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Originally Posted by devo22
yeah I don't believe for a second that Jones is their guy, I bet it's all smoke. If you go off the board, take Lance, not Jones. Jones will be an Andy Dalton type of QB, you don't sell the farm to draft a guy like that.
I keep hearing/reading this but who is it they are setting a smoke screen for exactly?
I mean they are picking 3rd and the top 2 are already decided so im not sure what sort of maneuvering is being suggested...they will take who they take and everyone else will still be on the board.
Who is it they are faking out saying they are going Jones but go Fields or Lance instead?
The thing is no one on the 49ers is saying this. The media thinks there is no way they would take anything but the most NFL ready QB available at #3 because of what they gave up to get the pick, and because they have a roster built to win now. And media has decided Mac Jones is the most NFL ready QB at #3. But logic dictates you don't trade a ton of assets to take the lowest ceiling QB at #3 just because he might have the highest floor. At that point Jones is basically the rich man's Garoppolo. I still think they traded up to #3 for Fields because they think Atlanta will take him at #4.
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Maybe the smokescreen is so a rival team trades up to 4 thinking they'll get Fields. So that rival team spends assets and doesn't get Fields. Not a bad move.
I keep hearing/reading this but who is it they are setting a smoke screen for exactly?
I mean they are picking 3rd and the top 2 are already decided so im not sure what sort of maneuvering is being suggested...they will take who they take and everyone else will still be on the board.
Who is it they are faking out saying they are going Jones but go Fields or Lance instead?
it's a valid point. But then again, we don't know who has been driving the "Jones to SF" bus. I don't think the Niners have, because frankly, they have nothing to gain here. Other teams might have. If, for example, Atlanta wants to shop the 4th pick (and apparently they are interested in moving down), then spreading rumours that Fields might be available at 4 is not a bad play.
Mac Jones pro day, by pro day standards, wasn't very good. It's just hard to imagine you traded the farm for what looks like the healthy version of Garoppolo. Especially when you could have played draft night roulette and got him for free, or for $0.25 on the dollar of what you paid. You pay the price the 49ers paid to get someone you otherwise couldn't. Fields and Lance are those guys.
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Sure seems like the guy was living a bit of a double life and had a rather disgusting expectation of many of these women who certainly deserved better than that.
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A view of the Eagles dysfunction from within.
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“The fact that Doug had the success he did with all the #### going on in the building, sometimes I look at our Super Bowl rings, and I’m like, ‘Holy cow, I don’t know how we did it,'” one source said.
Over time, the Tuesday meetings wore on Pederson. Lurie has long considered the organization at the forefront of innovation, and the impression among Pederson’s supporters in the building was that Lurie’s weekly questions were largely based on postgame reports produced by the team’s analytics staff.
Sources say Pederson was beaten down by the constant second-guessing. “They treated him like a baby,” one said.
The blurriness of Halaby’s influence on the final decision-makers created rifts throughout the organization and contributed to the iciness between departments. One source described the analytics team as a “clandestine, Black Ops department that doesn’t answer to anybody except the owner,” even though Halaby officially reports to Roseman.
Shortly after Lurie bought the team from Norman Braman in 1994, Sports Illustrated’s Peter King wrote, “Hollywood producer Jeffrey Lurie is a member of that most rabid subspecies of NFL fanatic, the draftaholic. In recent years he has prepared for the league’s annual college draft by holing up in the media room above the garage of his Beverly Hills home and watching tapes of the Blue-Gray Game, the Japan Bowl, the Senior Bowl — Lurie would have them all — on his big-screen, surround-sound TV.”
That passion remains strong. According to multiple sources, Lurie devours tape of college prospects and is an “active participant” in the pre-draft process.
Those who have experienced that process acknowledge its murkiness. Often, there’s no explanation given when the team strays from an established draft board. Sometimes, as with J.J. Arcega-Whiteside’s selection in 2019, Lurie puts his thumb on the scale when the team was prepared to make another selection (in that case, Ohio State’s Parris Campbell).
“To think, three years later, the head coach, your starting quarterback who was 2017 MVP-caliber, the guy who won you the Super Bowl and damn near every coach who was on staff isn’t there, you have to think, ‘What happened?'” one source said.
According to multiple sources, the answer is that Roseman has made himself “essential” to Lurie. “This is a survivor,” said one source about Roseman. “This is someone who understands how to stay close with the most important person in the building.”
And now we get to have a few days of ludicrous HOF talk about Edelman. If there was a playoff only HOF he might get in, but if he gets in the actual HOF they might want to just shut it down.
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And now we get to have a few days of ludicrous HOF talk about Edelman. If there was a playoff only HOF he might get in, but if he gets in the actual HOF they might want to just shut it down.
He was a really good slot receiver but his numbers aren't remotely close to HOF worthy. I can't see him getting serious consideration.
And now we get to have a few days of ludicrous HOF talk about Edelman. If there was a playoff only HOF he might get in, but if he gets in the actual HOF they might want to just shut it down.
The only people who actually think he's HOF-worthy are delusional Pats fans.
