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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
The average NFL career is about 3.5 years.
OBJ has been in the league for 4.
Yes, OBJ is a savvy veteran. We have offensive line coaches as well as a head coach that has been coaching up O-Lineman for about 40 years now.
Eric Fisher isn't gonna be a guy who unlocks the secret sauce for OBJ. They don't play an even remotely similar style of football and are about as physically dissimilar as one can be. This is akin to suggesting that the Royals should re-sign Michael Taylor so he can teach Vinnie Pasquantino how to play.
It's kinda silly.
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Well okay, I guess. Though I'm not sure I believe that a 9-year vet (as a top-10 pass-blocking LT for much of that span) doesn't know more about footwork, hand placement, basically the minutiae than a guy that's only been in the league for four years, and mostly as a run-blocker vs. a pass blocker at that. I get that they aren't the same physically, but a lot of those things do translate regardless of size, or at least that's what I've been told.
But I also realize that I never even played on an OL at any level, so what do I know?
But I did fly commercial turboprops for nearly 20 years, and I know that I could teach a four-year guy volumes about the business of flying after just 10 years, but I guess that's just too different from football.