hawk45
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I'm going to go ahead and continue to sleep on Carpenter and Sweezy, thanks. Sure you can squint your eyes and find reasons they'll be much better, but you can do that with every player on the roster. Carp hasn't demonstrated he can stay healthy or conditioned, and Sweezy is still an experiment at this point.
Add to that the perennial worries about Okung (and I sure hope Unger was injured last year because he was disappointing) and losing Breno, and it's legit to be concerned about the OL.
Definitely agree we want to wait until after the draft to conclude anything, and that FA availability of good linemen factors in so that there really is no easy button for JS. Also agree that you have to go cheap with some unit on your team and that this strategy worked great last year. So I won't bust out the pitchfork and march on Century Link if we continue in this manner. Just commenting that if JS had some magic dust left in his bag for spotting draft talent in the later rounds, I hope he uses it this year on OL.
As far as drafting linemen high, after the Carpenter/Moffit disaster I'd just as soon we don't draft any higher than round 4 so if we fail we fail on the cheap.
Add to that the perennial worries about Okung (and I sure hope Unger was injured last year because he was disappointing) and losing Breno, and it's legit to be concerned about the OL.
Definitely agree we want to wait until after the draft to conclude anything, and that FA availability of good linemen factors in so that there really is no easy button for JS. Also agree that you have to go cheap with some unit on your team and that this strategy worked great last year. So I won't bust out the pitchfork and march on Century Link if we continue in this manner. Just commenting that if JS had some magic dust left in his bag for spotting draft talent in the later rounds, I hope he uses it this year on OL.
As far as drafting linemen high, after the Carpenter/Moffit disaster I'd just as soon we don't draft any higher than round 4 so if we fail we fail on the cheap.