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Just giving a heads up. This old geezer may not be as sharp and as energetic as he once was, but he's still got something left. It just takes a bit longer for the oil to get up to the crank case these days. Anyways, I've been working (on and off) on a comprehensive post-draft poll the past week. I hope you guys and gals like it, and take it. Been putting a lot of thought into it. I realized after day one of the draft abd the reactions if some that it was best to wait awhile before I posted a new poll. While the majority were fine some peoples feelings were really raw, for good reason, and I was very mindful of that. I noticed that even a few of our very best posters/members were hurting bad The forum needed time, not some poll that might be interpreted by some as twisting a knife that was already stuck deep in their belly. I couldn't add to their pain. Anyways, it's been a week for things to sink in and I think we'll get less emotional/angry responses now, than we would have a week ago. Semper Veritas! Above all I seek the truth. My intention is to post the poll by Friday. Which means, if anybody has any suggestions, including possible questions or areas of concern please post them here and put @CommanderInTheRye along with it so I won't miss it. I hope this turns out well. Cheers!

I, personally, do regret passing on Beebe. That's going to bite us later.

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It would have been wrong to reach on OLs in the second round, but that wasn't the situation we faced. IMO Suamataia and Beebe were BPAs and value picks over Sainristil and Sinnott. And if you don't like them, three other tackles went in the second after our picks aside from Suamataia and you could have made a BPA case for each of them in the 50s. But personally, I had Suamataia as a huge value pick in the 50s, and if he and Dawand Jones were out starting OTs, with Cosmi, Biadasz, and Beebe in the interior, we're looking at such a different future for the offense. That's the OL I would have built with zero benefit of hindsight, and if I can figure that out from my couch, our FO should be able to blow that out of the water. If anything, I had Sainristil and Sinnott as mild reaches in the second, although I think I could have been too low on Sainristil and that he could be another Terry McLaurin. To my credit, I was the first one here to spot Sainristil and start gassing him up in the thread. I've always liked him, I just think the draftnik community got too high on him and didn't accurately bake his size limitations into his draft value. And we did reach on Coleman. At that pick, Beebe should have been a no brainer. And if you don't like Beebe, then Zinter, Amegadjie, Wallace, Adams, McCormick, Van Pran, and Haynes would have been better options too. TBH, I think Coleman was a fifth or sixth round caliber pick. I don't think his film is any good, and IMO both Braeden Daniels and Ricky Stromberg had better film than him.

RE: this draft class You cannot reach for the sake of reaching. That is how you get in trouble with classes. Where I think we semi flubbed the draft was passing on Dejean (and Kool-Aid) and trading Dejean to the Eagles. I do like that we netted Sinnott there. But I don’t like that we handed the Eagles a strong DB and an hell of a return man and as a DB consolation took an undersized slot DB (who I think is going to be pretty good, by the way. Just not something I viewed as a need/reason to give up a quality outside CB for) I really think the Chig UDFA signing DOES soften the blow a touch. And makes me like Sainristil’s selection more. Magee is a specs/developmental guy. I am meh on that but with new specs rules he may be a bigger addition than anticipated. I am completely unmoved by the Coleman and the DE pick (I should really attempt to remember his name). But that doesn’t mean they are bad picks. Luke is going to be interesting. I don’t have much of an opinion there, yet. I’ve said repeatedly that I see two for sure hits, one that if he hits is a superstar and a bunch of risky selections. Newton and Sinnott will be fine. Daniels is a superstar if healthy. The rest? We’ll see.

Chip's fears can easily be put to rest from his position by making sure the Constitution is followed, as he promised in his oath. If that is all any of them do, then we'll be fine. ~Bang

I was banned during the draft last year, I never gave a take on it in real time. I thought Forbes was a Jahan Dotson style reach of an early second round talent getting picked mid first, not as bad as Jamin was, but would have had several OL ahead of him even in that weak class, particularly Anton Harrison and Dawand Jones. I liked Quan Martin and Braeden Daniels, although I think he reached on Daniels by a round. I picked Daniels in the ES mock and got him in the fifth, at what I felt was fair value. I hated the Stromberg pick, and I would have picked Olu Oluwatimi over KJ Henry. On the whole, I felt like Ron at least tried to address the OL issues, the problem is he picked the wrong players. The even bigger problem I didn't see coming was the collapse of the defense and the quiet quitting of the entire organization. I don't feel like Peters actually tried to fix the OL at all. But I do feel like he brought in a vastly better and more motivated coaching staff, and probably did genuinely fix the defense. I really shouldn't be seeing parallels between this off-season and last off-season though, and I shouldn't be using Rivera's work as a bar for Peters to clear. Peters had this off-season absolutely teed up for him to hit a grandslam, and I think he crushed it with the defense and flubbed it with the offense. That's my perspective even when I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt on his QB selection. Of all the offensive coaches he hired and players he signed and drafted, the only two moves I really liked and would have done too if I were in charge were hiring Anthony Lynn and signing Biadasz. It feels to me like we basically had a defense heavy FA where we got a bunch of nice short term pieces, drafted two studs on D, and hired a bunch of great coaches for that side of the ball, but got swindled on almost all of the decisions we made on offense. I hope I'm dead wrong. I hope Peters isn't as green as he comes off to me. I hope Jayden is a superstar, Kingsbury isn't a con man mercenary, and that Coleman, McCaffrey, and Sinnott were all hidden value picks and not reaches. I'm not nearly as alarmed right now as I was during the first off-season of Ron's tenure, but I don't have the confidence in the work this regime has done that I was hoping for.

