Quote:it's absolutely time to at least give him competition.  I have always been against drafting a lineman in the top 5, especially because tackles just aren't as elite as they used to be.  You're not going to find another Boselli.

 

I would rather take a mid first rounder or a 2nd round-3rd round pick and bolster the offensive line that way.  

 

Luke needs to be pushed.  If he beats out solid competition for a starting job - fine.  But he shouldn't be just given the job on a plate like this regime has done in the past (i.e. Brewster, Pasztor)

 

I can get behind that, I'm all for having good depth and guys that will push others. Just saying Joeckel is a lot better than this board gives him credit for. Tough to say after the pathetic showing Sunday, but that was far from the norm for Luke. He isn't great, but he's solid, and that's good enough for now. The left side of the line looks worse than it is because of Beadles who is a bottom LG in this league.

 

Quote:but the point is - every team has the offseason to get better.  if we get "better" but Houston, Tennessee, and Indy got "more better" than the Jags - we are left at 4-12 or 5-11 again.

 

Every year we add pieces and we think we're solid.  We added 4 starters through free agency on defense last year and REGRESSED.

 

I get that, but we have yet to direct a draft or FA to defense. We've been building up the offense which looks great for basically the past 3 seasons. Last year we finally did for the most part try to build up that defense, but our top pick that plays a vital position was hurt and we had Clemons and Branch to play there because of it. You really can't do any worse than what we had out there at LEO. We also didn't have one of the best pass rushing DT's in the game in Big Sen. Bottom safety tandem in the league as well.

 

IDK, I guess I just want to wait and see what happens when we build up the D like we did the O. Sure, we have guys like Colvin, House, Odrick, Miller, and Telvin that I think are key cogs to this defense, but pass rush and safety play is far from set and we had below average player at those positions, which include two of the most vital positions for this defense if you look at any team that uses this or listen to Gus about it.

 

If we can land a guy like Gipson or Weddle, and we get Fowler back and get another pass rush option via FA and we're not far ahead from this season or look mightily improved, I'll be right there with you and ready to move on and get someone that can take all this talent to where we should be. I'm down for Gus to be fired, but I get why we didn't do it too. Who wants the Browns job? No one, because they constantly change coaches. May as well just realize we really were lacking in some areas on D, and that is really the main problem we had this year was defense. We had a top 10 offense in all reality. Let's focus one offseason strictly on defense like we will, and see what happens come next year.

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