LinvilleGorge

Don't get me wrong, Lance definitely has some intriguing tools. But let's be honest, imagine Justin Fields playing against Lance's competition level with Lance's surrounding case. NDSU is basically the Alabama of D1-AA. It would've looked like a video game.

Bridgewater to wherever for whatever suits me fine.

Honestly, I think Leatherwood is gonna be a bust at OT. I just don't think he has the required foot quickness. I think he'll be one of those guys who is drafted and given a chance at OT but likely ultimately ends up at OG. That's not a terrible thing, but I think that's how you have to value him and kinda already have that approach in mind.

#9 overall for Teddy Bridgewater... LOLOLOL!!! I mean, I hope the Broncos are that stupid but realistically no one is giving up a 1st for Teddy. I'd be happy with literally anything. Just take the contract.

I'm concerned if we think LT has been addressed long-term. To me it's about positional value, the players available, and our roster. Looking at those factors, it seems to me LT is likely going to be the best fit at #8 unless one of the QBs we like is very unexpectedly available. Assuming it's not QB or a trade down (which would be my options 1A and 1B, BTW), I'd be shocked if we don't draft either a LT or a CB. I'd out it 70% LT, 30% CB. I just think there's better value at the top of the draft at LT. I honestly expect the best CBs in this class to go in that late 1st/early 2nd range. I think we can get a good CB prospect with our 2nd rounder. If we're actually going to make a run at building around Darnold, my preference would be LT in the 1st, CB in the 2nd, IOL in the 3rd. I think that married us pretty well with both our needs and the way this draft is likely to play out IMO.

I always enjoy when someone falls head over heels in love with a given prospect and it causes them to bash every other prospect at that position for no apparent reason other than blinding man crush.

I think the opposite. I think he's easily the most underrated player on the roster.

Sure have. We all have. Well, except for this of us who never actually offer an opinion of their own but those people aren't worth talking about anyway.

I hope he's right. I seriously doubt he is.

I'm just being realistic. This organization has never achieved sustain success. We've sporadically had some good seasons and then got overall very poor return out of the career of an MVP QB.

Ties go to the bottom, not the top.

We're tied for 17th in playoff appearances since 2000, so middle of the pack. We're 18th in wins and have a sub-.500 winning percentage since 2000. Yes, we went to two Super Bowls.

Yes. I would not pass on a QB we like due to Sam Darnold. I think the move was made because we didn't like our chances of a QB at 8 but if the board falls that way, draft him anyway.

Not just for the sake of it. But of there's trade down value there I'd probably take it. I'm of the mindset of heavily hedging that bet on Darnold.

This is where I'm at. Honestly, if it's not QB and the phone is ringing we should at least be listening.

I remember people constantly talking about how young Funchess was too. At the end of the day, either you can play or you can't. I'm honestly not hanging my hat on Darnold's age. My hope with Darnold is basically Adam Gase simply being THAT atrocious.

I'm fine with drafting a LT. If Darnold doesn't work out the next QB is still gonna need a LT. Let's not put anymore QBs behind the OLs we put in front of Cam.

Hopeful I understand. Mocking condescendingly toward anyone who mentions that an organization with a history of poor decisions might be making poor decisions though... eh...

I hope he's right. Be the one or be the one who gets us the one. If he's Clausen 2.0 that's fine too. That's better than Teddy purgatory.

What in our franchise history has some of this fanbase based their cockiness on? I mean, what am I missing? Where does this confidence come from? Looking at our history from an outsider's point of view, it looks to me like we stumbled back assward into a handful of good years while largely sucking.

That's about the mental agility displayed by the typical fan colored glasses homer.

Says the king of his own echo chamber. We get it, man. You're the smartest person here. You never actually offer an opinion, but everyone else is always an idiot. It's easy to always be right when you never actually state an opinion other than generic homerism.

I doubt that. We wouldn't have been both trading for #3 and trading for Watson. That was definitely an either or scenario. I kinda get the feeling that once it became more clear that the Jets were zeroed in on Wilson that we weren't willing to pay that price for whoever our #3 was, be it Fields, Lance, or Jones and honestly I'm not upset by that. The Niners paid a fortune.

I just want Darnold to boom or bust and he has a much better chance to do that than Teddy did. Be the answer or get us in position to land Sam Howell, no half stepping please. Honestly, that's the feel of this roster. We have a bust reclamation project at QB and a veritable MASH unit of free agent acquisitions. This is either gonna really work or really NOT work.

I really think it was the Niners trade that made us go That's when we realized we needed to start looking at plans F, G, and H on the list.