burmafrd;2819466 said:
Alex, check your rosters in the NFL and you will be surprised how many 33+ yer olds are starting.
I am fully aware there are 33 year olds. A few can and do play 2-3 years beyond the age of 30. That's exactly the boat we are in right now where we have a 2-3 year window (in Adams' case less IMO) that we will turn over all five starters in the next 2-3 years because we don't have adequate replacements in the pipeline.
You mentioned 35, 36 years of age and that there were "lots" of them and they were at a high level.
I'd ask that you check your rosters and let me know who they are and what exactly qualifies as "lots"? If you were exagerrating, just say so.
THAT is why I am not worried because 4 of our 5 starters just hit 30 or so.
It should worry anyone who wasn't wishing upon a star that practically our entire OL beats the odds and plays greater than three years past the age of 30. That's a tall order. It is one thing on a case by case basis. If it was one or two players, that's not a big deal. Our entire line pretty much falls into that group that could head south quickly if things are not just right. And we evidently have nobody ready to start right now. We sent Adams out there with one arm at times because we didn't trust the backups. We wasted three years with Berger and ended up letting him go. Before that was a couple of years with Marten. If we want quality, we've had to buy them (Davis, Kosier) or get lucky with a salvage job (Columbo). Otherwise you have two holdovers (Adams, Gurode) from many drafts ago. That is insane.
To me, the lines are how you build a team, offense and defense. If the line isn't right, every facet of the unit is not right.
If we can start drafting halfway decently and pick two a year every year then we are OK as long as we hit on 1 out of 3.
We haven't drafted decently for the past decade at the position. Suddenly the light is going to go off and we will? If you can't evaluate, then let the law of averages take over. Hitting on 1 out of 3 is the best way to go. But we have not done that. We picked one this past draft. Meanwhile, we spent 3-4 choices being reactive to special teams issues. That makes very little sense to me.
Unless Free, McQuistin and Brewster are all better than they've shown or the team has implied, we could find ourselves in a very bad situation and desperate very soon. When you are desperate is when you make mistakes, both with reaches in the draft and throwing money at free agents (Marco. Rivera.).
If it is scouting, coaching whatever, it is an issue.
