04-03-2017, 09:10 AM
(03-31-2017, 01:35 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Nice post Crowe, to some of your points...
Whit was and still is my biggest problem with this Offseason but even then i could be wrong and he might start
to fall off this year with the Rams. If we paid him a similar deal to what they gave him and he did that here that
might of hurt us worse than where we are now.
Ogbuehi will improve and from what we are hearing he is working his ass off.
Andre i always thought would make a fine Guard, he is big, strong is a good run blocker and being that he has
always been a Tackle is a great pass blocking Guard. This could be a great move and an upgrade over Zeitler if
he can stay healthy. If not, i like Westerman a lot who was a great pass blocker in college. Pretty much the same
player as Zeitler but could get better in run blocking.
Adding a Center like Toth, Elflein, Orlovsky and we could be much better at OL. There will be growing pains tho.
Thanks Nate!
I agree with you on all of this. Yea we lost some good guys in Whit and Kevin, but father time will always win and maybe Whit plays at a top tier level again, but we've all seen it, a player is playing top of the line and then boom they fall off. Whit going on 36 is going to hit that wall and with what you said about him, it makes sense to let him walk for the 15mil that he got guaranteed.
Have you watched Ceds workout videos, he looks great, it looks like his knee is holding up and he looked like he was in good shape. It only bodes well for us and time will tell if he turns out to be elite, solid, average, or not, but we def need to give him a chance.
Andre has always been a good lineman, he's just had a few down years. I think bringing him back to a familiar offense and moving him to G is a great idea. For me guys like him and Bodine scream G and I felt they were playing out of position, plus with having Westerman I think that gives us some depth at G and Kevin was good, but not elite so he is replaceable.
If we can add one of the C's you mentioned than I think that helps more than folks realize. Not only will it help the G position, but it should help running backs as well.
