Originally posted by CorvaNinerFan:
Pretty sure Baalke will do some serious trading today & tomorrow. With the acquisition of Stevie Johnson, it really gives him even more flexibility now. As last night's draft showed, there were a number of players who came off the board sooner than most thought they would, and some a lot of us thought would be gone are still on the board. So, really, Baalke has a smorgasbord of potential picks...it ought to be very interesting to see how he manipulates the board.
WR's are great, but I think we've address that position for the upcoming year and into the future. It is quite possible this trade spells the end of Michael Crabtree's time with the red and gold. Not because of anything on the field, but rather the reality of a high-quality team needing to pay high-quality players and still be under the cap. Johnson's deal is extremely cap friendly from what I can remember.
In case everyone hasn't noticed, all the NFC West teams are loading up on physical players. Case in point:
Rams: Robinson (OT), Donald (DT)
Cardinals: Buchannon (SS)
Seahawks: Will be soon...
My point is that in this division you can never have enough big bodies; look what happened in the NFC Championship after Iupati went down (production tanked). That NFC Championship game was one of the most physical games I've seen in a LONG time.
[ Edited by bzborow1 on May 9, 2014 at 1:25 PM ]