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Trent Baalke and knee injuries


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5 hours ago, N4L said:

You would also hope that when asked "in what ways did you fail in san francisco?" baalke wheezes out more than "it was that damned jim harbaugh" and instead wheezes "I took too many risks on injured players" (seriously, have you heard this guy talk? sounds like hes 110 year old man who smokes cigars everyday)

I will never forgive Baalke for the AJ Jenkins pick in 2012. We went to the NFCCG and we were one player away. He never had a single catch for us, and we lost the superbowl by 5 yards the following year. Literally anyone else could have put us over the top. 

We were a stacked roster on the cusp of potentially multiple superbowl rings. Patrick Willis in his prime. Navarro Bowman before that brutal knee injury. Justin Smith. Aldon Smith. Ray Mcdonald was fantastic 3/4 DE who finally put it all together. Ahmad Brooks finally got his head in the game and reached his potential. Hard hitting secondary. Frank Gore. Good OL. Good depth at a lot of spots. We had three losses three years in a row by the slimmest of margins. (ahmad bradshaw fumbled, crabtree was held, and kaep turned the ball over 3 times in the second half)

We were flush with draft picks. We had been accumulating future draft capital in the later rounds. So baalke decided to cash all of this in by drafting injury prone players that he could stash on IR for "next year". Would have been better off pulling a new orleans and trading up to go get quality players. Instead, he wasted his bullets.

Then it all came crumbling down in a house of cards once he got in a power struggle. Bad news all around on that front, but he was absolutely a big cause as to why all of that drama happened. He is not a people person and no one in the building got along with him, apparently. 

Keep in mind this list is just guys with ACL injuries. lol. He had a knack for choosing guys who had issues staying healthy. 

You would have thought you would have had the pick of the litter for GMs. Who wouldnt want a fresh slate with a lot of picks plus trevor freaking lawrence? and yet.... you hired trent baalke of all people. gross. 

Good luck to you guys. See ya in a couple months. Get ready for another butt whoopin like we gave ya in 2017. Hah!! 

With Urban getting hired and being new to the pro game it was always going to be a retread that could help manuever him through an off-season. He was never going to get someone who was also new, and every retread unfortunately has their issues as to why they were fired.

We'll see what happens. This is obviously his last shot and Urban definitely is the one in charge down here. So hopefully that helps with some of the issues you highlight above. 

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7 hours ago, N4L said:

You would also hope that when asked "in what ways did you fail in san francisco?" baalke wheezes out more than "it was that damned jim harbaugh" and instead wheezes "I took too many risks on injured players"

In the interviews he had when he got the job, he mentioned that he made a lot of mistakes himself and has grown as a person and an evaluator.

Our media team also put out a draft series, and in that, Baalke said that one of the most important traits they were looking for was availability.

To that end, it appears his answer would at least somewhat reflect that he understands that taking guys that need to recover for a year isn’t the best strategy right now.


Time will tell on the guys he took risks on and if they do end up being *available* for us. By all accounts, Little looked incredible in his workouts, and Cisco posted a workout he did draft week (his first full workout since the injury) that appeared as if he was going at least close to full tilt already. So at least in that way, these are different than many of those picks in SF who were intended to be injury redshirted as rookies with dreams of grand payoffs in sophomore seasons

But that doesn’t mean they are going to be successful; clearly Baalke has shown that injury risk is a blind spot for him, and especially Cisco has shown that he might have reason to pause, particularly given that many hard hitting Safeties end up with chronic injury issues. 

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