Golden Nuggets: Does Crabtree Make This A "Great" Draft?

by James Brady on Apr 27, 2009 3:30 AM PDT in 49ers Links

Good morning! James here with your Nuggets for today. It occured to me that we more than likely will get a ton of new visitors tomorrow to see how the draft went and to all of you: welcome to the site, and I hope you end up registering and staying! That being said, holy links, Batman! I've got a little something for all of you, and that something is..a complete Nuggets article! Complete with me buying time and dragging on the intro to make it look even more complete! (See: the last sentence.) For real though, the draft is done with and I'm pretty excited, we had a good draft and we're being semi-agressive towards signing undrafted free agents... So here's some links, enjoy them while they last. Remember to check the comments for updates on more links throughout the day.

And so the draft is complete, and what better than to get Maiocco's take on it? (PressDemocrat.com)

Here's a nice pick-by-pick analysis for the draft, just click on a selection. (NFL.com)

ESPN provides analysis for just the NFC West. (ESPN.com)

They also take a look at what the NFC West didn't address. (ESPN.com)

Here's another recap, of the first day. (FoxSports.com)

And the guy from yesterday who doesn't know a thing about football's analysis. (CBSSports.com)

Meet our first round draft pick, WR Michael Crabtree. (SFGate.com)

McCloughan is very excited for what the team did on the second day. (SFGate.com)

What do you think? Is it a "bad" draft because we failed to address some needs? (SFGate.com)

Toughness is the theme in San Fran right now and the future. (SacBee.com)

I've got some grades of my own for our picks and our draft in general. Check it out. (NFLTouchdown.com)

Here's a transcript from the Crabtree press conference. (49ers.com)

Cris Carter says the 49ers have found a winner in Crabtree. (MercuryNews.com)

The 49ers signed some undrafted free agents, interesting picks in OT Alex Boone, RB Kory Sheets, and DE Pannel Egboh. (NinersNation.com)

And now some player videos in TE Bear Pascoe, QB Nate Davis, LB Scott McKillop and RB Kory Sheets. (NFL.com)

And yesterday's edition of Singletary's Notebook. (49ers.com)

To close (for now) here's conference calls with Nate Davis and Bear Pascoe. (49ers.com)

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Good post James. Lots of links abound the internet as interest blows up in the happenings of the Niners

Wow i must say the draft went by too fast. I was really excited for the weekend and i knew that the future of this organization will be determined by MIke Sing selecting his coaches along with, more importantly, his troops, his guys to usher in a new era of competitive smashmouth play. Thats why i had issues with the draft that im gonna address along with questions regarding what everyone else, THE NINER NATION, had to say.

1. The Niners definitely made a plus first round draft pick in #15 Michael Crabtree of TT. However, Mcloughan should not be entirely praised for this selection as much of the credit goes in fact to GMs like Pioli of KC and Del Rio of the Jags who passed up the talented WR,

2. And of course the directionless and Anne Frankly pathetic Raiders headed by the joke tandem of Al Davis and his puppet Cable. The raiders really were just looking to sign reach draft picks who ran fast 40 times and MORE IMPORTANTLY the stingy Al Davis would be able to negiotiate much much much, did i mention that?, lower contracts with. No doubt in my mind

3. I personally gave the draft a C grading. Why? The niners really failed to accomplish several important and pressing concerns. Every single fan who watched a niners game last year realized that the pass defense was ineffective and was lacking solid depth due to a string of injuries (see Spencer) and spotty and inconsistent play (Nate Clements was not given $80 million to get burned by that bum T.O./whats the reason Mark Roman hasnt had an interception in 2 years, but has started the last 32 games?). The niners can not draft safeties in the 7th round and think that their problems on D will change. Fitzgerald went off last year and honestly, i hate to say it, but with his ascension along with T.J. joining the seahawks the niners need to get serious fast. No real defensive help coming although the LSU picks have upside.

On a side note i think that Mcloughan is really really lazy and does not do his research at all. He got lucky Crabtree was there, damn even Matt Millen would have made that pick, (wait did i just jinx our future hall of famer?) He used both his 7th round picks on LSU players, got Coffee from BAMA, and no other really notable players besides the potential of Davis (dude needs to stop talking about his LD so much, the bay area media will chew him up if he doesnt learn to keep that on the DL if you catch my drift.) SEC homer anyways. Thats all i have to say. For the most part i enjoyed the draft, but i think the niners should strive to do better. All us fans can do is just sit back and watch the niners either botch or Bill Belechik their way to a future Super Bowl Ring

by OaktownBalla on Apr 27, 2009 6:47 AM PDT reply actions

P.S. People.

This thread is going to get ginormous, spectacular, elongated, discussed, argued over, chewed up, spit out and will be heated and great fun. All i ask is people learn to use the reply for posts and comments. Make to keep the critique intelligent and vibrant, (the least i can say for that 90 year old man across the Bay roosting atop his Mountain at Alameda County Coliseum. Man that sounds horrible)

FTR I also posted this in another comment, in order to make sure that proper etiquette is adhered to

by OaktownBalla on Apr 27, 2009 6:51 AM PDT up reply actions

As far as Mark Roman and a safety is concerned, that part is really a moot point considering, well, we’ve got a new coach. Singletary is here and I don’t see him settling for mediocrity much longer. Keep in mind, Dashon Goldson is now the projected starter and he has been no slouch at picking off the Niners’ QBs in practice day in and day out. Singletary wants winners, and before his contract was even finalized I’m pretty positive he knew Mark Roman was out the door/no longer a starter. As for the guy we drafted, Curtis Taylor, I don’t see him being very special, no, but again, Goldson has a ton of promise.

To talk about other secondary needs, I challenge you to look at this draft and the cornerbacks available. There was nigh on nobody worth taking at that position, the best CB available was projected as a FS, what does that tell you? The 49ers had a draft board, and the best CB they felt they should acquire were a couple of undrafted free agents, and doing some research I’m not seeing a ton of downside to those guys.

One last thing, is I’m not feeling the whole “lazy” comment. You don’t really know how or why he chose those guys from those schools, the 49ers have a team of guys and a draft board just like any other team and I’ve kept up with Niner scouts working hard throughout the season since, you know, I have to provide links daily. Now, do not mistake this for me thinking we had this amazingly perfect draft, I give it a hard grade because we have a winner in Crabtree and we have high upside with a lot of picks in a draft that was not that talented.

by James Brady on Apr 27, 2009 1:45 PM PDT up reply actions