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00:00So we're going round by round, right?
00:02Starting with round one?
00:03Yes, sir.
00:03Okay.
00:04Well, round one, I mean, you've got a lot of high profile names here, obviously.
00:08Their first ever pick was Solomon Thomas.
00:11That same draft, they drafted Reuben Foster.
00:13You have a longtime starter in the NFL in Mike McGlinchey.
00:16You have a hit immediately in Nick Bosa.
00:19But since then, the results haven't been great either.
00:23Javon Kinlaw, the big miss in Trey Lance, and more recently, Ricky Pearsall and Mike
00:27Williams.
00:27Considering this is the first round, guys, and Dibs, I know you said we're going to,
00:32you know, the first round, you got to grade on a little bit of a curve here.
00:35I mean, I can't give them a very good grade.
00:37This feels like a D because you have so many high profile misses, including Trey Lance.
00:43Well, I tell you what, because of the fact, and I know there has to be some guesswork here
00:50with the recent picks, because the jury is still out on Mike Hill Williams.
00:55The jury is still out on Ricky Pearsall, although I am encouraged by what I saw from both of them
01:03in the samples that they have provided so far, especially Ricky Pearsall.
01:09Nick Bosa is, I mean, that's a clear hit.
01:13I sort of like the way that Dibs laid out the Brandon Iyuk situation earlier.
01:18The misses are there.
01:20The Trey Lance thing, to me, is the worst pick in the history of the organization.
01:24But a D still feels a little heavy-handed.
01:29I feel like C-.
01:30C-minus.
01:31Yeah, C-minus is fair.
01:32I look at the TBD guys, to be determined.
01:36I have Pearsall as a TBD+.
01:38I think he's trending toward the hit.
01:40I don't know about Mike Hill.
01:41The hits are McGlinchey, Bosa, and Iyuk, but the Trey Lance is such a debacle.
01:47And Reuben Foster, you had two firsts in that draft, and you blew them both.
01:51So I couldn't help but to really dock them for that.
01:54They get a D, Grandy.
01:55Yeah, Solomon Thomas, I mean, third overall pick.
01:58Imagine if they pick someone of Nick Bosa's standard with that number three overall pick.
02:03All right, up next is round number two.
02:06Their first ever second-round pick was Dante Pettis, hardly an NFL player,
02:11but they made up for it the next year with Debo Samuel, an amazing pick.
02:16And then you've had some mixed results since.
02:18Aaron Banks, a starter after sitting out for a year.
02:20You let him walk before last season.
02:23Drake Jackson, not a great pick.
02:25Drake also never really got healthy.
02:26And then more recently, Renardo Green and Alfred Collins.
02:29You have some good, specifically Debo.
02:31He's carrying a lot of the weight here.
02:33This is, I think, better than average.
02:35I gave him a C+, but nothing really that blows me away, aside from that one Debo Samuel pick.
02:40Yeah, they've only had six second-round picks in nine years.
02:43That's the curiosity.
02:45And the Dante Pettis one, I don't have as a whiff,
02:47because he did actually go on and play football elsewhere, just not here.
02:52Banks and Debo, the only hits.
02:53I gave him a flat C.
02:56I'm actually right there with you with a flat C.
02:58I'm not that much more impressed by the second round than I was the first,
03:03because the first round has bigger misses, but it also has bigger hits.
03:08Debo was a classic niner, and there's just a lot of middling in this with that second round.
03:14But those are second-round picks.
03:15Like, you should be able to come out with a little bit more out of that group than what they
03:20did, quite frankly.
03:21So, I have this barely better than round one.
03:25I give him a C.
03:26All right, on to round three.
03:27And if you have been upset by round one and round two, avert your eyes and ears,
03:32because round three is a graveyard, other than one name specifically.
03:36Which is a big one.
03:38It is a big one.
03:38It's one of the best linebackers, maybe the best linebacker in Niner history,
03:42and has been the best linebacker in the NFL for a number of years.
03:46That's, of course, Fred Warner.
03:47But some of the others in round three under Kyle Shanahan and John Lynch.
03:51C.J. Beathard, Jalen Hurd, who never played an NFL snap,
03:56Trey Sermon, Ambry Thomas, Ty Davis-Price, Danny Gray, yes, Jake Moody, Cam Latu as well.
04:04You did have, more recently, Dominic Pooney, who's a mainstay on your offensive line.
04:09Upton Stout had a good rookie year as well last year.
04:12Fred Warner carries a ton of this.
04:14But with so many guys that turned out to not even be NFL players, I give them a D.
04:19The third round has been really, really bad.
04:21Yeah, I actually don't see that one that way.
04:24I'm less offended by this, partially because I'm going to be less offended as we go,
04:29because they're not supposed to be as high.
