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[kungfoodude]

I will just leave this here....

 

2017 NFL OT Free Agents and Top 3 Round Draft picks.
Note: Only showing players that started at least 7 games this season.

Ryan Ramczyk (#32 overall pick), PFF: 82.7 (#8 T)
Andrew Whitworth, PFF: 82.0 (#11 T)
Ricky Wagner, PFF: 81.7 (#15 T)
Russell Okung, PFF: 78.1 (#25 T)
Mike Remmers, PFF: 75.7 (#30 T)
Cameron Fleming, PFF: 72.9 (#35 T)
Chris Hubbard, PFF: 72.6 (#36 T)
Kevin Beachum, PFF: 71.6 (#37 T)
Austin Howard, PFF: 70.7 (#39 T)
Jordan Mills, PFF: 68.9 (#42 T)
Garett Bolles (#20 overall pick), PFF: 68.3 (#43 T)
Riley Reiff, PFF: 48.8 (#65 T)
Andre Smith, PFF: 48.0 (#65 T)
Marshall Newhouse, PFF: 47.9 (#66 T)
Matt Kalil, PFF: 46.8 (#67 T)
Menelik Watson, PFF: 38.9 (#79 T)
Cam Robinson (#34 overall pick), PFF: 38.9 (#80 T)
Breno Giacomini, PFF: 33.3 (#85 T)
 

[TheCasillas]

Yikes Riley Reiff..... 

[GoobyPls]

Pff is a terrible site

 

But yeah all I heard this offseason was how there wasn’t a good tackle in this draft, but I knew it Ramczyk was a beast at Wisconsin 

[*FreeFua*]

Ah yes Andrew Whitworth, a proven legit NFL left tackle, who many of us were screaming for but wasn’t even on our radar!

Instead I was told Gettleman was the goat GM and knew what he was doing and that Matt Kalil was a pro bowler 5 years ago!

Go team go!

 

 

[kungfoodude]

4 minutes ago, GoobyPls said:

Pff is a terrible site

 

But yeah all I heard this offseason was how there wasn’t a good tackle in this draft, but I knew it Ramczyk was a beast at Wisconsin 

Not a lot of other resources for rating offensive linemen. Plus, I don't need a rating to see how terrible Kalil is. Just watch a game.

[uncfan888]

Man if Dave had re-signed Ginn and picked up Whitworth? Sigh... Why did we have to have a Kalil brother hyping up Matt... 

[kungfoodude]

Just now, uncfan888 said:

Man if Dave had re-signed Ginn and picked up Whitworth? Sigh... Why did we have to have a Kalil brother hyping up Matt... 

If Ryan hyping up Matt was a reason we signed him, it makes me doubly glad we fired Gettleman. 

[uncfan888]

4 minutes ago, kungfoodude said:

If Ryan hyping up Matt was a reason we signed him, it makes me doubly glad we fired Gettleman. 

I honestly think JR is why we signed him. I don't fault Gettleman much for the Kalil thing cuz I just have a feeling his hands were tied

[t96]

15 minutes ago, GoobyPls said:

Pff is a terrible site

 

But yeah all I heard this offseason was how there wasn’t a good tackle in this draft, but I knew it Ramczyk was a beast at Wisconsin 

I loved Ramczyk. God damn was I pissed as hell when the Aints got both him and Lattimore. fug them, lucky fugs. Didn't expect Kamara to be that amazing before the draft but damn they got him late too. I hope all three come down to earth next year and this year is a total fluke.

[t96]

11 minutes ago, uncfan888 said:

Man if Dave had re-signed Ginn and picked up Whitworth? Sigh... Why did we have to have a Kalil brother hyping up Matt... 

Over 90% of the time I'm strongly against going for some big name free agent, but Whitworth was one guy that I would've gladly taken. Of course he's on the older side and at any point his play could fall off a cliff, but with a year to year contract that takes that into account he deserves to be a top 3 paid OT, and I'd have been happy to be paying that to him right now. I'm not going to say it was a misfire not signing Whitworth because who the hell knows if he would've even played here (maybe he wanted to go to the west coast...?) but the M. Kalil signing was definitely a misfire. A bad one too. If it was indeed a DG move then by far his worst move. I really think it was more JR though just because that signing was so uncharacteristic of DG compared to his other moves his entire time here.

[TheRed]

Gettlemagic.

[kungfoodude]

2 minutes ago, thomas96 said:

Over 90% of the time I'm strongly against going for some big name free agent, but Whitworth was one guy that I would've gladly taken. Of course he's on the older side and at any point his play could fall off a cliff, but with a year to year contract that takes that into account he deserves to be a top 3 paid OT, and I'd have been happy to be paying that to him right now. I'm not going to say it was a misfire not signing Whitworth because who the hell knows if he would've even played here (maybe he wanted to go to the west coast...?) but the M. Kalil signing was definitely a misfire. A bad one too. If it was indeed a DG move then by far his worst move. I really think it was more JR though just because that signing was so uncharacteristic of DG compared to his other moves his entire time here.

I am not sure I buy into the JR meddling storyline only because it doesn't seem to jibe with the rest of the things that were rumored(that he wouldn't play ball with guys like TD, etc). Either way, inking that contract was a fireable offense if I have ever seen one. Even the layman could see what an awful move it was. One of the top 10 worst contracts this franchise has ever dealt out, and that is saying a lot.

[AU-panther]

It’s not like his numbers are really that much different from the past few years.  People though, or were hoping, something would be different.  I’m usually not a fan of overpaying free agents but I was hoping we would offer Whiteorth enough for him to consider us.

For those that want to point out Ramcyzk I would guess a lot of them would have picked Robinson.   

[TheRed]

Isn't it interesting how on the huddle Gettleman so effortlessly goes from being worshipped for his ruthlessness to just being a helpless JR puppet depending on the resulting ramifications from one of his moves.