Quote:What's crazy to me, is that Monroe gets remembered as "above average" at the end of his tenure he was one of the better LT's in the league, but his first 2 (arguably 3) years were kinda rough. he got WHIPPED by Freeney in his 1st game and "welcome to the nfl" moments with Freeneys spin move. he was better the next year but still not great and after a 2nd offseason to get bigger and refine his technique he reached his potential.


What goes overlooked with Joeckel is that he played RT from the time he was drafted in May through week 5, he only logged about a quarter of play at LT before having his ankle stepped on and being out for the year. The next year he spent the season rehabbing his injury instead of refining his technique or bulking up, it really didn't help that our Oline coach was diagnosed with Cancer and he had an assistant position coach to teach him technique all year. This is the first year he's been on the field with an actual Oline coach to help him improve his trade and this upcoming offseason he'll actually be able to focus on getting bigger physically rather than back to where he was pre rehab as well as refine his craft. I suspect we'll see a different Joeckel next year than we have previously. People don't realize that his growth was stunted by a lottttt of things and that his celing is still relatively high.


Couple the above paragraph with him having to play next to Zane Beadles (as opposed to Linder or Cann who can actually Road Grade in the run game) and obviously you're going to be better at running Right. Next year should be better as Cann or Linder will be at the LG spot which can only help sure up Joeckels play since Beadles has been our weakest link by far.


The arrow's pointing up, just wait. (also hopefully we sign Mack in the offseason since i don't see a scenario where he doesn't take his opt-out from Cleveland; and considering Wisniewski is on a 1 year deal it just kinda seems too perfect yk

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Sure would be nice to see Joeckel make a vast improvement and at least become a solid LT that can pass protecr and run block. Beadles is a goner, there's no doubt there. Depending on how Cann finishes the season, I would think Cann would be the one to move to LG... but it would be nice to have that problem where Cann and Linder could be another Williams/Naeole duo for us.

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