Jed York comes out of the shadows. This is a terrible news for the 49ers

Eight years ago, the CEO of 49ers, Jed York, stood at the levi’s stadium desk and said: “I have this football team. You do not dismiss the owners.

It was a moment of challenge born years of incompetence – a section in which the 49ers had drawn three head coaches in three seasons and won only 15 victories in total.

And it seems that York is getting the rank again.

This is terrible news for the 49ers.

York, who received the position of president of the team by his parents at 28 and two years later, became the best decision -maker of the team, had made his presence known in the years preceding this quote.

After a 2014 season down, York dismissed Jim Harbaugh – you will never make me say that they “have agreed to separate”. He then hired the Jim Tomsula terribly over-surfacing to replace Harbaugh, comparing the defensive line coach to Steve Kerr in the process. He dismissed him a year later, only to bring Chip Kelly, whose “innovations” have worsened a bad situation.

It was only when the Niners were in Rock Bottom that York moved to the side. His hail Mary raised to land Kyle Shanahan – making a first head coach not only a six -year contract (two years older than the standard), but also a complete staff control, at Bill Belichick – Connected. The rental of Shanahan relegated York to the outskirts – he spent his time relaxing in politics and buying football teams – and the Niners were undoubtedly better for this.

In three years, San Francisco played in the Super Bowl. Four years and three NFC championship games later, they were back.

But after a six 2024 victories, York is apparently up to his old things and made his presence known.

And if it turns out to be more than blistering, it is a warning sign of more losses to come.

There is really a simple section: the more York is involved on the team’s business side, the worse the team.

Perhaps the owner of the Niners has thought that we will forget this fact in the past seven years. I imagine that it will not take long for Niners fans to remember why he had to enter the shadows in the first place.

We can all agree on this: the list of 49ers needs reset. The team tried to “make it go back” after their defeat of the Super Bowl and looked old, slow and injured. Not to see that the window of excellence of the players had closed is something that everyone in the organization must wear.

There is as little dispute as the alleged check and balancing system between the three branches of Niners – Personal, property and coaching – has become out of control in recent years.

Shanahan had fallen from total alignment of the team alignment since the season of the 2020 just as disastrous, allowing the director general John Lynch to be really the director general of the team and not only the Shanahan attaché who managed the minor problems and the political responsibilities of the first job. But when the contract negotiations became difficult, with Deebo Samuel in 2022, Nick Bosa in 2023 and Brandon Aiyuk last season, Shanahan drew his rank and concluded offers. The head coach could not bear to lose one of his best players – dollars and hundred, and his responsibility, be damned.

But just because Shanahan and Lynch – the faces of the franchise since 2017 – have met a bad year that York should change what it does.

Alas, when you spend money as if it were not yours, in the end, someone sees the bill.

And the stock market strings seem to tighten. Samuel’s trade – Despite the significant wage hit that accompanied him – was the first sign that things changed to Santa Clara. The persistent commercial rumors of Aiyuk and a low -ball opening offer in Purdy in contractual negotiations provide additional information.

Adam Schefter recently disclosed that niners have a “cash problem” that could limit the quantity they can offer to Brock Purdy.

“From Kyle and I are here, we have certainly been a top -five – I believe that the cash expenditure team n ° 2,” said Lynch at the NFL Scouting combines. “(A) t at a point, you must reset a little or at least recalibrate. You cannot continue to press the pedal and I think there is good that could come out. “”

And there is a lot of validity to this last declaration.

But it looks like something that team owner would say, right?

In the end, these constraints are entirely artificial.

The 49ers do not need austerity measures. Although I am not aware of the organization’s books, if the niners are even moderately competent in the way the organization is managed – and all the indications indicate that this is more than true – they should be connected between the rich dirty and the rich dirty. The team is valued at $ 9 billion.

It also has a plum configuration: a ridiculously low rent in Levi’s Stadium, and a brand is as precious as any team in professional sports.

If each NFL team reports more than $ 500 million in revenues, how many niners are raking every year? I can say that with certainty: the league television and marketing offers cover the total cost of the most sumptuous cash spending, as last season when the Niners spent around $ 350 million in salary.

Yes, the league check should cover all costs of football operations.

So why do football operations feel pinching? Now is not the time to be stingy.

Yes, becoming younger, faster and cheaper can be a football decision, but that does not seem.

This seriously limits the chances of the niners to make this off -season enough to correct the problems of this team.

There is a reason why Bengals, Lions and Chargers have never won Super Bowl.

York did not win either.

And if he wants to win a Lombardi trophy, it would be well served to remember that you get what you pay in this league.

York’s work is to cut the checks and sleep on a bed of money. Niners cannot win a title if he can’t do that.

It’s really a simple section.

Originally published: March 8, 2025 at 2:45 p.m. PST