From ProFootballTalk
We've received multiple e-mails chastising us for our failure to proclaim from the mountaintops that linebacker Tully Banta-Cain is now a member of the San Francisco 49ers.
We don't want to take anything away from Banta-Cain's football skills, and we have a certain inherent "Boy Named Sue" type of admiration for any man who has spent his life answering to the word "Tully." But even though this specific free-agent class has been a little short on sex appeal, Tully Banta-Cain is not going to be the difference between 12-4 and 6-10 for the Niners.
He has 64 tackles and 8.5 sacks in four NFL seasons. Based on the e-mails we've been getting we would've sworn that the Niners just signed Lawrence Taylor in his prime.
We've received multiple e-mails chastising us for our failure to proclaim from the mountaintops that linebacker Tully Banta-Cain is now a member of the San Francisco 49ers.
We don't want to take anything away from Banta-Cain's football skills, and we have a certain inherent "Boy Named Sue" type of admiration for any man who has spent his life answering to the word "Tully." But even though this specific free-agent class has been a little short on sex appeal, Tully Banta-Cain is not going to be the difference between 12-4 and 6-10 for the Niners.
He has 64 tackles and 8.5 sacks in four NFL seasons. Based on the e-mails we've been getting we would've sworn that the Niners just signed Lawrence Taylor in his prime.