I mean who starts basically all rookies on an OL and has any kind of success? That said, to me, all things considered, the OL looked like it could build on 2015 and improve. Of course they didn't but there drop off was curiously bad and unexpected.
Boras was obviously not the guy for the job. Not fair to blame him because he never should have been put in that position. I don't think it would be fair to judge any of the coaches including Boudreau under his leadership. For me, 2016 is the only chicken poo year for Boudreau. He's had little to work with and he has always, in general, made the best of what was usually a bad situation.
Robinson was a project and one of the reasons I didn't want to draft him was due to him being a 2 to 3 year project. That just seems insane to draft someone that raw. Now it seems clear the Boudreau couldn't get through to him. At the same time, Kromer and McVay seem to think he shows tremendous talent. So kind of hard to pin picking him in the draft on Boudreau. I mean the guy was so raw, it would have been difficult to project him fairly. And working a guy out and giving the OK to draft him is not necessarily pounding the table for the guy either. We knew Robinson could be the pick because the mantra was to draft HOF players. Robinson fit that description best to some extent because a lot of it was projection. Also probably not the first time a coach hasn't evaluated a player in the draft properly.
Tough to coach OL exclusively for 30 years and not have a pretty good read on what you are. 2016 was the aberration.
