This is the type of brutal honesty [Devey being a marginal roster player, not worthy of being a starter] that I appreciate.
Thank God I'm not going blind because I see the same pathetic offensive line performance not worthy of Tom Brady quarterbacked team. So Tom Brady took a home town discount for this crap?
I have seen offensive lines vary dramatically with the same players but changing coaches. For example, the Michigan State Spartan OL underperformed woefully under its current coach. When former Buckeye coordinator Jim Bollman was brought in to help, the performance of the same guys changed almost on a dime. Dramatic improvement.
OL coach is one of the most important coaches on the team. A lot of X's and O's for the second smartest group after the QB's.
Chip Kelly hired the best offensive line coach in college football Feb. 2013 from Nick Saban's Alabama program. So the Eagles now have
Jeff Stoutland whom we could have gotten
if Scar had retired one year earlier. I'd hazard a guess that Stoutland is MUCH better than what we have now in lackluster Dave DeGuglielmo.
Playing Devey is simply, unquestionably a horrible decision--and it's all on DeGuglielmo, who goes by some other lens than Scar. It should be
Josh Kline at LG, just like he played a couple of games last year. His first start was very rough. Then Kline improved dramatically.
It should be
Solder-Kline-Connelly-Cannon-Seabass.
The beeching stops when the Oline performs at a higher level.
As I said in another post, I think it's abundantly clear the Patriots had their eyes set solely on
Trai Turner of LSU in the third round with our pick, #92. When the Panthers took him at #91, we immediately traded out for a fourth (Bryan Stork) and a sixth (who was Jamea Thomas out of Georgia Tech).
Turner has broken the starting lineup and looks to be a very solid NFL player, in not better.
And Captain Stone has questioned the drafting of the Florida guard we cut who lacks athleticism, not a Patriots-type player. Why we drafted him is a question in my mind.
Bill has screwed up a little bit by drafting too many secondary guys in the early rounds who haven't panned out. We have neglected the interior of both the offensive and, to a lesser extent, the defensive linesl. Scar the magic man is no longer coaching.
Tavon Wilson instead of a legitimate 3-4 DE from Nashua, NH, starting for the Chargers,
Kendall Reyes, the UConn star? That still rankles. It was as if Belichick wanted to poke fun of the Combine selection process, rather than do what was best for his team. Wilson was #2 at Illinois. He had dreadlocks then like his teammate Terry Hawthorne, who wore #1, a 4.44 CB who was drafted in the fifth round by the Steelers and subsequently cut. Hawthorne was the more athletic of the two. Wilson was/is a sixth-rounder at best.
I can give Belichick Darius Butler. That happens all the time. But Tavon Wilson? That's arrogance on Belichick's part.