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sportscurmudgeon · 10-27-2009, 01:54 PM

Sheriff Gonna Getcha said:

Dockery is the only lineman who would start for about half of the teams in the league. The rest of the guys are backups at best.

Listen to this man; he has provided great wisdom here.

The rest of the guys are indeed backups at best now - - and the overwhelming probability is that they will continue to be nothing better than backups in the future. Take off the burgandy and gold glasses and realize that "down the road" you are not going to have the other three NFC East teams looking jealously at Chad Rinehart or Mike Williams or Casey Rabach or Stephon Heyer or any of the other guys who can't start ahead of those goofs. There are about 9 OL on the Skins' roster; of those 9 there is 1 bona fide starter at the NFL level going forward from 2009. That's it; that's the list.

Want to feel even worse? Back in the draft of 2008, the Skins traded a first round pick to Atlanta and got 2 second round picks. Atlanta took Sam Baker with that pick; Baker is a very good young OL and is playing on an OL that gave up a total of TWO sacks in their first FIVE games. [Jason Campbell gets sacked twice coming through the tunnel for player introductions.]

On whom did the Skins use those two picks they got? Did they get lesser OL prospects? Nope. Those picks became two-thirds of the Thomas/Davis/Kelly strategem.

So, how's that working out Vinny?

10-27-2009, 01:54 PM	#85
sportscurmudgeon Playmaker Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 3,159	Re: The line is quite offensive right now Sheriff Gonna Getcha said: Dockery is the only lineman who would start for about half of the teams in the league. The rest of the guys are backups at best. Listen to this man; he has provided great wisdom here. The rest of the guys are indeed backups at best now - - and the overwhelming probability is that they will continue to be nothing better than backups in the future. Take off the burgandy and gold glasses and realize that "down the road" you are not going to have the other three NFC East teams looking jealously at Chad Rinehart or Mike Williams or Casey Rabach or Stephon Heyer or any of the other guys who can't start ahead of those goofs. There are about 9 OL on the Skins' roster; of those 9 there is 1 bona fide starter at the NFL level going forward from 2009. That's it; that's the list. Want to feel even worse? Back in the draft of 2008, the Skins traded a first round pick to Atlanta and got 2 second round picks. Atlanta took Sam Baker with that pick; Baker is a very good young OL and is playing on an OL that gave up a total of TWO sacks in their first FIVE games. [Jason Campbell gets sacked twice coming through the tunnel for player introductions.] On whom did the Skins use those two picks they got? Did they get lesser OL prospects? Nope. Those picks became two-thirds of the Thomas/Davis/Kelly strategem. So, how's that working out Vinny? __________________ The Sports Curmudgeon www.sportscurmudgeon.com But don't get me wrong, I love sports...