12-18-2018, 11:37 AM
(12-17-2018, 11:07 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: [ -> ](12-15-2018, 10:07 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: [ -> ]I don't think the offensive line was neglected. We signed an All-Pro guard to a big contract. That was our most expensive and notable offseason acquisition. That's hardly neglecting the offensive line.They drafted a guard that should have been good and drafted a RT that is a mystery. Fine. It was too little - too late.
The problem with the offensive line is they all got injured.
Secondly, I disagree with everyone who's down on Fournette. His problem is, he doesn't have an offensive line in front of him. They all got injured.
Signing Norwell (who looked pretty average when healthy) just wasn't enough. Not only did they fail to find competition for Cann at RG (who struggled run blocking in 2017) they did nothing to help the bottom of the depth chart.
They had exactly Shatley and Wells as decent depth and everything else was crap. I mean really bad. Go sign Flowers off the street bad. We've all known this for three years now. The fact that Chris Reed was even on the team tells me the line as a complete unit of the roster was too much of an afterthought for a team that espouses running the football like they do.
Also important to note: they waited a year too long to draft a potential replacement for Parnell. Now that kid is coming off injury - but he wasn't active as a backup even when he was healthy. Not a good sign.
Meanwhile - teams had another year of tape to see Parnell abused by speed rushers and implement a gameplan to take advantage of the weakness.
I know they didn't "do nothing" and the Norwell signing was big, but they should have done more over the past two offseasons than they did IMO.
What strikes me the most about allllll the OL issues...
our head coach is an OL guy. That's supposed to be his thing.
He should be able to know who is good enough and who ain't. What type of scheme to run.
And his input should directly impact who is picked.
Shad really needs to start fresh I think. If TC is kept around as VP of babysitting, fine... I guess..
But Caldwell and Doug should go... the whole staff with them... There's a serious disconnect somewhere and without knowing the source we should get rid of all of it.