49ers hire John Lynch as GM. Not kidding.
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In shocking but true department, 49ers hiring ex-safety and current broadcaster John Lynch as their GM to pair w/Kyle Shanahan. ESPN was 1st</p>&mdash; Jason La Canfora (@JasonLaCanfora) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonLaCanfora/status/825878762961174530">January 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
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ROFL

Wow. California football is a hot mess right now.

Remember when Bill Romanowski was making a plea to become head coach of the Raiders, and he actually made a very good case at his interview with lots of neat pie charts and graphs?

That's how I imagined this went down.

:spock:

No ****ing way. Like. Not at all. ROFL. Thank god that isn't us.

Talk about not even on the radar.....

But I wish Lynch success. The league is better off when the 49ers are relevant.

So things could be worse for the Chiefs I suppose

Good Lord

Wha????

Holy cow....6 year deal.

Elway was a little bit green, but he at least ran an AFL team. Lynch has no front office experience and he's matched up with a super-young first-time HC? Wow. This is going to be a disaster of Matt Millen proportions.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The Niners discussed a six-year deal with Josh McDaniels before McDaniels pulled out. Designed to counteract concerns about stability.</p>&mdash; Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AlbertBreer/status/825882096749182979">January 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Jfc

49ers win another super bowl before the Chiefs

I'm sure he'll be really good at drafting cheap shot artists.

Hell, Cleveland might

Wow


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No. Mother**** that cheap shorting knee diving Donk assface.

How much was the 49ers rent

It was expensive

What a joke.

2nds for Smith.

$24.5 million yearly rent payment to the Santa Clara Stadium Authority.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/201...r-arbitration/

Hahahahahahahahahaha.

No ****ing way.

That's awesome.

I don't understand the derision.

Lynch was a great player and on the cusp of the Hall of Fame. He's been a broadcaster for years so he's familiar with the league, it's players, etc.

Like Elway, he graduated from Stanford and is a smart guy.

The Carolina Panthers hired a sportwriter in Marty Hurney, who led them to a Super Bowl.

I mean it's just an NFL team that's worth a couple three billion dollars. So what's the worst that can happen?

I've been posting on Chiefsplanet for nearly 15 years.

Where's my NFL team?

He's also taken about 10 million shots to the dome. And on TV he doesn't sound brilliant.

However if he works out I will be sick to my stomach.

You ****ing suck at posting

It's odd: If Peyton Manning was named the GM of the 49ers, people on CP would have the opposite response.

But because it's Lynch, who's obviously qualified and NOT a "figurehead", the decision is derided.

It doesn't make any sense and it certainly doesn't make any sense for Lynch to be a puppet for the next half decade when he was earning plenty from Fox.

I don't like any person who was once a Bronco. He was okay when he was a Buccaneer, but that's the best I can say.

People should have seen this coming. They interviewed ESPN analyst Louis Riddick a few weeks ago.

The 49ers are a more embarrassing franchise than the Browns right now. Can't believe it

Glad Elway has another ally in the NFL decision maker world.

Is their a more toxic NFL team?

How does he feel about candy wrappers?

ROFL at the signing and anyone spinning this

I wouldn't have faith in Manning as a GM either.

He may do as well as Matt Millen.

The last Stanford GM took his team to two Super Bowls in four years and won in 2015.

But sure, John Lynch is going to flame out like Ryan Grigson.

:facepalm:

I don't know if anyone can overcome that ownership.

****, I would.

No former player studied the NFL like Peyton, outside of Elway.

Manning would be a great hire

At this rate Trent Green will be our next GM

As usual, dumb as ****

Holy crap! Lunacy

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A couple years back, John Lynch sat in John Elway&#39;s offseason draft meetings. Lynch must have enjoyed the experience. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/9sports?src=hash">#9sports</a></p>&mdash; Mike Klis (@MikeKlis) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeKlis/status/825902616811040768">January 30, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Why? How is he unqualified?

Completely bizarre.

Elway also held several FO jobs and owned a team.

