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Becoming a turnstile in this game?
Where exactly are we going to get a stud left tackle? Name the last stud left tackle to come out of the draft. There hasn't been one since probably Orlando Pace and Walter Jones. Finding a great LT is the hardest thing to do in the NFL. Light is an above average left tackle. There are at least half the teams in the NFL who would trade their left tackle for Matt Light right now.
He struggled today and corrected himself later in the game. I thought Kazcur had a worse game.
Also, I thought the o-line in general had problems picking up the blocks. There were a few times where Mankins and Light were tacking on three rushers and Koppen and Neal blocked no one. That blame goes to Koppen because it is the center's responsibility to make blocking adjustments at the line. He didn't pick them up.
We need to put Light where he has always belonged, at right tackle. Time to get a stud left tackle with actual talent, not just strength.
I don't really care what his contract says or who else is on the Line. We are under the salary cap by far more than we should be (to field a competitive offense), and we are watching Brady get killed year after year after year.
Brady makes all these guys on offense look good, only lately Brady is losing the ability to perform miracles. Time for better protection and better WRs and more running plays when he is getting killed.
Stats don't tell the story of Brady's protection. He gets rid of the ball and makes his guys look good, yet Brady gets flattened routinely. That is why he is injuried by the end of many seasons. He was in bad shape in 2002, 2003, 2005.
When do we protect the guy we depend on?
Just wait til next week and we see Light get torched all day by Jason Taylor. I hope they give Light help with a TE
By the way, the only top tier left tackle that was drafted in the last four years in my mind is Levi Jones.
Chargers got Neil with the 50th pick and he would eat Light's lunch.
Look, we can draft a better left tackle than Light. We don't need a Pro Bowler, just a consistent player against different styles of defense.
Light would make a good right tackle and would give us a lot of depth that we end up needing each season on the O-Line.
He had a bad first half, but a pretty good second half.
There has been a lot of left tackles this year who have gotten torched by Jason Taylor. I don't know if that is a judge of a bad left tackle. Including today, the guy has 11 sacks.
Again, where will we find a stud left tackle? Name the last great left tackle drafted. Below is a link to all the tackles taken in the draft. Tell me all the guys you would rather have than Light taken in the last three or four years. I bet you can't find more than a handful. It is very hard to find a marginal starting left tackle in the draft nevermind one who is good. And i don't think there will be any in free agency because any good left tackle gets paid or franchised because they are so hard to find.
Light is far from the best left tackle in the league, but he is also far from the worst. I have real doubts we can find anyone better than Light. He is an above average left tackle, but not much more. It is hard to find even a decent left tackle. Ask Miami, the Jets, and Buffalo about that. They all have been looking for their left tackle for years.
http://www.drafthistory.com/positions/t.html
I love how a few amateur analysts growsing at each other on the internet become a consensus.there is a growing concensus on light's poor play. chances are he has not fully recovered from last season. he needs to start playing better tho