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Now that the 49ers have a formidable line Terrell Owens Jersey White , this is an interesting question"The San Francisco ing a pass rusher in the first round and trading a future second round pick for another pass rusher. Whenever you can add two premium talents at a premier position, you win your offseason. Addressing a position of need is one thing, but adding Dee Ford and Nick Bosa to your roster is a different story.Bet on BuckWith that end mind, Deforest Buckner is going to have some competition for team lead in sacks this year. This is a great problem to have. Last year Buckner had 12. He also had a billion pressures on the quarterback, so it was far from a fluke. The addition of the two edge rushers mentioned above will only help Defo. Buckner should see more 1-on-1’s in 2019 than he did all of last year. He gets my vote because there will be nowhere for the opposing quarterbacks to step up in the pocket. With Buckner and his go-go gadget arms, he should even collect a couple “cheap” sacks for being in the right position.Dominate DeeFord played nearly full seasons in two of the last three years. In both those years he had double-digit sacks. If he’s healthy, with this front, it’s tough to imagine that changing. Ford has a tremendous get off and that’s been the case since he was at Auburn. Ford has an innate ability to perfectly time the snap. Unlike 2016, Ford’s 2018 was truly dominant. The question now becomes was he a “one year wonder”, or is this who Ford really is? It’s likely somewhere in between. My guess is Ford finishes somewhere between 8-10 sacks.Better than big bro?Bosa suffers from being a rookie. If he really is like his brother, Joey Bosa had 10.5 sacks and missed the teams first four games. That’s just a lot of pressure to put on one person. To me, this will depend on Robert Saleh as much as Bosa. If the Niners defensive coordinator gets creative and moves Bosa around the formation, he won’t have any issues racking up numbers. He never has and it’s not going to start now. If Bosa is strictly an edge rusher to the wide side of the field, he comes predictable. Rookies usually hit a wall as well. So if Bosa is able to string together a two or three sack game, maybe even two, he’ll challenge for the teams sack record.Hidden GemThere’s always another. Whether it’s Ronald Blair, Solomon Thomas, Arik Armstead Womens Adrian Colbert Jersey , who knows, but there’s going to be a fourth rusher on the field. Whoever that might not see a double team all year. That’s every pass rushers dream. With Thomas being the nickel rusher alongside Buckner, he has the best chance to put up numbers. Athleticism wins inside, and Thomas flashed that during the last month of the season last year. Fooch’s update: An interesting theory related to the smoke.Since opening in 2014 Levi’s stadium has been getting marred by its problems. A fan died of heat exhaustion, those heat problems can’t be fixed, and at the forefront of it all is the field itself. It’s bad. Like, really bad. The 49ers have done everything they can from replacing the turf to the way they grow the grass and all it’s done is make things not as bad. But still bad. The proof is on Monday Night in the 49ers 27-23 loss to the New York Giants. One of the main story lines was the field itself and how the Giants simply couldn’t get footing on Levi’s slippery turf. 49ers quarterback Nick Mullens stumbled early in the game and Giants running back Saquon Barkley fell in the backfield several times before he could get any momentum. Something very un-Saquon Barkley like. They were mentioning on the broadcast that the Giants were switching out cleats because of the footing, but in the final minutes of the game, you could still see some slippage. It’s been almost five years. This shouldn’t be happening. Not only is the slippage infuriating for players, but it’s also dangerous. In 2015, Ravens kicker Justin Tucker slipped and could have twisted his ankle after stepping into a sinkhole during a kick. Given that the 49ers are dealing with enough injuries to make a full roster difficult, this could prove even more difficult in later years. How important are field conditions for player safety? Well, so dangerous that next week’s Monday Night Football game between the Los Angeles Rams and Kansas City Chiefs, a game originally scheduled to be played in Mexico, is being moved back to Los Angeles. Why? Field conditions. If teams don’t have a choice when they have to come to Levi’s for away games, you can wonder if free agents are going to want to risk their ankles and knees on a slippery surface like this. Especially when it’s been almost five years and the 49ers still don’t have a solution.