ChrisPozz wrote:Bingo_AlphaMan wrote:CrimsonCrew wrote:You've got to be f-ing kidding me. Obviously it's not a surprise, but I figured he'd at least make it to the season. Thank god we didn't tap into this fairly deep (if not very top-heavy) safety class. Cause hey, it's awfully hard to beat out a guy like Jimmie Ward to make this team.
Didn’t we have a chance to get Nasir Adderley in the second round? Damn I would even have liked to take a late round flier on Dionte Thompson. Bummed knee and all...!
Taken in a stretch of picks that I think could be a nightmarish scenario for the 49ers when they look back at that round years from now and what it does/did to further separate the competition from the 49ers:
2nd
26. Cowboys - Trysten Hill
27. Colts - Parris Campbell
28. Chargers - Nasir Adderley
31. Chiefs - Juan Thornhill
32. Seahawks - D.K. Metcalf
Omissions: Taylor Rapp (29. Rams) and Andy Isabella (30. Cardinals). Two picks I cheered at for player evaluation/value perspectives that I think could help the 49ers out. Thankfully, both of those teams are in the NFC West. Unfortunately, the Seahawks may have hit a home run at that point (goin' down with the ship on him). I don't see the Rams getting much out of Rapp defensively and Isabella could be a part-time pain nuisance at best but I didn't like the value for them there.
Teams I know that already are better than the 49ers who also separated themselves in that round but much earlier: Joejuan Williams (Patriots), A.J. Brown (Titans).
Teams in the 49ers neighborhood that may have gotten a long-term player I liked from that round: Cody Ford (Buffalo), Dalton Risner (Broncos), Ben Banogu (Colts - on the high end value wise).
I also feel somewhat better about Byron Murphy (Cardinals), Rock Ya-Sin (Colts), and Mecole Hardman (Chiefs) now that I know where they're playing and who they'll be playing for.
That was a sad, sad round for me even though I liked Deebo the player a little - just not until it became a round 3 or 4 discussion. The 49ers lost too much ground in that round IMO.
I have plenty of complaints about the Shanahan-Lynch brain trust when it comes to personnel acquisition, but probably my biggest one is that they lock in on particular players and they get that guy no matter the cost. Whether it's big FA dollars for players at less important positions (Juszczyk, McKinnon, Alexander) or draft picks (Beathard, Williams, Pettis, Samuel, Hurd, Wishnowsky), they are just going to go get that guy. It's an indication that they think they are smarter than they are. You want to maximize your changes, but by focusing on specific players, they do the opposite. They have absolute conviction their guys will hit.
The second round wasn't devastating for me, because I do like Samuel. But it was very disappointing. This is a post I made shortly before the second round kicked off:
I'd be disappointed with Samuel at this point. Too much talent at other spots. If we want Samuel, trade back into the 40s.And this is what I said about ten minutes after we picked him:
I don't think he sucks. And in a vacuum I don't hate the pick. But there were much better players available IMO, and at more important positions. I would have leapt at the trade the Hawks just got if he was the guy we were targeting.Reading the way the draft was shaking out, Samuel was going to be there at 47. I could see that, and I'm just a fan (granted a fairly passionate one). But that's the thing about fixating on a specific player - even if he's not there, you'll get something or someone else that can also be great. If you think WR is that big of a need, Samuel and Brown are similar players. It's unlikely both get taken before 47. If you don't get Samuel, you probably get Brown. But even if they're both gone, then you take the safety. Or you take the OL. Or the CB. This team has way too many needs to get fixated on a specific player and throw away value to take him.
This is where Lynch and Shanahan's apparent overestimation of their own eyes for talent can bite us in the ass. To an extent, you could chalk their statements up to coach-speak, but their actions back their words up. They truly didn't believe at the time of the draft we had a problem in the defensive backfield. If they did, well damn, we sure would have addressed it somehow. So we've gone from "None of these guys in the second, third, or fourth round could have made the team," to "Does anyone know where we can get a replacement for that guy who gets injured every seasons? We didn't really account for the fact that he might get hurt and we don't have a viable fallback unless that former seventh-round pick who really struggled last year before getting hurt himself bounces back in a big way. But no way those third round guys make THIS roster." It's delusional. And it's going to hurt us this year.
Anyway, rant over.
