Why NOT do that?
Would you agree the biggest risk we have of not being a SB contender is that the OL plays like it did in the last 6 games?
Can we really bank our season on hoping they magically improve?
Why wouldn't we get a starter? If they do improve they can play ahead of him, if they don't thank God we got him.
By the way, we need BOTH to improve, and both were among the worst starting Gs in the NFL.
I generally agrre with you on this - I wanted Incognito or Osemele or (now) Evans to get signed and give the kids some breathing room while the Pats find out what they really can do.
I'll also point out that there really is a "rookie" wall, where play drops off significantly for a lot of rookies once they get past week 14 or so. Having a line full of rookies in a loud stadium facing a D that was playing out of its mind had me worried all year. Yep, our line was awful against Denver - so was Carolina's, than they were thought to be great all year.
Aside from all of that, I'm still trying to figure out why you hate Andrews so much. Granted, I'm a layman and only have my eyeballs to tell me, but I thought the line got much worse when they took him out and put Stork in there (and I really like Stork - thought he should have gone to Guard with all the injuries). I'm hoping Andrews put on a few pounds of muscle, bcause I thought his smarts at C were pretty great.
Also, Cannon got hurt almost immediately after being called upon and never really recovered. Not making excuses here, but there's a reason, I expect, that he's still on the roster. Waddle showed promise at LT even, both in Detroit and here, but got hurt. Wendell missed the whole year with tha tmystery illness that ravaged the team. Mason was HURT, not benched. When his snap counts began going down, he was listed as Limited in Practice with a knee week after week, iirc. That was a battered, confused group out there, and if what Zolak and others said about the snap count, they were doomed to fail in Denver.
That's on the coaching more than anything else. Should have been caught and Andrews put in. And d%#*!@t, how do you leave a backup tackle alone against Von Miller when you're passing on every damned down?
