03-11-2019, 07:16 PM
(03-11-2019, 07:04 PM)Luvnit2 Wrote: Are fans upset because they wanted a stud FA that will likely cost 4 or 5 years at 14 million a year? He is a NFL starting RT who is young who hopefully gets better with experience. Didn't the 49ers just give away a starting RT in 2018 (Brown NE) who improved a ton in one year. He improved so much the Raiders gave him a ton of money.
It is what it is, we have both starting tackles back from 2018 now.
If our fans were great talent evaluators, I would be concerned. But, look around, they are not.
I was actually thinking/hoping we'd take care of right tackle in the draft. There was no reason to sign Hart at this amount. You don't pay for some mysterious "potential" you haven't seen in 4 years. You pay for proven guys. Paying Hart sends the message that mediocrity gets rewarded, because that's how he's performed. In fact, mediocre is probably much too kind.
Why would we look at returning both our tackles as a good thing when they were both varying levels of bad? My goodness...I thought we over-tendered Hopkins as well. You'd think this line was amazing last year with how we've made Hopkins and Hart major priorities.
This isn't about talent evaluation. It doesn't take a football genius to see the results. Our line wasn't good in 2018.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