How is he QUALIFIED? He has not a single minute of experience, so far as I know, dealing with scouts, scouting, agents (from the team side), contracts, team organization, team building, drafting, analyzing free agents, making roster decisions, salary cap management or anything at all relating to the management of a football team.

Good lord, you guys overrate running a scouting department and hiring scouts.

Each and every year, going back at least a decade, Chiefs fans have churned out considerably better "mock drafts" than the "professionals.

Lynch wasn't hired as a CPA or lawyer or genetic scientist. He wasn't hired as a criminologist or as the CEO of NASA.

He's the GM of a ****ing football team.

He's a lucky bastard.

So....Chiefs fans are equally qualified to be a general manager as people who spend years in the front office of an NFL team?

Nobody cares if teh Niners suck, but let's be honest, this guy just isn't qualified. Maybe he'll do well, but it'd be shocking as hell. He's never done ANY of this stuff before.

I mean, seriously -- they basically just picked a random good former NFL player and put him in charge of their football operations, and that seems perfectly ok with you?

I would be surprised if PFM were hired as a GM right now, and I would view it as a considerable risk. Not necessarily a bad risk, but it would be a risky move. I think PFM needs some executive experience at a lower level before being an NFL GM. I don't know what experience Lynch has that makes him a worthy hire for the 9ers. Lynch is a smart guy, but he's not PFM smart, so maybe Lynch has been doing executive stuff on the down low that I am unaware of?

It's ****ing football. The guy has spent his entire life in football.

Good grief. He hasn't been hired to design the first hyperspace craft.

Manning would be a great hire because it's no secret that he was basically making all the personnel calls in Indy and basically ran his own offense for years. He is an unusual breed of guy. Lynch will be much less ready.

He has never managed people, never disciplined or fired someone, never built a workplace culture. He has to do a lot more than drafting guys.

Matt Millen failed because he was learning a lot of these small things right away and made simple mistakes experienced GMs wouldn't make. Hell, time and time and time again ultra-experienced personnel guys like Pioli, Savage, Farmer, and Kokinos fail and fail hard. It's not an easy job. I'm sure he'll do fine drafting players. But how will he negotiate a trade deal, how will he discipline players and coaches, how will he respond to a PR crisis. It would be different if you're pairing him with Andy Reid or Bellichick. But he's paired with a head coach who's too raw to have all the answers himself.

It worked when they did it with Mike Singletary.

Oh, wait. It didn't work at all.

Debartalos nephew is a reerun.

Shit, I might have gotten a second interview on that gig.

You all know you'd be flying off the ****ing handle if the Chiefs had done this instead of the 49ers. LMAO

Even so, I bet Lynch has the good sense to draft a QB high, and early.

It's very odd to see Dane dig in on this issue. This hire is extremely questionable at best, the only, and I mean the only other comparison is Elway who has been at least a consultant (and Bowlen's butt buddy) to the Broncos front office since the second he retired and was unbelievably lucky to have the success he did. Every other successful GM in the league put in years of grooming in the FO before getting a shot.

Shit that went Elways way:

- Had a Dan Snyder-esque offseason where he threw down big cash on every type of FA to be wary of and had every single damn one pay off and stay out of trouble. Really look at this shit list of luck and it was not any type of Elway wizardry, pure ****ing luck. Singling out any one of these signings was risky at the time, for him to hit on all five is just lottery-level type bullshit and won't happen to him again.

Manning- Bet on an extremely injured, old, and unknown Peyton coming off as serious a injury you can get... Won big thanks to HGH.
Ware- old, often injured, seemed to be declining...destroyed and stayed relatively healthy for a few years before falling off.
Talib- nutcase, loudmouth, locker room cancer, and piece of garbage who never played up to his potential early on...still a nutcase and a piece of garbage who has arguably been the best corner in the NFL since signing, did shoot himself like a complete moron but amazingly stayed on the field and performed outstanding against all odds and even kept his mouth shut.
Ward- undersized and loudmouth piece of garbage, Bob Sanders part two waiting to happen...plays at a pro bowl level and stays relatively healthy.
Sanders- slimy piece of garbage and undersized, FA wide outs almost never pan out with team #2...plays at pro bowl level and stays healthy.

