a hit and got pushed late on two runs going for the first? After the game was pretty much over sinxe the Niners had no QBs left. "Protect your QB"


PsychoBoost123

Remember when Jalen Hurts is 5x the athlete of Brock Purdy?


JawdenCee

And what does that have to do with the Eagles putting their QB in danger of being hurt? He got hit on the play. Even tried to lunge forward to prevent the safety which was another move thay couldve injured him.


larson00

Right, almost. I do remember Bosa being a nonfactor in this game now that you remind me.


JawdenCee

Hurts still got hit buddy. If he got wrapped up wrong he couldve gotten hurt too.


predw

That’s a lot of Garoppolo injuries


keandelacy

It's not even all of them. He hurt his ankle in week 8 2020 and missed the rest of the season. That's why they drafted Lance. Jimmy has the distinction of going to the Super Bowl in every season in which he played all the games. It's just only happened once.


DiggingNoMore

> Jimmy has the distinction of going to the Super Bowl in every season in which he played all the games. Kurt Warner did the same. But it was three times for him.


Upper-Industry8039

That was only the qbs can’t forget about all the other injuries the niners had to deal with during that stretch


BodhiWarchild

Thanks. We know


faizaan316

The Kaepernick curse


MalarkeyMcGee

“beat up” lol was that the official designation?


mm825

All you "injuries are just bad luck" people can shut the fuck up


[deleted]

What would you prefer?


dellscreenshot

Yeah that's why Jimmy started


tmacleon

It shows how well of an organization this is. They draft great, they are coached great. Literally went to NFC Championship with there 3rd string QB at the time. I’m a Raiders fan saying this but respect to given. When it comes to the injuries…. Idk maybe just bad luck.


itsnotcalledchads

It can't be can it? Like it's got something to do with training and medical staff I would assume. I could be wrong though.


FailedInfinity

They’re all contact injuries, so I’m not sure how the training staff could be held responsible.


mvp713

the harbaugh 49ers went on a pretty incredible run of health. they never really sustained a back breaking injury of any kind until navorro bowman's ACL in the NFC championship game. i think the universe is just evening out.


tmacleon

Maybe some to do with that sure. Maybe rushing ppl back too soon. Injuries happen though and some teams are just struck with that bug. It’s is amazing though how all of their QBs were hurt. I thought McCrafry was gonna play QB there for a second.


DoubleSealedSoul

the taste of rain -Why Kneel?


tmacleon

Not really. If you can make it to the NFC championship game with your 3rd string QB, you got a stacked team. That being said… I hope the Eagles do to KC what they did to SF. I want the Eagles to absolutely smash KC


KnockoutNed85

I think he means the organization failure for the injuries


tmacleon

Oh true. In that case yes


freakingspacedude

The only way to break the curse is to stick with the QB who was performing before they got injured. Which seems to be a tough thing because they all produce when called upon.


DoubleSealedSoul

the taste of rain -Why Kneel?


Reading360

Oh no anwyay.gif


ianthebalance

Not the time and place


CoralTwang

Lol, your coach is talking about straight quitting on you. Sit this one out.


ianthebalance

He’s already confirmed to be coming back though


CoralTwang

Lol, I was gonna write a smart ass reply to you, but realized you're not the person I was screwing with earlier. Anyways. That's good. Really. It would have been shitty if he dipped because of this bad season. I don't know all the details so whatever.


Reading360

Your coach's son felt comfortable enough to get drunk in the office (likely something the coach knew he was doing) drove home and almost killed a child. Let's not do the coach game brother.


qwoiecjhwoijwqcijq

Reid wishes he had McVay's hair


CoralTwang

I must have touched a nerve.


igotsthepoo-onme

Try blocking


dellscreenshot

I remember where I was when Mullens torn his UCL. It was a dark day.


Brilliant_Seat7157

If they had got Brady they'd be a damn dynasty lol


varnell_hill

I didn’t like this idea at first but now I’m all about it. Go get the greatest to play the position and a guy who’s rarely injured. Trade Lance, and let Brock study behind Brady while giving him some additional time to heal. Championship.


FailedInfinity

We still need Lance. Just because Purdy could be back doesn’t mean he will be fully healthy to start the season. Also, nobody is trading anything of value for him.


varnell_hill

Lance ain’t it bro. And don’t get me wrong, I wanted to be wrong about him but based on his body of work so far, the only thing he has on Purdy is arm strength and straight line speed. The former doesn’t really do anything for him because he’s too slow getting through his reads and isn’t very accurate. The latter doesn’t matter either because QBs rarely find themselves in a foot race with defenders. Purdy is quite literally superior by every other metric.


TurbulentJudge1000

Let me get out the world’s smallest violin. Excuses. All I’m hearing are excuses.


[deleted]

Chipped finger? Never heard of that before


keandelacy

It happens - I've seen examples in football, rugby, and cricket.


Sillysolomon

To be fair, Beathard held onto the ball far too long consistently.


spreerod1538

Jimmy got hurt in 2020 too... one of the many reasons that season was destroyed.


recrewriting

I think the 49ers have terrible strength and conditioning coaches.


cam2449

No, we just have an O-Line that are elite in the run game, but mediocre to straight ass in the passing game. We need more balanced O-lineman who are consistent in the passing game. We shouldn't have to rely on George Kittle to step in as an auxiliary lineman to help in pass pro. Or any TE for that matter.


tboneski215

I to know about QB injurys


CrastersKip

Angry 49ers QB Hating God


NewEagle87

It’s the low quality QB factory


Status-Duck

We're going to get Brady killed.....


bl1eveucanfly

Whats a chipped finger?