Yeah, I certainly wouldn’t call them a stupid franchise. They have several things going for them, and I will be the first to admit that I thought the CM3 trade was a horrific blunder, yet it seems to have turned their offense around last year and gave them a chance at a playoff run, so hats off to that decision…
…but is CM3 really going to stay healthy again? To get one full season out of him was pretty lucky. He’s under contract for three more years with a ballooning cap hit after this year, so how much more value and health can they reasonably expect to squeeze out of him? It was a weird trade, and another example of how they make decisions like this that smack of arrogance—“everyone knows you have to have a QB and you don’t pay for RBs, but we’re the 49ers and we can do it differently” sort of vibe.