03-31-2017, 01:35 PM
(03-31-2017, 08:40 AM)Crowe Wrote: I agree! As long as we can remain relatively healthy with key players, I don't think it's a stretch that we do well this season. Not sure why so many people think we all of a sudden are a bottom 10 team when 5 out of the last 6 years we constantly were top 10. Yea we lost 2 solid offensive lineman, but c'mon Zeitler is replaceable, Whit will be harder to replace at least for this year, but it seems so many want to give up on Ced after 10 ***** games, it's ridiculous.
I look at it this way. We get several guys back from injuries. Hopefully we have Eifert, Green, and Gio for the whole season. We get to see Billings, Hardison, and WJ3 all come back to the defense which should boost the talent there. Lafell, Boyd, Core, and Erickson all have a season with Dalton and the playbook under their belt. We cut dead weight in Peko and Mauluaga, now hopefully we replace MJ and release Jones(doubtful, but hoping). We have to think that Boling will be a 100% this season and that the work that Ced is putting in will see him improve on the left side. Fisher will he improve the RT? Maybe, I think he will and bringing back Smith was a smart move, plus we have 11 picks so it's not like we can't upgrade the line a little with a new C and some depth at G/T. Last, but not least, we don't play a first place schedule.
Nice post Crowe, to some of your points...
Whit was and still is my biggest problem with this Offseason but even then i could be wrong and he might start
to fall off this year with the Rams. If we paid him a similar deal to what they gave him and he did that here that
might of hurt us worse than where we are now.
Ogbuehi will improve and from what we are hearing he is working his ass off.
Andre i always thought would make a fine Guard, he is big, strong is a good run blocker and being that he has
always been a Tackle is a great pass blocking Guard. This could be a great move and an upgrade over Zeitler if
he can stay healthy. If not, i like Westerman a lot who was a great pass blocker in college. Pretty much the same
player as Zeitler but could get better in run blocking.
Adding a Center like Toth, Elflein, Orlovsky and we could be much better at OL. There will be growing pains tho.
