(03-21-2021, 03:38 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(03-21-2021, 03:32 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: Other teams can look at us and say the same thing. I always believe in building via the trenches. Have a solid O-Line in place and then get a franchise QB. You must protect the QB. The Bengals didn't do that last season and it bit them in the butt. Now, it appears they have learned their lesson and have 2 good OT's in place for Burrow. They just need to draft Sewell for the future and focus on the interior O-Line. We had the benefit of having a decent interior, yet we've ignored the dire need at OT.

The dline is just as important to the defense and the oline is to the offense.  You need both to have a good football team

Agreed. That's why I said the trenches, but Rome wasn't built in a day. We're not gonna turn the team around in one year. My main focus would've been protecting the new QB and then focus on the defense. We now have a very good 3-4 D-Line, but no edge protection for the QB. It's a matter of prioritizing. I don't even know if I would play Lawrence in 2021, behind Robinson and Taylor. That is an unnecessary risk.

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(03-21-2021, 03:40 PM)CanDoBetter Wrote:

(03-21-2021, 03:38 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote: The dline is just as important to the defense and the oline is to the offense.  You need both to have a good football team

Meyer said we'd be non-functional without  the d-line. Clearly his number one priority. Of course it's also because our d-line last year was the way it was.

I believe that is the wrong way to think. Protecting a QB who is the #1 pick in the draft when you currently have the two worst OT's in the NFL, should be priority one.

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