I can appreciate that perspective, I’m just of a different mindset right now. I’m not OK with spending millions on a depth player, but I’m not willing to count on a rookie. So, that leaves me content to roll with Glasgow and Mahogany, with some high-ceiling draft-picks pushing them both.
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If you look at the depth chart,
DE G CB depth and safety depth is our glaring needs, witch should line up pretty well with this draft.
This was a terribly weak FA class to start with but this is a very strong draft class and alot of quilty players. We’re setting pretty good right now
If we went something like
DE Nic Scourtin, Donovan Ezeiruaku
G Jonah Savaiinaea
S Kevin Winston , Latham
CB Nahl Williams
I have faith all these guys could contribute quality snapp right away.
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Ok so what is our reason to have to do that when we have cap to do better and draft pics. If we were in that situation fine , but what is the reason to do so we’re not cap strapped. If your wrong and you can’t keep Golf clean you my be in for a long season. It’s a risk you don’t have to take.
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My point was it would be unwise to expect all three of those things to happen. That is Mahogany playing like a solid starter, Glasgow returning to 2023 form and all of Ragnow, Glasgow, and Mahogany to stay healthy the majority of 2025.
Signing a veteran guard with starting experience to a 1 year deal in the 4-5mil range is very reasonable. Adds competition to the group and allows Glasgow to back up all three spots on the interior.
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I’m still trying to get a answer why we would want to do that, I understand sometimes teams have to do that but that’s not the case with us.
There could be a thousand reasons we don’t know about.
Maybe we’re working on a deal for Hendrickson or another expensive player.
Maybe we’ve decided to forward money for next year onto this year’s cap since next year will be so tight.
Maybe we ARE looking at a $4-5M iOL as @detroit1811 suggests.
Maybe we did offer him $10M and he turned it down to be close to family.
Maybe we know something about his health that the rest of the world doesn’t and believe a drop off is coming quickly.
Maybe he didn’t get along with the other guys. Maybe we thought his wife was primed to pull a Yoko Ono on us.
Maybe we LOVE a rookie and are reasonably sure he’ll be available. Rookie iOL hit all the time, probably more often than any other position besides RB.
We are on the outside looking in, and don’t forget Brad has been VERY good about shoring up any weaknesses by the time the season starts. I’m really not worried about it at all.
The thing is, NO risk is a risk you have to take. If he wanted to, Brad could have paid the premium to sign Sweat and/or Will Fries, Davante Adams, Jevon Holland, Divine Deablo. Just kick the money into future years and let’s go! No reason to take any risk at any position where we’re not like, awesome. Just sign guys! Many on here would suggest we do just that.
But as you know, that’s not the way Brad operates.
Now you could argue re-signing Zeitler was lower risk than those, but the truth is we just don’t know. His body could be about to crap out. I also really don’t think NOT signing him is nearly as high risk as you or @detroit1811 think. I’m more comfortable with our current iOL coming into the year now than I was the past two years. Would I be MORE comfortable with Zeitler? Yes. But not by so much I’d overpay for him. It’s fine.
I also fully suspect to add someone in the draft which will make it even stronger.
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Has he though? Or was he just playing at LG last year and not next to Sewell like Zeitler & Mahogs got to do.
Kayode resigning on a minimum contract for depth
ZDarius being brought back
Those would help
I agree with most , that’s kinda what I’m saying is has to be something going on not sure it’s Trey but we’re saving cap space for a reason. I doubt there just handing Glasgow the job or Mogs. I fully expect a draft pic in the battle for one of them G spots. I’m not thrilled with the guys left out there as ivr said. There’s a couple but I think they would be as much as Zeitler.
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Mostly this is an issue of evaluation, which is really at the root of most disagreements on here this time of the year, even though many try and argue it’s bad process. You are not as comfortable with Mahogany or Glasgow starting as I am (your evaluation vs mine), and you think Zeitler’s loss is more acute than I do. There’s nothing wrong with disagreeing on evaluation stuff, we all do that all the time. It’s when people try and argue the process is bad when in fact they really just mean it goes against their opinion of the player/s (and I’m not saying you do this, but others definitely do).
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They really like him he an Wood could be are two guards. They will likely draft one I like Jonah Savaiinaea rd 2
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Hasnt Glasgow only had one decent season here ? This time around, and he was really bad in Denver before here, if you look at his play over the last 5 years he has had one decent year and he played RG for Denver
I like your top 2 picks, Scourton and Savaiinaea would be great pics hitting top needs.
I see davenport as our vet pass rusher. I want 2 rookies. Draft a stud and let Brad find another gem somewhere in this deep draft. I want 2 new young pass rushers from THIS draft specifically. I would also grab a dt or 2.
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Yeah, this time around. But he’s only had 2 years total, so small sample size. His time in Denver was awful but he spent most of it hurt, and he was good here before he left. He’s not a stud or anything, but he’s still good enough to be a cog on an elite line, just like he was two years ago. Again, I would prefer a rookie to beat him out, but I don’t think it’s imperative.
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Through the years, and even this past year, the things that hurt us most have been mistakes. That is to say, the OL as a whole IS a good group of talent, but in the course of a game they’re committing errors that are sometimes at the worst possible time. For instance, the 3rd down play that has everybody hating on Ben Johnson. Not to get distracted by that, though, we can all remember yelling at the TV on multiple occasions each year over false starts, missed assignments and total whiffs. It’s never always one player, rather they each sort of mis-fire on occasion. It’s not a lack of talent, size or ability, it’s an occasional execution error that costs you.
Now, having sort of described that, here are the # of occurrences you could expect to see in a season per player:
Sewell = 1 LOL
Zietler = 5
Ragnow = 5
Decker = 10+
Glasgow = 17+
Glasgow in his best year during his first stint here would still have a head-scratching error each game, often at the worst possible time. He’d play as good as you want for most snaps, but if there was a single OL mistake in 60 offensive plays, it would be GG committing it.
When he came back in 23, he played his best football ever. Those mistakes were cut in half. Last year they returned. The questions are; Was 23 stellar because he’s a better RG than LG? Or, were they gone/covered up in 23 because he was between Ragnow and Sewell? Or, is he declining?
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Great questions
Hoping he is a backup this year. More continuity for the ol with less shuffling
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