Bozeman

[electro's horse]

You draft the best lineman available regardless of where they slot in. 

[TarawaJake]

Bozeman should be released. 

[csx]

10 hours ago, L-TownCat said:

The line was built as a downhill road grading power run line.

The new (former?) staff thought it best to implement a zone finesse scheme.

Not one of our linemen outside of Corbs fit that mold.

Christensen does. But he was injured 

[Shotgun]

8 hours ago, WhoKnows said:

Disagree on trading down. 33rd should be a great BPA pick. Someone (probably a few) 1st rounders will slip out of the first due to a few reaches and just fit with drafting team. We have the perfect opportunity to go BPA at every pick.

Only way I’d trade down is if we got a later second plus a 2025 2nd. We won’t be good next year so great 2025 picks are great value to us. We don’t need more picks, we need picks to turn into impact players because we have Brown in 2024 and that’s it. Luvu and Brown aren’t even under contract yet. The entire rest of our team is replaceable. The top teams have more pro bowlers than we have non-JAGs. I’d think about adding Horn but he’d have to play a full year first.

Yes, no more trades unless some team wants to drastically over pay. 

[Waldo]

11 hours ago, ncfan said:

I would like to think injuries at OG effected him.

 

But I keep going back to the start of the season where he struggled mightily in the joint practices and preseasons Before Brady got hurt.

And yet he look fine at the end of the year before. Scheme and coaching matter while it sounds like the wheels were coming off the Panther's short bus in training camp anyways. No idea if he is a fit moving forward but he can be given another shot with competition or traded/cut as needed. There are so few players not in that category going forward.

[WhoKnows]

4 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

Drafting OL should happen every single draft. That is something we should never stop trying to improve. If for no other reason than depth.

This was why Marty 2.0 and Fitterer were so disappointing. I know DG was bad at many things but at least we were only complaining about LT and speed bump. After DG left, we lost Turner, Norwell, Ryan and Williams and we did almost nothing other than mediocre FAs until the OL was so bad in 2020/2021 that we were forced to draft a LT at 6th overall. It’s 2023 and our best OL is still a guy DG drafted in 2017.

I was very disappointed that Hurney didn’t go IOL in 2019/2020 when that was incredibly deep and then again when Fitterer basically ignored OL in 2021 when it was as big a need as QB.

OL often have hits on day 3 of the draft. TBH, it feels like a couple OL every draft in day 3 is a great strategy. Maybe even OL/DL only in day 3. You can never have enough depth and lucky hits there. Only exceptions are if there are extreme BPA drops.

[WhoKnows]

12 minutes ago, Shotgun said:

Yes, no more trades unless some team wants to drastically over pay. 

In which case we of course politely decline and then decide we’d rather have a 3rd round comp pick.  

[d-dave]

It's really going to depend on the new coach and their system.  If they want to run more power, then we're good, just keep finding better guys, and coach up the younger players we already drafted.

If they want to change things drastically like Reich did...god help us all again!

[ncfan]

25 minutes ago, d-dave said:

It's really going to depend on the new coach and their system.  If they want to run more power, then we're good, just keep finding better guys, and coach up the younger players we already drafted.

If they want to change things drastically like Reich did...god help us all again!

Hopefully we do get back to more of a run game.

But anyone thinking we’ll go back to what we saw Wilks do at the end is wishful thinking.

no team in the NFL drops back to throw it 15-20 times to 30+ rush attempts anymore in 12 personnel 

[Steelo]

6 hours ago, kungfoodude said:

Drafting OL should happen every single draft. That is something we should never stop trying to improve. If for no other reason than depth.

Yes sir,

would def curb the pain of someone getting injured