Originally posted by Kolohe:
Originally posted by xcfan:
trent missed on tank; you can't argue otherwise. lost a whole season of play--when other teams got a whole season/or part of play from their high pick. paid a whole season of salary and got nothing in return. in order to accept this, you better think the guy will more than make up for the down time; but that is no given, in this case.
he better end up a good starter for several years, or this is a completely ill-advised pick.
First off, they knew Tank's injury, I'm pretty sure they did their research on him. For that you can't say Baalke missed at least when Tank hasn't even played a game yet.
I'm simply baffled by the lack of understanding regarding drafting injured players at a greatly reduced position on a bet that they will become valuable when needed...down the road!
Last year the team lost Dobbs and J Smith was playing with one arm. If this were the case currently Carradine might have been kept on the roster, but this year there are OLinemen injured so they needed another backup there. They may still lose some more players at any position so the roster is a necessary risk almost everywhere.
Tank hasn't progressed enough to pass Dobbs, Jerod-Eddy, Dial or a starter so he is expendable at this point. They've played and played well, so that's not a negative on Carradine. If he plays up to a high first round draft placement he had before the injury the team will look incredibly bright.
http://espn.go.com/blog/san-francisco-49ers/post/_/id/3331/future-still-bright-for-tank-carradine
Hell, they'll come on here and say how they knew it all along. Better yet, they'll come on and say that because of their specific criticisms those players upped their game to make sure that fans on the internet wouldn't bad mouth them.
