Offensive Line

[GusFrerotte]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Piggybacking on what I've just said, you could see the inability of the offensive line to open up holes way back in 2007. Samuels was healthy then, so the pass protection wasn't awful that year, but the point is, you could have seen the end coming, even assuming a healthy Samuels, which would have turned out to be an incorrect assumption.

I think it's long been documented that Vinny feels that lineman are misvalued in the draft and that a good coach will find offensive lineman just off the scrap heap, but even given that assumption, he never really committed to the OL in the late round either. That could have been done in this draft.

THe problem has been there with the O line even before Gibbs came back. UNfortunately we only drafted Jansen and Samuels, while we should have kept drafting one linemen a year thereafter, if for nothing else than depth. THe FO screwed up later on by using expensive FAs, giving up picks in the process for shoring up the line. THe only way out of this without having to wait 3-5 seasons to get a new line in place would be to trade Portis, Moss, or Haynesworth for multiple picks. I would even consider trading Cooley also.