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dzrams
I said it's hard to dispute your research.
I also see difference between an average player and a JAG.
Yeah the research is indisputable but then honestly, tell that to the people who are disputing it. Or are there just people you just never directly disagree with? (Personally I don't have that problem. I feel free to agree or disagree with anyone, sometimes both at once in different threads, regardless who they are. I don't like cliques.)
Point 2. It
is semantics. Now do you want to know what I meant? (I don't like to parse semantics). I will approach it as clarifying what I meant. I meant a viable, starting career LOT. Period. That can be someone solid or elite but solid will do. An average
player at LOT is no good which is why if teams are stuck with that they make an effort to improve the position.
An "average" LOT is a meaningless term because the AVERAGE TALENT LEVEL for the position is far higher than any other OL position. You can get by with decent, okay, average guards and the talent level of the position therefore varies more across the league and the "average" is lower. But if a guy sticks as a continuing starter at LOT, he is going to be a couple of tiers in talent and/or execution above the typical guard or the typical ROT. So an "average" guard is at a lower talent level than an "average" LOT.
What I of course mean is that you do not get by with an average player at LOT and as I said teams that end up stuck with that make every effort to improve the situation. So no I don't believe there's a "2nd tier" that is just basically average/competent at LOT. At LOT a player like that is considered a liability.
I think the REAL 2nd tier for LOTs is consistently solid players who can be counted on, and THOSE GUYS are just as hard to get ahold of and almost as expensive to keep as the elite guys are, frankly. Those are guys you also find in round 1 (though usually lower in the round) and rarely if ever find after round 2. There is not a string of decent, okay LOTs found in lower rounds...there are strings of guards and ROTs found in lower rounds. That's just what the odds dictate, in spite of rare exceptions (like Jason Peters was).
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/30/2021 12:36PM by zn.
