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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 490028" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">After watching EDS at OC for the last part of the season and through the playoffs, I'm changing my tune about the need at OC. Unfortunately even after selecting OTs in the first rounds of two consecutive drafts just two and three drafts ago, IMO LT remains the biggest need on the OL. Maybe Newhouse will improve a lot on his 42.5 pressures surrendered, maybe Sherrod will return healthy enough to start at LT, maybe Bulaga will make the switch to LT and play as he did two seasons ago. But maybe not. So here we are again with a large question mark at the most critical pass blocking spot on the OL. </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">But I no longer want to see an OC selected early in the draft. Here's what McGinn had to say about the performance of EDS in the playoff game vs. SF</span><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">:</span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> That performance was in the biggest game EDS had started to date in his young career and it was against a very good opponent. In his season ending piece, McGinn noted EDS didn't screw up a shotgun snap and "seemed to handle the mental part of the game without a hitch. Will be hard to dislodge from the lineup." He's got room for improvement but I think they've found their starting OC for the next few seasons. Saturday was an "oozer", too often on running plays Newhouse is an oozer who doesn't finish. If EDS is the antithesis of that as McGinn says, he'll be a valuable asset in the middle of the OL. As I said backups inside are needed but I hope Thompson doesn't take an interior OL in the first three rounds and I don't think he will. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 490028, member: 4300"] [FONT=Arial]After watching EDS at OC for the last part of the season and through the playoffs, I'm changing my tune about the need at OC. Unfortunately even after selecting OTs in the first rounds of two consecutive drafts just two and three drafts ago, IMO LT remains the biggest need on the OL. Maybe Newhouse will improve a lot on his 42.5 pressures surrendered, maybe Sherrod will return healthy enough to start at LT, maybe Bulaga will make the switch to LT and play as he did two seasons ago. But maybe not. So here we are again with a large question mark at the most critical pass blocking spot on the OL. [/FONT] [FONT=Arial]But I no longer want to see an OC selected early in the draft. Here's what McGinn had to say about the performance of EDS in the playoff game vs. SF[/FONT][FONT=Georgia]:[/FONT][FONT=Georgia][COLOR=windowtext][/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Arial][COLOR=windowtext] That performance was in the biggest game EDS had started to date in his young career and it was against a very good opponent. In his season ending piece, McGinn noted EDS didn't screw up a shotgun snap and "seemed to handle the mental part of the game without a hitch. Will be hard to dislodge from the lineup." He's got room for improvement but I think they've found their starting OC for the next few seasons. Saturday was an "oozer", too often on running plays Newhouse is an oozer who doesn't finish. If EDS is the antithesis of that as McGinn says, he'll be a valuable asset in the middle of the OL. As I said backups inside are needed but I hope Thompson doesn't take an interior OL in the first three rounds and I don't think he will. [/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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