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Beasley: Albert Recovering Quickly From Major Knee Surgery
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Good glad the big guy is healing up quickly. I could never understand the whole "see I told ya he was injury prone" argument with Albert's injury. Getting dinged up and missing games is one thing but a bad luck rolled up knee that ends up getting shredded is completely different.
I would not count on him for next year or the next.
The cause of this injury doesn't change the fact that he is injury prone and that we should have addressed serious depth concerns knowing that. Same goes for Delmas, Finnegan, and Moreno.
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We have no choice. We should have a better backup but cannot back up the Brinks truck for another LT. There are too many other needs, Albert or bust at LT just have a better backup plan for RT if James needs to slide over due to injury.
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wow, that's a long time to rehab
Yeah but then after that he'll be in the clear lol.
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We had some depth at CB with Taylor and Davis, some at S with Wilson and Thomas. The OL was hard to figure. We had Garner who can play anywhere, and chose to keep Fox as a swing OT backup. Yet when Albert goes down, we move James and put in Thomas.
Sorry, I should have clarified with "good depth." Injury-prone CBs who had yet to show anything of value don't qualify. Wilson most certainly doesn't qualify. Garner is also injury-prone, and therefore, does not qualify. Fox was pretty much it and we didn't even use him. Oh, and Dallas Columbo Thomas.
So, yeah, no depth. An offseason failure.
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I thought Taylor would actually start, and was quality depth. Wilson played much better the year before and we could have brought Clemons back but, coaches chose not to. Garner was healthy most of the year, and we did not play him, same with Fox.
Benton is a VG OL coach. Hard to say if he thought he had the best available options or not. There was not a lot out there.
This has been my biggest frustration with this coaching staff and personnel department over the last two seasons. Why the hell are some of these guys on the roster? Why do you have a backup tackle that you refuse to play? Same thing at guard the previous year. They activated an undrafted rookie FA from the practice squad to START instead of players that were already on the active roster. Makes no sense.
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It is a puzzle. I can see keeping young guys to develop but, Garner and Fox are not. Why pay Garner a lot as a backup, and not use him? We have these guys on the roster but, sign a Colledge and McKinnie instead of using them. As you say, makes no sense.
Taylor did nothing prior to this season to show that he could be a starter any time soon. He was pure potential, which doesn't count for much. Given his health issues (which continued this year) and his poor play in the limited time he saw last year, it was crazy to think we were good with them backing up an injury prone CB who hadn't performed well in over 3 years prior to signing with us (played better with us, but still a shell of his former self). We needed some veteran depth back there.
As for Wilson, that guy has always been a liability back there and managed to up his game in that department this year. He needs to be gone. He's terrible. Flat out terrible. Clemons was great depth. Exactly what you look for. He knew the system, was healthy, and could be counted on in a pinch. So, of course they let him go and then failed to sign him when available after Delmas went down, predictably.
Nate Garner has always had injury issues. Now we get to add migraine issues to it, which had him out for several weeks before being put on IR. He's good in theory because he can move around, but clearly can't be counted on. Not playing Fox made zero sense. He was the only depth we had, and certainly not good, just better than Thomas (really not saying much).
Benton has nothing to do with the lack of depth, and there is always plenty of veteran options out there. Every year. Starters can be difficult to find, but that excuse doesn't fly with finding veteran depth. The fact is, when you bring in a bunch of veteran starters and ALL of them are known to have serious injury issues, you can't ignore depth and/or count on unproven young players who also have injury issues.
I honestly don't know how anybody can look back at this season and argue that we were good on depth with a straight face. Are you just playing devil's advocate?
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If it takes 2 years to rehab he should also get a Vaginoplasty while out that long