(04-28-2024, 05:20 PM)Predator Wrote:

(04-28-2024, 02:14 PM)cland Wrote: Hehe, I was waiting for this was coming from NYC4jags again.  The question is did Ezra Cleveland start in the final game^?  The Jaguars resigned Cleveland, they didn't ADD him.  The Jags went 3-5 while he was starting.  Every teams OL will be healthier next season, there is almost no OLmen who's 100% at the end of the season.

BUT the question was "IF one of your IOL gets hurt..."

I'm trying to figure out how the Jags went 3-5 when Ezera was starting considering he only started 5 games, and interestingly enough, his first start TL, Little, and Kirk all got injured and Cam didn't play.

His second start he only played 34% of the snaps, with TL still suffering from his ankle, Kirk out, Tyson Campbell out and Cam out.

His third start TL was still banged up, no Kirk, no Campbell,  no Cisco, and no Cam.

His 4th start TL still banged up, no Kirk, no Zay, and no Cam.

His 5th and final start TL was still struggling with injury to the point he didn't even play the previous game and still no Kirk.

You make it seem very eager to hold Cleveland accountable for the Jags losing towards the end of the season when you can see the team was plagued by injuries and in spite of this we still almost made the playoffs.

Players production is not static from year to year, sure everyone's Oline will be healthy, but it doesn't mean that there won't be players in decline or have bad seasons and other players get better. 

We can play the what if game with all sorts of positions. What if Kirk goes down again, our offense took a nose dive once he was out. What about Engram? No one on this roster can match his production at TE. What if Josh Allen goes down? There isn't a player behind him who could come close to his production.

Young talent develops. You are already making the assumption that are back ups will be static players with no possibility of improvement with further development and experience.

You don't need to worry about what kind of depth we have in April. You wait and see in preseason what they bring to the table this year. Then you have reason to worry or possibly not worry.

Thank you

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(04-28-2024, 02:44 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(04-28-2024, 02:36 PM)cland Wrote: I truly would like to know the answer to the above question, and I'm sure I'm not alone. It's really not a troll question, if anything it's a question to reinforce my view that IOL depth is a major problem, and YOU agree with me to some extent in your draft grade answer:

It's completely irrelevant.

The guy played through injury and struggled 

They sat him the week before in a week 17 game where they rolled the weakest opponent on their schedule hoping he'd heal up some. He still wasn't himself in week 18. 

What is the point you think you are making here?

We upgraded LG. Yes, I wish we added one more mid round piece of depth/competiton. But I'm not the one being willfully ignorant about LG. That would be you.

Pointing out that you keep ignoring an upgrade at LG as if it didn't happen  - while also wishing the Jags had added yet another interior piece are not mutually exclusive. One does not affect the other at all.  

I can point out your omission AND wish we'd added another player.
Which we very well still may add. 

You troll-job is weak today, pal.

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