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Nick Waggoner
Palm Beach, Florida. – Pits of the Free Agent of the 49ers of San Francisco Exodus, the owner Jed York spent part of Tuesday morning explaining the reasoning for the low season approach of the team publicly for the first time.
According to York, the decision to say goodbye to 17 players through free agency, commerce or liberation and not spend much on external free agents was largely linked to the payment day soon for the field marshal Brock Purdy.
That is why York laughed between teeth and shrugged from the notion that it has been “cheap” this low season after qualifying at the top of the league or near spending in the last five years.
“They have called me worse,” York said. “I understand it. Fans care. You want to win. And when you are in a world where everyone is watching the NFL the first week of free agency or at least the first days of free agency, it is a frenzy … when you are not too active in that space, it is easy to say: ‘Oh, you don’t want to win.
Already at the League meeting last year in Orlando, Florida, York has maintained that he is anxious to sign about what will be one of the most important increases in the NFL history.
In spite of the 2024 uneven season of Purdy in which the key members of their support cast were injured for much of the season and the numbers of the field marshal descended from the performance almost at the level of MVP that it had in 2023, York remains firm in wanting to keep Purdy in the long term.
While the Niners evaluated their construction approach of the list for this low season after 6-11 and again they failed to go through the sixth Lombardi trophy of the franchise, York said the team solidified the decision to pay Purdy in the middle of last season.
On Tuesday, York called Purdy as a field marshal among the 10 best in the League, a tacit recognition that a day of payment is in the hut.
“I think it’s it,” York said. “I think it’s great. Especially when you combine it with [coach] Kyle [Shanahan] And you combine it with what we have, and he is a great quarterback. And we want it to be here for a long time. “
Once that decision was cemented, the 49ers advanced with the knowledge that the low season would probably bring many more outings than arrivals. In the early days of free agency, San Francisco said goodbye to key headlines such as the supporter Dre Greenlaw, corner Charvarius Ward, Safety Talanoa Hufanga and Guard Aaron Banks. They also exchanged the newly left Debo Samuel and the Jordan Mason corridor and released the veteran defensive liners Leonard Floyd and Maliek Collins.
In many of those cases, the niners acquired accelerated dead money at the salary limit, a number that exceeds $ 86 million by 2025 but clears the largest book in 2026 and beyond. Such is the price to be paid when one of the oldest teams in the League has continued trying to jump through a Super Bowl window before it closes, without success, and wants to pay your quarterback.
“It’s just a mathematical thing,” York said. “When you sit with your boys and discover where you want to go, what do you want to build, when you make the decision that you want to pay a field marshal who has obviously been badly paid for his first three seasons in the NFL. When you make that change, you have to take sacrifices somewhere. “”
The most prudent approach of the 49ers to spend this low season has coincided with other stories that surround the team and York’s family when it comes to adding to its sports portfolio and a possible infusion of cash through the sale of a part of the team.
49ers Enterprises already owns the Leeds United football team, and it has been reported that an agreement to buy FC Rangers in Glasgow, Scotland, is also in sight. That has left some fans wondering if the nimes are pressing their financial belts with the eye of preserving funds for that agreement. Nothing is still done on that forehead, according to York.
“We haven’t done anything there,” York said. “Leeds is obviously under the umbrella, but those are completely separated from the 49ers. Where we can join the brands and take our best operation practices and things like that, [we do,] But in terms of finance, they do not overlap at all. “
Similar questions have also been raised about the need for an influx of cash amid the reports that niners seek to sell a minority participation of 10% to a private capital company or other qualified investors.
York said his family is “probably weekly” for parties interested in buying a part of 97% of the team that his family controls. But he called any possible agreement there a “decision of allocation of family assets” based on the needs and needs of several family members.
“It’s just one of those things in which there is an opportunity that makes sense, we would always explore that, but I’m not sure what we will end up,” York said. “And if we do, we would try to find the right people who would help reinforce everything we are doing in the team and its surroundings, in the field, outside the countryside and we will only make sure to have good partners who are with us.”
Meanwhile, an agreement for Purdy remains the focus for York and the Niners. While General Manager John Lynch expressed his optimism on Monday that a purdy agreement could soon be made despite the team’s inclination for dragging those things in recent years, York refused to put a timeline to which it happens.
“No business contracts, but any conversation I have had with Brock has been excellent,” York said. “I feel good. When ready, we’ll sit and end. It shouldn’t be so difficult to do.”
