Wouldn’t you rather just have Christian McCaffery, DJ Moore…

[HardcoreHokie]

…Baker Mayfield, D’Onta Foreman, and Curtis Samuel?

That O would whip our asses.

[csx]

I'd rather have Thielen than Samuel but I never wanted to trade up to 1 regardless 

Edited January 3, 2024 by csx

[pantherclaw]

I would have been happy keeping cmc, Moore, and picking the best player at 9. 

[MechaZain]

It's a cruel joke how the weapons we gave up for Young are like made for his skillset

[LegioX]

I just find it funny CMC was on the sidelines with us most of the time injured. Now he is in MVP consideration with the 9ers and hasn’t missed 1 game? We are truly a cursed franchise.

[HardcoreHokie]

22 minutes ago, LegioX said:

I just find it funny CMC was on the sidelines with us most of the time injured. Now he is in MVP consideration with the 9ers and hasn’t missed 1 game? We are truly a cursed franchise.

Nobody wants to risk their health and career for a *potential* 6-win team.

[WarHeel]

36 minutes ago, LegioX said:

I just find it funny CMC was on the sidelines with us most of the time injured. Now he is in MVP consideration with the 9ers and hasn’t missed 1 game? We are truly a cursed franchise.

Some of you really like to spin your own narrative. He played 3 full seasons at nearly 100% snaps. He still played chunks of the subsequent next two seasons and was healthy when we traded him. 

[Stuart Smith]

35 minutes ago, HardcoreHokie said:

Nobody wants to risk their health and career for a *potential* 6-win team.

He probably was held out a few games by management. 

[parker]

Almost everyone wanted CMC to be traded because of his injury history.  Now it's all about how stupid it was.  That's the way this board works.  It's very knee jerk reaction and drama.

[frankw]

DJ Moore was the more egregious move. Top 10 WR in his prime on a low end contract compared to some of his peers. McCaffrey is everyone's favorite because he's playing on the 49ers behind that OL with Shanahan designing plays. But nobody wants to talk about his salary cap hits or the fact he and his mother were relieved to get him back on the west coast. He's also banged up heading into the playoffs behind one of the league's best olines. You're dreaming if you think he stays healthy and doesn't sit out behind ours.

[toldozer]

2 hours ago, LegioX said:

I just find it funny CMC was on the sidelines with us most of the time injured. Now he is in MVP consideration with the 9ers and hasn’t missed 1 game? We are truly a cursed franchise.

Players don't want to play when there is no point.  Can't blame them.  It's why Ball stays hurt for the hornets too

[toldozer]

17 minutes ago, parker said:

Almost everyone wanted CMC to be traded because of his injury history.  Now it's all about how stupid it was.  That's the way this board works.  It's very knee jerk reaction and drama.

Trade him for a haul sure.  Trade him for DJ Johnson not so much.  Worst part is we paid like 20 mill for him not to be here this year

[LinvilleGorge]

3 hours ago, MechaZain said:

It's a cruel joke how the weapons we gave up for Young are like made for his skillset

Yep. YAC kings. Brock Purdy is who he is in large part because of the best YAC duo in the NFL in CMC and Deebo. Little is one of the best YAC TEs too.

Bryce is the opposite of what Tepper and company thought. He's not a guy who lifts his weapons up. He's a guy who has to be carried by his weapons. That's fine if your QB was a late round draft pick but it's a huge blunder when you traded up to #1 overall for him.

[Bear Hands]

A multitude of bad decisions led to the self inflicted tear down of our post-Cam rebuild around CMC..we could easily be where the 49ers are now.

First off, we kept Rivera (& Hurney) too long 

Hired Rhule and gave him Belicheck level control. And he obviously had no idea how to utilize CMC and build around him and DJ. 

We had the parts…then hired people that didn’t know how to build with them. They made it an endless, frantic, needy QB search instead and countless reaches for RAS stars..not who worked best for the team with a distinct vision in mind. 

It’s been endless chaos all trying to force a QB rather than build a team.