(09-12-2023, 12:22 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(09-12-2023, 12:15 PM)Caldrac Wrote: Fortner needs to be at Guard. I brought it up a few times this off season but I had no idea that he only had one year of starting experience at Kentucky as a Center. He played his other three or four years (covid keeps making me think he played five years for some reason, not sure) at Guard. 

Maybe it's too much for him. It is early though. Maybe it was week one jitters. To be fair. DeForest Buckner is one of the better DT's in the NFL. He's been a handful for most opponents for years now. 

It'll be the same issue with Chris Jones this Sunday coming up. While Fortner clearly needs to play better, it's also fair to say that he's had some difficult players to contest with.

Well it won't get much easy next week against another All Pro in Grady Jarrett.  It's the NFL, it's going to be a tough matchup almost every week.  If he can't handle it we need to find another center

It's fair. I was looking at Joe Tippmann leading up to this year's draft. The Center out of Wisconsin. It's pretty eye opening that out of the 13 some odd selections we had that we only addressed the offensive line twice. At the top of the draft in RD1 and then on the final day of the draft in RD7. 

With Hodges being on IR from the 7th RD. They'll have to address the glaring interior issues next year. Unless Robinson is going to be the fixture at LT longer than most of us on here care to realize, including myself (I just can't get over his damn near $20M cap hit this year) and hopefully Little becomes a natural problem solver at LG.

This still won't make up for Fortner at Center and Scherff's inconsistency and injury concerns at RG. Bummer for now.

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