OL Pressures After 2 weeks

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(09-21-2023, 12:35 PM)jj22 Wrote: They may have held out hope and wishfully thought, but during the game as things were going down folks call a spade a spade. If Price got beat no one was saying he wasn't beat. No one called Dax a bust year one in the game day thread because when he was in (the small amount of times he did play) he played well. Murphy is already dubbed one because in the gameday thread in real time, folks are seeing nothing out of him. 

Maybe you get blinded by the emotions of the gameday thread, but folks see with good vision real time when things break down (tackles missed, blocks missed, and who was at fault etc).

To be fair, Dax Hill never even saw more than 6 snaps in a NFL game until Week 8 last year. And only once more in the regular season last year, which was Week 14. Only 131 defensive snaps last year.

Murphy, due to injuries, is being thrust in (way) earlier than he should be.
Already at 32 defensive snaps.

Hill didn't reach 32 snaps until Week 8.

I'm not trying to excuse Murphy's performance, just trying to point out Hill might have also not looked as good in the first two games if he got more than the 8 total snaps he saw in the first two weeks of his NFL career. We might be putting too high expectations on late 1st rounders.

Tee Higgins was drafted 33rd overall, so he's essentially a late 1st rounder, and he only had 75 receiving yards in his first 3 games. Only 35 yards in his first 2 games. Some might say he was a disappointment after the first 2 games as well.