09-28-2021, 05:44 PM
(09-28-2021, 03:55 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: Hindsight call; absolutely was not the wrong move at the time and doesn't even rank in the 10 worst moves.Letting go a HOF LT is a dumbmove. Especially when everyone new there was zero chance Cedric was going to replace him. Hell the dude was benched by Alexander the year before because he was so bad.
I did the chart/list in JN about a year ago; Whitworth is the ONLY *starting* OT (not even LT) to have played beyond 37, in the past 17 years. There is only one person close to him and that's Jason Peters, who started a rapid decline last year and has fallen of a cliff completely, this year (and get this; he's a year younger than Whitworth too).
On paper, the team made the 100% correct decision. In hindsight and 4 years later, it has proven to be 100% the wrong decision.
And Nicomo is right; losing Walsh was the single-worst thing this franchise ever did, with Cook ending his career being the worst thing to happen to this franchise period, self-inflicted or not.
