(04-30-2023, 10:23 AM)RicoTx Wrote:

(04-30-2023, 10:00 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: This draft, to me says:

This FO/staff does not value positions with draft capital the way I do

RB in the 3rd given our needs was unwise
As was the ILB pick that followed

Outside of those, I get it.
Would have much rather landed a nickel with that mid round capital.
I think it would help us more at the end of the day than either of those picks. 

Fingers crossed one or two of the late round flyers works out

About where I am.  Some of these flyers are going to have to stick.

I thinki they had grand plans of moving up with all of the extra picks and it came back to smack them in the face.

I agree.  My theory is that Baalke had a "points chart" based upon prior drafts.  However, every draft is different.  In this one, I think teams favored earlier picks and put less points on later picks.  As such, Baalke thought he was getting good value when he traded down and just assumed that his draft capital could easily be used later to trade up.  When later came, he then realized that other teams wouldn't accept offers that Baalke's points chart said were fair.  Teams expected more in return.  If Baalke was smart, he would have adjusted his points chart on the fly and reacted to the market in front of him.  He didn't.  He thought teams willing to trade down were asking too much, so he just sat on a ridiculous number of late picks.  This was a big mistake as this team desperately needed quality and not quantity.

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