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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
What is a reasonable performance to get out of 1.1 when all you're doing is upgrading from a guy that was average at his worst and very good at his best.
Yes, anything less than All-Pro out of Fisher/Joeckel is a failure. And if you get 5+ years of All-Pro performance out of a LT, you're starting to discuss HOF consideration.
For a 1.1 LT we should reasonably expect his rookie deal plus strong performance through his 2nd contract; in other words 6-8 years of peak or near peak performance. And given that all he will be is a slight upgrade and cost savings on Albert, expecting All-Pro performance out of him during that time is not at all unreasonable.
Immediate HOF? No, that's not fair. But if you're going to use 1.1 on a goddamn LT when you already have one, then yes, anything short of HOF consideration towards the end of his career makes it an underwhelming pick.
I don't see what is unreasonable about that.
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What's unreasonable about that is that it ignores the weakness of top of the draft, the demands of the current LT, and the realities of the salary cap and the NFL in general.