![]() ![]() The 9ers have issues and I believe most people in the organization who are in a position to effect change are working on just that. Check my comments over the last few years. PS… Don’t mistake me for a fan boy or a shill for ‘the man’. A very poor judge of people and talent, rich kid who has no executive skills. As demonstrated by his string of decisions since he took over ( I don’t need to list them), he is not very intelligent. Ultimately it falls on the shoulders of Jed York. Right now the new regime is still in their honeymoon period, so everything is peachy cream, but eventually their incompetence will be their downfall. He’s just a HOLLOW talking head looking to placate everybody and be the good guy. He has no business running a Front Office. Their skills at player assessment is still questionable. They fail to maintain any sense of perspective and calm. It’s still early days, but what is obvious, is that the Niners Front Office is incompetent. One game doesn’t necessarily prove much, but I said back then that Morris is the best back on the roster. Sure maybe he can catch the ball, but he’s relatively pathetic as a RUNNING back. I said before the game last week: McKinnon is NOT the answer. It was the running game’s first good performance of the preseason. I was real happy with that group as a whole.” I would have been surprised if we didn’t run the ball well. I was very excited how it carried over to the game. “We could start seeing it during the week of practice, he was running the ball well and our O-line was blocking well. “I was real pleased with how Alf ran the ball,” 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan said Sunday on a conference call with Bay Area reporters. He gained 84 yards on the ground and ran harder than every other 49ers running back Saturday during their 23-17 loss to the Indianapolis Colts. He leads the team in rushing after playing only one preseason game. Now, McKinnon is injured, and Morris is the 49ers’ starting running back - they signed him Aug. Despite his lack of starting experience, the 49ers made McKinnon the sixth-highest paid running back in the league in terms of average annual salary. McKinnon is a career backup who played the first four seasons of his career with the Minnesota Vikings. In 2017, he played for the Dallas Cowboys. Matt Lombardo is FanSided’s National NFL Insider and writes Between The Hash Marks each Wednesday.Morris is a veteran running back who played for 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan from 2012 to 2013. The NY Giants, and every other team, must get down to 53 players before August 31, ahead of Week 1 of the regular season. Meanwhile, the NY Giants previously had injury/waived quarterback Clayton Thorson after he suffered a concussion in the preseason opener against the Jets. In addition to terminating Morris’ contract, the NY Giants also waived safety Chris Milton, and placed cornerback Jarren Williams on injured reserve due to a quad injury. Who else was cut from the NY Giants roster? 2 running back behind Barkley on the depth chart. Morris’ departure leaves Devontae Booker, Corey Clement, and Gary Brightwell squarely in the mix to compete for the role as the NY Giants’ No. Last season, Morris appeared in nine games for the NY Giants, rushing for 238 yards and one touchdown, signing after Saquon Barkley tore his ACL and injuries besieged the backfield early in the season. 3 running back job, was released Tuesday, as one of the moves made by the organization to trim the roster down to the NFL limit of 85 players. ![]() Morris, re-signed by the Giants earlier this month, presumably to push for the No. ![]() Alfred Morris’ NY Giants return was short lived. NY Giants running back Alfred Morris was among the team’s first wave of cuts to get to the NFL limit of 85 playersĮAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. ![]()
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