Quote:Just have to laugh about the hyperbole around Joeckel. While the guy is a bust from the standpoint of his draft position, he's not a bad tackle. For some perspective, he gave up 7.5 sacks last year. Beachum, the guy that is supposed to be the savior of the offensive line gave up 8 in 2014. If you're not happy with the way LJ plays, I get it, he should be a lot better but he's not even close to being terrible.

^^ Excellent post, I completely agree with that.


Joeckel was not that bad for most of the season last year. Yes, the Houston game was dreadful. It happened to be the last game, and the image that is left in most fans' minds. Joeckel was decent in most of the other games last year.

Every LT in the game gives up sacks and penalties at some point. I watch Whitworth dominate for Cincy just about every week. But, he also gives up a sack/pressure or has a big penalty in every game. It happens.


Joeckel definitely could be better, but he's not terrible IMO.


Again, these are NO PADS Practices. Very misleading and hard to tell reality when these guys are barely going at each other.

Heck, even preseason is very misleading to the eyes. Personally, I'll wait for the regular season to make my own judgements.


During then, if Joeckel is "garbage" and playing dreadful as most fans here say, I'm sure it won't be long until another player is in that spot most games.

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