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Originally Posted by GTripp0012
You lose a ton with Heyer in there. Heyer can protect well enough right now to handle RT. At LT, he's totally overmatched (this year, at least).
You also have to start Jansen (as opposed to Heyer) on the other side, but at least that's not the side that causes those sack/strip turnovers.
It's a matchup that a defense can exploit on us, and if the Lions can exploit it, I'm confident that every other team in the league also can.
Randle El's not the deep threat can replace Moss, but obviously, we can still create big plays in the passing game without Moss. The loss of Moss would hurt us most because the opponent wouldn't have to keep a safety deep and totally out of the running game, but Cooley could still get open, and so could Randle El. Plus, it would open up a place in the starting lineup to get some critical playing time for one of our younger guys (probably Devin Thomas).
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I agree, in fact I can't believe we're even debating if there's a drop off in pass pro from Samuels to Heyer at LT.