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Albert & An Expansion Team OL?

Southbeach 2 said:
Assuming that Pouncey is going to be out for a while, we have Albert and what can easily be considered an expansion team's OL in their first or second year. I'm having a problem in seeing how we are going to be improved. Is anyone realistically seeing this differently, and why?
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I don't see it. At least not for a while. Our best hope is that a lot of the problems on the field last year stemmed from the locker room issues. One thing to note is that Brenner and McKinnie, a backup and a stop gap, ended up being better than Cogs and Martin in pass protection. So maybe there's something to that. I think Brenner did allow McKinnie to play wider I think than Cogs did for Martin, because he is more laterally quick than Incognito.

But either way, we must get the ball out very fast this year to help these guys IMO.
 
I'm not very confident in our OL, either. It's easy to say "this player is better than Jerry/Incog/Clabo". Last year, who wouldn't have said Clabo was better than whoever we had before? Just to name one guy. What we have right now is two good players, one of whom is injured, and a bunch of unknown quantities. Last year at this point we had one good player, three ok guys and one unknown quantity. It would have seemed we had it better last year, and yet we all know what happened.

Fans think we can't be any worse. Fans have little imagination. Few imagined what it would be like if Pouncey got injured. Few can fathom that Albert could get injured, too. So could our promising unknown quantities, for that matter. We have little in the way of starters and no depth.

That being said, I'm optimistic our unknown quantities will turn out well. Why not? No point in going crazy, let's watch how it goes.
 
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