(04-18-2024, 09:18 AM)Caldrac Wrote: Still keep circling back to Pederson and Baalke's comments in January. "Our best five didn't start until the season finale" and "We have to get better, stronger in the trenches". Guys can get stronger in the weight room, but, some guys are just naturally stronger than others and you have to accept that and come to terms with that. 

You're only improving this by adding fresh blood into the mix.

Those two quotes are both scary and opposing.  A. You lost your season finale and your chance to go to the playoffs to a 6-11 team in the season finale.  B. So if you need to get better and stronger, then your best five weren't good enough.

I always laugh at 'they'll get stronger in an NFL weight room' saying, indicating that colleges don't have the absolute best-of-the-best weight training facilities.  I maintain that 99.9% of fans with their only life goal of getting stronger, will never be able to press 225lbs 30 times.  As you said, the increase in strength for some line players is really the last bit of maturation of their bodies, and some players are simply built with natural strength.  The same goes with foot quickness, balance, and agility--those are innate talents and can't be trained up.

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