01-01-2024, 09:42 PM
(01-01-2024, 09:27 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: The formula is to make our trenches stronger than theirs honestly. Hard to do as they are already more than solid. But a better OL
coach than Pollack a good new RT better than Jonah and a couple physical DT's and we aren't that far off as long as the coaches and
players learn from our failures this season.
It's very hard to do when your organization can't draft and develop talent in the trenches. Even mediocre success at those position groups would have this team sitting pretty right now. Instead, we have to generally rely on relatively expensive FAs to fill gaps when they become apparent. It's like pitching in baseball. If you can't draft and develop in house, you either go without or pay up big time. Teams that are good at it can maintain long term success even without insane spending in FA.
Almost every single guy we have that's worth a shit on the line came from another NFL team. Hubbard was really the only exception. I'd give you Jonah, too.
This can't continue. You'd figure the law of averages would drop a decent lineman in their lap every decode or so. Maybe Murphy can reverse this trend.
