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Caldrac · 01-10-2023, 09:10 AM

(01-09-2023, 10:08 PM)rpr52121 Wrote:
(01-09-2023, 07:29 PM)I am Yoda Wrote: What in the world has happened to Devin Lloyd?? With his talent, how can he have played this poorly this year?

Been wondering this all season. I thought part of the reason he was highly rated was he was football smarts. I get that he missed most of pre-season, but he was still there in OTA's and he has had all season to learn the system. It really doesn't make sense why he still needs help getting lined up all the time.

Obviously the draft capital and all, you hope he can pan out next season.

If he is in the game, I think they should use him more to blitz/simulated pressure. He has been very slow to identify run gaps/fits and he gets too confused on switching off players in the zone schemes.

(01-09-2023, 05:55 PM)Caldrac Wrote: Take a look at Luke Wypler from Ohio St. when you get a chance at Center. Would probably be worth a 4th RD investment. Fortner needs to get stronger in the off season.

This would makes sense if either them could move over to guard in a pinch, for versatility sake.

They both can. Wypler can play Guard and Center. I think he would be a good fit. He's especially good in run blocking.

(01-10-2023, 05:31 AM)newporttom Wrote: Every time I hear Boselli talk about Fortner he seems to rave about him.

It's fair. Boselli is looking at it from the perspective of:

A. He's a rookie
B. He's handling the line calls and adjustments

Fortner just needs to get stronger. I think the speed will slow down a bit for him going into this season coming up but he's going to have to get stronger. He gets bulldozed back quite a bit from what I have seen.

Also, in fairness to Fortner. He's had different guys line up to him now on his left side throughout the year. Between Bartch, Little and Robinson. It's too easy to throw everything at him and put too much fault on him.

We knew that position was going to be tough to figure out in a pinch because Linder retired on March 28th. Which was pretty [BLEEP] if you think about it because free agency started on March 16th. That took two weeks away from this team heavily looking into that position veteran wise.

"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."