Awesome, another dumpster dive special that will get cut after week five when we need the roster spot to pick up Jacob Eason or Nathan Peterman because the OL got both Sams decapitated.
At least it'll be another great opportunity for WSUMatt and CallMeADawg to pretend to not understand why fans wanted to do better with all our cap space, in hopes that Schneider will see their sycophantic posts and invite them to take the Seacopter to Jody Allen's secret island mansion.
Tell us how you really feel?
My sentiment on this issue is that is JS ready to spend a 1st or 2nd round pick on a guard in this years draft that can seriously push for playing time THIS year? Because if he waits till the 3rd/4th/5th round to draft a guard the pickings will be slim. Plus, in those rounds those guards tend to be developmental/borderline spot starters and not really long term starting material. Teams will draft a guard in the 3rd/4th or 5th round to develop them and start them in a year or two with some NFL development But JS doesn't have that luxury anymore and he needs results this year. Haynes was taken in the third round and Laumea in the 6th so what does that mean? On paper Haynes is either going to become a solid spot starter/quality depth and the same with Laumea. In an ideal world Haynes shows he is more than a 3rd rounder and shows he can be a full fledged starter but that is why draft position tends to show how much development time players need relative to others.
A good example is that the Bucs drafted Barton in round 1 in the same draft. Barton was raw at times and his transition to center wasn't smooth but he showed promise for the Bucs revamped rushing attack.
Here is the other layer. If MAC wants to pound the rock out of 12 personnel groupings with Kubiak playcaling this type of offense you need TEs and interior Gs that can push or open holes. Formations become more condensed in 12 personnel which is why you need guards to open holes in this style of offense. You do not have people spread out to make it easier for OL to hit their blocks and the RBs make one quick cut to exploit a spread out defense.
12 personnel is man to man carnage and you need studs on the inside and at TE to make it work. Or, else it will not work and you are better off running 4 WR sets and running draw plays up the middle out of shotgun formations.