I merely wanted to clarify that as it stands right now two of the three guards you referred to cannot get past Winters on the depth chart, and Winters right now is the worst starter on O. Heh. There's really nothing to argue, so arguing was not my intention at all. Yes, Dozier in particular is more understandable than Aboushi for why he remains below Winters. But at this point I think it reasonable to conclude Aboushi is not a likelihood to become a decent starter. Perhaps Winters can improve from last week's performance. As I said I have not given up on him.
It's incredibly annoying because we struck gold by converting Brandon Moore from a defensive tackle so now this franchise thinks that we can just draft offensive lineman and plug them in where ever the hell we want. It works and it doesn't work but we need to start looking more towards actually successful players at bigger time programs than Massachusetts and Kent State. The trench battles seem to be the closest to speed out of the three or four different aspects of offense to the NFL because you still have the huge bodies flying around at you. Obviously the defensive lineman aren't as good but I feel as though the bigger conferences produce more NFL lineman and for obvious reasons. With that being said I can't verify this at all and I could be completely pulling that out of my ass. It's just the overall feeling I get.
I'm not sure we really struck gold with Brandon Moore. He was an excellent guard however it took him two years to make the transition to guard and Chad Pennington's shot at being a great QB went over during that span. It was all the projects and journeymen at guard in camp in 2003 that started the Chad injury process. We don't know if the right shoulders would have happened absent the fractured left wrist in camp in 2003 but we do know that the Jets priority as of camp in 2003 was not: #1 protect Chad, #2 everything else.
I have no problem putting the draftee in at RT and shifting Breno in provided that the draftee can handle the speed. This may be where guys from the big conferences have and advantage over the small school players. The big school may have less of a speed curve than small school. Not saying small school can't get there or be better just that its a steeper curve. Just don't want QB killed finding out. Obviously, the staff should be able to figure that out prior to real games.
This is a good post. Those years are fading into history, but I distinctly recall annoyance during the Edwards years how they let the OL slide. Tanny got a huge break signing Pete Kendall for very little, but they ended up screwing that up, too. How about when they let McKenzie go? Yikes.
After the fact, but I was pitching for Trai Turner (LSU) in last spring's draft threads--could've gotten him in the 3rd. Came out after his sophomore year (and would need at least a year of grooming) but this 21 year old beast has so much more upside that anything the Jets currently have. Aboushi? He's a lead-footed clod and watching him lunge and spin while trying to latch onto guys blowing by him in pre-season, you'd have thought he was trying to square dance….Oday-Oday-do-si-do.. OG is verry shaky -- one injury and we're screwed big time. Come next draft, I'd look hard at A.J. Cann, South Carolina.
