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I thought it was good. While Whitworth and Sullivan are nearing the end and Noteboom and Allen are just coming in you need some continuity with the OL and that started with keeping Havenstein. It's a modest deal, especially in years 2-4, with the biggest cap # being in the first year (2019). And they can get out of it after 2020 if for some reason they want to.
My hope is they keep Saffold at LG through 2020 with an extension as well. Blythe is under contract for 2019 and then TBD. Draft another OL on day 2 next April to keep restocking the unit.
I concur, 93.
A quality RT, both young and affordable? Makes a ton of sense to me for ‘18 and at least near term beyond.
If a serious cap crunch occurs in ‘20, then we’ll just have to make some tough decisions.
But meanwhile, I’m loving the continuity on this OL for the young HC, QB, RB, and receivers. We’ve seen poor Ram OL’s in the recent past. Who wants to ever see those problems again?
RT’s aren’t sexy, but they help make the sexy parts of the O function efficiently.
ROTs are expendable no matter who they are because they are easily replaced. There's a reason for that. Every single NFL eligible college tackle can play ROT. A smaller percentage of them can play LOT. There's just more bodies.
AND no OL builds around ROT.
The guy to extend with that money NOW was Saffold. A line with Saffold extended plus anyone else good at ROT is a better line.
There's a reason why if you break down every single position in the starting 22 around the league, ROT is the single lowest paid on avg. A nd in fact as ROTs go, Hav's deal was not modest. He's the third highest paid ROT in the game now and the #1 is an understandable exception, since he (Lane Johnson) is really a left OT playing right OT until Jason Peters retires, so they had to overpay LJ for the position.
Plus maybe next year's new ROT might have been better at pass pro. Which isn't hard to do since Hav is pretty low ranked in pass pro.
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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/04/2019 07:18AM by zn.
