Jaguars not excersing 5th year option on Luke Joeckel

[mc52beast]

Panthers fans won't get to see a high draft pick like that for many years... cuz da Getty said so

[L-TownCat]

2 hours ago, chris999 said:

Otah

?????

[ctrcat]

1 hour ago, carolina-chuck2 said:

 

Still, Fisher is pretty much near a bust. Gman will go with Remmers. The man had two bad games last season only, but one where it counted the most. 

It's not an either/or.  Again Jonathan Martin was acquired and subsequently quit in addition to what we already had.

[ctrcat]

1 minute ago, carolina-chuck2 said:

Martin quit before the season last year. He was a Panther for like 2.5 days. 

Claimed in March, quit in July.  We will be looking for AT LEAST one more OT, and Anthony Munoz isn't walking through the door.

[KB_fan]

10 hours ago, ctrcat said:

We will be looking for AT LEAST one more OT,

YES!!!

Folks need to stop thinking about replacing Remmers or Oher for a minute and just look at our backups behind them.

Yes we have Daryl Williams - very promising but only played 83 snaps in 2015.  Not exactly proven yet.

After him, Foucault (at least has some game experience in 2014, but most of us want to forget that!) and Hawkins (has played 1 ST snap in the NFL.  Period.)

I'm just not comfortable going into the season with only 3 OT on the roster given that both our presumed starters (Remmers & Oher) will be in contract years and UFA-eligible at the end of this season.

Right now this is what our Oline looks like:

Kalil / Gradkowski

Turner & Norwell / Scott

Oher & Remmers / Williams

Are you all good with carrying only 8 Olinemen on the 53?   I'm not.  I want one more guy for depth & insurance.  The contenders on our roster right now are below.   Unless Foucault has turned into a solid tackle who could start for us if needed, I see a big weakness in terms of OT depth.  (However, I *think* I read in some thread or in some article in the past few days that Yankey has experience at Tackle.  Perhaps he's in the mix for OT competition.  If so, that eases my concern a bit.  If he were kept as backup for both guard & tackle, that could work....)

 

Foucault, David	T	6'8	320	27	2	Montreal
Hawkins, Donald	T	6'4	305	24	2	Texas

Dismukes, Reese	G	6'3	295	23	1	Auburn
Larsen, Tyler	G	6'4	315	24	1	Utah State
Yankey, David	G	6'6	320	24	2	Stanford

Masifilo, Matt

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6'3

280

26

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Stanford

[KB_fan]

Here's a profile about Yankey from 2014 after he was drafted by the Vikings:

http://www.dailynorseman.com/2014/5/10/5704078/vikings-steal-david-yankey-what-does-he-bring-to-the-offense

I like what I read about him, but he hasn't played any NFL snaps.... so... I'd still be for bringing in an experienced OT (hopefully one who can also back up at Guard).

[CarolinaNCSU]

If we're in the market for an (ex) Jags OT...Eugene Monroe is the play.

Recovering from injury, the Ravens just drafted his replacement, and has a friendly remaining amount of money on his contract. Believe it's something like 3 years, 18 million left but with little guarantees and his dead cap hits aren't awful going forward. At best, our OL revitalizes a very good OT and we get a starter should Oher/Remmers revert back to being bad. At worst, we get depth (granted, at the cost of a draft pick...probably a low one, though), and depth that can be cut at any time to save money.

[ctrcat]

^ I like the logic but Joeckel is only 24 so that must be considered as well.  Someday we'd hope to find at least a somewhat long term solution at LT I would imagine.

[stirs]

Half the league has no clue

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2016/05/03/fifth-year-options-show-everyones-guessing-in-the-nfl-draft/

[juliosantos]

bust

[Jeremy Igo]

Chris Scott plays OT too

[Growl]

1 minute ago, Jeremy Igo said:

Chris Scott plays OT too

Oh well that's a relief.