04:32I'm always going to be more offended by the first round misses than I am the third round misses.
04:38And I'm going to give a lot of credit to those guys that you just kind of tucked in there
04:43at the end
04:43that I think are really big hits, and that's Dominic Pooney and Upton Stout.
04:48Upton Stout may prove to be the best pick that they had coming out of last year with the way
04:54that he improved.
04:56So, to me, Fred Warner carries a lot of weight.
04:59There are some other players in there that, you know, as you put it, not NFL players.
05:04Some of them just aren't here anymore, but they are NFL players.
05:08Even Jake freaking Moody, who shouldn't have been a third round pick, but he was,
05:14and he is still an NFL kicker at this hour.
05:17I'm going to look at that group and go C+.
05:19Yeah, that's fair, and I'm going to be higher than Grandy and also, not surprisingly, higher than Willard as well.
05:26And you highlighted the whiffs.
05:28They were four 15 third-round picks for the Niners in their nine-year history.
05:32And the thing about it is Upton Stout and Pooney, I think they're both going to be hits.
05:37Jair Brown, this is a make-or-break year.
05:40And Fred Warner is going to be a Hall of Famer.
05:42So that, to me, gives you bonus points.
05:44You didn't mention Tarverius Moore or Akella Witherspoon, who were both solid Niners while they were here.
05:50I gave them B-.
05:52Oh, wow.
05:52That's a very, very, Chanahan and Lynch are very happy to hear that, Dave.
05:58I'll put it that way.
05:59Fred brings it up, Granny, for me.
06:01Absolutely, he does.
06:02And he's a third-rounder.
06:03And, you know, I mentioned five or six other guys who actually have been hits.
06:07I also want to throw in one thing that happens in my mind, and I call this the Barry Zito
06:11complex,
06:12which is that you can look at a pick and go, that was a bad pick.
06:16But then you forget some of the little moments they had that really affected the Niners in a positive way,
06:24like Ambry Thomas, for that matter.
06:26Was he a great Niner?
06:27No.
06:27Did he have a huge play in a huge moment in the history of this organization?
06:32You're damn right he did.
06:33So I'm not going to pass that off as some horrible thing.
06:36And it's hard for me to look past Jalen Hurd, Ty Davis-Price, and Kam Latu, who never even really
06:43played for you.
06:43And Danny Gray, too.
06:44Throw in Danny Gray.
06:45Let me throw in one other piece to this.
06:47There's a difference between mis-evaluation and somebody whose health prevented them from playing.
06:53So the Jalen Hurd thing, for example, to me, is different than Kam Latu.
06:59Yeah, that's fair.
07:00That's for Kam Latu.
07:01I mean, they also both suffered from some injuries.
07:03But regardless, those were misses, but Fred Warner is an A++++ pick in the third round.
07:09Up next is round number four.
07:10Not a ton of picks here as well.
07:12In round number four, Dibs, the first one, Joe Williams, long-time punter Mitch Wischnowski,
07:19offensive lineman who walked away from the Niners this offseason, and Spencer Burford.
07:23More recently, Malik Mustafa.
07:25You have CJ West from last year, Jordan Watkins, plus Jacob Cowing.
07:30Isaac Garendo is in there as well.
07:33You get towards the middle part.
07:34It's hard to find consistent starters and quality players.
07:38So this is where the grading on a curve really factors in.
07:42But for Mustafa, for Burford, who honestly was pretty good last year and looking like I have a good feeling
07:49about CJ West going forward as well,
07:51I gave this group a C+.
07:53Not amazing, but definitely not bad at all in the fourth round.
07:55I thought C+, but I wound up going to a C because of the nine picks, I only have
08:00one as a surefire hit.
08:01This is a tough group because five of the nine fourth-round picks came in the last two years.
08:06So the jury's out on Mustafa.
08:09I think he's been good.
08:11Garendo and Cowing, it's make or break year.
08:13Watkins, I think, can be good.
08:15CJ West, I think, is going to pop as well.
08:17It's a really tough group to size up based on the youth on the list, and so I gave him
08:23a C.
08:24I'm going to do something that's never happened in the history of grades.
08:27I think I know where you're going.
08:29Fourth round gets an incomplete.
08:31An incomplete?
08:32Oh, come on.
08:33No, it doesn't.
08:34No, for what?
08:35No, there's no buck, buck, buck, buck, buck, buck.
08:37There is buck, buck, buck, buck.
08:39Burford is a hit.
08:40I heard it.
08:40Joe Williams is a miss.
08:42Wisnowski's a freaking punter.
08:44And pretty much everyone else, I can't grade him yet.
08:48I can't grade people in their first and second year.
08:51I can tell you that I'm excited.
08:52I'm excited at moments about Malik Mustafa, for example.
