Originally posted by 49ersRing:
Originally posted by jcs:
Originally posted by 49ersRing:
Originally posted by 5_Golden_Rings:
Originally posted by 49ersRing:
Originally posted by 5_Golden_Rings:
Originally posted by a49erfan77:
Originally posted by NYniner85:
you'd think it wouldn't be this difficult
They meant skin color, not ability. 
I think it's the other way around. Fans want the skin color. Shanahan, on the other hand, wants the guy that's gonna make Shanahan look like a superstar (as opposed to an actual superstar player).
Yea? I think most fans here would be happy with Fields or Lawrence or Wilson or even Lance. Shanahan is the one that only ever seems to choose QBs of a certain skintone.
Shanahan has literally only drafted one QB, and fought for another (Cousins). He traded for Jimmy because the Patriots offered.
He also signed Josh Johnson.
This take is lazy. It's more than lazy. It's f**king stupid.
Oh wow, he signed Josh Johnson. The fourth QB on the depth chart. That refutes any possibility of bias. 
C'mon man, before you have a stroke over the slightest possibility of racial bias taking a role, maybe consider you're the one that first claimed that the fans want a QB based purely on race and that Shanahan doesn't care. Meanwhile, Shanahan didn't want RG3, didn't want Kaepernick, didn't want Watson, didn't want Mahomes, didn't want Fields, doesn't want Lance. Any one of those individually could easily be justified or explained, but the trend is there and cannot be refuted by merely pointing at Josh Johnson, a guy that will never play.
I can't wait to see the race card getting used as an excuse on draft day, Kyle Shannahan is a racist!....Dr JT would be proud.
I'm not even accusing Shanahan of being racist. I'm just open to the possibility that racial bias could play a role in how one evaluates players. It was absurd for that poster to claim that the fans, and not possibly Shanahan, are the ones clamoring for a certain QB based on their race when the vast majority of fans would likely be happy with any one of Fields, Lawrence, or Wilson.
It's way less absurd. Shanahan passed on several white QBs to take Beathard.
There is a pattern, and the pattern is bias against prospects who default to their legs before exhausting all outs built into the play.
The very same reason they were going to release Kap is the same reason they weren't clamoring to re-sign Gabbert, yet they went out of their way to sign an equally s**tty — maybe even MORE s**tty — QB. Shanahan doesn't like guys who bail on the play before all built-in options are exhausted. That's his type, and it's why Jones is the most likely pick. Lance is in the conversation because of the under center stuff he ran. Fields is out because Fields has little experience with pro-style concepts, while Lance AND JONES have more (Sarkesian has lots of pro-style concepts in his drop back game; NDSU has lots of pro-style formations and PA concepts).
People assume it's race because race dominates their world view. I'm not disparaging that, since that is exactly what you'd expect from someone who has experienced the racist atrocities that are so deeply ingrained in American history and contemporary American life. But that doesn't mean they're right. They're 100% NOT right.
Shanahan wants a guy who will exhaust all built-in outs in the play before bailing on it. That's his type, and it's always been his type.
). But whatever, I've clearly touched a nerve, so I'll drop it.