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Originally Posted by 30gut
Bringing Cousins into the discussion just confuses the discussion with peoples knee jerk desire to defend the Cousins pick so I'm not gonna comment on it.
But, with Jammal Brown's level of play, injury and missed starts an argument could be made that addressing the RT position should have been a higher priority.
I like profootball focus metrics and Jammal Brown had a terrible rating. (-18)
According to PFF Tyler was better then Brown but not by much (-16), but at least Tyler is young and you expect him to improve with playing time and maybe he develops into a league average RT?
But, right now that's just a hope.
And if Tyler is gonna be a starter then where is our quality depth?
Imo finding a more certain solution to the RT situation should have been a much higher priority.
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What knee jerk desire to defend? Is that somehow different from the knee jerk "well we should have drafted an OL there" Never mind that we went OL with the pick before Cousins.
We have had a lot of areas to address over the past two years: needed a franchise caliber LT-drafted Williams; needed to upgrade at WR-drafted Hankerson, signed Garcon and Morgan; needed youth at RB-drafted Helu and Royster; needed help for Orakpo-drafted Kerrigan; needed a franchise QB for the next 15 years (hopefully)-drafted RG3; needed to shore up the offensive interior-signed Kory L. (funny how so many are mourning his injury when just two years ago they thought he was a bum), signed Chester, drafted LeRibeus and Gettis...and so on.
And let's not act like we made no effort to address the OL this off-season through FA. We spoke to Winston, Bell, Mathis. Sucks that they didn't come, sure but it wasn't for lack of trying. Many factors, including the salary cap penalty hurt us. And you could say well we shouldn't added Morgan and Garcon. Well then what do you do, sit around, hope an OT signs with you, and when he doesn't you just assume WRs are there?