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My point is that I am questioning your mindset. Do you always look at a situation where there is a stud OL on the board like Kalil or Lamp and watch your team pass on him and say, well I trust them?
Sometime you gotta look at the history of passing on stud OL and questioning your teams thought process. At least thats what Im doing now, finally.
Why would you associate one prior regime's history with the current regime?
And here's another perspective that I haven't heard anyone mention.
Is it possible that the OL solutions are already on the team?
Somewhere in the thread, someone referred to Fisher and his incompetency and how he tried to solve the problem by drafting a ton of OL in one year.
Just maybe it's possible that those seeds planted in 2015 are beginning to sprout now. It's well known that O'linemen take about three years to develop. It's not one of the more immediate dividend positions. (Actually expectations should be low for rookies at all positions judging by history.) Well, this is the third season and we may see some of those players emerge.
McVay said they would cross train and essentially that the answers are on the roster. Maybe he's right. I don't see evidence yet for why I need to look at his decisions with skepticism. Do you? If he didn't think some of the players on the roster would emerge then I'm sure he would have prioritized "stud" OL.
That's the other thing. This draft was said to lack "studs" at OL. Maybe in their evaluation, neither Snead or McVay saw Lamp or anyone else as a stud.
I've mentioned that argument more than once. These guys didn't want OL. They had chances and didn't want them. Meanwhile, along with Whitworth, Saffold, and Sullivan, they have Arkin, Brown, Donnal, Wichmann, Hav, Robinson, Murphy, and Williams.
And they had them in "camp" before the draft too. They had Kromer watching film on them. They have some idea of who they have.
No one can honestly or realistically say right now how that OL will develop. Anyone who claims to know, and things happen the way they predicted, down the line I am still going to say no, you could not possibly have known. You took a 50/50 shot and guessed right. But truth is you like everyone else had no idea.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/29/2017 01:01PM by zn.