(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.

Without posting a wall, the point was that there was a whole heckuva lot less risk in trading for (one of?) the final piece of a puzzle that you've seen do it at this level and gambling a top pick on a guy with very little established around him. They are similar, yet not identical scenarios.

It was a calculated risk. It paid off, yay for us. Same thing for the niners - it was a calculated risk, and it paid off. Do you think they were going to find a guy like CMC or ETN with any of those picks (or by combining them and moving around?) I don't. If they saw the window open, patience and development take a back seat to immediacy - get the guy you know who can come in, fit the system and take the offense to the next level.  It may bite you in the rear 3-4 years down the road, but if that was the final piece needed to hoist the Lombardi, why wouldn't you take that chance?

I think it's better to look at Najee Harris - same scenario - young QB, rebuilding team, is he making that team better? Not really. We got lucky that Etienne is who he is.

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