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Fix the ******* oline!!!

I do believe Grier will try to fix the line.. you could tell by the presser he was done with Mcdaneils philosophy on it.
 
The oline doesn't have to be amazing, but you can't have multiple positions with sacks of s#it. The defense adjusts. If we can get at least one good guard and some depth, I believe Achane would go crazy on the ground again.
 
We have about 26 position players under contract that are significant and that includes Armstead, Chubb and Phillips.

Thats a lot of shopping with zero cap room
 
BennySwella said:
Truly convinced this is the only thing keeping us from being a playoff team
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I've said that for the last three offseasons.

Hate to break it too ya, but we now need more than just Oline. Window is closed, they missed it, shpulda done this before the 2023 season.
 
IMO, Miami will never have a good, strong, competent o-line while Grier is the GM, and especially not with McDaniel as the HC. The Eagles have shown us that the key to winning is to not only have a good, tough defense, but to also have a big, strong o-line and running game. However, McDaniel doesn't want a power anything; he loves finesse.

As for Grier, he became the GM right before Gase was hired. Gase inherited Philbin's o-line, and Philbin inherited Sparano's o-line. As I've pointed out many times, Sparano's o-line was decent against tough d-lines, but under Philbin and his fancy finesse blocking schemes, the same o-linemen became ineffective against those same d-lines. When Gase took over, they got lucky and made the playoffs as a Wild Card in his first season, although they were knocked right out in the first round (of course).

So, after that first season under Gase up to now, changes to the o-line were now completely on Grier, and over the years the line pretty much just got worse and worse. In fact, in the 2020 and 2021 drafts, Grier had a total of ten picks in the first two rounds plus the later picks, along with a ton of space under the cap, yet Miami ended the 2021 season with the worst o-line in the League... historically bad.

What did Grier do to fix this? He signed injury-prone LT Armstead but failed to make sure that the roster had a competent back-up LT for when Armstead misses games. He also kept the two worst OL of 2021 in Eichenberg and Jackson. While Jackson is no longer one of the worst OL, he is now an injury-prone JAG. OTOH, because Grier keeps signing injury-prone FAs, Eichenberg continues to start, even though he shouldn't even be on the roster. And if that isn't bad enough, when Williams got hurt, Grier had no back-up Center on the roster, so they used Eichenberg. :bobdole:

TLDR: With just one or two rare exceptions, every single OL move made by Grier has been bad, and McDaniel doesn't want a tough physical team, so Miami will never have a strong o-line under this current regime.
 
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