Originally posted by Memphis9er:
Originally posted by 5_Golden_Rings:
Originally posted by JoseCortez:
Originally posted by tankle104:
Originally posted by JoseCortez:
Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
I don't always agree with decisions made by Kyle and John but I bow to them because they know more about the players and the team than any of us do. They are there 7 days a weeks. Their jobs depend on the decisions they make. Even the Trey Lance fiasco was the right decision at the time. It turned out bd but trying to get a top QB when you have the chance is never a bad idea. For teams like the Niners that chance doesn't come around often. It's unfortunate that the 2 times they had a chance to get a QB early in the draft it wasn't a great year for QBs. When tey drafted Alex Smith he was considered to be better than Rodgers. They were really the only 2 in that class. The class that had Trey in it has faired poorly. Only Lawrence is living up to his expectations. Fields and Wilson are struggling and Jones is just okay.
What?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_NFL_Draft
Yeah, their first year when we desperately needed a QB - they missed hard cause kyle was focused on getting cousins in free agency. They actually tried to trade the top 3 pick AND some (per jay gruden) for cousins but Washington wouldn't listen cause they hate the shanahans.
i think I read something that Kyle didn't really bother even looking at the QBs in the 2017 draft cause he knew the plan was to get cousins. Honestly, cousins is the worst thing that ever happened to the niners and he's never been a niner. Lol such a mediocre player who gets a ton of stats when it matters least - he usually don't do well when the game is within reach and then balls out when they're down a lot. One of the worst kind to have. We are lucky we lucked into Brock.
John Lynch alluded to it in an interview
If you want to blame Kyle instead of Jimmy for something, blame Kyle for passing on Mahomes for Cousins. That was BY FAR his biggest error.
Mahomes was not viewed as some can't miss prospect. He couldn't read defenses coming out of college. His NFL draft grade was 6.3 out of 8 with a comparison of Jay Cutler. So maybe here years later in hindsight you can say it was a miss, but nobody was saying that on draft day.
Who said he couldn't read defenses? Not having practice with NFL schemes isn't the same thing as "can't read defenses." I literally never saw him hesitate in confusion one time in all the film I watched of him. I saw him throw passes the scheme said he shouldn't, but that just means he outplayed the scheme.
EDIT: in fact this is getting so lame I'm going to say this right now:
The things we all like about Brock here on this board? Mahomes REPEATEDLY showed them in college. Over and over again. The quick reaction time. Finding the open guy. Moving in the pocket. Throwing with multiple arm angles. I mean if we're all so sure about Brock, why was Mahomes such a mystery? He wasn't. What he was was a guy with unusual mechanics who played in a spread system. That is IT. The is ALL that made him fall AAAAAAALLLLLL the way to 10TH OVERALL. Tenth. In round one.
[ Edited by 5_Golden_Rings on Oct 1, 2023 at 12:24 PM ]