Niners Nation
I am back to give you another mailbag as we prepare for this Sunday. The San Francisco 49ers will be taking on the Houston Texans in what should be an interesting game. Interesting because Houston has a good defense.Houston’s offense makes me wonder if the 49ers finally get that one interception that has escaped their grasp for weeks, so this silly streak of no interceptions can end.
As you know, I take questions I find on the feed and then answer what I can in a post here. If you want to possibly see your question here, or are curious to what I’d say on it (yes, all three of you), post it in the feed.
And now onto your questions.
As Mayor of Punterville/Kickerville, if you’re John Lynch, how quickly do you work to extend Eddy “Money” — you know, just so we can all have peace in our time and potentially enjoy two tickets to paradise?
—Spartan83
As quickly as humanly possible. Pineiro is signed through 2025. He’s already made himself reliable and irreplaceable after what fans have endured during the Jake Moody saga. At this point, locking him up for another two years before season’s end might be a no-brainer. The big question is what he would ask for or what he wants to do. He came under the radar and wasn’t even a Kompetitor in Kicker Kombat this offseason—that honor went to Greg Joseph.
After Moody’s Week 1, Pineiro was the guy they brought in and brought consistency back to the kicker position. If I’m the 49ers, I don’t let him enter free agency
Oh, and I’m the former mayor of Punterville. Hasn’t anyone told you? Punterville has been completely abandoned.
I think we should draft players who don’t have hamstrings. Cut down on the injuries. But seriously, why do we have so many hammie injuries, don’t they have staff to make sure they stretch before the game??
—BilltheBiker
The injuries are not fun. I was going to ask how much more the 49ers can take of this as a rhetorical question, but they’ve cleaned house in the past.They’ve had several hires and rehires all with the purpose of getting the injury problem figured out. This goes back to the firings of the 2018 season (where then-starting quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo tore his ACL in Week 3), and recently they just had to revamp the staff again.
The hamstrings are one thing. The ACLs, broken ankles, etc are freak accidents. I think we can agree on those two points. The interesting thing is, the context of how Nick Bosa found out he had a torn ACL. And that can be applied to your hamstring question and other issues.
Recall, when Nick Bosa jumped off the field, the 49ers didn’t think it was a serious knee injury. It wasn’t ruled out, but that was what Kyle Shanahan said in his press conference.
What happens after this is a bit...
