(03-21-2021, 03:46 PM)TheO-LineMatters 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

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: 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.