John Lynch - 49ers GM

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
I like some of the players they got. But they are not at need positions. Especially Offensive line. Minus 1 somewhat early (if you call 3 early). That's a big problem for me. LB as you mentioned too. I just feel like we got some gadget type players with speed. Who can help you. But we didn't need that and we already have good starters there. So how much will they even play?

Originally posted by mcwoot:

Originally posted by LifelongNiner:
Agree. We still don't have that guy. Need a guy for 2 downs only to really maximize the Hargrave signing. I think the 49ers just intend to play from ahead as their run defense.

Playing ahead works for a lot of the season (I mean our run defense #s looked great when we were front-running scrub teams last year) but it falls apart in the playoffs.

Originally posted by tankle104:

Originally posted by mcwoot:

Originally posted by LifelongNiner:
Agree. We still don't have that guy. Need a guy for 2 downs only to really maximize the Hargrave signing. I think the 49ers just intend to play from ahead as their run defense.

Playing ahead works for a lot of the season (I mean our run defense #s looked great when we were front-running scrub teams last year) but it falls apart in the playoffs.

I think they trust the new DT and Floyd that we signed. Must really believe in kalia too. I do agree that I thought they would target a DT somewhere but just didn't fall that way.

im curious who gets cut post June 1.

Originally posted by mcwoot:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
I like some of the players they got. But they are not at need positions. Especially Offensive line. Minus 1 somewhat early (if you call 3 early). That's a big problem for me. LB as you mentioned too. I just feel like we got some gadget type players with speed. Who can help you. But we didn't need that and we already have good starters there. So how much will they even play?

Exactly. I guess you could call them "luxury picks" and I guess some people might be of the mind that our roster is good enough for luxury picks but until we win the big one I disagree. We lost because of a few very specific personnel gaps and our FO seemed to go out of their way to not address them.

Originally posted by GoreGoreGore:

Originally posted by tankle104:

Originally posted by mcwoot:

Originally posted by LifelongNiner:
Agree. We still don't have that guy. Need a guy for 2 downs only to really maximize the Hargrave signing. I think the 49ers just intend to play from ahead as their run defense.

Playing ahead works for a lot of the season (I mean our run defense #s looked great when we were front-running scrub teams last year) but it falls apart in the playoffs.

I think they trust the new DT and Floyd that we signed. Must really believe in kalia too. I do agree that I thought they would target a DT somewhere but just didn't fall that way.

im curious who gets cut post June 1.

I'm definitely not surprised we didn't go DT, we have plenty of depth there and several guys that are equipped to play the run.

I expect next year to draft DT with one of our first 3 picks.

Originally posted by tankle104:

Originally posted by GoreGoreGore:

Originally posted by tankle104:

Originally posted by mcwoot:

Originally posted by LifelongNiner:
Agree. We still don't have that guy. Need a guy for 2 downs only to really maximize the Hargrave signing. I think the 49ers just intend to play from ahead as their run defense.

Playing ahead works for a lot of the season (I mean our run defense #s looked great when we were front-running scrub teams last year) but it falls apart in the playoffs.

I think they trust the new DT and Floyd that we signed. Must really believe in kalia too. I do agree that I thought they would target a DT somewhere but just didn't fall that way.

im curious who gets cut post June 1.

I'm definitely not surprised we didn't go DT, we have plenty of depth there and several guys that are equipped to play the run.

I expect next year to draft DT with one of our first 3 picks.

Looks like a super weak d line draft too. Only DT I thought was an awesome player was the guy the Seahawks took in the first.

I like this draft. I think we got a lot of really quality players that provide something we needed. Route running, speed, pass blocking, nickel corner.

Originally posted by tankle104:

Originally posted by mcwoot:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
I like some of the players they got. But they are not at need positions. Especially Offensive line. Minus 1 somewhat early (if you call 3 early). That's a big problem for me. LB as you mentioned too. I just feel like we got some gadget type players with speed. Who can help you. But we didn't need that and we already have good starters there. So how much will they even play?

Exactly. I guess you could call them "luxury picks" and I guess some people might be of the mind that our roster is good enough for luxury picks but until we win the big one I disagree. We lost because of a few very specific personnel gaps and our FO seemed to go out of their way to not address them.

Those "gadget" players we got full a gaping hole on offense. We didn't have a quick/shifty/precise route runner to help with man coverage (big reason we lost to KC/BAL). We didn't have a reliable second back that was a bruised but also fast and can catch - Mitchell was always hurt.

we also lost the super bowl cause burford is a dipsh!t. So replacing him with a much better pass blocker was huge. Getting a center (Kingston) to develop and versatile was super important.

Originally posted by Atrain:
We have no OT depth if Trent goes down forget it

Originally posted by GoreGoreGore:

Originally posted by the_dynasty:
What baffles me is zero offensive tackles in one of the deepest OT drafts ever.

Ya it was deep and about 6-7 got drafted in the first round. Drafting the 8th best OT with our first round pick would've been stupid.

Puni can play RT as well, that's his college position anyways. He's 6'5 so I don't see the issue. Great pass blocker, needs to be better at run blocking, so hopefully that's our future RT.