Yobogoya!

This is obviously a rebuild and reset year. I’m not saying we should have swung for the fences, but did we add the right prospects to have the strongest chance at top-shelf production? That remains to be seen. This was a very McBeane draft, and to this point they’ve been great at adding JAG starters and tier 2 or tier 3 guys. Really the only truly elite player they’ve drafted is Allen. (It’s debatable but Tre might have been that guy too, if injuries didn’t derail his trajectory). If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll probably get what you’ve always got. I like this draft myself - in theory. But I’ve liked a lot of McBeane drafts in theory and ended up very underwhelmed with the results. 🤷‍♂️

Not for nothing, but just about every draft pick in history was “promising” at one point in time, lol. Can’t say this lot is any more or less so in that regard, but I’ll give you that he definitely spread the love to multiple positions of need. See but that’s kinda the song that remains the same isn’t it?

I thought about giving up alcohol this year for my New Year’s resolution. I can see now I was right to not do that.

That’s certainly one of the signings of all time.

And how’d that work out? Also, one guy who snags just 13% of your team’s offensive snaps isn’t much of a commitment to over the top speed. You disagree?

“Game-breaking speed is overrated”, that’s what gran-papi used to say and he was a fella who knew about these things!

They don’t call it a “process” for nothing. Only question is whether you still trust it at this point… But love em or hate em, McBeane sure do stick to it.

But he’s going to a team where he can false start 90% of his snaps each game, so odds are in his favor to excel there

The first three posts I read on here about him were “anyone but Coleman” so now he’s ruined for me. 😭

We have definitely been lacking in the “go up and get it department”, and for quite some time now. If he can be that kind of guy, Josh will throw it up for him a dozen times a game.

I mean that’s just cutting off your nose to spite your face. This team needs top shelf talent, man. We need all pro level players that are t Josh Allen. I’ll take it at any position, even punter (tho not at this draft pick, obviously lol)

I agree, but the draft isn’t over after pick 33. If we take Dejean here and still get someone like Franklin later in the second, thats the better combination of value based on what’s left, you have to agree with that. If we’ve waited until now, we can still add a player soon-ish. We already missed out on the top end prospects. No undoing that. Now we make the best of what’s left.

Id take a realistic chance at a top 10 wide receiver too. Personally I would have loved to leap frog Jax for BTJ, but well here we are. Which of the remaining prospects is more likely to be a stud receiver than Dejean is to be a stud DB? And I’m not trying to be snarky, I’m honestly curious who you value at that level?

Haha, but even if that’s true.. Dejean seems like he realistically has a chance to be the 2nd best safety in football. Especially in this defense. Which of the remaining wide receivers seems likely to be a top 10 WR?

It’s crazy if you would rather the team reach for a suboptimal prospect instead of taking one with much higher potential to make a difference. Beane’s miscalculations at WR up to now is not a good reason to want to see him make another potential error. I mean if you’ve got a strong and high opinion on the remaining WR prospects, I get it. And that’s fine. But if I’m looking at it pragmatically, I’m not picking WR at 33 just to do it. We’re obviously going to add bodies to this position in this draft, but I’ve got no problem if they wait until 60 or move up from 60 to do it. It’s same difference to me.

I feel like people have gone a little crazy all off-season honing in on WR. Yes that’s an obvious needs, but we need a lot of help at several positions, including DB. Just take the best player. We need top shelf players more than anything else. If Dejean can perform at an elite level in the McD system, I’d take that over the 7th or 8th best WR prospect.

Scary thing is that if any team could recover from that level of stupidity, KC is probably the one team that could. Andy Reid has always maximized the talents of his QB's, and with that many picks they'd find him someone who could execute his offense with at least a Donovan McNabb/ Alex Smith type of production.

Drafting is a crap-shoot because of the human element. There's maybe an infinite number of intangible variables that will go into how a selected player interacts with his coaches, teammates, scheme -- and of course his off-field environment. It's not like Madden where the highest score is automatically the best score, and there's largely no reason not to use the highest rated players. All the sports science/ psychology in the world will never be able to perfectly predict how a prospect pans out. And if it eventually can, it will mean that AI has figured us out and we have far bigger things to worry about than football. 😅

That is a dismal offense on paper but with Roman as OC you know it’s going to be a run first, run heavy offense. But Herbert might be the best passer a Roman/Harbaugh tandem has ever had to work with. Might not need top shelf receivers to make an offense work, and any RB will probably thrive there.

This team was so scattershot at returner last year, seemed like they were just doing whatever. Didn't Fournette field kicks at one point? Lol

I mean a third round pick is just ridiculous. You want to throw someone a 7th for diversity hires be my guest. But a day two pick cuz someone hired out of your staff had the right skin color? Give me a break…

I like this format. It doesn't paint a pretty picture of us having a reliable foundation of elite talent. Looks like they've only done the AFC East so far, the Pats are predictably weak but here's the Fins and Jets for comparison:

It's true that Shanahan deserves a lot of credit for that, I certainly can't imagine many coaches (ours included) taking Brock Purdy or Jimmy G anywhere near a super bowl. Of course when it came down to it, he seemed to put a bit too much confidence in those QB's, so you probably have to deduct a few points for that. But I also think it should go without saying the 9'ers are benefiting from not having a truly elite QB in the NFC right now.

It's an interesting case study, that relationship. They used to say how Belichick would start every team meeting for the new week by highlighting every play Tom Brady f'ed up the last game, no matter win or lose or how well he played. That obviously fed into Brady's motivation but it also fed into his resentment. But obviously those results aren't typical. Unlocking the intangible x factor that made it work for them would probably be an impossible task.