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You guys can give credit to him for top 50 centers being good, I'm not. They should be ****ing good. A top 50 center is basically the top centers in college football every year. Once in a while one slips into the first round but most go where the Chiefs grabbed Morse and Hudson and Creed. Those are just guys you expect to start for your football team out the gate. That's going to be John Michael Schmitz this year for someone.
Wylie almost got Mahomes ****ing killed the past year and a half. A passable starter is beyond ridiculous to me. In what way was he passable? Passable in that the only game he was even remotely quality was in the Super Bowl where the turf aided him immensely because DEs couldn't get footing to launch into a rush? Otherwise, he was the worst tackle in the NFL.
And then we're going to give him credit for every player from past regimes that didn't suck to start with? Remmers and Albert? You can't be serious. Albert was a solid LT long before Heck got here. Remmers was already a starter at RT in the NFL before he got here. Remmers was inconsistent throughout his career and he was here too. Heck didn't do shit to improve them. That's just fluffy bullshit. If you want to give credit to developing Remmers, give it to the Oline coaches in Carolina and Minnesota.
Fisher was the 1st overall pick and took an easy 5 years to turn into a good LT. The 1st overall pick. Man alive, that's a guy that should be a good LT in short order. I get it was a down draft, but Fisher was a top-10 pick in pretty much any draft. He had the pedigree to be special and he was finally turning into special those last couple of seasons, too bad he had that Achilles.
OBj's pressures got worse each year. He's nearly as much a turnstile as Wylie. Thank **** Mahomes is mobile and aware. He sure saved our tackles' asses from doubling their sack totals.
I'll give him credit for Reiter, Allegretti, and LDT. Those were some project guys that worked out well that he made into solid starters. I can concede enough in the argument to say, sure, go ahead and give him a bit of passing credit for guys that did work out that should have (like Creed, Hudson, Morse, Smith) but there are few career examples of molding balls of clay into great players. LDT is the closest he has. I think he's just a very average Oline coach. He's certainly not special and he's not a guy I'd trust to make something out of a guy from something he maybe doesn't look like he already is. And that's where my argument is. Do I think he can turn Jones into a good LT? Nope, I really don't.
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