49ers Mac Jones Bombshell: Joel Klatt says Mac Jones was the original choice for SF.

[yopats]

"What I've been told they did fall in love w/ Mac Jones then they made the trade and then they sat back and realized why did we do that we could have got him at 12... So then they started doing more homework..."

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

This seems obvious now. They’re barely even denying it.

And it seems obvious that Jones and Lance were basically a tie, or a 1 vs 1A in their evaluation.

So they just wasted two first round picks. Lynch should be fired today.

 

[Zuma]

Should have gone with there first instinct. IMO Lance was a terrible pick as well.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

Should have gone with there first instinct. IMO Lance was a terrible pick as well.

Whatever you think of Lance, destroying your future to draft a guy who you didn’t realize you even wanted at the time of that massive franchise altering trade, is pretty damning.

 

[Ras-IR Dowling]

How do you make a deal like that which on the surface looked like strong conviction they had their guy at 3 and then change your mind?

 

[50-yard-line]

"What I've been told they did fall in love w/ Mac Jones then they made the trade and then they sat back and realized why did we do that we could have got him at 12... So then they started doing more homework..."

That is absolutely stunning. You trade that for one thing and talk yourself out of it?

OMG.

 

[amfootball]

That is awful. Someone should be fired for this.

 

[RobertWeathers]

"What I've been told they did fall in love w/ Mac Jones then they made the trade and then they sat back and realized why did we do that we could have got him at 12... So then they started doing more homework..."

Idiots

 

[Patsfan1958]

That sounds like something the Jets would do.

 

[Brotherblues]

Don't think we'll ever know the actual whole truth so I reserve judgment.

 

[BUSTAMOVE]

 

[TheRainMaker]

So they just wasted two first round picks. Lynch should be fired today.

Lynch doesn’t have final say. Shanahan does.

You guys still don’t realize he’s only GM by title?

 

[TheRainMaker]

That is awful. Someone should be fired for this.

Ownership should’ve forced Shanahan to sign Tom Brady, but Jed is a doofus.

Passing on Tom was a fireable offense.

 

[NormZauchin]

So, back in the day, the Niners passed on homeboy Tom Brady who really would have loved to play for them. Now, they change their minds on Mac Jones, who eventually falls to the Pats. Hope the outcome of this miscue resembles that of the first blunder.

 

[gobesmug]

It would explain why he looked so sad when the 49ers were on the clock.

He must have been told at some point he was their guy.

 

[VectorPrime]

To give up your entire draft of two years for the rawest prospect imaginable at QB FROM AN FCS school is absolutely nuts.

 

[Ochmed Jones]

To give up your entire draft of two years for the rawest prospect imaginable at QB FROM AN FCS school is absolutely nuts.

with trades like this, shanahan could have a legendary career with the Jets!

 

[VectorPrime]

Like, do any of these executives remember that Mahomes was really really good in college playing in a POWER 5 conference?! He had the stats and the measurements! But now everyone is looking at the Mountain West and now FCS for QBs who did worse against worse competition but because their film shows them looking like Mahomes teams are all in to try and capture that magic. It’s so goddamn dumb!

 

[jal]

In the end, if Trey Lance is a star nobody will care about how screwed up their process was. And if he isn’t, they are going down regardless. So it doesn’t really matter

 

[TheRainMaker]

Lynch doesn’t have final say. Shanahan does.

You guys still don’t realize he’s only GM by title?

@Ring 6

What don’t you agree with? Shanahan hired Lynch who reached out to Kyle for the GM job when he was rumored to get the HC job. Because of this, It’s known throughout the media Kyle and his Dad make the final call.