(11-06-2023, 03:07 PM)carp8dm Wrote:

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

I don't think you can find anyone saying that. Saying CMC is tough to stop doesn't mean he would trade those picks for him. CMC was tough to stop the last time we played him in 2019 with the Panthers too because he's a great player. In 2019 CMC had 2,392 yards from scrimmage and 19 totals TDs. I thought he should've won the MVP, but Lamar had a year too and most importantly, it likely hurt him that the Panthers won five games on the MVP caliber stats of that season. To your point, spending those picks and adding him to the SF team took a 10 win NFCC loser and made them a 13 win NFCC loser on that freak in game decimation of the 9ers QB against Philly. Which in turn goes to my overarching point that a great running back doesn't make bad teams good but does help good teams become great. A final piece, not a foundation piece.

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