Well, the overhyped meat festival brought to you by the folks that bring you endless nonsense anyway, ended with raving lunatics just trying to get their yowling screams heard on television. Kinda weird watching the later rounds of the draft on ESPN while the drunken leftovers of the weird underclass of fans who come out to watch the thing in the first place were down below careening around empty tables and screamong maniacally. The talking heads on the floating platform paid them no mind, almost as much as they paid no mind to the selections being made.  What starts out as kind of an exciting idea pretty much loses steam by the end of round 2. Once the big names are gone, we have about 200 selections of huh? It was starting to look like Part II of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Anyhow, you can peruse the 49ers picks on the right side of the blog here. Most notable about the first 2 picks is the speed factor. Short of Kendall Hunter, the disappearing Kyle Williams, and Ted Ginn, there is very little speed at the skill positions. At least USABLE speed (Kyle can’t get open and Ted can’t catch). So the 49ers used their 1st pick on AJ Jenkins. A very fast WR who racked up 1,271 yards his senior year in college at Illinios. He has giant hands, is fast, and appears to run routes well. He looks to be a contributor from the get-go. The 2nd round pick turned out to be a guy that Jim Harbaugh is very familiar with in LaMichael James. He was a very prolific runner for UFO, and is the small, quick back that this team sort of has in Hunter, but he can return kicks and be all over the place using that speed. A couple pf very nice picks in my opinion. They give the team a much needed boost of speed at WR and RB that they didn’t previously have.

The rest of the picks. Huh? They got a couple O linemen, Slowey and Looney (sounds like a crappy comedy team), an ILB in Daruis Fleming, Safety Trenton Robinson, and a very interesting pick in Cam Johnson, a highly rated DE who’s stock fell dramatically, as he was thought to be a late 2 to mid 3 pick. He’s in the mold of a young VD. A training room hero who seems to have motivation issues. Baalke also gained 3 picks in next year’s draft, in rounds 3, 5, and 6. Pretty deft manuvering. He got what he wanted (speed and depth), and still turned it into additional picks for next year. Pretty soon the league will be singing this guy’s praises. After the Niners win the Super Bowl this season. Young Sir Alex? Well, I’m sure the nattering nabobs will say a trained monkey could have won it with this team.