(04-30-2024, 09:13 AM)TheDuke007 Wrote:

(04-30-2024, 08:33 AM)Mikey Wrote: I think if Foster hits Little is more expendable. Teams that need an OT with experience before trade deadline might light the cheap test drive like we did with Ezra. I don't see anything happening immediately or even before week 1, but I can certainly see the team looking to get a jump on the comp pick for letting him go in FA.

Cutting Cam or Walker at this point would be a terrible move presently.

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I think the statement was more to confirm that his (Foster) work will be done on the outside vs. training him to play at OG. Now do they try and push Little back inside to help at Guard? Not sure we know that answer yet.

Little will be in the competition for depth at guard, but not if you are talking about starter.  They signed Ezra Cleveland to a 3 year, $24 million contract with over $14 million to play left guard.  They aren't paying him that much to be a backup.

Bottom line is during free agency they went out and bought a veteran offensive line.  Our starters are Cam, Ezra, Morris, Sheriff, Harrison.  These guys will be given a lot of snaps together to form a cohesive unit and start game one.  What we are discussing are the backups that will give them a blow during a game, jump in when they are injured, and one day hopefully be their replacements.  They are "the next man up". 

Over the last couple years we have "broken" our offensive line program. We have held on to very nice guys out of convenience, coaches too lazy to train and because we are nice. The result is we have we now have a slew of under performing backups in this room.  None of them have enough upside to replace a starter. It is possible Walker can but if he proves that this year he will be costly next year. This is the problem that needs to be addressed after our 2024 FA spending spree on this room.

If we do not address this we will continually be captive of investing in other team's older cast off vets.

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