(04-30-2021, 01:35 PM)TheDuke007 Wrote:

(04-30-2021, 07:27 AM)TheBigDawg Wrote: Urban Meyer has openly said that he likes the O-line. He feels like he can work with talent available. We are all assuming, based on past performance, that the sum of the O-line is bad. What if the coaches got into the film and saw obvious flaws in the previous scheme and/or use of players and knew that they had a lot more to work with than everyone else assumes?

I'm not thrilled with the Etienne pick because I thought we have some needs, especially on defense that could be addressed. As luck would have it, a lot of those guys are still available.

The main point is... If you truly believe the previous coaches and talent evaluators were that had at their jobs, there is a chance that they just didn't know how to use our coach the talent they had to get the best of of them. Maybe Urbs and his staff see what we can't, talent hidden by bad coaching.

The big hole in this theory is that the Jaguars retained their offensive line coach.  If Meyer believed our offensive line was secretly great but under-performed due to terrible coaching, why would he bring the same offensive line coach back to coach them again?!?!  That makes no sense.

Though I understand your thoughts, let me offer this....

Doug Marrone was a former offensive lineman, and made his coaching bones as an OL coach. My thoughts are that the scheme and fits of our players were handed down to an offensive line coach who was paid to implement the system handed to him by his boss. I think the failings of our offensive line fall more on Marrone than we know.

I most definitely could be wrong, there are scads of people who know much more about this than I. But, I tend to trust (sometimes too much) the professionals who know exactly what they are looking at and when they state that players aren't as bad as previous records may indicate.

As NH3 would say....

"Time will tell"

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