(11-16-2023, 08:35 AM)Cleatwood Wrote:

(11-15-2023, 09:42 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: SF viciously exposed our O line. Other teams will be looking to emulate it, especially considering how it shuts down TL's production.

I'm still in disbelief we would draft a "generational quarterback" and then not make every effort humanly possible to put a line of the best players in front of him. That's such a classic Jaguars move.

Well thank god not every team has the SF DLine lol they can try to emulate it but they won’t be as effective. 

Also, the Jags have tried to put an OLine in front of him but they’ve been horrible at doing it. Baalke just doesn’t know how to draft lineman or which ones to sign.

This. We extended Cam Robinson, who has typically been a middle of the pack at best LT. We were working with guys like Bartch at LG, who was coming off an injury the year prior and he was a small school, developmental project to begin with that Dave Caldwell invested in. Now you have Walker Little who also entered the NFL rusty due to injury and then he's ended up in this weird rotational situation at LT, LG and RT. 

Fortner was drafted after Linder called it quits. I didn't think it was a bad decision but we probably should have considered giving the rookie QB a veteran presence there at some capacity a lot sooner after Linder's retirement. It also bothered me after reading up that Fortner was a four year starter at Guard in Kentucky and he only played one year, his final year, at Center. 

I think the right guard position was addressed by going after Scherff, who, we all probably felt like was a huge upgrade. I cannot even recall who was there prior to Scherff. He's been up and down, and, his history of being injured hasn't been as bad as it was in Washington but he's tough and fights through it. 

We had Taylor last year at RT, we replaced him with Harrison, who has a bum shoulder. Our issues seem to be failing in finding the right players or finding players that are injury prone. There needs to be a good look taken at Baalke in the off season, along with any of his scouting staff that's responsible for finding lineman, that's if he survives the off season. 

There needs to be a good look taken at the strength and conditioning coach along with Rauscher. I think it's appalling though that Baalke only addressed the line twice back in April. With his first pick of the class and one of his last picks of the class. We traded for a lineman last year from Green Bay, we picked-up Hance and then we just traded for Cleveland before the deadline. 

So, yeah. Plenty of blame to go around. Starts with Baalke. We built the team backwards. The burden now falls on Doug, Press and Trevor to pick-up everyone else's slack and failures and get the ball rolling. It'll be tough. It's going to suck. It's not always going to be pretty. But, that's just how it goes sometimes. It is what it is. Nobody wants to hear excuses. But, it is what it is.

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