01-10-2021, 06:10 PM
(01-10-2021, 03:18 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Nothing is "blatantly obvious" when a player is 36 years old. That is just stupid. There was only ONE offensive lineman 36 or older who started a single game in the entire league this year. As much as I like Whit there was no way you could say it was "obvious" that he would not decline rapidly at age 36.
Even if Whitworth had a heart attack on the field, had to get defibrillated on the 50 yard line, and decided to finish the game... he still would have been infinitely better than what we had seen from Ogbuehi.
I expected Whit to decline more than he has, but even then a guy who has declined from All-Pro level is still much better than the worst OL I had ever seen play.
Whit had to decline down from a 10, Ogbuehi was at a 1. There was a whole lot of declining that could happen before Whit stopped being the better option.
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