9 hours ago
(9 hours ago)Wyche Wrote: Is it though? What are Billy Price, Jake Fisher, Jackson Carman, and Cedric Ogbuehi up to these days?
Mims is looking the part, and Jonah was average. Otherwise, these draft picks on OL are bums. Straight bums. OBJr has played well, Karras has been good, Cappa just seems to have fallen off a cliff. You said it yourself, it's been a problem across multiple staffs. To me, that points SQUARELY to a "GM" problem. I'm not absolving the coaches totally, but you can only make so much chicken salad out of chicken shit.
I'll have to admit, Duke does have a knack for finding the bust when it comes to early OL picks. I still have a hard time thinking that all of these DL picks over the years were all bad luck. Since the days of Dunlap, Atkins, Peko and Johnson, there have been at least a couple of dozen players selected to play DL. Many of those picks, a lot of us were excited for. Not one single one has stuck, and developed into an All-Pro/Pro Bowl type of talent, in fact the only one to stick for any significant and impactful period of time is Sam Hubbard.
Volson is meh, but I like him, and he has far exceeded my expectations
-Frank Booth 1/9/23