Quote:Blackmon is a man. Hopefully Shorts can put his injury issues behind him. Ace is questionable. Aside from a QB early, we need 4 o-lineman, another receiver, and a TE. But I think next offseason the focus should be stock-piling OL's to protect our new QB, while we pony up the dough to keep Lewis around one more season and give Ace another season to see if he can fill that slot role. 

 

I agree that a lot of our mid to late round picks should be allocated to interior OL, like this year the picks were allocated towards the secondary.

 

The strange thing is, even with Joeckel's injury and the trade of Monroe, the OL has actually protected better (and seemingly run more effectively) these last two games than they had all season.

 

I wonder if that has to anything to do with Blackmon's return and getting a WR that can get open or of the line somehow has more chemistry without Joeckel and Monroe.

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