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Originally Posted by O.city
Why would you keep Stanzi? This front office didn't draft him, he was a third stringer who has been awful so far and not shown anything.
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He can't be awful if he hasn't taken a snap, and though he looked bad against the jailbreaks in 2012's pre-season, he looked great completely unprepared in 2011's pre-season.
The answer to why you keep him is simple, but one I don't think you'll understand.
His contract. He's in year 3 of his 4 year contract. It won't cost a whole lot to cut him, not that much against the cap, but we're already getting damned close to the cap as it is, ironically enough.
Believe it or not, we have to keep guys like Stanzi on our roster (Guys already signed to cheap contracts) to go out there and bring in the Alex Smith's, the Sean Smiths, and so forth.
We can't just go out there and sign the best talent at every position at every hole on our roster, we'd spend twice our cap trying to pull that off.
Truth is, we don't know what Stanzi has, but there wasn't much doubt in the coach's mind that he was better than Cassel, and Pioli denied him that opportunity multiple times.
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Originally Posted by penbook
The reason why Stanzi doesnt start is because he is mentally lost out there. He does have all the physical tools.
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He's never been out there to be mentally lost, he's only ever seen the pre-season, and in his first pre-season without camp or OTA's really, he was great because he was unprepared. Then he was forgotten in his second season and forced to run away from a jailbreak on every snap.
When he was given his opportunity to start, Pioli signed Orton and started him. In 2012, he was buried beneath Pioli's guy, and Romeo's guy.
He'd have never gotten a shot last year.