Here’s a thing. Or actually, two things, only one of which is true.
One, this might be the kind of observation that not many are making about the 49ers. And it might be something we look back on later and say, “You know, I had a feeling this was going to be a problem.”
Or, it might be nothing. And we’d wonder why we spent any time on it at all.
It is . . . wait for it . . .
Intangibles.
Which needs a little explanation. As we know, every NFL roster is fluid and changeable. There are two reasons. First, because the sport is violent and dangerous. As the players say, “The injury rate in the NFL is 100 percent.” Players get hurt, often badly enough that they have to quit.
And the second reason is money. The salary cap is basically the chaperone at the owners’ party. There wasn’t a salary cap at one time and a guy named Eddie DeBartolo put together a 49er team that was the best roster money could buy. That team was the class of the league. And the other owners were like, “I knew I was going to have to spend money, but if I have to spend Eddie-money, I’m out.”
So the league created a maximum, a cap, that each team could spend. And
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