Originally posted by GoreGoreGore:
Originally posted by LifelongNiner:
Originally posted by lamontb:
They gonna have to trade for a RT
No one is trading us a quality RT lol. You can get quality at other spots, but not tackle in season. There aren't 64 starting caliber tackles in the league. Nobody is going to trade one, without there being some major issue.
OL is also the hardest position to just jump right in and do well. You need that chemistry/practice time to gel. People need to get used to the fact that whoever's on this roster this year will be playing T for us.
That's a great point. I'll also add that week #1 is hell for the OL, Watt is a tough assignment, but murder in week #1. This will likely be a lingering issue throughout the season, but I'm hopeful that it won't be the acute issue that it was today.
At any rate, this team doesn't value the O-line in quite the same way that most folks do. They kinda remind me of that guy that buys a 100k car, dumps another 15k into engine, brake, and suspension mods then drives around on bald Walmart tires.
Grousing aside, I'll concede that it somehow works. Having learned from prior seasons, I'll shut up and just wait for the magic to happen again.
I hope.