(11-04-2021, 04:08 PM)Upper Wrote:

(11-04-2021, 04:01 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: Exactly. Cam has never overcome his insufficiencies. If I'm taking a player in the top 5, I want a finished product. I'm certainly not gonna expect George Warhop to coach him up. That would never happen.

You wouldn't have taken Wirfs top 5?

Cam hasn't overcome them because he is a lead footed bad athlete. Wirfs did easily because he is a giant that glides on air. Neal has shown some of the latter with his top shelf box jumps and sprint speeds. If he checks the SS and 3 cone boxes I see no reason to suspect he won't be a Wirfsesque dude who overcomes his technical issues easily and becomes a monster.

I was a HUGE proponent of drafting Wirfs, but I didn't see any major deficiencies in him. I thought he was a pretty finished product coming out of college and he was without question, the BAP when we picked at #9 that year. Unfortunately, we had a GM that tanked that first round. 

Do you honestly believe Warhop could develop him? I don't believe Warhop has developed an OT in his entire career.

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