The Ja'Marr Chase Thread

[Nicomo Cosca]

(10-12-2021, 12:15 PM)Whatever Wrote: I caught flak when Pollack was rehired for saying something to the effect of "Oh great, the guy who slammed his fist on the table for Cordy Glenn and Billy Price."

Now Turner wasn't good (the inability to pick up stunts and delayed blitzes was especially maddening), but he didn't have a lot to work with, either.  Pollack has cleaned up most of the assignment errors as the season has gone on, to be fair, but he was never going to turn a bunch of scrubs into the early '90's Cowboys OL. 

I said at the beginning of the off-season that we had too many holes to fill in one off-season.  My philosophy was that we needed to fix the OL in FA with proven veterans and get Chase and build a dominant offense.  Reason being, if the offense was racking up a ton of points, Lou would be an easy scapegoat firing and buy Zac another year. I didn't want to risk Burrow's health behind a bunch of rookies.  This was met with cries of "We need defense!" and "You build the OL through the draft!". They fixed the D in FA, but didn't do enough to address the OL.  Now we are where we are.  We're winning games and have a realistic shot at the playoffs, but Burrow isn't as well protected as we would like.  If we had taken Sewell instead of Chase, we'd be losing games and Burrow would be getting even more beat up.

Good post overall, but just to be clear, Pollack didn’t want Price. Ragnow was definitely the target. Price was a panic pick.