John Lynch - 49ers GM

Parsons going that Deebo route of Podcasting...

Originally posted by DRCHOWDER:
Parsons going that Deebo route of Podcasting...

Honestly I would love if every draft prospect had to produce a podcast before the draft. Best way to evaluate someone is hearing their podcast.

You can easily pick up who's going to be a pain in the ass vs giving you a guy all in for football without stirring crap up.

They need to promote John Lynch and hire a GM to tell Kyle "NO we are not drafting a kicker in the third round"

There's a lot of pressure on John Lynch and his team this offseason. All of the whiffs in the drafts have finally caught up to them, and if you're evaluating this roster through an objective lens, it's not a stretch to say it's a year or two away from being one of the worst rosters in football. It's an extremely top heavy roster with players who are at or entering the latter stage of their career with little young starting talent and no depth on both sides of the ball.

There is, however, a bright side. It looks like they nailed the 2024 draft. Now, they need to do it again this offseason but in greater quantity. Anyone talking about trading for a Myles Garrett or Max Crosby is being ridiculously naive about the state of the roster. The 49ers need to rack up as many picks as possible, hit on as many picks as possible, and infuse the roster with young, cheap talent.

Originally posted by Heroism:
There's a lot of pressure on John Lynch and his team this offseason. All of the whiffs in the drafts have finally caught up to them, and if you're evaluating this roster from an objective lens, it's not a stretch to say it's a year or two away from being one of the worst rosters in football. It's an extremely top heavy roster with players who are at or entering the latter stage of their career with little young starting talent and no depth on both sides of the ball.

There is, however, a bright side. It looks like they nailed the 2024 draft. Now, they need to do it again this offseason but in greater quantity. Anyone talking about trading for a Myles Garrett or Max Crosby is being ridiculously naive about the state of the roster. The 49ers need to rack up as many picks as possible, hit on as many picks as possible, and infuse the roster with young, cheap talent.

I would much rather stay with the picks. Get younger, faster, more healthy, more durable, more years ahead of them. Trading away tons of picks for a 29 year old player who will be 30 soon is just a bad idea. 1 player can get injured, decline, take it easy after a big contract. We got in this mess by trading 3 first rounders for Trey Lance. Time to stop doing that and take a different approach. Build through the draft. They have to stop missing though.

Originally posted by dlance:
They need to promote John Lynch and hire a GM to tell Kyle "NO we are not drafting a kicker in the third round"

You say this as though Kyle liked drafting a kicker at all. He clearly saw it as a necessary evil when they didn't want to pay Gould a ton to return as a free agent. I highly doubt he wants to do that again. He'll gladly go the cheaper free agent / undrafted rookie route.

Originally posted by Heroism:
There's a lot of pressure on John Lynch and his team this offseason. All of the whiffs in the drafts have finally caught up to them, and if you're evaluating this roster through an objective lens, it's not a stretch to say it's a year or two away from being one of the worst rosters in football. It's an extremely top heavy roster with players who are at or entering the latter stage of their career with little young starting talent and no depth on both sides of the ball.

There is, however, a bright side. It looks like they nailed the 2024 draft. Now, they need to do it again this offseason but in greater quantity. Anyone talking about trading for a Myles Garrett or Max Crosby is being ridiculously naive about the state of the roster. The 49ers need to rack up as many picks as possible, hit on as many picks as possible, and infuse the roster with young, cheap talent.

lol

Originally posted by Heroism:
There's a lot of pressure on John Lynch and his team this offseason. All of the whiffs in the drafts have finally caught up to them, and if you're evaluating this roster through an objective lens, it's not a stretch to say it's a year or two away from being one of the worst rosters in football. It's an extremely top heavy roster with players who are at or entering the latter stage of their career with little young starting talent and no depth on both sides of the ball.

There is, however, a bright side. It looks like they nailed the 2024 draft. Now, they need to do it again this offseason but in greater quantity. Anyone talking about trading for a Myles Garrett or Max Crosby is being ridiculously naive about the state of the roster. The 49ers need to rack up as many picks as possible, hit on as many picks as possible, and infuse the roster with young, cheap talent.

Yeah I think and hope they may have found the right formula when it comes to the draft. Definitely some tough lessons learned since 2017 and I do think some of the bigger whiffs they've learned from but the Lance move and fail hit us so hard that it's been tough to rebound from it.

If last year's class is the start of the rebound it's definitely a great way to start and we'll need more of that type of success to stay ahead of the older guys leaving.

I think the formula for them may be
1. Stay away from injury risk, especially early in the draft
2. Proven over projects
3. Avoid tweeners or guys without a clear position early in the draft.

