Re: I did, it was a bad idea
| January 04, 2019 10:08PM |
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How many years have we had these easily replaced RTs? I seem to remember it as a pretty major liability going back to the GSOT days.
Money for a young cog on this Oline is a good investment.
That came up below. Martz was bad at drafting. He inherited 2 (Miller and Tucker) and then lost both and the best he could do was Barron. In fact I would deepen the whole indictment of Martz's personnel acquisition skills by saying, you want to know how bad Martz was at that? He couldn't even find a right tackle.Meanwhile since Barron and Smith the Rams have had 3--Richardson (who had the best year in his career as a Ram), and Barksdale (who played pretty well till he left), and then Hav who replaced Barksdale when Barksdale held out. Anyway, as I said before, if you think this bunch is as bad at the draft as Martz was, then, yeah Hav is irreplaceable.
Teams don't build their OLs around the ROT for a reason. Plus, in my view, spending money for the more easily replaced right tackle position means you don't have the money somewhere else for a less easily replaced position (like a top guard, center, or left tackle). And anyway, going forward, it would help Goff if they had another tackle who was good at pass pro (not Hav's strength).
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You keep saying that Hav is not good at passpro, zn. Yet, every time I watch him he seems to be doing it very well.
Here’s a quote from the Da Silva piece above...
Havenstein played every single snap on offense and was fantastic in both pass protection and run blocking. The extension the Rams gave him this offseason looks like a brilliant move.
So, I’m not the only one that likes Hav’s pass blocking. Just saying...
