No other way to put it. This team’s immediate future is in the hands of one Trent Baalke. A guy who has pissed away a loaded roster, and backfilled it with dogshit. Sure, he doesn’t stand alone on the pile of garbage that has become the stink by the Bay. Young Sir Tweetsalot played his part in alienating the previous head coach, and then hiring a fall guy to take his place, further driving guys out. But still and all, the GM is in charge of getting the talent here. Through the draft, and through free agency. And the occasional trade.
We all are familiar with Baalke’s draft record. And we all saw the tremendous haul we got with our cap money. Zane (Meet the) Beadles, and a backup QB who’s name slips my mind. Oh yeah, Huey Lewis. The News isn’t good however.
Anyhow, based on how these last few drafts have gone, I have no idea what Trent has in store for us today in the 1st round. We are in desperate need of O line help, CB help, ILB help, and WR help. Funny thing is, I wrote this exact same fucking thing last year. Trent did NOTHING to address the needs of the team last year, and we paid for it dearly with a crappy line, an inconsistent defense, and a punter we wasted a 5th round draft pick on who turned out to be a vanilla-flavored turd.
Today? No clue. With us out of the QB sweepstakes, and no QBs of note on the horizon for next year’s draft, my hope is that we build up the O line. Namely an OT. Someone to bookend Joe Staley. Fortunately, it looks like we’ll be able to get Ronnie Stanley. The Staley/Stanley show. Laremy Tunsil, the top tackle in the draft, won’t get by Ozzie Newsome and the Ravens. Vernon Hargreaves is also on my radar as a CB who could very well slide right in to the line up.
Unfortunately, there’s an injured guy who looked to be a top pick until recent knee issues popped up. Yes, the undersized part-time RB and feisty ILB Myles Jack. Leave it to Baalke to draft a guy who’s undersized, hurt, and on a gimpy peg. We are thin at ILB, but still, I’ll give up the team if he drafts Jack . . .
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Anyhow, in case you live under a rock (hi, NoFear), and need the draft schedule, here it is:
Round 1, Thursday: 5 p.m. on ESPN and the NFL Network; and online at NFL.com/apps and Watch ESPN/Watch ESPN apps.ESPN Radio will carry Thursday and Friday rounds.
Rounds 2-3, Friday: 4 p.m. on ESPN and the NFL Network and online at NFL.com/apps and Watch ESPN/Watch ESPN apps. At 8 p.m., the coverage shifts to ESPN2. Each team has seven minutes in which to make its pick.
Rounds 4-7, Saturday: 9 a.m. on ESPN and the NFL Network and online at NFL.com and Watch ESPN/Watch ESPN apps. Each team has five minutes in which to submit their official pick; they’ll have four minutes in Round 7.
Forty Niners Forever 
Hope he’s better than Armstead.
He was better at Oregon. Amsted should show something more this year too and I like Brown already at RT.
First D line off the board. Can’t go wrong with that !!!
We need so much help I guess it’s as good a pick as an OL. I woulda been happy with either way.
Winder is happy? Damn the surprises full speed ahead!
I was afraid of a trade back, this way they got a rotational/starter DE this season.
Good pick! Start with the D to stop the scoring!
Baalke continues his fear of offense.
I’m not too happy.
Meh. Buckner comes with the same issues that Armstead did. Motor and consistency.
Think Tunsil falls to 39?
no way but I would trade up to get him in a nano second
The Bears likely get Hargreaves. Or D line
Floyd. DE/OLB
if ever a guy was going to be a success because of his name combined with where he worked it was a guy named “Eli Apple”
Kinda like us drafting Tom Holmoe. . .
Shit, there goes Tunsil.
I understand the logic and I approve, given how bad the Niners are now. Baalke is very obviously trying to copy the Harbaugh success. Then we tried to get a QB (Alex) then built a dynamite OL, then finally (way too late for that team) got a great coach.
He’s trying to build a great DL first, and hoping Kelly will prove to be a great NFL coach (he could be; he did wonders with a team Andy Reid failed with).
Of course that means, IF he’s successful), we have about 3-4 years of “reloading” yet to suffer through before we can contend. Maybe Reggie McKenzie (fantastic name btw, lol) won’t want to move to Vegas?
Defense…….good players to be had in this draft. Great value is out there! Rah, rah, rah!
No. Mark Davis would give both his nuts to move to Vegas.
Raiders take the hitter Karl Joseph.
As far as Baalke goes, fuck him. He needs to build a fucking O line. Gabbert, or Kappy, or fucking Paxton need time to throw. This team goes nowhere until they address the line.
Davis, yes. The Raiders can keep him
The Mayor of Oakland wants to keep her Raiders! She better start wining and dining Davis. I wonder if he ever gets drunk?
Karl Joseph? Watch out for the Raiders this year. They’ve improved that lousy defense – their glaring weakness – considerably through FA and now the draft. Aldon will be back in time for the stretch run and the playoffs. The Broncos QB is Mark Sanchez.
As I recall, I wrote towards the end of 2014 that they were two good drafts away from bottom of the barrel to contender. Last year’s was awesome. Their FA pickups this year look quite good. Reggie is on a serious roll.
Baalke is depending on Kelly to conjure up offense whole cloth out of nothing. We have a weak line with SOME pieces on offense. Torrey Smith, Carlos Hyde, a pissed off QB, a shitty QB, and a bunch of nothings at WR. We kept VMcD and let Carrier go.
RTF, the Raiders were in much worse shape than the Niners are. They were still getting out from under the cap hell that re-un-deal Al put them in. They had shiity contracts, dead money, and crappy players to wade through. They are in solid shape now.
All they need is a move to Vegas and a new stadium.
there is only 1 day a year that I kinda miss Denny a little bit. And today is that day…..
If we go defense tomorrow, it HAS to be a corner. Otherwise, we should trade up for fucking Cook tonight and then go lineman heavy and get some WRs.
Dennis went around the bend. In a big way.
Been asking for a high pick corner for 4 years.
I know I banned him 2 years ago. And he’s sent me weird ass emails since trying to get back to the Flap. I ignored them all.
He flamed me on FB. The emails were insane.
Speaking of the missing….Berger where for art thou?????