Hootowl9: We miss Farve but very pleased with Aaron Rogers to this point.
One of the darkest days in 49'er history... April 23rd, 2005.
Aaron Rodgers, a local boy playing for Cal, grew up in Chico, CA.. set records everywhere went, including an outstanding interception average of only 1.43%.. etc etc
Top 5 pick, almost guaranteed, everyone in NoCal loved him (except for the Stanford Cardinal, who lost the "Big Game" everytime he played) and everyone knew he was going to kick some serious NFL butt when he got the chance....
So, the 2005 NFL Draft, April 23rd (Black Saturday)... the San Francisco 49'ers with the first pick in the draft, make the call....
..... to Alex Smith.
Clank.
Next QB taken, pick number 24 goes to Green Bay and the rest, they say, is history... just like the 9'ers chances at that moment.
Alex Smith? I had thought that no one could ever flop as bad as Ryan Leaf, and then we got Smith....
There is a ray of sunshine though... as bad as a flop as Smith has been, we can always count on the Raiders to go one better.. I mean it could have been worse, we could have drafted JaMarcus Russell 2 years later.