What is it with this board and all the pessimism lately anyway?
The 49ers have gone to two Super Bowls in the last few years and are poised to be contenders again. The Kings just had their second consecutive winning season after a 16 year drought.
And yet it's all gloom and doom around here.
Don’t know anything about college players and just too many players, positions, and relevant rounds/selections to do the crash course draft profile that I do in the weeks to the NBA draft…
…but watching the highlight videos the Niners have selected three guys who have never made a bad play ever.
I do understand the WR pick. It’s not truly a position of excess as people say when Jennings is only on a one year with his stock rising and keeping both Aiyuk and Deebo untenable. The offense wasn’t the same when one of Aiyuk or Deebo was out so it is an area in need of maintenance.
There seems to be different schools of thought on why the Niners secondary sucks. I think Lynch has been of the group that thinks if the defensive line lives up to its price tag then the Niners can afford not having an airtight secondary and wants to get his guys cheap and through the draft.
We’re entering the later rounds so that is usually when Lynch does his best work
dudes got an athletic profile that would’ve made Al Davis reach for him in the first round lmao
Kyle drafting speedsters for Brock like he’s got Josh Allen’s arm lmao
The NFL average for corners is a 4.47. He ran a 4.49. Which is faster than Richard Sherman, Joe Haden, Josh Norman, Marcus Peters or Justin Coleman.
Ah yes, KingDivac, noted scout of DB's.
I, like 99.9% of NFL fans, know absolutely nothing about this class, but I like us using the first 3 rounds on premium positions of want/need.
Reading about Pearsall a bit, seems like he's just an overall stud, but is just "old" and a bit on the smaller side. Dominates a ton of statistical boxes
They drafted two LBs last season and they signed a couple in FANo LB selected with Greenlaw Achilles tear.
Nice to see them evaluate their RB for speed at least.....how about doubling up on OL and CB in the draft though - especially OL.... Guess they're gonna be looking in FA for OL.
Before I saw Matt Barrow's tweet I thought the same thing - this is Kyle looking for another Breida or Mostert. A one cut speedster who can spell CMC occastionally and hopefully rip off big chunks in the zone blocking run game.
Yeah, I think so. Kyle likes having a homerun back on the sideline who can get him a big chunk of yards on one play. It feeds into his chess match play-calling style. Also, based on h
is Niners tenure, he likes getting them in the draft and then letting them go before they get expensive.
Regarding the Pearsall pick, I think we all knew one of Deebo or Aiyuk was going to have to get traded eventually. With Kittle and CMC both being explosive receivers in their own right, there's just no reason to pay two top WRs when only one of them is going to get enough touches to justify the cost. Based on recent history, I've been hoping Aiyuk is the guy that they choose to keep but I also don't think it matters too much. If Aiyuk has more trade value right now and Lynch/Shanahan choose to capitalize on that, I expect Deebo to bounce back to his 2021 numbers when given more opportunities.
They drafted two LBs last season and they signed a couple in FA
The thing with Pearsall is that the Niners aren't in cap hell yet. They can sign Aiyuk and take one more shot with the roster as is. Then next year they have to make some hard decisions. So if Deebo is traded next off-season, you have a guy who is hopefully talented enough to step up alongside Aiyuk in Pearsall, and he'll have a year of experience in the offense at that point.
Deebo was also a much more important player for the Niners (a) before the league caught up to the team using him as a running option, (b) before CMC arrived to take a lot of those touches he was getting as a "Wide Back" and (c) when Jimmy G was the QB and working much more of the intermediate middle of the field.
Samuel is amazing with the ball in his hands, but he's still not a polished route runner who routinely wins and gets open - Aiyuk does. That's much more valuable now with Purdy behind center.