I went back through this thread and couldn't find where I said the Lance trade was worse than picking Wilson. So I humbly ask for you to stop making shit up. Now, take a few minutes and read this and tell me where the author is wrong. The Niners fucked up everything about Lance, from the actual trade when the team was stacked to how they handled the guy. Like the guy writes, But if Shanahan and John Lynch are right about Lance now, then there’s no getting around this: In 2021, they were very, very, very wrong. They were about as wrong as it’s possible to be in pro sports, and more wrong than it’s usually possible to be while still keeping your job. https://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/kyle-shanahan-trey-lance-benched-trade-18329189.php
I stand corrected. But can you dispute that what the Niners did was so blindingly stupid that it's amazing people didn't get fired? That team did not need to trade 3 ones to draft a developmental QB when the team was SB ready. And now they won't be able to give him away. Fucking genius.
Sam's displaced a top 3 pick that SF traded a bundle of picks for?? Todd Bowles, offensive pioneer....Adam Gase/Dowell Loggains...lol......to Carolina and Matt Ruhle, since-fired Temple offensive whiz kid.... Great coaches; surprised Darnold struggled under such rarified tutelage Speaking of trades, gettin two firsts for 'Prez' (AVT/GW)...not bad..I'll take it.. brock purdy, mr. irrelevant.....brady pick #199.....bleep happens....
I don't think the trade-up for Lance was bad. They wanted a freakish athlete to compete with the Mahomes and Allens of the world (to play Shanahan 2.0 offense) and they got him. The plan to Redshirt in '21 and play him in '22 was pretty standard stuff and even when he gets injured against the Bears you're probably thinking that Jimmy G will play out the year and Lance is QB1 in '23 and the whole project is just delayed a year. Somehow, against all odds and commonsense they find out Brock Purdy can play ball! If this one in a million event doesn't occur we're sitting here wondering what Shanahan is going to do with this intriguing, potential defence breaking weapon he has to add to all the others. ---------- As for how this compares to Zach? The Jets drafted a bust in Zach - The tape is what it is and there's no hiding from the fact that at a NFL level he is just terrible. The 49ers drafted an unknown - There's no tape, there's no way of knowing what he can or can't do, He's a project and that only means we can project all that on him. If both were cut tomorrow - I'd wager on Trey being picked up before Zach (if Zach gets picked up at all) ---------- Going with a combo of Purdy/Darnold over a season makes perfect sense to me but if Purdy goes down for the season at the next practice. Do you think the 49ers will roll with Darnold or will Shanahan not think "Screw it, I drafted this kid to play the next iteration of my offense and now's the time to see if all those schemes I thought of can work and if this kid can run them"?
Can't really shit on any team outside the Jags for taking a QB that year as none of them have broken through and it's not like anyone would of been better holding off for a year as the next class was pretty bad. Think this is why JD doesn't get as much heat for such a bad whiff as we can't play the "Mahomes/Allen was available later" charge against him (unless you were one of those very, very silent Brock Purdy supporters).
I'm sorry. I can't get behind the idea of trading 3 first round picks plus a third to draft an unknown. Being an unknown makes it even worse. They probably didn't even have to trade up to get him. Who else was picking him? I'm not shitting on the pick (even though I think he will wash out of the NFL). I'm shitting on the amount of draft capital they gave up to get him.
So bad.... They traded the farm for this guy, when they could have just stood pat and still got him or gotten Fields at worst. They traded up for this guy like he was Trevor Lawrence.