You'll always have misses. As amazing as the Eagles offseason was their biggest FA move was a healthy scratch for the SB. But we have to hit a lot of these picks and may be lucky that the draft strength lines up with our key needs.

Originally posted by captveg:

Originally posted by dlance:
They need to promote John Lynch and hire a GM to tell Kyle "NO we are not drafting a kicker in the third round"

You say this as though Kyle liked drafting a kicker at all. He clearly saw it as a necessary evil when they didn't want to pay Gould a ton to return as a free agent. I highly doubt he wants to do that again. He'll gladly go the cheaper free agent / undrafted rookie route.

The selection felt like they were too cocky in the roster when it happened. The so called "we don't have a lot of needs so we took a guaranteed starter" type of thing.

Tho honestly I felt a little better about the pick after the Pats took Ryland early 4th…I actually hated the Latu pick a lot more.

One thing Kyle and John need to improve on is trying to get a feel for everyone else's board. Too many times we've reached for players that virtually everyone is kind of shocked by going as early as we took them…and I don't recall the last time a player like that actually worked out for us.

Originally posted by captveg:

Originally posted by dlance:
They need to promote John Lynch and hire a GM to tell Kyle "NO we are not drafting a kicker in the third round"

You say this as though Kyle liked drafting a kicker at all. He clearly saw it as a necessary evil when they didn't want to pay Gould a ton to return as a free agent. I highly doubt he wants to do that again. He'll gladly go the cheaper free agent / undrafted rookie route.

Drafting a kicker in the 3rd wasn't remotely necessary it was stupid.

Originally posted by DRCHOWDER:

49ers 1st and 2nd-rounders since John, Kyle took over:
17: Solomon Thomas, Reuben Foster
18: Mike McGlinchey, Dante Pettis
19: Nick Bosa, Deebo Samuel
20: Javon Kinlaw, Brandon Aiyuk
21: Trey Lance, Aaron Banks
22: Drake Jackson
23:
24: Ricky Pearsall, Renardo Green
📷: Pickinem pic.twitter.com/TWDdpYnMFY

— Rob Lowder (@Rob_Lowder) February 16, 2025

* Eagles #2 overall at 90% of 1st and 2nd rounders starting for them. Some stars too.

* 49ers #29 overall at just 43% of 1st and 2nd rounders starting for them. I'm not surprised at all. Call me not shocked. Yikes.

Originally posted by genus49:

Originally posted by DRCHOWDER:
Parsons going that Deebo route of Podcasting...

Honestly I would love if every draft prospect had to produce a podcast before the draft. Best way to evaluate someone is hearing their podcast.

You can easily pick up who's going to be a pain in the ass vs giving you a guy all in for football without stirring crap up.

meh...the guy talks alot. Nothing but pro-Cowboys comments from him lately. No harm, no foul.

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

Originally posted by DRCHOWDER:

49ers 1st and 2nd-rounders since John, Kyle took over:
17: Solomon Thomas, Reuben Foster
18: Mike McGlinchey, Dante Pettis
19: Nick Bosa, Deebo Samuel
20: Javon Kinlaw, Brandon Aiyuk
21: Trey Lance, Aaron Banks
22: Drake Jackson
23:
24: Ricky Pearsall, Renardo Green
📷: Pickinem pic.twitter.com/TWDdpYnMFY

— Rob Lowder (@Rob_Lowder) February 16, 2025

* Eagles #2 overall at 90% of 1st and 2nd rounders starting for them. Some stars too.

* 49ers #29 overall at just 43% of 1st and 2nd rounders starting for them. I'm not surprised at all. Call me not shocked. Yikes.

Agreed, we need to be more like the Bears.

Originally posted by DRCHOWDER:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

Originally posted by DRCHOWDER:

49ers 1st and 2nd-rounders since John, Kyle took over:
17: Solomon Thomas, Reuben Foster
18: Mike McGlinchey, Dante Pettis
19: Nick Bosa, Deebo Samuel
20: Javon Kinlaw, Brandon Aiyuk
21: Trey Lance, Aaron Banks
22: Drake Jackson
23:
24: Ricky Pearsall, Renardo Green
📷: Pickinem pic.twitter.com/TWDdpYnMFY

— Rob Lowder (@Rob_Lowder) February 16, 2025

* Eagles #2 overall at 90% of 1st and 2nd rounders starting for them. Some stars too.

* 49ers #29 overall at just 43% of 1st and 2nd rounders starting for them. I'm not surprised at all. Call me not shocked. Yikes.

Agreed, we need to be more like the Bears.

Or the saints/colts lol.