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The problem with Solder-Shaq-Stork-Jackson-Vollmer, IMO, is that none of the three guys in the middle were very good this year.
I don't think Andrews belongs in the league. If we had any kind of depth along the OL he wouldn't have made the roster.
Stork a solid C who played like crap, and a bunch of guys who would not have started on more than a couple of NFL teams, and others who most would have cut. It was THAT bad.
We'll know what the coaches think as we watch them make moves over the coming months. That'll be by far the best evidence of how much of this past season's failures were due to player capability.
We are all making observations from the cheap seats, having no idea what went on between coaches and players at any time before and during the games. There's no way to measure how "dangerously" the team is living by counting on better performance in the future from the current players. It is emotionally satisfying to make bold statements of certainty, but they are as empty as a campaign speech in Iowa.
By far the best outcome for the team is for the current players to become All-Pro's next year, and for all of the problems this last year to have no relevance to their potential going forward other than as a hard lesson learned.