 It's a slow day for 49ers news, and such slow days are likely to continue throughout the next two months, so I'm going to fill it with musings on the 49ers roster. It's obscenely early to be predicting who will make the final 53-man roster, but I find it's always a good option for discussion and usually a good read for any 49ers fan starved for updates and the like. So today will be the offe...
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 Yesterday, the team saw the practice field for the last time in the month of may, wrapping up a four-day OTA session in which the offense appeared to make strides and the defense appeared to make due with less.
So let's take a look at each day, followed by a summary afterward. Note that OTAs (organized team activities) are mostly drills and run-throughs for early evaluations--it is mostly no cont...
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 Last offseason when the team parted ways with offensive coordinator Mike Martz, there was speculation that players and coaches would avoid the 49ers like the plague. Articles were published about new head coach Mike Singletary's stubbornness and how it would be detrimental to any coordinator who made San Francisco their home.
The prevailing theory was that young, up and coming coordinat...
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 Every Sunday I'll be taking a look at all of the 49ers news, notes and quotes that came out during the previous week. It won't be an in-depth analysis of everything that went down as per my analysis--I will be linking elsewhere, unless something of mine is applicable. So let's get to the first edition of Weekend Prospecting, we begin with last Monday...
Tricked you.. First, I'd like to wish my mo...
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 Ray Lewis, Dick Butkus, Jack Lambert, Mike Singletary. Some of the best middle linebackers in NFL history, to add another among their ranks they must illustrate at least one of the qualities exuded by these players right? Most definitely, every linebacker that comes along and produces anywhere from good to very good shows signs of a Dick Butkus, shows signs of a Mike Singletary.
This may b...
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 Impact is the definitive word, here. That moment where two forces collide; the difference that is made in something. When you’re talking about the 17th pick of the 2010 NFL Draft, both definitions suffice in a big way. That is to say, six and about a half feet tall with three hundred thirty one pounds of “big.” Iupati has been called many things, and I’m not about to dispute any of them when ...
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