Quote:So... They got him ready for LT... By playing RT... which is so different for LT that all previous games at RT should be thrown out...


Gotcha.

I think the trade deal was more about someone offering the Jaguars some value for Monroe, and them feeling that it was going to be a rough year anyway, so they might as well take the deal and plug the rookie in where he was expected to make a career. 

 

Nobody expected Joeckel to last 1/2 a game before going on the IR.

 

It's amazing how Monroe became this epic legend at LT all of a sudden. The same people who have brought up how bad that trade was were also making the same kind of criticisms of Monroe prior to the trade.  He was another guy who didn't live up to the standards set by Boselli, and he was another guy we "reached" for in the draft.  He didn't live up to his draft status with the armchair GMs until such time as the Jags traded him away.  Funny how that works.

 

The bottom line here is that Joeckel is in a make or break year.  Nobody is saying otherwise.  This is his opportunity to solidify himself as the starting LT for the long term here.  It would also solidify him as one of the few successes to come out of the first round of that draft.  I don't think he's a lost cause yet.  I have seen improvement and my hope is that he continues to progress.  If he doesn't, the armchair GMs can howl for his head, and when he's gone, tell us how great he is as they shred the new guy.  It's a never ending cycle of misery for some folks.

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