(12-18-2023, 09:13 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: The 1010 bubbas are not saying encouraging things about Baalke.

I give less than a fart about the bubbas, but to the board that believes his head on a platter solves the problem:
What say you in regard to Harrison? Was he a decent pick, or no?

If we are saying the interior line is a problem, are we that insecure that he will flub the repair? He darfted Little, Harrison, and traded for Cleveland.
I get that we picked some headscratchers last year after Harrison, but I've yet to hear the glaring misses in their stead.

I want to be clear that I do not like the present state of the line. We can all agree that today our biggest need is to address the Center. But had we tossed any of those questionable picks last year at the line, where does everyone think we would have been with multiple rooks, an LG project coming back from injury, an aging RG who also was fighting injury all season, and the battle between Cam and Little at LT?

I do not know if Ballke is the problem. I do see that work is being done, and I'd rather our situation be that work needs to be done over wasted effort by drafting bad guys to fix a bad problem (see Joeckel, Luke). My fear is that we are desperate for a scapegoat, and in casting our blames on Baalke we end up worse for it.

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