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(04-30-2023, 02:27 PM)Oasis5055 Wrote: Couldn’t agree more. Draft is a c at best for me because the glaring need was not addressed. Signing brown at left tackle is great but with an injured Williams and Collins overall for the line is is a wash.

Who is going to backup Kara’s Cappa if they go down? We saw sharping get man handled and burrow throwing in to the ground how many times. Ford and scharping are good against average. The result will be the same if they face the chiefs and forget about the eagles.

At the end of the day what stopped them from driving down 1 time and taking the Super Bowl 2 years ago or the championship game last year? I mean in both games the defense gave them the ball 4-5 times in the second half of each to go down and end it. Improving defense is great but not the weakness of this team

It was the weakness and fall off in talent between starters and backups on the offensive line and imo that weakness still exists. Drafting another 2 wide receivers for what appears to now me a modified run and shoot offensive philosophy doesn’t work if the quarterback is having to throw the ball into the ground 2 times every set of downs. More utilization of A blocking tight end would help take the pressure off the edges but that’s not part of the run and shoot philosophy I guess

So you have concerns about our OL depth and your solution is to throw draft picks at it in a bad OL class?  This was a bad OL class, especially at OT.  That's why they went out and got Orlando Brown and Ford in FA, re-signed Scharping, and haven't traded Jonah.  OL depth was addressed in FA so they didn't have to dip into this draft pool.

The reality is, NFL OL's are going to struggle when they have three starters missing.  Nobody has quality depth when you're rolling down to your 8th/9th guy off your bench.  Most good OL's have at least one backup caliber player in the starting lineup.  You're idea of depth really doesn't seem realistic.