win now IMO is signing a guy like Sanders and using a draft pick to move up in from 87 to get 2 great players to be cornerstones.

we built the team through the first four days of FA last year....

but now it's overrated?

Cooper, McGrath, and Parker were complete nobodies. It's not like these guys were known to be extremely talented, proven veterans who just couldn't make a roster. If he makes smart moves there, he can make smart moves again.

Geoff Schwartz and Akeem Jordan were < 1 million dollar players who were solid stopgaps. Anthony Sherman was a complete nobody who was traded for and became a borderline pro bowler. Abdullah, Watkins, and Rishaw Johnson were solid pickups.

That is 6 good players, and 3 backups that were brought in and they combined costed us less than $4M. That's one hell of an offseason scrap haul and most of them had nothing to do with waiver priority. That right there shows that we absolutely can repeat a good offseason picking from the scrap haul.

I asked Marty from SOC on Twitter about Sanders chances of signing

@1_ChiefsKingdom: @dthomashof Pretty good. Andy wants him.

I asked him his guess on the mystery lineman

@1_ChiefsKingdom: @dthomashof i think it's Penn from TB. Not 100%

Holy crap if we can get Penn and he shows up in shape.

Penn wasnt even released when Mitch made his comment, iirc.

That's what I was thinking. But he could've had an idea....plus he's on his way to OAK IIRC

It moved.

We got McGrath, Cooper, and Parker because of the waiver priority.

and to help prove my argument, from Cooper's AGENT himself:

You can call Marcus Cooper a complete nobody, but the fact is a good team like the 49ers thought they could pull a fast one, keeping a veteran on the team I'm sure they regret doing, because he retired in the middle of the year (hindsight 20/20). Baalke thought he was the smartest guy in the room and sometimes he is. But do you see the most important footnote of that quote? the part where FIVE TEAMS DID THEIR JOB AND PUT IN A WAIVER CLAIM FOR MARCUS COOPER? Or do you miss that part? because that proves we benefited from being FIRST.

And that's my point, if we are waiver claim #23 on the list, we don't get a Marcus Cooper. It becomes a lot harder to get guys like that when you are farther down the list. It's makes your "let's do the 2013 scrap haul model every year" very hard for consistent sustainability.

Is there even a corner in this draft like that? Gilbert and Dennard look nice but I don't see either falling to us.

Cooper is going to be a player. The 49ers would probably take a mulligan on releasing him if they could.

251 teams in 2013 passed on Marcus Cooper in the draft
The entire NFL passed on Sean McGrath in 2012
Ron Parker was cut 5 times

We are not talking about veteran free agents who were surefire starters. We are talking about unproven guys who were not good enough to make a roster, and who were not good enough to warrant even a bad draft pick.

The fact that you say Dorsey merely "did his job" as if it's easy to pull roster cut guys and turn them into starters is an unbelievable underestimation of what he did. It's great scouting. And you still have not addressed the fact that Jordan, Schwartz, Abdullah, Sherman (via trade), and potentially Watkins and/or Rishaw Johnson also ended up being very solid scrap heap pickups. I'm guessing these guys were brought in because of waiver priority.

Watkins - 5th round pick
Sherman - 5th round pick (Who was a special teams captain in Arizona, but you make him seem like he was some scrub there, no he was the same ****ing FB that was on the Chiefs. Benefits from the WCO whereas Arians doesn't use a FB)
Akeem Jordan - Andy Reid, the end
Adbullah - established player who took a year off that they jumped at first. This is just about them doing their job, correctly and being very organized to the fact that they could get a good young player cheap coming off a religious sabbatical, you make it seem like this dude was a scrub on the Vikings.
Schwartz - in case you were living under a rock, Fat Scott also wanted Geoff Schwartz the year prior when he signed with Minnesota, but Fat Scott being Fat Scott didn't get him. Andy Reid being Andy Reid, gets his guy.

as for the rest, it was John Dorsey being a GM and watching the numbers game from Seattle. Whoever Seattle cut he wanted, because he knew that talent was going to leave that team simply by roster bubbles, because they are the DEEPEST ****ING TEAM IN THE NFL THAT WON THE GOD DAMN ****ING SUPER BOWL. THAT EVERYONE WANTS TO COPY. That players 54-61 on Seattle were better than players 46-53 on the Chiefs. No shit they were. Does it take a rocket scientist to figure that one out? No it takes a GM other than Fat Scott to figure it out.

We won't be there first to reap the benefits of Seattle's cuts every year, is my point. You seem to think we will, so let's see who ends up right this year.


It's like you were so invested in Scott Pioli being awful that you think a normal GM doing an actual GM's job is some sort of god send. I understand why you would think that, but this is what normal GMs and coaches do. (hint: which is why there isn't many of them in the NFL.). These guys aren't scrubs in the sense of that they are complete nobodies, most them were scouted ten times over and drafted. Some of them victim of the numbers game by a team much better than the Chiefs. How dare Dorsey take advantage of that.

But you think this is some sustained model. That we can hold out the tip can and wait for whatever the 49ers and Seattle cut every year and reap the benefits. I'm telling you that it is harder than it looks.

Keith McGill, Utah

I wish I had a dime for every time Sac pimped some slapdick from Utah (I don't know anything about this guy, just saying)