Chase v Sewell

[Nicomo Cosca]

(04-25-2021, 02:39 PM)Whatever Wrote: It's do or die for Taylor and company this year, imo.  I can kind of give them a pass in year one, because frankly Tobin did them no favors.  I can kind of give them a pass for last year just due to the insane amount of injuries.  But excuses are like assholes.  Everybody has one.  Setbacks or not, you've gotta deliver at some point.  The win over the Titans was impressive and the MNF win over the Steelers was amazing, but a lot of other winnable games slipped through their grasp.  

I'm not into counting moral victories, but there's a lot of games last year that we probably win if we had an in his prime AJ instead of the shadow of his former self we got.  The 3 point loss to the Chargers in the opener.  5 and 3 point losses to the Browns.  The tie with the Eagles.  The 4 point loss to the Colts.  The two point loss to the Giants.  I mean, you look at the '18 season and we're 5-3 and in playoff contention.  AJ goes down and we go 1-7 the second half of the season.  I think it's overlooked just how much of a difference maker AJ was.

We do have too many holes to fill unless we get extremely lucky, snap up some post draft cuts, and some young guys step up.  That said, most playoff teams also have holes.  I personally think we have a much better chance of making the playoffs this year if we go with Chase simply because elite WR's can be such huge difference makers and he is more likely to be elite at his position as a rookie than Sewell.  If Sewell is the pick, I get it and will support him, too.  I think he will be an elite T in a few years.  Personally, with Joe on his rookie contract, I would like to be more aggressive in getting back to the playoffs.

Yep. That run seems to get forgotten about by a lot of people, but we were actually looking really good the first half of that season. Even beat Baltimore in a primetime game (AJ had 3 TD’s). AJ going down and missing the next 23 games was a huge part of why we bottomed out.