03-17-2021, 06:38 PM
(03-17-2021, 06:26 PM)Joelist Wrote: When we whiff on these OL picks so many times and whiff on OL free agents also a lot, you have to start looking at......wait for it......the front office and HOW they evaluate talent. The process is clearly broken. With all the OL picks in recent years the only picks you can say we hit on are Jonah (may have been hurt but was good when in there) and Hopkins. We traded back in the first to get a headcase LT; ignoring the warning signs. And so on.
I think part of it is lack of scouts and another part is people without football knowledge (Mikey and the relatives) inserting themselves into the decision process. There also seems to be incoherence in the coaches on this stuff as evidenced by the constant flip flopping between blocking schemes - they pick a scheme but don't go out and get the right players to use the scheme or alternately pick schemes that fit the players. We've seen both.
Scouting college players is not an exact science and even the best teams pick flops from time to time. But we have been on an epic string of bad picks. I think it is a combination of poor scouting and then poor coaching when we get them here.
Jonah has not looked that impressive, but you can't blame our scouts because EVERYONE had him as the highest rated O-lineman in the draft. Maybe that is on the coaching.
Price may have been drafted a little too high, but even if he was a second round pick he should have been A LOT better than what he has shown so far. Again, maybe that is on the coaches.
Ogbuehi was just a flop. He has been on other NFL teams so the problem was not our coaches.
Fisher might have been our "bad luck' pick because of his health problems.
Cordy Glenn was not that bad when he was on the field, but he was a head case.
