(08-04-2024, 10:25 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(08-04-2024, 10:08 AM)NoShoes Wrote: Cam and Ezra working in individuals. Anton sitting out a few more days.

The sky still falling?

The point is not the severity of the injuries now, but the impact a more serious injury will bring later. These relatively minor injuries clearly reveal that if any of the IOL starters go down, there aren't any good backups to step into the breech. No one said the sky is falling, just merely pointing out that the sky is tenuously propped up at the moment.

Thats a more than fair point. Every team wants to have healthy starters every week but look at the QB situation last year, by Week 12 like half the league was starting back up QB's. Injuries are gonna happen and you want as little drop off as possible in your back ups levels. We have on paper a solid starting 5 then Little as the best back up but the quality drops after that and we don't want to have to rely on guys like Fortner to play big stretches of games.

I can't see us making moves that makes solid improvements in preseason but wouldn't be shocked if we start well to maybe make a trade before the deadline to bring in some depth. Sadly Oline is a weak position across the league.

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