(05-02-2024, 06:23 PM)Jags32250 Wrote:

(05-02-2024, 05:40 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote: He's been cluless about this for years. He has his way and he thinks everyone drafts the way he would lol.  He lives in a fantasy would where every team drafts for need instead of some  just taking the best player even if it's not a need.  He'll you could argue every position is a need for every team because if it's not this year it will be in a year or 2.  You're not just drafting for this year.

He was just interviewing and said the exact opposite.

You must have not read the part where I said they lie about reaching down their board

Most of them aren't going to admit that they do it - but they do. 
Here's an exercise to clearly prove my point:

• Pick your favorite GM 
  
• Pull up the teams draft history under that GM
  
• Look at their roster needs annually as reported by the local beat writers (it's all out there and easy to find)
  
• You'll find that 90% (or more!) of their 1-3 round picks filled one of those needs
  
• Do you really think the board fell perfectly for them that many times??
  
• It didn't - they reached down a few spots on their board to select a similarly graded player at a position of need instead of the top guy they didn't need 
  
• It's called finding value
  

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Secondly - to the other posters that keep citing Baalke's draft history with the niners:

That [BLEEP] doesn't matter at all for us
Baalke is drafting in direct collaboration with Pederson and his staff now 
It's not comparable to the situation he was in with SF

Personally - I think Baalke is good in free agency and decent in the draft. Not terrible. Decent. Like a lot of GMs. Because the draft is such a crap shoot by nature. 

When we've made poor choices in the draft in 2022 - 2023 - 2024 - I lay as much blame on Pederson as Baalke
And it has not been perfect
I blame them both for letting Trevor suffer last year with such a sub-par OL - it's by far my biggest gripe with the way we have rostered the team under this regime

I'm not over here trying to prop up Baalke - just trying to have a more objective stance on what he's done in collaboration with Doug

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