Originally posted by Young2Rice:
Originally posted by Marvin49:
Originally posted by 8286niners:
Originally posted by verb1der:
Team Baalke vs Team Harbaugh.
Which side are YOU on?
Team Harbaugh. I hope Jed York realizes the biggest reason Seattle won the Superbowl and will continue to be a major pain for the Niners is because Seattle's GM, John Scheider, is WAY better than Ballke. Go look at the at his draft record and see how any late round picks he hit on that became stars/starters: Sherman, Chancellor, Malcolm Smith, Thurmond, etc. He traded for Lynch and Harvin and constructed very creative deals to get pass rushers Bennett and Avril. He was the one that sold P. Carroll on Russell Wilson. His 2010, 2011 and 2012 were all great or good drafts. Compare the track record to Baalke , his only good draft was 2011, and QB he wanted in that draft was Dalton, not Kap, he gave the final say to Harbaugh on that one. I believe the most important reason we are not Super Bowl champs is Ballke continue to miss WR prospects and more importantly he missed badly on 2013 second rounders T. Carrdine and Vance McDonald, he should stayed put at the top of second around and drafted Zach Ertz who already knows Harbaugh's offense from Stanford and have contributed right away instead being cute and move down. We end up with T. Carrdine who doesn't play all year and later in the second he drafts McDonald who many scouts said has suspect hands and is just not natural pass catcher. Imagine if Ballke draftedthe local guys Ertz and Kennan Allen from Cal instead of "the Tank" and McDonald. Our offense and red zone offense would be a lot better and we may well have won one of CAR or NO games with contributions from Ertz and Allen, the NFC Championship game would be at home, we would win and beat Denver. Even if the game is still at Seattle, Kap would have more legitmate options on offense and more good red zones options on the final say and we would also likely win.
Really Hope Jed realizes he can a definitely find a better GM than Ballke (with only one good draft) and it will be difficult for him to hire a coach as good as Harbaugh.
Also believe Ballke's ego is being under reported by the media, his feud with Harbaugh droves away from good players like Zach Ertz and he had to justify his selection of Vance McDonald he saying he plays in a complicated system in a radio interview. Clearly trying to blame Harbaugh to cover up his own mistake.
Is this a Seattle fan pretending to be a Niner fan?
"One good draft"? More like "One BAD draft".
2010: Davis, Iupati, and Bowman. 2011: Aldon, Kaep, Culliver, Hunter, Kilgore, and Miller. 2013: Reid, McDonald, and Patton. We will see on Tank and Lattimore but those guys were taken where they were BECAUSE they were injured.
I give the Seahawks credit because they've had some great years here...
...but lets not undersell Baalke.
I don't think Baalke is better but at the same time, Baalke has missed the boat badly on some players. AJ Jenkins was one of the worst draft picks in 49er history.
Cracks me up.....people jump all over the Jenkins pick as if it somehow overrides Davis, Iupati, Bowman, Aldon, Kaep, and Reid.
The good ones miss sometimes. Anyone remember Reggie McGrew? Bill Walsh traded UP to take him. Terrance Flagler?
[ Edited by Marvin49 on Feb 24, 2014 at 4:01 PM ]