[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]strungoutboy21 wrote:
Ehh, Nnamdi was overrated when he was on the Raiders. Dude was always getting schooled by Vincent Jackson. Didn’t really get to see him play much on the Eagles though.[/quote]
He’s primarily a man-to-man CB and in Philly he had to play primarily zone coverage. The Niners play mostly man-to-man with a lot of it asking the corners to play right up on the line of scrimmage. He’s going to be coming back to a team that will utilize his strengths instead of asking him to do something he isn’t suited for.
I think he might also get some looks in training camp at FS. He’s lost a step but he’s always had good instincts and the ability to make a play on the ball, so he might thrive at FS if he can learn the basics of the position. His lost speed won’t be nearly an issue back there and his instincts will serve him well when he has the whole field in front of him.
Regardless, he’s only making about 1.5 million so it’s not the like Niners have invested much in him. They can cut him in training camp and lose nothing if he looks like shit and I’m sure that after the draft there will be some very stiff competition in the secondary. The reason they got burned so much in the playoffs is due more to the lack of a pass rush with the injuries to Justin and Aldon Smith and the wearing down of McDonald and Sopoaga. It wasn’t a talent issue back there at all. The way their pass rush looked after the Smith boys got injured they would have been torched even if they had three Revis’ back there. [/quote]
Agree with all this, the FS part inparticular.
This can’t do anything but make the 9er’s better. [/quote]
I still want to see what they do with 13 draft picks? [/quote]
I think they’ll most likely move up in the first round while also looking to acquire more picks in the middle rounds or in next year’s draft.
The way they’ve approached things in free agency, they’ve added enough depth at positions of need where they can draft based purely on talent rather than need now.
What I mean is that they, while they still have needs (CB, S, DL, TE, WR), they can simply take the best player available who ALSO fits a need, rather than take the player that fits their biggest need and hope he is good. Do you follow me here? If their turn comes up and a safety and a DL that they like are both on the board still, they can simply take whoever is the better player regardless of what the bigger need is now. For that reason, I would not be shocked to see them take a guy like Ertz or Eifert or Tayvon Austin in the first round even though most would say they should be looking at defense early.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see them take Jesse Williams either, even though most don’t think it would be smart for them to use a high pick on a NT who will most likely come off the field for more than half the snaps. They can gamble that he can play T and DE in the 3-4 because if he doesn’t work out right away they still get a good NT and have insurance in the form of Glenn Dorsey.
I think what is most likely is that they move up in the first round to acquire a guy like Sheldon Richardson or maybe even Star Lotulelei or Dion Jordan (if QBs go early I could see them dropping a few spots into the middle of the first round) and then start taking the best athlete available with an eye toward the best players in the secondary available.
They’ve also been linked to Bell, the RB out of Michigan State, but I still think a much better fit for them would be Stepfan Taylor out of Stanford. He knows the system, Gore isn’t getting any younger and he’s a legit 3-down back. Mark my words. Whoever lands Taylor is going to get themselves a very nice back, especially considering he’s probably going to go in the 3rd round.
