If you look over the past several seasons, including last year we won a vast majority of our games when the OL was healthy. When healthy the OL still consistently ranked in the 20's.....but we still had a good enough team to win when the OL was healthy. This includes starting out 3-0 just last year. When you look around the league, there are not a bunch of dominant teams. To be one of the top 6 teams in the league, I do not feel like it would have taken much to get there.
BY FAR OUR BIGGEST ISSUE on this team has been the OL and lack of quality depth. Like I said above, when we field an OL that even approaches average, we won a very large % of our games. When the OL was injured as they were a lot, our depth has been a bad joke. So what do we do? We get rid of our one player who is worth a crap in the area of the team that has been the biggest issue for 7 plus years. I don't care what we got in compensation for him, because he was a proven player in an area that we have spent first rounders on in the past that did not work out. As a matter of fact if you go back to our #1 picks since 2000 minus Tunsil, I would not trade all of them for Tunsil.
We completely blew up a team that showed promise last year before the injuries and traded away about the only sure thing we have. I hope it pans out, but IMHO the actions we took were way over the top and we looked like a complete clown show out there. Also, what good is having all of this money in FA when the people who we want to add will probably not touch this place with a 10-foot pole based on the product we are showing on the field. I will say it once again, I hope it works out but the saying 1 step backwards to take 2 steps forward doesn't work when you took 20 steps backwards.
I will end on saying that I don't care who we draft at QB, we ain't winning jack until we field an OL that isn't a sad joke....and we got rid of the only dude worth anything.
BY FAR OUR BIGGEST ISSUE on this team has been the OL and lack of quality depth. Like I said above, when we field an OL that even approaches average, we won a very large % of our games. When the OL was injured as they were a lot, our depth has been a bad joke. So what do we do? We get rid of our one player who is worth a crap in the area of the team that has been the biggest issue for 7 plus years. I don't care what we got in compensation for him, because he was a proven player in an area that we have spent first rounders on in the past that did not work out. As a matter of fact if you go back to our #1 picks since 2000 minus Tunsil, I would not trade all of them for Tunsil.
We completely blew up a team that showed promise last year before the injuries and traded away about the only sure thing we have. I hope it pans out, but IMHO the actions we took were way over the top and we looked like a complete clown show out there. Also, what good is having all of this money in FA when the people who we want to add will probably not touch this place with a 10-foot pole based on the product we are showing on the field. I will say it once again, I hope it works out but the saying 1 step backwards to take 2 steps forward doesn't work when you took 20 steps backwards.
I will end on saying that I don't care who we draft at QB, we ain't winning jack until we field an OL that isn't a sad joke....and we got rid of the only dude worth anything.
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