I'd love to see Justin Houston shut this dude down permanently when we play. Would serve the 49'ers right.

We can pay Alex Smith, or we can franchise tag him for around 18 mil just for next year or we can draft a QB to keep a lower cap number for that position or go battle with Daniel, Murray or Bray.

I'll be there to see it if he does.

By this statement I suppose you are ready to pay Alex similar type money.

They got Hyde and Lattimore waiting in the wings. 49ers are fine.

They're not going to be as good as Gore though, he's on another level.

Qb contracts are filling the void left by the new CBA with the rookie contracts. Instead of paying ridiculous amounts for unproven rookies, teams are now paying ridiculous amounts for average to slightly above average QBs (Romo, Flacco, Stafford, Cutler, and now Kaepernick). All of these guys should be making around $10-13 mil a year on average, instead they're making $18+ mil a year.

Gore is pretty much used up and Hyde will be a better HB. I really like Hyde's upside in that offense...

If Alex was 24 years old with the potential to be a superstar, I doubt anyone would have issues paying him.

But because Alex is 30 years old and has never once shown that he can play at a high level consistently over his 8? year career - people do have issues.

If that's the going rate for decent to above average QBs.
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They still have their OL, which is one of the most consistently dominant units in the league. Iupati may be leaving them soon though, no way they shell out the $50 mil that it's going to take to keep him. They still have one of the best receiving cores in the league, but that doesn't matter much because they don't have a QB who can take advantage of that. The defense is still a top 5 unit as long as Justin Smith, Aldon Smith, Willis, and Bowman are around.

And the other side of the coin are teams that refuse to do so and draft QB's late in the 1st or 2nd and save that money.

If Jay Cutler had played for the Jets, Bills, or Seahawks would they have won more games or been better off?

Seattle won it all with a 2nd year QB and the Jets & Bills wouldn't have made the playoffs with a Cutler anyway...

I think Justin Smith is on his way out...

Is this anything like the $60 mill guarantee for McNabb in Washington that turned out to NOT be guaranteed?

Jakemail is trying to make the contract more palatable by pretending it's a 7 year deal. He seems to need that crutch.