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Originally posted by Rascal:
No way are we going to draft any more ACL disasters.
Now that Baalke has said we are going to run the ball, there is no excuse for him not to take Melvin Gordon in the 1st !!
Originally posted by All22:
No. If Tomsula and the FO is serious about playing smashmouth then Gurley makes more sense. Gordon isn't really a power back.
Originally posted by Pillbusta:
Originally posted by Rascal:
No way are we going to draft any more ACL disasters.
Now that Baalke has said we are going to run the ball, there is no excuse for him not to take Melvin Gordon in the 1st !!
Put him back there with Kap and run away with this bit**!
OK. So we saw NE gifted a win by SEA which is still the team to beat IMO. They won vs a worn down SEA secondary with a very patient very methodical offensive approach with a very heroic performance by a HOF QB Tom Brady and they still were very lucky to win that game. You just don't beat SEA by throwing the ball 50 times! What beats SEA usually is not turning the ball over and running the football and getting explosive plays. We won with Gore that way last year and KC won with Jamaal Charles that way DAL won with DeMarco Murray that way. You gotta run at them and hit on twenty plus yard plays. We need more explosive offensive weapons. Right now we have none aside from Kap VD when healthy and perhaps Hyde once he matures. A lot of ifs and uncertainty there and not enough to crack SEA offense IMO. The most explosive offensive first round talent is Melvin Gordon. This accounts for RBs and WRs. No one is more of a threat to hit on big plays multiple times per contest.Originally posted by Rascal:You forgot about combining that with the "run through the brick wall" power of Carlos Hyde too, brother sir (as borrowed from the all time cult movie "A Clockwork Orange"), LOL !!
Can you imagine the explosive power of that trio ?! That will knock the sh*t out of the Seattle Seahawks !!
Wow, I am literally salivating. Make it happen, Baalke (if not I am coming after you !!) !!!
Originally posted by SFL49ER:
Does Melvin Gordon's level of competition scare anybody? Im asking because i dont know. And you draft gurus know the balance of the playing field within his conference and his oline blocking for him. I just want peoples take on if he is clearly the best RB overall??
I see Gurley just my opinion as a better back with tougher comp. but thats just what i see on the surface
Originally posted by Pillbusta:
OK. So we saw NE gifted a win by SEA which is still the team to beat IMO. They won vs a worn down SEA secondary with a very patient very methodical offensive approach with a very heroic performance by a HOF QB Tom Brady and they still were very lucky to win that game. You just don't beat SEA by throwing the ball 50 times! What beats SEA usually is not turning the ball over and running the football and getting explosive plays. We won with Gore that way last year and KC won with Jamaal Charles that way DAL won with DeMarco Murray that way. You gotta run at them and hit on twenty plus yard plays. We need more explosive offensive weapons. Right now we have none aside from Kap VD when healthy and perhaps Hyde once he matures. A lot of ifs and uncertainty there and not enough to crack SEA offense IMO. The most explosive offensive first round talent is Melvin Gordon. This accounts for RBs and WRs. No one is more of a threat to hit on big plays multiple times per contest.
We are likely looking at a zone blocking system this year if I am reading things correctly with Foerster and with Kap like SEA Lynch and Wilson we can lead the NFL in rushing playing similarly with Hyde and Gordon back there with Kap. Imagine zone blocking with those guys! Like you said. I don't see why we should pass on this guy when we can likely move up for Sammie Coates in the second or another surefire big play deep threat WR.
I know we win in the trenches but unless there is a Big Cat Williams or a Reggie White at our pick we need to add explosive playmakers this draft. Fact is they come at a premium in FA and we will never go that route with Baalke so we must strike early this draft for those players and use FA to shore up the trenches more cost effectively. We simply can't afford Dez Bryant or DeMarco Murray but we can draft Melvin Gordon and Sammie Coates then have money to add good players on the OL and DL. Matter of fact we got good players there and a new scheme can help the OL. I think if we draft this guy then go to zone blocking and give him and Hyde the ball from the option we can kill teams with a guy like Coates and VD stretching the field.
Let's draft premium explosive offensive talent early at bargain pricing round one and two so we can lead the league in rushing like Baalke said. I am tires of all the mock drafts saying that Kevin White Amari Cooper and Devante Parker are gone and then at our pick we do a AJJ reach on a field stretching one trick pony WR or overdraft a DB when we've found gems in the later rounds and FA anyway traditionally. I say we do need big plays but we draft the best big play threat regardless of position and at the proper value. Our pick us where he is valued so we don't have to reach for that guy
I love Frank but we need to be the top rushing attack in the NFL and I am not sure he gets us there running the option or in a zone scheme but I am confident in Kap Hyde Gordon and Hunter in that scheme. Frank is proven in all systems but at his fee might we be better served keeping Cully and or Cox?
