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Originally Posted by RunKC
From reading Jags fans responses on Twitter and Reddit, they knew Walker Little was taking over and Cam was a FA after this year. They wanted the kid to play.
From what I’m reading Cam Robinson was very average and better in pass protection than run blocking.
I mean…we wouldn’t take that? I guess price factors in here but the player? Absolutely
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Yes, that's exactly what Cam Robinson is.
He's a below average run blocker, an above average pass blocker and on balance, probably around the 30th best overall OT in the league and probably gets a boost in terms of value for our specific team/system.
Strictly among LTs, he's probably among the 15 best options in the league for us. Now that's not to say he's anywhere near the top guys -- folks like Wirfs, Tunsil, Slater, Williams, Miller and probably Stanley -- those guys are a clear tier better than him at LT.
But when you start to talk about Moton, Dawkins, Decker, Cross, Jones -- he's in that tier as a pass blocker, IMO.
You pair him and Taylor and you have two very similar players who, IMO, fit what we do pretty well. They'll cost too damn much -- I hate the idea of $40-45 million/season to get two guys at OT who aren't guys who move the needle much, but for stability at a difficult position to fill, that's just what it costs.
And should Kingsley develop into a genuine option as a starter, you have an escape hatch with Taylor in 2026 so you can backload Robinson's deal a bit if you need to keep the cap sheet a little cleaner going forward (Kinglsey steps in for Taylor as Robinson's deal gets spendy).
At that point, you'd have a handful of teams with a better set of bookends than we have, at least as pass protectors.
TB: Wirfs/Goedeke
LAC: Slater/Alt
Denver: Bolles/McGlinchey
Houston: Tunsil/Howard
Philly: Johnson/Mailata
Min: Darrisaw/O'Neill
GB: Walker/Tom
CH: Jones/Wright
Bal: Stanley/Rosengarten
Who we'd compare VERY similarly to is Buffalo with Dawkins and Spencer Brown.
I can live with that. Wouldn't love spending that kind of money on OTs to have probably the 10-12th best set of OTs in the league, but it's just the cost of doing business when you strike out two years in a row trying to draft them.
You have the damn Packers out there with two OTs they got on the 3rd friggen day giving them a really strong effort for peanuts and thus creating about a $40 million cap advantage, but it just is what it is. You can bitch about it or you can fix it.
I suppose at this point I'd have to vote for fixin' it...
And of course this presumes Humphries doesn't come in, look really solid for us and sign a long-term deal. Which could very easily happen as well and really wouldn't move that needle a ton from my analysis above. If he works out, he'll be Cam Robinson-esque.