08-14-2017, 07:45 PM
(08-14-2017, 07:37 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: For a team with such a rich history of drafting Tackles and CBs, this latest bunch hasn't really blown the world away. Ogbuehi, Fisher, Kirkpatrick, Dennard, Jackson. None of which produced much of anything their first couple years on the team. However, I will say that Jackson looks promising to be a major contributor in year two.
All of them have one big thing in common. They didn't play much if at all right away.
You don't learn football sitting on a bench. You need reps. Fisher is showing improvements as he gets reps and is beginning to time things better.
Is he perfect? No. But the base is there and the rest is catching up.
I think they have gotten enamored with a type on the OL and are really just missing the forest through the trees. This is a side effect of having coaches also do scouting, IMO. They look and like different things. So I see why coaches like big athletic OL with technique problems because you think you can coach that up. But you miss certain things along the way too.
