Well we have no good guards and health questions at LT and C ... so there are a lot of options!
Normally, I would say Albert's health. He is our best lineman and was playing very well, but his age and missed games every season from injury are very concerning. If we do make the playoffs, we can be fairly certain he will miss them because of injury. That is a problem for me.
I'm not as worried about Pouncey's abysmal performance at RG last season because I recognize that he was injured and missed all of the preseason while playing essentially a new position (in the pros) while recovering. He does not have a worrisome injury history and has proven to perform at a high level at C. My only worry about him really is how much will it cost to sign him long term?
But our guards ... that is a problem. Generally guards are the meat and potatoes of a run game. Ours suck. Against strong defenses like the Bills and Jets, they were non-existent.
IMHO, if Brandon Scherff falls to us, we need to pull the trigger. He is going to be a very good RG with position flexibility all across the line. He can single handedly create a run game and make DC's revise their game plan because of him.
Our RB's are either quick into the hole or have a little power to break arm tackles. .. but not both. We need a guard to blast open holes or we become one dimensional for 4 division games each year. And going all pass against Revis will not be fun.
Of what we have, I've been saying since his draft day that Dallas Thomas sucks ... yet he still played ahead of Turner and that truly scares me. I hope Turner improves, but right now he looks like a Ferrari without wheels ... and as enticing as that can be, it's not going to get you to work.
Yeah, we need to stop drafting OL projects and start drafting technicians who can play now.
