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Oher: To Extend His Contract or Not?

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I've been impressed by Oher and his play. I wonder if the FO has any plans on extending his contract past this upcoming season.

Im all for signing this guy for another 3-4 years and doubt we could find a better LT in FA or in the draft.

This is a weak OT class, imo and it is a steep learning curve for rookie tackles regardless of how good they were in college.

I wouldn't be surprised if contract talks with Oher are or will be in the works.

What are you guy's thoughts?

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6 minutes ago, Hotsauce said:

I'd like to to see how he does for at least the first half of this season. But if we had to make a decision, I'd say extend him

Historically, Getts shuts down contract talk when the sarson starts, unless he needs to sign a FA.

I feel that we need Oher at least 4-more years and that we need to draft his replacement adapt.

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2 minutes ago, Pox 08 said:

Wasn't he pretty good @Pass protection but shitty at run blocking?    Or am I mixing it up and it's vice versa?

You got it right. Any time we ran to his side of the field, Kalil was pulling. 

The good thing about that is he still hasn't reached his ceiling and there's still room for him to improve.

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At the right price, yes we should.  I think he was a relative bargain for what DG got him for, if Matsko thinks he still has room for more improvement, lets lock him up so he doesnt have more leverage with improved play after this year when his current deal is up. If nothing else he is very good depth at the back end of a longer contract (3-4 yrs) if we draft a LT in the next year or two.  No matter what you say about the guy, he was an exponential improvement over Bell.

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12 minutes ago, manu4t said:

At the right price, yes we should.  I think he was a relative bargain for what DG got him for, if Matsko thinks he still has room for more improvement, lets lock him up so he doesnt have more leverage with improved play after this year when his current deal is up. If nothing else he is very good depth at the back end of a longer contract (3-4 yrs) if we draft a LT in the next year or two.  No matter what you say about the guy, he was an exponential improvement over Bell.

Matsko is no longer the OL coach. It's Ray Brown now.

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1 hour ago, nitroblast said:

Matsko is no longer the OL coach. It's Ray Brown now.

While true, Matsko was promoted to something like Run Game Coordinator or something like that, so it's not like he won't be involved with the o-line.  And since Oher was lacking in the run game blocking, this move may actually benefit him more.

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