Mr. Scot

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They'd have to. Pretty sure Gibbs himself is dead.

Which from what we're hearing, is not a new thing for Reich. It really doesn't make sense.

I'll probably check out the broadcast at some point. In game, I spent too much time trying to keep myself from swinging my cane at obnoxious Cowboy fans.

Can't really lay this particular issue at the GM's feet, or anybody in personnel admin honestly. The front office built a very good offensive line last season. Those same personnel being used improperly is on the coaching staff.

Let's just say I put a lot more stock in Young's ability to handle a power run scheme than I do our offensive lines ability to do zone blocking. But hell, even if you stuck with what we have now, what prevents you from running someplace out of a "jumbo' package with an extra tackle or something like that? If we've tried anything of that sort this season, I missed it.

I get the impression I'm not gonna need to

I daresay Bryce doesn't seem very "comfortable" in games right now. If that's the goal, it ain't workin'

Yes they are. Fans on here might have info about five to ten guys they like because they've seen highlights of them. GM's have to have info on hundreds. They also have to be able to look beyond the highlights and attempt to project things like character, medical, etc. and not just in the first round, but all the way down to the seventh and undrafted players. Fans on a message board thinking they could do better just because they picked a certain guy in hindsight are roughly equivalent to the people who think they could coach an NFL game because they won a Super Bowl in Madden.

The correct answer is "a lot". Even the worst GMs and personnel people in the league know infinitely more about football than the average fan.

That's basically the question they asked Reich. His answer was because they could block power/man. So was it his assumption that if they could do one, they could automatically do the other regardless of their physical make up or skill set? I'd expect James Campen would know that's not necessarily true but there's no way to know whether he said anything or not.

The blocking problems? Yeah.

We have big, "road grader" type offensive line personnel but we're running a zone blocking scheme that requires smaller, more agile linemen to be effective. It's roughly equivalent to sending a big blocking tight end on a speed route while asking a small scatback to single block a defensive end.

It's a valid question...but one that I don't think we can answer yet. Don't think we can wait past next season to answer it, though.

No. Juan did. That's why I quoted him, then added context.

GMs don't deal with schemes. SOP in the NFL world is coaches tell GMs the sort of players they need to run their offense, defense, whatever. The coaching staff didn't ask for any changes to the offensive line. They were pretty happy with the performance they saw last year.

That makes sense. All I knew is he wasn't a reliable source. Pretty sure the Brian Burns tweet got posted here as well.

The personnel were already here and playing great. The coaching staff was glad to have them. Then they changed schemes...

Given who I was responding to, it's more attention than they deserve.

That response wasn't to you.

I get why you want to keep the argument on simple terms, but it's also misleading. That could be deliberate or accidental. My guess is it's the former