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I don’t think there will be an overhaul. We have our starting safeties. We will still have Jaylon Johnson. And I’ll guess one of Stevenson or Muhammed on the other side But it’s possible both If Stevenson grows up. I think somewhere amongst the current group we have our starting LBs for next year. If VDB continues his trajectory he’s a likely starter at DT next year. We need to add another starter. DE. Sweat will still be here. He’s good not great but we need to add not subtract. Booker will be here but could be anything from DE2 to DE4. Same with Turner. Again we need to add a starting caliber player. I expect one of the these needs to be addressed via FA. Big needs remaining LT and DE or DT. Ozzy could still end up a good LT. Not listed Kyler Gordon He’s ours if we want him.

The last training camp practice just wrapped up. Now we head into the final preseason game where several backup spots are in play. Bring on a lunch break and my phone i’m not in a position to do a full 53 But I want to get the conversation started Oline. I think we keep 10 but could just as easily see 9 if Ozzy is close to returning. I’ll need to see the game to make a decision on Wills vs Benedet. 10 would be the team hedging their bets and buying time on the LT competition with both Wills and Benedet. Kaden Davis makes it as the 6th WR. Dline 9. Grady, Dexter, VDB, Gallimore, and Lynch. Booker, Sweat, Dayo, Kromah. Lynch is place holder until Turner is ready to go and he has lined up at DE at times. I listed Kromah but he still needs to earn it in this game.

Josh Sweat would be a horrible trade for us. Just an average pass rusher with little run stopping. I don’t see him as a good fit especially for the contract he has. If Booker is involved then obviously the trade would have to be for a DE. I can’t see that happening and for which player.

That could be. Crosby? There would be a lot of quiet negotiations to sort out between contract and his health.

Mongo doesn’t need advice. Phx doesn’t need advice. What they need is to talk football.

Waiting for word on Darnell’s injury.

This is interesting. Last week Dennis Allen was clear when guys start playing well you want to see them against better competition. Gallimore hasn’t looked good in either game. I think VDB is already the clear DT3 and rising. DT4? We kept Hardy around last year for special teams. Kromah has outplayed him at DE.

Gone Amegadjie is from the OT competition. I’ll still be the sole outsider because I don’t think it’s over for OT3 either

It does. If the weakness is handling speed to power rushes then chip early and take the edge off the speed. If the OT, like Ozzy, is susceptible to speed around the edge then chip off the line forcing the DE to a narrower lane. Ben did a ton of that to help Ozzy last year. Sometimes it was even done by WRs. Add in play design with rollouts, jet sweeps to keep them guessing, screens, etc Lots of options within a play which is why the Internet panic over the LT situation is overblown IMO. We have two or three average meh options and maybe one good option in Ozzy when he returns. Now if we were trying to cover up two or three weaknesses on the line as in years past then yes, I’d be worried This is also why Darnell got so much money. He can handle his side all on his own.

Go watch the first or second play. See Wills at LT on a run play where he run blocks to the wrong side. Roush goes into the same gap to block his guy. Then it gets comical as Wills realizes his mistake and literally runs around the defender to get on the play side.

Seeing Theo get Bull rushed badly a couple times in the last game doesn’t give me confidence. I don’t really know what happened to him because last year it took him a bit but he eventually found his anchor. Skip to 8:40 I’ll admit the QB did him no favors by badly drifting out of the pocket but on this play everyone else has their block except him.

Help can come from 11 or 12 or even no TEs if you make that the RB priority. Braxton it’s better this year than last so I don’t see us as being in a worse position. Theo also has a lot more experience at LT. Ben has at his command one of the best TE groups , one of the best WR groups ( my opinion), a good duo at RB , and a strong Oline from LG to RT. One of the best mobile QBs is running the show. There’s one weakness and if he can’t figure out how to work around that then we hired the wrong coach. Every team has at least one weakness on their offensive roster.

I’d like to see that too.

Roush highlights but I’m watching 71 at RT, and a couple snaps with 79. Wills looks ok to me but I’ll let others evaluate.

Also I’d take Wills over Benedet for the swing tackle. I have no doubt Theo has him beat on the run blocking but last year that took the entire Oline 6 weeks into the season to get down. No reason to think Wills won’t benefit in the same way from more time. A couple folks are commenting that Wills looked good at RT. I think that gets decided in the next game. I can see a world where they keep Wills as primary backup out of the gate with Ozzy also on the 53 and focused on reps at LT. If nobody takes him Theo goes to practice squad.