Coaching-
Fox- an average NFL coach and all around dumbass who somehow stayed out of Peyton's way enough to suffer an embarrassing defeat in the SB.
Kubiak- an average NFL coach who amazingly benches the virtually crippled Manning midseason and manages to ride the D for just enough wins and puts the old douche QB back in at exactly the perfect time to spark a much needed win and run to the NFL gifted SB win.
Wade- one of the easiest hires and most respected DCs in the league who was truly responsible for the super farce last year, disrespected and sent packing as not to piss off the crappy new HC.

You'll see the true GM Elway this next season and he has a shit load of crap to deal with including two younger stacked teams that are both superior in the division. Zero Oline talent, zero running back talent, zero TE talent, zero up and coming talent outside Shane Ray, virtually all the star players outside Von and Harris are getting old and have already been paid and gotten a ring, cancerous divided locker room, extremely questionable hire and unknown head coach, no more Wade, Orton2.0 and unknown QBs.

The next 4-5 seasons will truly show the world how good Elway is as GM and it ain't looking too good for Donk fans without Manning and his NFL sponsored performance of his twilight years.

If they don't pursue Cousins or Romo, I wouldn't be surprised if SF went after one of the Broncos' QB's. I know Lynch is a big fan of Paxton, and Kyle interviewed for the Denver job so he's done his homework on Denver's QB's.

Elway had experience running an Arena League team and he apparently worked every level of that organization. Experience is experience. So even Elway wasn't this raw.

Agreed and he was always around the Broncos FO even during that time. I feel for the 9ers fans as the owner seems to be certifiably insane.

Your team is forced to move to LA?

:shrug:

If it were manning I'd just wish for failure. Total abject failure. **** that guy.

But he hasn't ever had to manage anything. At all. And FFS it is in the title.

It will probably work out and we will get some ****ing castoff because Chiefs.

Elway is a bag of shit without Manning

The screams more that they couldn't find anybody else. Nobody else qualified wanted the job. Lynch doesn't even have a previous connection with the Niners as far as I know. Probably because the York's are notoriously difficult to deal with

There's so many ridiculous and inaccuracies in this post it's not even worth pointing them all out

Nobody wants your POS QBs

Not really, if Manning didn't break his neck....Denver is a complete dumpster fire sooner than they will be this year

San Fran is such a shit show. Let's trade them DAT for a 3rd rounder

Elway had a football coach for a dad. He went to Stanford, majored in Economics. You're all familiar with his NFL career. He had his name on some car dealerships as a player but I don't think he had much of anything to do with actually running them at that point. He did terminate that contract eventually in order to open dealerships in is own name later that he would, presumably, have more to do with. He was fairly active in the Arena Football League as a co-owner and an executive for the life of the league. When he came back to the Broncos it was as VP of football operations, at the request of the owner after Josh McDouche destroyed the franchise. Over time he got rid of the previous GM and absorbed his job. He has continued to tinker with the organizational structure of the franchise. He attempts to surround himself with people who cover his weaknesses and get rid of people who don't perform. He was nowhere near as raw as Lynch is now and he still has had to learn as he goes. So...yeah. I don't think Lynch compares very well to Elway. We'll see what happens.

He will probably out perform Elway going forward

TigerUppercut will probably outperform you going forward.

Dude won't last a month with the new mod squad. Meanwhile, 12 years of Mule Tool ownership and counting...

I have managed businesses, understand finance, and could probably draft pretty well. Where the **** was my interview San Francisco?

On a side note, I tend to side with masses here with no offense to Dane. There's alot that goes on inside the front office of any business, and I just don't see Lynch as overly qualified. He's going to understand negotiations, he was in them as a player. He's going to understand the football aspect having played the game. Outside of that, this is a guy with an awful lot of learning to do on the fly. They best have experienced directors in the pipeline to work with him.

They'd be better off with Mayock. Did they try to hire him and get turned down? ROFL

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