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Originally Posted by nicksdad
Good excuse making . They can trade up as they have , worthy, mcduffie. They can trade picks for a player , obj. They can sign free agents , j Taylor . What they can’t do is fan on tackle talent repeatedly. Obj, niang, Taylor, Morris, ks ( too early). The best of the bunch apperas to be obj who apparently was a traffic cone / speed bump as soon as he stoped wearing red. You would think that getting buc ****ed in one Super Bowl would have taught him a lesson but I guess we needed two OL fueled blowouts for veach to “ leap into action “this off season . Unfortunately he appears to have the Mid-ass touch on tackle evaluation
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Who’s making excuses? Just pointing out the reality of where they have drafted. They did trade up for Worthy and McDuffie. To get McDuffie they traded Miami’s #29 to #21 and for Worthy it was #32 to #28. None of these were even remotely close to drafting Top 10.
Sure they can trade for a LT, but who? Brown Jr was an exception because he was determined to be a LT and Baltimore had no need for him as they had Stanley.
He didn’t fan on Tackles like you make it seem. He tried to get Trent Williams but he went elsewhere. Taylor is a better tackle than you are giving him credit for. He’s no Mitchell Schwartz, but he’s a big improvement over Wylie. Niang was a product of his inability to stay healthy.
His evaluation of the LT might not be the best, but to think he ignored it is silly. There are only so many positions that he can fill each year. Elite LTs get drafted early and rarely hit the market. This is why KC brings in stop gaps while trying to draft/develop raw, high upside guys.
But your assessment that he has neglected the line is completely wrong.