Chargers at Niners Game Day Thread (Preseason #3)

[Charge!]

It’s great the 49ers are playing their starters, gives our coaches opportunity to see how our backups respond. Anybody stands out this game early, they will have earned it.

this will be interesting and maybe very embarrassing........ 49ers are very very strong at most positions except QB.... the team and coaching are so strong that they compete for the SB with just a game manager at QB.....

Like Reid did with Alex Smith.....

I know everyone worries about injuries, but there is a difference between working out and being in football shape...... You need to experience tackling and being tackled to learn how to fall down and protect your body..... it also makes you tougher.... Steelers actually tackle in practice.... that is why they win even with less talent...and when they lose, games are hard fought and tough....... Chargers have not tackled in practice for years and it causes guys to get hurt in the first real games they play...

The best and smartest coaches play their starters at least the first series or 2, so ALL the healthy players go through the process of warmups, etc.... so they are ready to play week one.....

[21&500]

Ummm....
is Trey going to play against us?
I just got a notification saying hes a cowboy.

[21&500]

By Jeff Howe, Jon Machota, Matt Barrows and David Lombardi

The San Francisco 49ers are trading quarterback Trey Lance to the Dallas Cowboys, per league sources. Here’s what you need to know:

• San Francisco will receive a 2024 fourth-round pick from Dallas as compensation, league sources confirmed to The Athletic.
• Lance, 23 played in eight games over two seasons while starting four.
• The 49ers have opened up $940,000 in 2023 salary-cap space and $5.3 million in 2024 cap space. Dallas will take on all of Lance’s fully guaranteed contract.
• The No. 3 overall pick only played in two games last year before having season-ending ankle surgery.

The Athletic’s instant analysis: Why the Cowboys made the trade


This is a surprise move by a Cowboys team that had their three QB spots locked up going into their final preseason game with Dak Prescott as the starter, Cooper Rush as the backup and Will Grier as the No. 3. The addition of Lance means the Cowboys at the very least have hopes of him becoming their backup of the future.

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The move makes sense from the standpoint of giving up a fourth-round pick for a former third overall pick. It also shows that the Cowboys probably liked what they saw from Lance coming out of North Dakota State. He’s only 23. If Mike McCarthy and company can develop him into a solid backup with starter upside then they got a steal for only a fourth round pick. If it doesn’t work out, it seems like it was worth the gamble at the most important position in the game.

As of today, the Cowboys would probably hope to go into next season with Prescott as their starter and Lance as their backup. Rush, who turns 30 in November, has been good in that role over the last two years, going 5-1 as a starter. But he doesn’t have the upside of a player like Lance. — Machota Why Lance is the perfect backup to Prescott


That Lance is heading to the Cowboys seems entirely appropriate. When the 49ers drafted Lance in 2021, they hoped he could become similar to Prescott — someone who could gouge defenses with both his arm and his legs. It turned out that Lance wasn’t quite the runner they expected. He never ran a 40-yard dash ahead of the Scouting Combine, and he ended up being a little slower than expected.

The fact that Lance went against teams like Illinois State and James Madison may have made it seem as if he was a more effective runner than what he turned out to be against NFL competition. Lance and Prescott also experienced similar ankle fractures in recent years. Lance has been cleared of his 2022 injury since early in the offseason and it hasn’t hindered him in OTAs or training camp. — Barrows What does the 49ers’ QB depth look like now?


Having layers of quarterback depth was paramount for the 49ers this offseason after they literally ran out of them in January. With Lance heading to Dallas, Brandon Allen moves to the No. 3 spot. Had the trade not occurred, the team likely would have had to cut Allen on Tuesday and crossed their fingers he’d pass through waivers and land on their practice squad. That would have been risky with other teams — most notably the Bengals — scouring the waiver wire.

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It’s now likely that the 49ers will try to bring in a young quarterback for their practice squad, someone they can groom during the season and who could possibly be serviceable at season’s end if they have to turn to a No. 4 for the second straight year. — Barrows

Cowboys’ history of high-profile moves


This isn’t the first high-profile trade between the 49ers and Cowboys. In 1992, the 49ers traded All-Pro defensive end Charles Haley to the Cowboys for a second- and third-round pick. It’s a trade the 49ers would come to regret, as Haley went on to help Dallas beat the 49ers in two consecutive NFC title games. He won three Super Bowls with the Cowboys and represented a tipping point in the fortunes of the two franchises.— Lombardi

(Photo: Michael Zagaris / Getty Images)

[Charge!]

Ummm....
is Trey going to play against us?
I just got a notification saying hes a cowboy.

really???...... I heard his coach told him to take a day off when they announced he was 3rd string..... so they got rid of him that fast??

[OG619FrightninLightnin]

really???...... I heard his coach told him to take a day off when they announced he was 3rd string..... so they got rid of him that fast??

Yep for a 4th

[BearWithJetpack]

Disappointed that the trade happened today. Was looking forward to seeing the least experienced third year QB to ever play professional football look as such against our third stringers.

[Bolts&noles]

Sparring happens in training camp. Our starters had some good skirmishes with Saints.

Two hand touch.
Will see how week one goes

[Charge!]

Yep for a 4th

wow!..... not alot for a QB who has lots of physical ability.... like leaf and some others...to not keep him for a year or 2 more, but that says he is a distraction.....mental/character issues

[OG619FrightninLightnin]

wow!..... not alot for a QB who has lots of physical ability.... like leaf and some others...to not keep him for a year or 2 more, but that says he is a distraction.....mental/character issues

Evidently he didn't take the demotion to QB3 well.

[Charge!]

Evidently he didn't take the demotion to QB3 well.

sounds like it.... they gave him a day off because they knew that or it appeared immmediately.... so another leaf kind of attitude

[Velo]

Trey Lance is going to play most of the game for the 49ers is what I'm hearing.

Never mind.

[Lefty2SLO]

Two hand touch.
Will see how week one goes

Yep . . . . . . . . . quite a difference between scrimmages - where QB's are untouchable and they're not tackling to the ground, and real game play (even in PS).