obiken wrote:NO, you don't get it ASF, it was an experiment, and had it worked it would have changed the game! They have gone cheap at WR, and the OL. The problem is they went out and got junk intentionally. They Thought Cable was able to coach them up, and I think Cable was all in on it. The problem is it failed. It failed last year against the Niners. We had months get better O Linemen, and they still are stuck in the mode. Great coaches can coach great players better than the warmed over dog food that we have. I am not sold that we don't need a Bryant or Jones for RW to stretch the field with. We have been doing WR by committee since day one. I am not for that either but its worked for us by giving us a better defense. The Salary cap is like the electoral college in Politics, its a zero sum game. What you take away from one, you give to the other. You cant pay a Julio Jones without destroying, the defense we have. Its gets better ASY, we should run the table the next 4 games.
I don't get it? Really I don't? The experiment seems to be ongoing. I don't agree with your assessment. Pete has tried to build a very effective O-line. We drafted Russell Okung 6th overall. We drafted Carpenter in the 1st round another year. Drafted more guys in the 2nd and 3rd round. This idea that we've been trying to turn dogcrap into something great is not true. We've been drafting fairly high for O-line quite a few years. But they haven't worked out. Injuries, lack of talent or work ethic, and seemingly predictable coaching seems to continue. All O-lines are a mix of draft picks. It seems our picks don't workout.
Don't fool yourself into thinking Pete was trying to invent the wheel. We very much have tried to draft high quality talent on the O-line and not doing very well. Not a one worth paying to stay long-term.
The only failure has been a failure by our GM, scouts, and O-line coach to pick better talent and develop it with those 1st, 2nd, and 3rd round picks we've used on O-line.
Sorry, obiken. I only go with facts. I've watched this team draft high pick O-line and watched them all fail for one reason or another.