Originally posted by Hoovtrain:
Then that speaks to poor drafting at the DB position if they don't fit any scheme. I may be wrong but neither of the 2 they just drafted are press corners either so not sure how that helps the overall CB cores ability to play press
I believe poor drafting is mostly a matter of poor luck (unless you're the Browns, in which case it seems either by design or divine malevolence). Like thoroughbreds, CBs and WRs are notoriously difficult to predict in terms of professional success (except for rare specimens like Calvin Johnson or Deion Sanders). The Niners corners all have good measurables and college production, but they range from quite good (Brock) to underachieving (Reaser). The only serious and obvious recent mistake the Niners made in the defensive backfield was not a CB, but a SS, Taylor Mays, who was drafted on Mike Singletary's insistence over Baalke's resistance. But other than Mays, even MadDog would be hard pressed to predict eactly how the various CBs' careers have progressed thus far.
If I have a problem with many of the players the Niners have drafted, it's that too many of them are quitters. This goes back to Glen Coffee and perhaps further, and extends through Anthony Davis and Chris Borland, most recently. But that may not be the result of bad drafting either, but bad luck. Or perhaps it's the prevailing zeitgeist of the San Francisco Bay Area that accounts for it. Just no way to tell.