08:57I can tell you that right now I'm down on Isaac Garendo, but last year we were up on Isaac
09:04Garendo.
09:06There's too many players, as you just said.
09:09It was as if the fourth round didn't exist before 2023 or something like that.
09:14There's just, there's not enough information.
09:17This is an incomplete.
09:18That's a cop-out.
09:19I'm not a fan.
09:21Seriously, send them to the police.
09:22I'm not a fan of your Louisa Rice takes, so eat it.
09:25Fine.
09:26Up next is round five.
09:27If you're a Niner fan that is just shaking your head at all these poor grades through the first four
09:32rounds, this is where it turns around.
09:34Because round five features George Kittle.
09:37It features Dre Greenlaw.
09:39It features D'Amador Lenore.
09:40It features Talanoa Hufanga.
09:42It features Colton McKibbitts.
09:44Might not be your favorite offensive lineman of all time, but for a fifth round pick, that's pretty darn good.
09:48There's also a lot of, I don't know if you call them misses, because this is round five.
09:53This is where the miss rate is really, really high.
09:55And the fact that you got a superstar in George Kittle, a really good linebacker in Dre Greenlaw, and a
10:01couple of really good defensive backs in Lenore and Hufanga.
10:04This is an A+.
10:05You cannot expect more from the fifth round.
10:08I tell you what, this is an easy A, obviously.
10:12I mean, you're talking about multiple people who the 49ers have decided to make multi-multi-millionaires with contract extensions.
10:22Kittle, Lenore, they tried to do it with Greenlaw.
10:26He comes back.
10:27He definitely would have gotten it, by the way, if he doesn't blow out his Achilles.
10:32But what's also amazing is there is next to zero on the bust factor.
10:39I don't even know if a bust is doable in the fifth, but just about everyone they've picked in the
10:46fifth round has at least made an NFL career for themselves.
10:50That's incredible.
10:51So this is a clear A to me.
10:54Yeah, and of the guys you didn't mention, Grandy, like Luter and Beal and Jalen Moore, they were special teamers.
11:01And Jalen Moore was your swing tackle, and he played for four years.
11:03Got paid by the Chiefs.
11:05And Marquise Siegel is a guy who we're hoping will pop.
11:08I think he will.
11:09And your guy, Grandy, Jordan James, fifth rounder, next year will be a chance for him to flash.
11:15I don't do A-pluses, so this is just an A.
11:18Yeah, I gave him an A-plus, gutless that you guys can't give out A-pluses.
11:21Up next, round number six, similar to round five, if you just get a quality player out of this, then
11:30that is a hit plus, plus, plus.
11:32And in this group for the Niners, you have DJ Jones, no longer a Niner, but was good for the
11:37Niners,
11:37and lately has been good for the Broncos.
11:40In here as well, you have Dee Winters, who maybe wasn't as good as we all were hoping for last
11:46year,
11:46but he's an NFL linebacker.
11:49Charlie Warner was a long-time backup tight end for you.
11:51Elijah Mitchell kind of came out of nowhere and was a thousand-yard rusher.
11:55Kalia Davis, Nick Zakel, these aren't amazing players just in school,
11:59but these are all players who have started games for you, considering it's round six.
12:04That's more than a passing grade for me.
12:06I give the Niners, and they're drafting at round six, a B.
12:09Solid, and all those guys you named, like Winters and Zakel in school and Harris,
12:15they're special teams players, and they played for many years.
12:18If you can find football players in the sixth who will play for you, that's great value,
12:23and I'm glad you mentioned Elijah Mitchell, because he had a monster year,
12:27and then a couple of good years, and then he got hurt, and that was about it.
12:31They did have four guys who never played for him, Kingston, Castro Fields, Smith, and Peta T.
12:37Remember Peta Tuanamana Patapanapia?
12:40He never played.
12:41So because you did have five guys that were straight non-factors, I also gave him a B.
12:46Yeah, I go B-plus because, again, this is grading on a curve.
12:50This is the sixth round.
12:51These guys aren't really supposed to make teams, and so when a few of them don't,
12:56that's totally fine.
12:57I always felt through the years now that D.J. Jones is kind of the one who got away as
13:05far as the 49ers are concerned.
13:07When they ended up in their history in the last few years having trouble stopping the run like they did
13:13two seasons ago,
13:14for example, he's always the guy I think about.
13:17Just a phenomenal, phenomenal run stuffer,
13:21and as you guys pointed out, some players who have sort of popped when they get their chance from a
13:27school to a D. Winters.
13:29I'm not sure D. Winters is going to be on the 49ers this year.
13:32That's a conversation for another day, but good player, solid player, sixth round.
13:38When you get some players out of that, you get a B-plus.
