(10-19-2019, 08:41 PM)Senor Fantastico Wrote:

(10-19-2019, 07:52 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: OT's especially LT, are the most important pieces of any team IMO. If you can't open running lanes and protect the QB, your offense is going nowhere. I believe you MUST find the best of the best, when it comes to OT's. That means using 1st round picks on them. Just look at the NFL. There are 32 teams in the NFL and barely half of them have adequate starting OT's. When you use 2nd rounders on OT's, you are drafting guys who 32 other teams thought weren't good enough to be their OT, even though starting OT's and QB's are the rarest of the rare to find. IMO, that is kind of ignoring the position. Remember who the Jags first draft pick in history was? It was LT Tony Boselli and he was drafted #2 overall. He turned out to be our best draft pick in franchise history. When he was here, we were consistent playoff contenders. We need to get back to that ideology and stop believing we can just draft so-so OT's in the 2nd and 3rd rounds.

They did that.

When? Luke Joeckel? That was 6 years ago and for God's sake, he was from Texas A&M. That school does not produce quality OT's. They are scheme oriented players who lack functional strength coming into the NFL. That was just a terrible pick! I was begging for us to take WR DeAndre Hopkins. I was alone, in my thinking, but I had him as a much better prospect than his teammate Sammie Watkins. That was just a pathetically weak OT class and we reached. If nothing else, it proves Caldwell's complete incompetence when it comes to drafting O-Linemen. Given that O-Line is our biggest problem with the team and he's been GM during the drafting or acquisition of every one of our starting O-Linemen, that should tell you that he needs to go. He doesn't know what he's doing when it comes to drafting our most important position. Let some new GM come in and make the picks for O-Line, because Caldwell has failed miserably at it.

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