(12-15-2018, 10:07 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(12-15-2018, 08:36 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: I love how Dave's boss is somehow absent in all of this Bortles talk.

Tom Coughlin had to approve it, people. And I'm still waiting on the "he was talked into it" crowd to show me a shred of evidence to support that rumor.  Smells like a load of crap to me.
Tom also gets a share of the blame in the Fournette pick and the neglect of the O-Line.

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.   

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.

They drafted a guard that should have been good and drafted a RT that is a mystery. Fine. It was too little - too late.

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.

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