2020 draft rumors

Originally posted by NCommand:
What you're saying is you badly badly badly want a WR at 13 no matter what.

And that's OK.

this

Originally posted by FL9er:

It's a similar philosophy to how the Pats and Seahawks draft too.

Some people may not like it, but they came really close to winning it all, with the team they built.

It's proven to be a successful formula

"If this team stays competitive we will lose more players to big contracts, so the front office needs to constantly pick up good cheap players through the draft. This also seems to be a deep draft at the WR position."

The way I see it, this is the way of the NFL (and other sports). I believe Belichek does this quite often and they've been to eight, nine Super Bowls in 20 years. Also, that's the trade off for being successful that Niners fans are going to have to get used to. Just hopefully there are some Super Bowl wins mixed in there. And maybe from time to time we get a hometown discount

Maybe we should start trying to identify the players for the 49ers' THEIR GUY board. Their guy board > Big Board

"When we first brought scouts in right after the Super Bowl we were kind of working off the old grading system," Lynch said. "But what helped was the grading system that they use in Denver, which kind of derived from one that was developed in New England."

One of Lynch's first hires was former Broncos college scouting director Adam Peters as 49ers vice president of player personnel. New coach Kyle Shanahan was also familiar with the system because, like Peters, Atlanta Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff worked in the Patriots' scouting department.

"In these last three weeks of draft meetings we moved over to that grading scale," Lynch said.

"I've always been someone who thinks you should listen to multiple opinions and we've been very collaborative. I believe in strong opinions. Someone once told me, 'Strong opinions, weakly held.' So are you open to different thoughts and someone makes you think? But ultimately someone's got to make decisions."

"I would say it varies year to year, but I would say our draft board is smaller than most," Caserio said. "We are trying to find players that we feel comfortable with on all levels that we would actually draft -- not that are going to get drafted.

"It's players that we would draft, that we would actually feel comfortable with in our program in some capacity."

Originally posted by Heroism:

Maybe we should start trying to identify the players for the 49ers' THEIR GUY board. Their guy board > Big Board

"When we first brought scouts in right after the Super Bowl we were kind of working off the old grading system," Lynch said. "But what helped was the grading system that they use in Denver, which kind of derived from one that was developed in New England."

One of Lynch's first hires was former Broncos college scouting director Adam Peters as 49ers vice president of player personnel. New coach Kyle Shanahan was also familiar with the system because, like Peters, Atlanta Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff worked in the Patriots' scouting department.

"In these last three weeks of draft meetings we moved over to that grading scale," Lynch said.

"I've always been someone who thinks you should listen to multiple opinions and we've been very collaborative. I believe in strong opinions. Someone once told me, 'Strong opinions, weakly held.' So are you open to different thoughts and someone makes you think? But ultimately someone's got to make decisions."

"I would say it varies year to year, but I would say our draft board is smaller than most," Caserio said. "We are trying to find players that we feel comfortable with on all levels that we would actually draft -- not that are going to get drafted.

"It's players that we would draft, that we would actually feel comfortable with in our program in some capacity."

Henry Ruggs took an online class with John Lynch's niece. We're golden!

Originally posted by genus49:
Henry Ruggs took an online class with John Lynch's niece. We're golden!

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by NCommand:

They do this in FA too. Well documented. They aren't going to read the room. The board. They have their targets and will get their guys.

Doing this little target project has literally helped lay out exactly how Kyle is trying to build his team for me. Right. Down. The. Line. Think "Atlanta 2016." The only difference is his Julio Jones is a TE here.

Lol

Facts. You dismiss them.

Originally posted by Heroism:

Originally posted by FL9er:

It's a similar philosophy to how the Pats and Seahawks draft too.

Some people may not like it, but they came really close to winning it all, with the team they built.

Yup, the 49ers actually adopted most of their grading system from the Patriots. The criteria is definitely different from most teams. They don't grade a player in a bubble, slap on a grade and them put them on a big board. They have very unique and subjective criteria. It actually makes perfect sense because they're not grading players in general. This isn't the draft network or NFL.com. The 49ers grade players relative to their organization beliefs and principles, locker room chemistry and roster spots/needs.

Yup. Kyle's first order of business was to list all the ideal traits of every player at every position. So when they find those guys, they've got 6 years to build that Atlanta offense exactly how he likes it. A few more parts to go.

Originally posted by krizay:

Originally posted by NCommand:

What you're saying is you badly badly badly want a WR at 13 no matter what.

And that's OK.

this

And you both are doing the same thing just based off of what you want to happen.

Originally posted by NCommand:

Facts. You dismiss them.

No you move goalposts to push your narrative

Originally posted by NYniner85:
And you both are doing the same thing just based off of what you want to happen.

i literally just posted my full 1st round mock with SF taking two guys I DONT WANT and stated so

well not dont want but i wouldnt have taken there

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by krizay:

Originally posted by NCommand:

What you're saying is you badly badly badly want a WR at 13 no matter what.

And that's OK.

this

And you both are doing the same thing just based off of what you want to happen.

I'm not even invested in 13 personally. I think OL will be gone. I don't think we'll get the full value at WR that some fans think. Trade back? Might be the best option. I'm more worried about them locking in on their guy (and it won't be pretty). I'm certainly OK with OL and WR in any order though.

Originally posted by NYniner85:

Originally posted by NCommand:

Facts. You dismiss them.

No you move goalposts to push your narrative

My facts were a target project. No goal posts to move. I would love Kyle to have 3 dominant weapons at X, Y & Z. He's never had that before.

If we take a tackle and Ruggs/Jeudy is still on the board I'm gonna rage