Originally posted by NYniner85:
Originally posted by flynhayn15:
If you are being honest, if I told you had to rank the likelihood of one of the following players, Skule, Mckivitz, Moore, Banks, Brunskill …….or Compton, to be graded at 89 by PFFat RT last year, how many players would you have placed above Compton?
My point is, we don't know how the players will play in game time situations, until we give them a chance. Sure, maybe the team caught lightning in a bottle and they wasted all of their good juju with the OLine gods last year, but I for one would rather have an honest assessment of our young depth and see if a player or two rises up and takes a big leap forward. I definitely would prefer that over signing an old vet past him prime, and being right back in the same predicament next year.
Compton had a score of 89 based off his run-blocking. His pass-pro was in the low 60s (brunskill had one of the worst PBLK scores in the league for a starter at like 48). I for one would love to have legit starters in place and help the young QB instead of keeping a backup QB on the books for $27M. Not sure why anyone would be disagreeing with this take
How is signing 24 yr old James Daniels to 3yrs $26M or Austin Corbett (at 26) for the same contract...fit signing an old vet past his prime? That's great value! The only "old vet past his prime" I see is SF signing 36 yr old Alex Mack with no plan past him and who thought about retiring this off season.
That's my point, we will be right back here next year if we sign the really inexpensive starters as "insurance policies" for our young guys not being ready and the only reason you think Daniels and Corbett are valuable is because their teams gave them game reps and they performed. Not to mention, Jimmy's contract did not prevent the team from signing 3 year deals to any young player that they thought had the chance to play out the entirety of their contract.
The reality is every team has an OLine problem because most are not ready for the NFL out of college, and the ones who are never make it to free agency until they are past their prime and the ones who are developed by their team and are made into solid starters usually get overpaid in FA.
Like I said, I think the team insulated itself by drafting and developing the guys they have where no matter how bad the guys we have play, they won't be terrible. The good thing about being in that position, is you have a good chance to see if any of those guys are ready to take the next step forward, and which are destined to be backups. With Mack retiring soon, I would say this is the best time to do it. It is not ideal to also be developing a QB at the same time, however, I would bet that no matter how bad the current guys on the team play combined with the draft class, they can't be worse than Cincy was the past 2 seasons.