We should rest almost all the starters on defense, but play the starters for offense. Yeah, it'll be hard to win, but this has many benefits: 1) Rest/avoid injury for the guys who are actually winning us games. We know how dirty those Titans can get especially in a meaningless game. 2) Offense to keep sharp, get Tom Savage more reps. This is just my uneducated observation but offense seems to be more prone to rust than defense. I have no facts to support this. 3) Let the offense be on the hook to win a game without the defense's help for once. Light a fire under the youngsters.
Do we really want to see this offense in the playoffs without Lamar Miller? Or can we afford yet another injury to the offensive line? The case for resting players could be made for almost every starter. Just play them all in the 1st half and let the score decide if you keep them in the 2nd half.
Why does anybody care about whether or not they're trying to win? Takes a special sort of soul to put money down on the week 17 lines....
Yup, now imagine if we had our starting center and right tackle and could move Mancz to a guard position.
With Newton basically done forever now I think you have to take an offensive tackle in the first round no matter what. This isn't that great a draft for them, so you have to take the best available early.
Honestly, I'm totally ok with us taking the best offensive lineman available in the first round of the next few drafts (as long as there are no major reaches). We will never find our "Dak" if we don't have a line that can at least sniff what Dallas' line is doing. And I'd much rather go the draft route (Dallas) than the FA route (Oakland).
You think there will be a quality guy at our pick? I liked Ryan Ramcyzk but he needs surgery now. Cam Robinson is an option but mixed opinions on him. I would love Mike McGlinchey, Forrest Lamp, Dan Feeney, or Quentin Nelson
I think there will be a quality right tackle prospect, but not someone that has the potential of being a left tackle. With Duane Brown starting to get up there in age, I'd target a left tackle prospect in the draft after this one. Also important, this season he ran out the last of his guaranteed money meaning that we could cut him with no dead money the offseason after this one. The guy I really want is Mike McGlinchey, but the Texans would probably have to trade up for him. IMO it would be worth it though, he already has chemistry with what will be the long term center Nick Martin so I couldn't think of anyone better. Now if Cam Robinson drops, I'd be all over that too. I agree completely. You have to build the line up better than it is. No QB is going to look good when there is pressure right up the middle and you have a right tackle that lets pass rushers go right by them without even slowing down. Given that this is a weak draft class for O linemen allegedly, I'd target a right tackle this draft and a left tackle the year after that.
Also, possibly worth mentioning is that David Quessenberry is still around and he'll be doing his best to make the team and return to football now that he beat cancer. They couldn't keep him this season because he got back without enough time to make the roster, but he'll have a full off-season worth of team activities and a full camp for the first time in his career. It would be an awesome story if he managed to be worth a damn......but there are super long odds.
