Originally posted by NYniner85:
Originally posted by Chance:
Mid first round picks are a crap shoot. You don't trade away a sure-fire number 1 WR for a crap-shoot of a prospect. Sorry. I'd rather keep BA, and use the franchise tags if need be than I would trade for a pick that has about a 50-50 shot in being a quality starter.
This has nothing to do with my valuation on our player, and everything to do with teams overvaluing their picks and trying to score an all-pro for pennies on the dollar. To put it in perspective, I would absolutely trade for AJ Brown using his trade value as a base, every day of the week. He's worth more than a mid-first and a third. Philli won huge on that deal.
BA was the 25th pick in the draft. Just an FYI.
no it does have to do with your valuation of a player on your team. There isn't a single objective person that thinks BA's worth is a top 7 pick in this draft. None and I love the dude.
Tenn was unwilling to pay AJ what he wanted. They were never gonna meet his price, so then what? BA doesn't want to be the 4th guy in the pecking order. He wants to be paid like a top WR. Clearly you think he's that, so we can't complain if he wants top 5 money, right?
if SF says nope not happening, cool we get a disgruntled WR for a year, no cap relief that a extension gives this team now and you gotta deal with the tag situation and pissing him off more.
my thing is if SF is unwilling to pay the man what he deserves…then move him and be realistic about it. No team is giving up a top 7 pick and paying him $100M on top of it.
I keep telling you what it's worth it for us, not necessary what another team is willing to pay. BA is worth a top ten pick to consider moving from him for us, imo. That's what he's worth to a SB contender who hasn't had a WR of his caliber in two decades. If we get a Tyreke deal, we take it. If we get an AJ Brown deal, we shouldn't. If we get less than a Brown deal and take it, heads should roll.
We are a SB contender this year, and you don't trade your number one receiving option (only CMAC is ahead of BA on the list of skill players), for less than he is worth your team. I think he's worth a top ten pick in valuation for this team right now. We should pay him commensurate with his value, or let him play out his fifth year and try and get a better view of the landscape of Kittle, Deebo, CMAC, Jennings next offseason.
Personally, I think we pay him something similar to Amon St. Brown. A number he and his agent can parade as market setting, but less fully gtd when looked at closely and with outs in case we need them in future years.
If we trade a sure-thing all-pro WR for a mid-first (or mid-first value), it's a giant fail in my book given our need to compete for a SB this year.
reminds me of people on the radio who get paid to speculate saying the 49ers should trade #2 overall for Antonio Brown, or multiple 1sts for OBJ…
