Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:
Originally posted by OnTheClock:
Originally posted by tankle104:
Kinda wild that we traded all that to initially get mac jones, if those reports are true. Obviously we don't know how max would of done here if he was drafted here but man. Lol I just don't trust Kyle evaluating QBs. I liked mac as a prospect but I didn't think he would be special either
i still can't wrap my head around why Justin Fields wasn't in the discussion
I think this interview is super misleading.
Kyle and Lynch specifically said they liked all three of the top quarterbacks. They traded up to ensure they got their #1 after completing their evaluations.
The media just jumped on Jones and ran wild with the assumption that it was him all the way, despite it never being truly confirmed by any legit sources. They knew we liked Jones, but they wrongly assumed we liked him the most and went all in on that and came out looking like fools because they relied on, at best, outdated information.
This is clown maneuvering imo. You don't pay the price, then do the homework. This is why I say they panicked. They knew they had a QB problem, QB durability with JG, and they chose to agree to the most prohibitively expensive solution, one could possibly come up with, prior to completing their full evaluations of the prospects.
I'm not sure how that got perceived as us doing things backwards.
"we traded up to ensure they got their #1 after completing their evaluations"
Flip that around and maybe it's clearer. After doing our evaluations, we liked all three top quarterbacks so we traded up to that spot to ensure we got our favorite.
If you're going off what Adam says instead, at the absolute worst case in which Schefter is actually 100% telling the truth, then he's saying we 100% believed Mac Jones would go higher and traded up to ensure we got him. His claim is that we zeroed in on one guy, made a huge trade, and then finished our homework and Lance leapfrogged him in the final weeks.
The alternative was assuming someone would fall to us, and we would just have to hope it would be one we liked.
[ Edited by OnTheClock on Jun 21, 2023 at 4:50 PM ]