2017 Roster Update
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CuntWaffle
New Fish
How do you really feel?
I stand (trigger warning for Dennis, not sure if he can actually stand up yet) with @Dennis_DeYoung on this.
You should never ever ever take less than OL per year.
Dennis_DeYoung
New Fish
We are going to have fucking 14 next year and half of them have already been passed by younger players.
backthepack
New Fish
Terell Bynum
Ice_Holmvik
New Fish
Clearly
Tony Rodriguz
Nick little
KJ Young...Too early to tell. Could be good.
Zeke..No Kyler Manu..Yes
And Walker..Might be good if he can stay healthy but Fuck it.
Need to GTFO
Also:
Kyler Manu
Constantine
Brandon Lewis
Tony Rodriguz
Nick little
KJ Young...Too early to tell. Could be good.
Zeke..No Kyler Manu..Yes
And Walker..Might be good if he can stay healthy but Fuck it.
Need to GTFO
Also:
Kyler Manu
Constantine
Brandon Lewis
AtomicDawg
Active poster
Zeke Turner hits like a truck. He is a good special teams player. No reason to run him off. This board loves to hate our players still.
FremontTroll
New Fish
Yep, the issue isn't the numbers in so much as it is the fact that half of them have not contributed shit to date.
Our 14 OL this year produced an excellent starting unit and absolutely zero depth. We could not have sustained any OL injuries and kept rolling like we did at DL and LB and could have at DB or TE.
So now for next year we are again struggling to sign 2-3 OL. Lets say we end up with Bainvalu and two Plan B/C guys. We lose one to attrition and we have 14 again.
We need to replace Eldrenkamp- our best interior guy. And we need to find two capable backups.
Which three is it going to be?
Kirkland
James
Sosebee
Turner
Burleson
Hilbers
Roberts
Wattenberg
Keeping in mind that the first five guys were passed by a 270 lb. true freshman despite being in the program for three years already.
That about nails it. The first 5 (fucking 5) were passed by an undersized freshman. Some of them are fucking Juniors. They suck. Everyone agrees you need 7 top shelf OL (i.e. ability to start at almost any school in the Pac12)...5 starting and 2 very capable back ups, while you bring the other 7 young guys along. Instead, next year, we have 2 really good ones, 2 very questionable ones (starting at other schools type questionable), and then what? And to make it even better, we are bringing in one great prospect, and then shit (unless we miracle Fozzy or Davis). An elite line is YEARS away. Strausser will have to work some magic to even be as good as this year as Eldrenkamp is a future NFL guy. He has proven he is good with working with these kids, but could we just get some better clay for him to mold someday? Ever?
Yeah. We need to pray that Wattenburg lives up to the hype (though young), AND Roberts emerges, OR one of the FIVE losers who got passed by a 260 pound TF just clicks in a MAJOR way and salvages themselves. None of this is impossible, but does look a bit improbable. We need to recruit more and better guys. Even if all of the above happens (Wattenburg, Roberts and one of the suck crew emerge), that would put us at 5 good OL, and 2 serviceable backups, with absolute crap behind them. Depth would still be shit if everything breaks the right way. I know a bunch of people think this is beating a dead horse BUT I DONT GIVE A FIDDLERS FUCK BECAUSE I WANT A GODDAMN MAULER LINE!!!11!!!!11!!
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FremontTroll
New Fish
Yep, its the exact same argument we had last year except in evidence we have one more year of subpar recruiting and one more year of most of the linemen not progressing as shown by Nick Harris winning the starting job over Brostek, James, Kirkland, Turner, Sosebee, etc.
(All relative to the rest of the roster. Nobody thinks the OL is terrible it just is behind the other position groups.)
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