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worst offseason in the history of offseasons
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Everytime I talk to people about the players we've lost, I fail to mention several or someone mentions someone I forgot we lost.worst offseason in the history of offseasons
@SakamotoRyan 49 minutes ago
Torrey Smith to Kap: "I can run bro. You can throw it out there and I'll go get it." #49ers #DeepThreat
@49ers 47 minutes ago
.@TorreySmithWR on @AnquanBoldin: "He’s a big brother to me. I look up to him, and love him like a brother."
@Eric_Branch 46 minutes ago
WR Torrey Smith says #49ers still have plenty of talent: “It’s not as bad as everyone tries to make it seem.”
@Joe_Fann 36 minutes ago
Marcus Martin on NaVorro Bowman: "He's going to dominate like he always does. He looks 100% right now. He's rolling." #49ers
@NinersNation 27 minutes ago
OLB Shawn Lemon worked out and signed with the 49ers after time in CFL and with Steelers this offseason
@Eric_Branch 23 minutes ago
Jim Tomsula said there was no fight between Aldon Smith and Colin Kaepernick. Said players were laughing about rumor. #49ers
@mattbarrows 22 minutes ago
Any Aldon Smith vs. Kap issues, Jim Tomsula? "Never. Nothing even -- I don't know where that could even come from."
@SakamotoRyan 22 minutes ago
Tomsula: "Eli Harold, he came in beeping. Eli's doing a really good job. He's an energetic guy...and one athletic competitive individual."
@Joe_Fann 19 minutes ago
Jim Tomsula on Eric Pears: "He's one of those tough Colorado guys who either just got off a horse or out of a mine." Coach is on fire #49ers
@NinersNation 24 minutes ago
Tomsula just referred to himself in the third person as Jimbo. We’re done for the day, people
I hope this dude can get his life together and possibly one day we can see him again in a 49er uniform again. i never thought i'd see charles haley in a niner uni again after he got traded. who knows.[h1]General manager Trent Baalke counseled Aldon Smith for hours after release[/h1]
While coach Jim Tomsula held a press conference Friday explaining why the 49ers released Aldon Smith, general manager Trent Baalke actually was still at the side of the troubled linebacker.
“And spent hours with him in making sure that we felt comfortable that he was in a place where he’s going to be OK,” Baalke said after Saturday’s practice.
Baalke declined to state whether he and Smith remained at the 49ers facility or at his nearby apartment, which is where Smith got arrested Thursday night for an alleged hit-and-run, drunken-driving accident.
“It’s safe to say, and honest to say, that’s where I was. I wouldn’t change a thing. Coach got up there and spoke very well on behalf of the organization and certainly on behalf of Aldon.
“At that moment in time, I felt I needed to be where I was, and I wouldn’t change it.”
Baalke said Smith’s fate was sealed promptly upon the arrest, regardless of what Smith would say in an eventual meeting with Baalke and Tomsula. Baalke was unaware of an ESPN report Friday claiming that the 49ers released Smith because he wouldn’t take responsibility for his actions.
Smith, upon posting bail, told reporters as he left jail that justice would prevail because: “It wasn’t a DUI.”
“Any time a young guy gets in front of a camera, when it’s in the heat of the moment, we can always look back and say how we want to handle things differently,” Baalke said. “But it isn’t about looking back. it’s about looking forward.
“I’m confident he’s going to take the necessary steps and we’re certainly going to do what we can, and certainly are going to be there if he needs us.”
Because of Smith’s past issues — four other arrests, two of which were for drunken driving — Baalke said the 49ers
“The decision was made. It was something that, we had a plan in place and had discussed it with him. We were working hard and he was working hard, and will continue to work hard.
“This isn’t about football. Everyone wants to make this about football. This has nothing to do with football right now. It has everything to do with a human being and a quality, quality person. But he’s made some mistakes.”
Smith is receptive to the 49ers’ offering or if he’d rather cut ties entirely, Baalke said: “He’s been very receptive. When you go through a situation like that, there’s a lot of emotions. Players have it, we have it on the personnel side, coaches, everyone in this building.
“Yesterday was a tough day for a lot of people,” Baalke said. “Felt very comfortable with coach going to the podium so I could handle something I felt needed to be handled personally.”
We’ll continue to communicate with him and, from an organizational standpoint, do anything we can to help him.
Baalke said he has not fielded calls from any other team about whether they should sign Smith, who collected 42 sacks in his first 43 games prior to last season. Smith, who missed five games in 2013 while in alcohol treatment, had only two sacks last season upon returning from a nine-game, league-imposed suspension.
Matt Maiocco @MaioccoCSN 2h2 hours ago
Would #49ers ever consider bringing back Aldon Smith? "I don’t even want to speculate at this time,” GM Baalke said.