I'm not concerned about Coleman personally. I'm in awe someone that size can move as well as he does. My only issues are his hand usage needs to get better but it's not a liability and he struggles with inside moves, which is pretty common from what I can discern from doing this.

She def has lost any message she had. Right now all she can say it "I don't discuss meetings I had".... except she does exactly that in her book apparently, except maybe she's being honest now and everything in her book is a lie. And, BUY MY BOOK.

Come get your boy, Ix.

Since I have a gluten allergy I could not partake in all the options but... Escargot in garlic Duck breast with peaches and mixed vegetables Raspberry souffle with rhubarb compote (this is done somehow gluten free).

I was having the same thought a couple days ago. I can't recall the comments exactly but I think Charlie and Dave brought this up, or they were hinting at it.

Ditto with me. I am very high on the player. I am very concerned about injuries. Will see.

I'm concerned that Peters inherited the mindset of drafting OL for that offense, based on the work that he did on the OL here this off-season. Coleman in the early third feels like an Aaron Banks type reach, except that Aaron Banks was actually coming off an All American season. I also don't think Kliff is the schemer and play caller that Shanny Jr is, and even with a QB who is a super decisive player running a highly deceptive offense with the best collection of weapons in the league and an absolutely elite defense, SF hasn't been able to win it all. They keep getting to a point in the postseason where they run into a wall of getting dominated at the LoS. They've also had a lot of QB injuries. KC had a very momentary dip in their OL quality and got destroyed by the Bucs as a result. It cost them at least one SB ring. Then they went out and built the best IOL in the NFL and have been cruising ever since. We need to address our problem in a similar fashion. At this point, I am very concerned that Jayden is headed for a Bryce Young type rookie season.

Cavs are 100% getting swept as well.

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You were preaching on this thread that some of us were wrong weeks ago when some of us said we must take a tackle in the 2nd round -- and you explained how that's how Ron screwed up by drafting to need. And that whole point from you led into a longish BPA versus need conversation here. I agree with the spirit of your point though, LT is a big hole and it might still be a big hole. Seems like you got a beef overall with his draft if you feel that every pick was a reach aside from Newton. Correct me if I am wrong but it feels like you feel like I did about Ron's draft last year. As I digested what Ron did, I liked it less and less and ultimately trashed it but I wasn't there right away. Feels like that's how you are digesting this one? You liked Ron's draft last year in real time and his off season in general -- I recall debating you on it. Conversely, I've liked some drafts which i was dead wrong about especially the 2011 Shanny draft. As we know tough to know until it plays out. As far as the O line, as to Ron it wasn't just that he did so little to address it but he also dismantled it and blew off easy opportunities to fix it. And did odd things like taking Jamin over Darrisaw. Peters I doubt would take a will LB over a potential franchise LT. Peters actually DID try to trade up for a LT in the first round. It's on his radar. There weren't excitng options at LT in FA that he blew off. Considering they tried to trade up for one, it woudn't surprise me if the spot remains on the radar and they hope for a release like we did years ago with Moses and the Bears with Leno. But you can't fix Rome in a day. By the time you got to the mid 2nd round it wasn't screaming with high floor left tackles IMO. I am more than OK with Sainstrill. I regret not putting him on my guys list considering I was early on him. And then they took a guy who was on my guys list as to Sinnott. So of course I liked that. And if we are going to hit Peters for the O line in SF, the dude knows his way around TEs. So if am high on a TE and he's high on that same TE, am feeling good about it, but will see.

I think Donovan Smith is on speed dial IMO. Coleman is purely a developmental tackle IMO. Regarding SF, I can't really denigrate/applaud Peters on that because Kyle has very specific wants on OL. He only cares about athleticism. Trent has been the only elite OL the Shanahans have drafted in years. Trent could play anywhere in any system. Otherwise, they are perfectly fine playing the Tyler Polumbus's of the world. Shanny couldn't draft OL here either with the exception of Trent. Remember Adam Gettis & Josh LeReibus? I tend to think Shanny has full control on the OL he drafts. His record on that matter speaks for itself (and its not good at all).