PNW_PantherMan

I don't disagree with any of that. But I do think QBs like Michael Vick have changed the league because they change how kids play the game. They see a pro QB do all the things that Vick or Cam did on TV and they want to play like them. Maybe they're not winning the Super Bowl year in and year out, but I think it has had a long term effect on the overall play of the QB position in the league.

I hate moving money into the future so Rhule can try to "win-now" in year 3. What the hell is this "process" anyways? Tepper is a moron for not firing this guy. We're gonna be paying this roster until 2030 at this rate.

That's debatable really. Every QB is not going to be Michael Vick or Cam Newton or Josh Allen, because there just aren't that many of those guys. Freakish athletes that are good enough to play QB in the NFL. But I don't know. Its hard to say the game hasn't changed because of QBs like Michael Vick. Does every QB possess incredible rushing ability with a cannon arm? Of course not. But QBs are much more athletic and quicker than they were years and years ago. Now its basically expected that your QB has some agility and escape-ability or else they are worthless. Drew Bledsoe would be killed in today's league.

I'd be down for a Malik Willis lottery ticket with the 6th pick. Might be a reach, but he also might be a superstar where he would go 1st overall in a redraft years later. Probably won't happen though, because Rhule is going to take Pickett or some random defensive player that's projected to go around 15 overall.

Yeah plus I hate the idea of trading away future pick(s) to get more picks in this years draft, which is a weaker class. That seems like a bad idea.

Matt Rhule is like the coach from The Replacements, except the only guys he knows are from Temple and nobody else has to play with scabs.

That's an incredibly awkward AMA. I'm only on the team because of the lame duck coach all the fans hate now, AMA! Good for him to get a chance in the NFL, but I really have no words.

We're going to get outbid on Jimmy G and give Mitch Trubisky a Teddy Bridgewater deal out of desperation.

At least Malik played a full season of football last season. And Liberty is technically in the big boy college subdivision.

Please no.

I expect this game to be tough, so we'll probably shoot 60% and put up 150 points and win. This team is so unpredictable.

Really bad rebounding last night. Defense is usually a liability for us, but we gave up so many 2nd and 3rd chances on the glass.

Yea that was bad wording. I don’t mean that Marshall and Shi are busts. I’m just pointing to the fact that we drafted 2 receivers last year that made close to no impact on the team. I can see us taking another one this year even though we have bigger needs.

That's crazy to think we need help at WR. Beyond DJ, they extended Robbie Anderson and drafted Terrace Marshall and Shi Smith just last year. I had pretty high hopes for Marshall and Smith this year. But Marshall didn't do anything, and Shi Smith was barely on the field. What duds will we draft or sign this year?

I really believed Matt Rhule was a good hire in year 1, but this was basically me watching the team this year during the Giants game.

I'll admit I was part of that and I was dead wrong. At that time, I thought Matt Rhule knew what he was doing, and Teddy was a scrub. It turns out, Teddy knew what he was talking about and Matt Rhule is the scrub.

In a vacuum, yes I do agree. You wanna burn any pick you already have on a QB that's 2 years on the bench from being elite? Go for it. That's obviously going to be worth it every time, even if the pick is 1st overall. The cost of simply drafting a guy with a pick you already have is relatively cheap. The rookie pay scale has really made it that way. If you look at any other position, taking a guy in the 1st round that isn't ready to play is madness. But I suppose QB today is probably the exception to that. It just wasn't that long ago teams were letting more raw QB prospects fall to the 3rd, 4th, and 5th rounds. So maybe that's just my age showing. I think for this 49ers team, it doesn't seem like it was a good decision. The 49ers to me are similar to the Rams before getting Stafford. They have a very strong roster, but their QB isn't good enough to win the big one. But that roster isn't going to be around for very long. To me, that's not a prescription to go sell the farm for a guy that's 2 years away. Now they're not going to have those picks to potentially replace players they can't afford to keep over the next 2 years. I'm just pointing out the crazy bet that the 49ers made on this guy. There's plenty of guys that have shown elite potential as prospects and never fulfilled that in the NFL. In hindsight, any winning bet was worth it. I'm just not convinced they thought it would be 2 years when they drafted him.

That's a pretty big if. Jimmy G isn't good enough to get the 49ers over the hump, but they're looking at starting him again next season. They're also in the middle of a window here with player contracts. That's not a good sign. If Lance becomes an elite QB after sitting for several years, then that's great for Lance and the 49ers. It seems like a very steep price to pay to make a very low percentage bet. You can become a millionaire very quickly by abusing leverage in the stock market. That doesn't necessarily make it a good idea.

It is though. The Kerr situation is much more similar to when Steve Smith and Ken Lucas got in a fight. But whatever. Keep living in your own reality where you make up the rules and the points don't matter or whatever.

That's different though. Steve Kerr was a role player and that was always going to be MJ's team. This was a power struggle between the old king and the new one. Somebody had to go.

Imagine trading multiple future 1st round picks to take a guy 3rd overall and bench him for 2 years. That's just lunacy. You don't draft a guy in the top 5 if he's not ready to play for another 2 seasons. If he was that raw, he should have been a 3rd or 4th round pick.

Agreed. There is no evidence to suggest otherwise. We are essentially the NFC Texans.

I'd rather take 2 or 3 shots at drafting a QB than trade those picks for Watson.

I'm noticing a pattern with scapegoating people heading through the exit door. But bad decisions are still being made all the time. What could be the constant here?

Inept? They've been in the hunt since McVay was hired as head coach. They went all in on that team because they were on the cusp. That doesn't mean every trash heap team should go all in on a Matt Stafford level QB.