So, about that ‘NaVorro Bowman could be cut’ article

I was planning on ignoring this because I think it’s been misrepresented to some degree, but the questions keep coming up. Rotoworld posts short snippets where they write a sentence or two about a piece of news, and then offer a paragraph of analysis. Recently, they wrote that, “The Santa Rosa Press Democrat expects the 49ers to cut ILB Navorro Bowman.”

The source for the article was a Grant Cohn column titled “For all his greatness, NaVorro Bowman's time is done.” The article does not wait long at all to go right to the Cohn favorite of mentioning Bill Walsh: “Right about now, if Bill Walsh were alive and running the 49ers, he would cut NaVorro Bowman.”

I had read most of Cohn’s column, but…