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I can't throw a dead cat without seeing a thread bitching about the offensive line and blaming gettleman. 

 

He's doing this on purpose, he's trying to get Cam killed so he can draft a white person, he's trying to get Rivera fired, he's trying to get the team moved to LA, he's married to Richardson's wife, etc.

 

You are blessed with the gift of hindsight. You know every single thing that's happened, every single player that has played this year, everyone who has come up and played lights out. 

 

Fix the offensive line in preseason. Here are the stipulations in this game.

 

1. You can draft one in the first three rounds, but you lose whomever was drafted in that spot. So say goodbye to Kelvin Benjamin, or Kony Ealy. 

 

2. Ket's keep the ridiculous trades to a minimum. Just for shits and giggles, no trading like the next five first round picks to the Eagles for their entire Oline. 

 

3. Everything with Hardy is going to happen. 

 

4. Gross and Wharton are retiring. Obviously if you have seen Gross, he was done playing, and good for him. Wharton's retirement had more to do with him just not being able to get his body back in shape, which is why he waited so long to do it.

 

5. No one gets magically cut in this. You can't create some scenario where like Tyron Smith steals Jerry Jones' favorite prostitute and gets sent to the street. 

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well, this is fairly easy.   First round, you don't possibly move off KB so you can get Bitonio later (I hear they really did like Bitonio but there's no way you pass up KB). 

 

SO the 2nd becomes, Ealy or Morgan Moses?   I figured Moses to be the pick at the time so I'd have been OK with that.  Moses really dropped the last few weeks of the draft, but his technique is pretty sloppy.  He played last week, and he had some great stuff out there, and some problems.  Now that's his first real action of the year, so consider that.  In reaction, Ealy was a luxury pick, and in hindsight it was a huge need and he hasn't even really filled it yet (he will go on to be a good player, though). 

 

The 3rd rounder being a guard, it's hard to take that away.  Turner has been solid, he moves well, he's what the team needs at G and they couldn't afford to end up the way they had in '13 at RG.   You could argue that the third, fourth could've been Hurst at OT instead, and I'd have been fine with that then or now. 

 

I knew before doing this your point was, he tried to do something about OT and couldn't, instead of "didn't".  And I agree.  Gettleman wanted an OT.   It didn't work out that way.    I do think, throwing a flyer on Hurst in 6 would've left the team better off, but they had to have had their reasons not to draft him or try to pick him up in UDFA. 

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Gettleman had a chance to fix the oline later in the draft and chose not too. There were a couple OTs that went undrafted and one was taken in the 7th. Senatrel Henderson and James Hurst. While they haven't been world betters this season they are both better than our two current starting tackles. It was inexcusable to ignore the tackle position in the draft and he did just that. Also the fact it took this long to bench Silatolu. He was getting out played in the preseason and it carried over to the regular season, yet it took 9 weeks for the front office to see how inept he is.

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Gettleman had a chance to fix the oline later in the draft and chose not too. There were a couple OTs that went undrafted and one was taken in the 7th. Senatrel Henderson and James Hurst. While they haven't been world betters this season they are both better than our two current starting tackles. It was inexcusable to ignore the tackle position in the draft and he did just that. Also the fact it took this long to bench Silatolu. He was getting out played in the preseason and it carried over to the regular season, yet it took 9 weeks for the front office to see how inept he is.

 

While yes he could have drafted them, let's be frank: anything after the 3rd round is a shot in the dark. 

 

And benching Silatolu is more coaching than anything else. 

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As far as not benching him sooner, that's the kind of value judgements fans aren't really qualified to make. the coaching staff, gettleman, or both might have felt their chances were better hoping a lightbulb goes off than trying an alternative. 

 

Fan's typically side on the "change something anything just do something" when it's not always the best choice, or a sophie's choice at best. 

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