(11-06-2023, 10:32 AM)Mikey Wrote:

(11-05-2023, 06:45 PM)carp8dm Wrote: So an aging RB that has injury history is worthy of a 2nd, 3rd, 4th in 2023.  And another 4th in 2024.  49ers basically just threw away their entire 2023 draft for a running back...

But yeah, you're right.  Dude is different....

But drafting ETN in the late 1st round was a shanda!!!  A shanda, larry!!!

I mean, the cognitive dissonance some folks must feel every day could activate a Star Gate.

CMC was a known commodity. 

Exactly.  CMC was a known commodity.

He was a high end talent that has multiple seasons where he couldn't make it through an entire season and did not have the ability to carry an offense to the playoffs...  That's the commodity CMC was.  CMC was traded to SF in the middle of his 6th season....  LOL.  The 6th season.  SF didn't make it to the SB last year.  SF is on a 3 game slide now...  But CMC is "different", as in he's super special??  LOL.  He's worthy of giving up an entire draft class???  LOL

I read the rest of your reply.  You conceded the truth with your first sentence, so I focus on that..  Of course there are gambles and there are hopes that a player will develop or become better than their prior seasons have shown.  Of course there is a level of uncertainty.  But that was my point, that was not the point of others when they criticize the ETN draft selection.  Instead, to glorify CMC as a baller and a great pick, and question ETN as proof Baalke isn't a good GM.

To say that CMC was so special that you should waste an entire draft for him, and then complain about taking a RB in the late 1st round after drafting a franchise QB as a terrible move is the epitome of hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance.  

Comparing CMC's move to the 49ers and the ETN late 1st round pick is...  for lack of a better term, asinine.  ETN was a good pick.  CMC was a terrible trade.  But some here think otherwise.  And I just can't sit back and watch those guys think they know so much about football, when they can't even recognize how garbage the CMC v. ETN comparison is.

But that's just my opinion.

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