(11-13-2023, 07:22 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote:

(11-13-2023, 11:41 AM)flsprtsgod Wrote: We built our team from the outside in and it shows.

Possibly, but was that due to mistaken design/philosophy or due to what was available?  I keep hearing complaints about the Bigsby and Strange picks versus what we could have had at IOL, but there weren't but a couple of IOL guys taken in the 2nd and 3rd rounds which means the rest of the league didn't value the guys on the board that highly.  Several were taken in the 4th, but I don't know much about O-line play outside of Jacksonville so I'll leave that to someone else.

It's not just a last offseason problem, we've not done well building the lines through the draft in forever. Think how different this team would be today if we'd simply taken O'Cyrus Torrence (Brenton Strange 2 picks later) and Jamaree Salyer (Snoop Connor the round before, Greg Junior right after) the last two drafts. We just refuse to draft guards, instead we play tackles as guards (Little, Bartch) and draft a guard to play center (Fortner). I mean, A.J. Cann was the last time they drafted a guard and played him at guard but he was terrible. The last successful one we took was Uche Nwaneri over 15 years ago. It's uncanny just how bad they've been at this across administrations.

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