Originally posted by tankle104:
Originally posted by WINiner:
I'd love to know who felt they needed to trade into the 3rd. I suspect Lynch as Kyle was likely perfectly happy with Jones and Jones is not a 3rd pick in the draft prospect.
My guess is that they decided they were going with a rookie QB before they decided which qb they were going to go with. They also assumed they'd keep winning with a rookie and the first rounders would be high first round (kyles talked about this).
so they viewed it as they could get in position and see who they fall in love with (remember, they traded up SUPER early).
the mistake ultimately was Lance, we've harped on this forever. I think they really should of been debating between jones or fields, which Kyle wasn't a fan of fields for whatever reason.
kyle has proven to me that he is really good at evaluating guys once they're in his camp/practice but not good at evaluating QBs from afar (draft process). I don't give Kyle credit for Purdy, that was all slowIk & Griese.
overall, I think Kyle and Lynch moved up not because they loved a player, but because they were committed to going with a rookie scale contract at the position and wanted to guarantee they could get whichever one they fell in love with. Should of been fields if he wanted 11-11 play. If he wanted traditional style play, should of been jones. If he wanted to look like a complete dipsh!t he should of chose Lance.
On Trey's development. I think his various injuries are the ones that delayed and stopped his development - not his lack of mental intangibles. I saw progress from the time he played in his first preseason game to his last preseason game, and the four regular season games in between that he played in. But for Trey's injuries, he'd be QB1 right now. I think he'd have made enough progress in year one and two, to be a credible QB1 this year.
Having said that, even though Trey was 100% healthy his first two years, I think Purdy would still have outclassed him from a QB1 perspective. I think it would have taken Trey three years - minimum - of continuous reps for him to get to Purdy's rookie level of play. Matt Ryan took two years, and Jimmy only started to look good in Kyle's offense last year - which if you add all of Jimmy's healthy games he played for the 49ers together - it adds up to about 3 years of total healthy play. Brock is just unreal in that dimension, in being able to absorb Kyle's offense and play like Jimmy immediately. He's just unreal in so many ways.
Who would have thunk it.