Diante Lee

I think when I floated it, when we were talking, Mike, a few weeks ago, I was, I think I was really interested in what that could be.

And I think that maybe now as I'm just looking at what the money is and then just looking at the rest of the lineup, I'm like, man,

I don't know.

Those $20 million could have been spent in a lot of different ways to help address some of the other needs that this team has.

But maybe, you know, I also don't want to dismiss outright the fact that the 49ers had a machine of an offense, right?

Like, that cannot be understated.

I understand that by the time I saw the Seahawks...

When someone saw the Seahawks in the playoffs, they clearly were just not playing the same sport that Seattle was playing, right?

And they pretty easily just got wiped off the field.

I totally understand that.

I respect that, right?

The issue, though, is that I think that kind of undergirds the way that I feel about the 49ers in general, right?

At their best, they absolutely can tear up and down the field.

I just don't know if these guys at this age and around a quarterback that is only some time in his ability to create in a way that really threatens elite defenses.

I just don't know if I feel the greatest about it now that I'm actually thinking about where they stack up.

Maybe if the Rams hadn't made the Trent McDuffie trade.

and sign Jalen Watson, I might feel a little bit better about their kind of place in the hierarchy of the NFC West.

But I'm like, this is pretty squarely the third best team in the NFC West.

And I don't know if I trust them to beat the Rams, right?

I don't know if I trust them at all to beat the Seahawks.