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[pantherphan96]

Our run blocking is still questionable.

to be fair, teams are stacking the box with our lack of WR talent. but OL does need to improve run blocking.

[pantherphan96]

Riddle me this.  What do we do about Ryan after this season is over?

get another year or 2 out of him and then let him and Gross make podcasts and goof off

[CRA]

The line will be fine this season. Jacksonville and Houston are two very physical D-Lines and both top 5. (St. Louis, Jacksonville, Houston, Miami, Buffalo the top 5). The Saints, Falcons, and Bucs have horrid pass rush so we should be able to dominate those games.

 

However, I would still go OT in the 1st round of the draft. Kalil could pull a Gross and Oher is a replacement level player who would be good depth. To me, there are three glaring holes on this team preventing them from being Super Bowl contenders, and we need to shore up at least two of them in the draft and pick the other for free agency...... OT, WR, and DE.  However the league has never seen such a dearth of OT talent right now so the only way to improve that position will be the draft.... Likewise, the league has a giant surplus of WR talent so we might be able to shore that up in free agency.

 

It's amazing and depressing that the league has never seen so much WR talent yet the Panthers currently don't have a top 60 WR on the roster.....Which means that every other team in the league could pick two WR's before the Panthers could pick their first.... Benjamin was a huge blow. 

not sure we can be confident it will be fine.....they have shown 0 ability to run block.  Run block is actually the most important thing they need to able to do in this offense.  Them being able to hold up in pass protection is nice but we don't pass much and don't have real threats to be throwing to.

So decent pass protection and horrible run blocking....in this offense....is a fail IMO for the OL.