Quote:The Jags interior line have been poor run blockers for years and never seems to improve. Nor do we ever address the issue in the draft, which is weird for a "run first" team, and "build through the draft". as all prior coaches and GM's have emphasized was their philosophy.

Even the new regime ranks the interior line low on importance if you go by the drafts and FA.. I think Rackley is the only Guard or Center drafted in the last 5 draft classes.  No matter the GM, once they hit Jacksonville they all seem to place little value on the interior of the line, and keep picking up Cast offs and Justin Smileys and plugging them in as if all guards and centers are interchangeable. It seems obvious that Street guards and center are not working, and it would be great to one day draft a Starting center. Both Leftwich and Garrard are done for and a lot of it was brutal beatings coming straight up the middle , yet still we stuck with Meester year after year, and still refuse to draft a pure center.

As others mentioned, they literaly just drafted a guard and center who are both starting if I'm not mistaking. I like how they are handling the situation. These aren't primier positions. By drafting more interior linemen, you are just weakening another area which typically requires higher picks to fill. Hopefully at some point our roster is at a point where we can draft a center in the 1st round, but that wasn't the case for the past few years.

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