13:42And then last but not least, it is round number seven.
13:45This is the ultimate you-know-what show.
13:48You never know what you're going to get in the seventh round.
13:50You just hope that you find somebody that can be a contributor one way or another.
13:54And the Niners have found multiple contributors from round seven,
13:58including, of course, Brock Purdy, who was Mr. Irrelevant,
14:01and they give him a massive contract.
14:02That by itself carries this grade up, but you also add in Jawan Jennings,
14:07who turned out to be a really good player in the NFL.
14:10Still a free agent, by the way, which is kind of crazy.
14:13And then also Tatum Bethune is a round seven pick as well.
14:17Some minor contributors in Ronnie Bell, Jalen Graham, back in the day, Richie James.
14:24You remember Adrian Colbert back in the first year of the Shanahan era?
14:28You got some dudes, specifically Brock Purdy and Jawan Jennings.
14:32And considering it's round seven, you can't do better than that.
14:35This is an A-plus for me.
14:36Well, it shows that you're gutless that you only gave them an A-plus,
14:40because this is my first ever A-plus-plus that is being handed out on Grandy's grave.
14:48The president of Pakistan.
14:49Listen, if you get a quarterback, a starting quarterback, an extended quarterback,
14:56someone you want to give over $50 million to in the seventh round,
15:02quite frankly, boys, we're going to stop the conversation right there.
15:06I don't even need to Jawan Jennings.
15:08I don't need to Tatum Bethune.
15:10The quarterback there in and of itself is partially what allowed the 49ers
15:17to go to a Super Bowl recently with him because of the fact they had someone
15:23quarterbacking in the Super Bowl who was making less than a million dollars.
15:27It may go down as one of the greatest draft picks of the last decade or two in the NFL
15:35when you really factor analytics into this.
15:38That by itself is an A-plus.
15:41Add in the others, it's an A-plus-plus.
15:43It's incredible how soft you guys are.
15:46And you're looking beyond Curtis Rourke, who didn't even get a snap last year,
15:50and Junior Bergen, seventh-round pick, you've never heard of him.
15:54And Ronnie Bell, a guy who cost you a game with a big mess-up.
16:00And Julian Taylor, who was no good.
16:02But let's be fair here.
16:03You found your franchise quarterback in the seventh,
16:06and you got Jawan Jennings in the seventh,
16:09a guy who came up with a great nickname, and he had a phenomenal run here.
16:13And go ahead and RIP Reston-Pittsburgh or wherever he ends up.
16:17I don't do this often, Granny.
16:18In fact, I never do it, and it sickens me to do this, but it's an A-plus.
16:22Wow.
16:24All right, so I don't think that this whole thing is complete
16:28until you then blend all of the rounds together to give the 49ers a grade.
16:37And?
16:38Honestly, top rounds really leave a lot to be desired.
16:42Bottom rounds are phenomenal.
16:44Minimum rounds are okay.
16:45But looking at the list, Randy, I've got 77 picks, and I listed, I believe, 34 hits out of 77.
16:54Not quite 50%, but that's pretty good.
16:56I give him a B-minus overall.
16:59Wow.
16:59Look at that.
17:00Yeah.
17:00Look at that.
17:00I didn't even look.
17:01I didn't show my grade to Tibbs.
17:03I'm just kind of looking at the board, thinking to myself, well, the 5, 6, and 7, I was A,
17:09B-plus, A-plus-plus.
17:12The 1, 2, and 3 was C-minus, C-C-plus.
17:15The 4th round was incomplete, so whatever, throw it out.
17:18Yeah.
17:19If I blend that all together mathematically, it falls right in line with about a B,
17:23but I'm going to give more credit or slant more importance to 1, 2, and 3,
17:29because those are your high-value picks.
17:30Yeah.
17:31So that knocks it down a little bit from a B to a B-minus.
17:33Yeah, I'm right with you.
17:35I'm closer to a C-minus.
17:37Of course you are.
17:37I think the whiffs from early in first round, second round, third round, that carries a lot of weight for
17:43me.
17:43I think the strategy for the Niners is trade all of your early picks
17:46and just pick in the 5th round over and over and over.
17:49That's all you should do.
17:50All right, so they're trading out tonight, according to you.
17:52Yeah, probably.
17:54Except for if they trade out, that means they're going to the 2nd round,
17:57and they're just trading out tomorrow.
17:59Okay.
18:01Just keep moving on back until you get to your comfort zone.
18:03We'll see if by 7 o'clock tomorrow night the Niners have made any picks yet.
18:07Hopefully not.
18:08Maybe wait until day 3.
18:10Great job, Grandy.
18:11Yep, good job.
18:12You too, guys.
18:13Yep.
18:13Research up the wazoo.
18:15Real, real good.
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