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Originally Posted by bertoskins
yeah,
oline, wr is a priority
de is second priority
look, after thomas was injured our offense (esp running game) suffered
it is very clear
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Yes, big time. We had no way to replace Thomas's athleticism. That was a huge asset that doesn't get nearly enough attention. All of those Portis sweeps to the outside of the tackles just went "poof", gone from the playbook when Thomas went down. He's athletic and big enough to get out on the edge, pulling into space. We couldn't replace that, and those were our bread and butter running plays while we were winning the 5 games to close the season.
Ray Brown was a fine stopgap in pass protection. And he could run block in the interior a little bit. But he couldn't get out into space. Dockery couldn't do it going the other way, either. We missed Randy desperately. What's worse, we don't have Ray Brown next year, even as a stopgap to provide pass protection and mediocre run-blocking. We have Molinaro, who is totally unknown. OL depth is a major priority.