(12-16-2022, 10:21 PM)Protozoa Wrote:

(12-16-2022, 10:07 PM)rpr52121 Wrote: I totally understand everyone's criticism of the offensive line and there is some validity to it. 

Having said that, given the number of positions with average or below average production and the salary cap situation of this team, the Jags would need nearly perfect hit rate in FA and the draft over the next 2 season to fix all them during Lawrence's rookie deal. Once his Rookie deal is over, they simply won't have the cap space to fix all of them. 

I'm not saying they should give him a horrible offensive line. But they are passable right now, and over the course of Lawrence's career, that is probably what he will have to deal with. In fact, most elite QB's don't have elite offensive line production. Maybe 1 or 2 studs but normally those guys were drafted and on cheaper rookie deals for most of the time. It simply because of the cost/benefit analysis.

They are one of the worst offensive lines in the league and most of them have proven year after year with this team that they are below average. They lose there blocking assignments more then every team but two.

What your talking about is exactly what the Colts did with Luck.

I totally agree here.  You have to look beyond the sack numbers to see what's going on.  Trevor has had Cam in his lap multiple times.  He's the one preventing the sacks.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure there are any easy fixes for it with how Baalke has structured his contracts.  We just paid one of our prime offenders on the line for some reason.  Gotta hope Little and Fortner develop and we hit on a couple guys in the draft at this point.

Resign Engram, draft CB, OL, WR in no particular order.

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