2008 Draft + San Francisco 49ers = Bad Times

It should be clear. What a horrofic situation the 49ers are in in this year's draft.  I can't put it in better words than " it sucks." 

Tampering? Are you kidding me? Doing a quick research called "googling" i looked up what exactly is "tampering" when it came to the NFL and oh how upset I became.  If you gave me a gram of sugar for every time this thing called "tampering" occurred in the NFL then I'd have enough to even rival the amount of sugar in a Rice Crispy Treat, a Krispy Kreme Doughnut, or a serving of Coldstone Ice Cream, the Gotta Love It size. 

And what could've been a top 10 pick, became a 29th pick overall is what the 49ers are sitting at. Oh what joy.

But I suppose we should try to be positive about the situation and make our mock drafts on who we think the 49ers will draft in at least the 1st-3rd rounds. I say what's the point?

Why? Well as you can see what we write around here are mostly based on personal opinions and analysis, so in my personal opinion and analysis, every pick after the 20th pick is complete crap in the 1st round. And possibly any pick in any other round. If we accept that the 49ers are still in the rebuilding process (and oh how bold you would be if you do) then you'd hope they can pick up someone to further impact the needs they need to fulfill. 

But who in the world would be available to do such a thing for the 49ers at the 29th overall pick?  It's usually the case that those who have these late round picks, don't have such crucial needs in many places up and down a roster. But unfortunately that is exactly the case for the San Francisco 49ers.

Okay so I'm ready for the blabber mouths and draft junkies to throw their Early Doucet, Kentwan Balmer, Quentin Groves at me. My counter to all this? Simply put, the best of these players may have potential but don't hold any promise in fulfilling the needs the 49ers have right away. If you're like me, you're tired of dealing with questionable rookies that need time to prove themselves. Though we did avoid this last year with Patrick Willis, but as for our beloved Manny Lawson, Joe Staley, Alex Smith, and even Vernon Davis, though they've played well (in more occasions than others) we're still waiting for them to be on highlight reels, be on the top of stat listings on your ESPN's and NFL.com's, and more importantly, winning the games for the 49ers. 

Before we move on, let me first saywhy in the world are analysts telling us to draft a Linebacker? Passrusher DE I understand, but OLB? Are we arleady giving up on Tully Banta-Cain? Brandon Moore? Manny Lawson? We do lack a pass rush, but only because the front 3 are complete garbage. Well not Bryant Young, but he was way past his prime and can't expect him to do everything. Unless the 49ers can somehow find a DE that will give the pass-rush the 49ers need drastically, drafting a defensive player at our #1 pick is futile.

Besides, the rest of our defense did a fine job, so no need to address it with a #1 pick. And another thing, we're not looking for a guy who can get 3 sacks a game (though it'd be nice), but anyone who can at least be something the other quarterback worries about before every down. That's all. 

What I'm overall trying to say is that our picks aren't picks that will make drastic improvements from the get go.But hey that'd be fine if we were an 11-5 team that won it's division, or a 10-6 team with a growing offense that managed to clinch a playoff berth and perhaps projected to take the conference next year or even a 9-7 team who almost made it but because of injuries we lost a few key games. No, we're none of these. We're a team on the verge of hiring yet another head coach, and (god forbid) set on doing the whole rebuilding process again.

What about the other picks we have you ask? Well how often have we seen, outside of Frank Gore, that the 49ers have benefited greatly from a late round pick in the last 5 seasons or so? What late round pick can you name that plays a crucial role on the 49ers that was drafted in the last 5 seasons, other than Frank Gore? The point is, later round picks are picks that coaches hope to develop into great players. But Nolan has no time to develop them. He needs the team to get better fast, and now.

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