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You just repeated what I said, we are in agreement on the story lol You may want to delete this, the new sticky from Jumbo specifies not to talk about the looks of player’s wives, girlfriends, etc. FYI. Trying to keep things family friendly. I tried to keep my commentary about the Dax Milne/Zach Wilson purely academic for that reason lol

They need to not let this kid touch the field until his foot is 100%. 105% even. I don’t want to be going into next offseason saying “and don’t forget about Newton, we haven’t seen him in the NFL yet but that’s like having an extra 1st rounder added to the roster this year!)

Pretty cool look behind the scenes. Hope we eventually get some of this regarding our trade back with the Eagles. Things that seem clear from this: 1. Sinnott was our only guy at that pick we had to have 2. Damn the Jets loved Corley, and it was really tough for them to get anyone to move back to 72 from the mid-50’s. Shows how much value teams placed on that area of the draft, where we managed to get up to 53 from 78 due to our 40 —> 50 trade back. Makes that deal look even more slick from Peters, that was an extremely coveted tier of players.

In the context of an experienced and long-tenured scout, that would tend to make me think that he didn’t “love” anyone at QB at that time. I don’t think guys like him fall in love that easily before they have a chance to dig in, especially given how process-oriented we know he is.

He already told that part of the story lol, the rest of it is that he called his wife and told her what a stud Peters was

That’s awesome. That’s the 3-cone I wanted to see

Are you sure? This is the post that had me saying that:

NFL loves Jayden Daniels I’d assume from this clip that Kyle Shanahan or Sean McVay or Kevin O’Connell especially does lol

The OL isn’t good. The QB play has been bad here for most of 30 years, lots of the bad OL play has actually been 50% due to bad QB play. Including last year. The OL isn’t horrible.

A entire year of Jayden Daniels’ development has a tangible value to us imo. Potentially waiting until next offseason could slow down his development. Maybe it won’t! But the more comfortable he is, the more help he has, the earlier, the better imo. We need to get him to a skill, production, and leadership level—while he’s on his rookie contract—that allows us to compete in the playoffs. And do well enough there in the next 4-5 years that he’s worth paying top of market money to at the end of his rookie contract. So investing in (and even overpaying) weapons now to get him to that point where he can carry us later, when his weapons will necessarily take up less cap space as he eventually take up more of it—it’s hard to put a price on that imo. If he doesn’t develop into a monster QB, that’s bad for us. There’s a tangible value to juicing his development even if it costs us in the short term. The short term is when we can afford it anyways, though, looking at our roster and cap space. I wonder if the disconnect here is just how good some of us think Aiyuk is. He’s not JJ but he’s basically a top-10 WR in the league imo. There’s also a unique modifier here in Daniels’ close relationship with Aiyuk. That’s a fairly rare opportunity to support your franchise QB (who is known to be more of a lead by example guy than a rah rah guy) and get one of his guys in there to support him (and hopefully help him put up video game numbers). I wouldn’t overweight it in the calculus of the situation but it’s definitely worth mentioning.

On Aiyuk: I’d give SF a 2025 3rd and 2026 4th. Make the 2026 pick conditional on production and getting an extension done. I’d happily pay market value for him on an extension—for a 3 or 4 year deal, not longer. We have plenty of cap for the next few years and nobody to spend it on unless we go hog wild in FA next year after Daniels shows us what he is as a rookie. Very few people currently on the roster will deserve or earn that money in that window. Most of our promising players are either too old to be seriously paid again in that window or too young to be seriously paid in that window. We’re really in a spot right now to get Jayden some pieces to accelerate his development and act as force multipliers for the value of that #2 pick we just used. People balking at the idea of using that cap space on a vet right now aren’t really thinking it through all the way, imo. Other than Cosmi (who should be extended now btw) who is really on track to need that earmarked cap space in the next few years? Nobody we just drafted will be eligible for new money until going into their fourth season. The value I place on giving Daniels the best chance to develop on his rookie contract is immense. I’d also look into OT help, for those who think prioritizing WR is dumb. It’s not a zero sum game, necessarily.

Ah I see what you mean. I guess it becomes less interesting and compelling the further down the list of reaches you get from the top, right? The further down the list you get the less extreme the “reach”, and the more room for error and noise you introduce into the data. Since the entire point of the list is to look at whether the NFL is correct or not when they majorly “reach” compared to the Consensus Big Board. Now that you mention it, I’d also be interested in doubling the list and seeing the results (and also having the size of the reach next to each name, like if a guy was -85 vs the consensus board, or towards the bottom of the list if it was only -20 or something).