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|  Subject: Patrick Willis to Announce Retirement Mon Mar 09, 2015 2:17 pm | |
| San Francisco 49ers linebacker Patrick Willis is planning to announce his retirement Tuesday, sources confirmed to ESPN.
Willis' decision to retire was reported earlier Monday by Yahoo! Sports.
According to unconfirmed reports, longtime 49ers defensive lineman Justin Smith also plans to retire Tuesday.
Willis, 30, appeared in just six games in 2014 before undergoing season-ending toe surgery. After being placed on injured reserve in November, he acknowledged that the chronic injury to his left big toe had been hampering him for years.
But Willis made no indication at the time that he was considering retirement, saying he had "five or six years left in my body. ... When I come back, I will be bigger and better than I was."
Willis has played his entire eight-year career in San Francisco and was one of the top players on the 49ers teams that reached three consecutive NFC Championship Games from 2011 to 2013.
He was selected to the Pro Bowl in each of his first seven NFL seasons. The only defensive players since the league's 1970 merger with longer streaks to start their careers were Lawrence Taylor (11) and Derrick Thomas (9).
Smith, 35, has split his 14-year career between San Francisco and the Cincinnati Bengals. The five-time Pro Bowler recorded 87 sacks, including five last season, in 221 career games. |
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| | Subject: Re: Patrick Willis to Announce Retirement Mon Mar 09, 2015 2:17 pm | |
| Wow, dude was still a beast... Really soon, really surprising. |
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| | Subject: Re: Patrick Willis to Announce Retirement Mon Mar 09, 2015 2:56 pm | |
| Niners very lucky to have drafted Borland. |
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| | Subject: Re: Patrick Willis to Announce Retirement Mon Mar 09, 2015 3:17 pm | |
|  this is a huge loss. 49ers could be in the running for the worst team in the NFC with all this turnover. |
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| | Subject: Re: Patrick Willis to Announce Retirement Mon Mar 09, 2015 4:36 pm | |
| Wow their defense is in schambles now. |
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| | Subject: Re: Patrick Willis to Announce Retirement Mon Mar 09, 2015 6:48 pm | |
| Only have 3 starters from the team that played in the Super Bowl two years ago... |
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| | Subject: Re: Patrick Willis to Announce Retirement Mon Mar 09, 2015 7:08 pm | |
| Damn, that's a heavy blow. They also going to have to start Hyde likely. Kaep is going to be under pressure. |
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| | Subject: Re: Patrick Willis to Announce Retirement Mon Mar 09, 2015 7:12 pm | |
| They trying to trade Kaep  |
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| | Subject: Re: Patrick Willis to Announce Retirement Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:18 pm | |
| What team would realistically want to trade for Kap lol?  |
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| | Subject: Re: Patrick Willis to Announce Retirement Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:24 pm | |
| His contract isn't that bad. Language in the deal pretty much fucked him tbh
I thought Philly made sense scheme-wise and a swap for Cutler would make sense for Chicago. |
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| | Subject: Re: Patrick Willis to Announce Retirement Mon Mar 09, 2015 10:30 pm | |
| I think it's Mariota or nothing for Philly. And I don't think the 49ers would want Cutler's contract, they have so many other holes to fill rn. |
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| | Subject: Re: Patrick Willis to Announce Retirement Mon Mar 09, 2015 11:16 pm | |
| The Rams will make SF their bitches. Quest for six...... wins.  |
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