Let’s stop kidding ourselves: The 2010 San Francisco 49ers football season is effectively over. No pyrrhic victory over the Raiders (who just sucked more) is going to change that. A lot of changes need to be made to the whole organization. But for now I will just concentrate on what players and coaches need to stay and go when this season mercifully ends in early January:

STAY:

Anthony Dixon

Frank Gore

Michael Crabtree

Josh Morgan

Kyle Williams

Nate Byham

Vernon Davis

Mike Iupati

Alex Boone

Anthony Davis

Joe Staley

Ricky Jean-Francois

Ray McDonald

Justin Smith

NaVorro Bowman

Ahmad Brooks

Travis LaBoy

Patrick Willis

Phillip Adams

Taylor Mays

Curtis Taylor

Joe Nedney

Andy Lee

GET RID OF AS QUICKLY AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE:

David Carr

Alex Smith

Troy Smith

Nate Davis

Brian Westbrook

Moran Norris

Ted Ginn Jr.

Jason Hill

Dominique Zeigler

Delanie Walker

Eric Heitmann

David Bass

Chilo Rachel

Tony  Wragge

Chris Patrick

Barry Sims

Adam Snyder

DeMetric Evans

Aubrayo Franklin

Isaac Sopoago

Parys Haralson

Keaton Kristick

Manny Lawson

Scott McKillop

Takeo Spikes

Tarell Brown

Nate Clements

Will James

Shawntae Spencer

Dashon Goldson

Reggie Smith

C.J. Spillman

Mike Singletary

Mike Johnson

Jason Michael

Tom Rathman

Jerry Sullivan

Wendell Davis

Mike Solari

Ray Brown

Greg Manusky

Jim Tomsula

Al Harris

Jason Tarver

Vantz Singletary

In a perfect world, this Stalinist purge would happen. Any of the players that are purged who want to stay, make it perfectly clear to them that they will not be starters, and in fact will not even get significant minutes, and that anybody brought in will immediately go ahead of them on the depth chart. After all, how much worse can a new player off the waiver wire be than anybody on the cut list above if they are 1-5 with them?

There is nobody on the list above that I can’t make a valid argument. Anybody want to try me?

–daveydoug