kungfoodude

This concerns me more than the "holding the lead" nonsense.

You spelled "Joey Slye" wrong.

The big concern is that we have so many injury prone offensive lineman. That's precisely how you end up with some of those bums playing in the positions they were yesterday.

I would rather watch Christensen suck and take lumps with the hope he might get better than a veteran who has sucked his entire career continue to suck

Darnold is far from a "tall lumbering, old school statue." He is a fairly athletic dude. Don't disagree with all of what you said but I have to defend Darnold here. He is an above average athlete for QB in the NFL.

Agreed. This is clearly year two. I don't necessarily even need .500. Give me .500 with a clear path to above. 500. Let's say that the biggest issues are OL and QB(for instance). That means we have limited slots to fill. That works for me. In Rhule's career, he has always been a third year guy. This should be a transition year if that pattern holds.

Unfortunately, you just don't look as bad as he does and it be okay. Even more unfortunately, it was since his rookie year. Another Hurneymagic pick.

He will be better than Teddy in some regards and also worse. It will be a hindsight discussion to see how it all worked out. Ideally, in our favor.

You calm down with that negative thought process!

This is a good point. Even if we suck hard at pass protection, these same scrubs may be very solid at run blocking.

He could be good for 6-7 games.

We had two straight years to do that. I think we will find out that they finally value it as a position this offseason.

I agree with this. Even if Moton is our best LT, if the drop from LT to RT is greater than the replacement RT, zero reason to do that. Put the best overall unit out there and roll with it. It is too late to fix now. Just make the best of what you have.

Yeah, that one irked me too. I think that is a very valuable asset to have in defined backup OL but we seem to think we can elevate "versatile" OL into regular starters. Gotta be good at something first....

Agreed. If Christensen really looked better, stop the Ron Rivera poo and get him some reps. We already know Elflein and Erving are trash. Years of proving that on file

Pretty much. It is what it is. Not much we can do about it now. I definitely don't want to see them make a panic trade and give up too much. If there is a path to improve cheaply or a path to improve long term for a reasonable price, I am all in.

Shhhh....don't be "negative."

In fairness, I don't think most NFL teams had him projected as a LT due to physical attributes. I don't think that would have been different most other places in the NFL.

Unfortunately, Darnold will likely be graded the same he was in NY, without much protection. But, the NFL is a big boy league, if he doesn't step up, not much we can do with him. QB's that need absolutely perfect conditions aren't likely to lead us to a title anyway.

Not great but not panic material.

It's a process. Consider how far we stripped the roster down and how much building had to be done. We can debate the finer points of what we should have done or shouldn't have done but if we are ultimately getting better as a team, we don't need to lose our poo. I don't love the moves we made this offseason but I do think our staff is capable of learning from their mistakes. These deficient units will get corrected in future offseasons.

On queue the delusional part shows up.

Be careful. You will draw the ire of the Sunshine Squad. Jabs aside, I would be wary of trading at LT unless we can get a genuine long term answer. If not, stand pat and regroup in 2022.

I can get the delusional portion of the fanbase continuing to be stupid the rest of ya'll need to chill. We get more reps tomorrow and throughout the preseason. Some of these deficiencies will get sorted out(secondary specifically, IMO). We aren't going to the Super Bowl in 2021. There, let's get past that. Just focus on being better as a TEAM. If the OL, QB, LB's, etc suck that is a correctable thing. We can fix a couple of units on the team. Think about this, how exciting was our DL against one of the best OL units in the NFL?