Brother, I am talking about the spots that we are lacking right now which is DT, LB, S, and WR. Ironically the same spots where we haven’t produced jack **** outside of Kinchens since these guys have been here and ironically his play fell in Y3 from Y2. I wonder what that is?
Find me anything I’ve said negatively about Lofton too, btw.
Just to put this in perspective, Ohio State just lost their top two DTs and top two EDGEs to the draft. We have 2 proven Edges returning, and 1 proven DT returning who was at worst top 3-5 DT in portal, another 5 star DT that all practice indications are he's stepping up, two more 5 star EDGEs we expect to be heavily in rotation, and another very high 4 star in Lightfoot that also practice reports have indicated he's stepping up. If Moten was on Ohio State everyone would absolutely be expecting him to step up, but here we can't possibly go into next season with all that and think we could have a good DLine Unit.
I personally want another DT, but when people act like our unit is trash its just embarrassing man. At some point you have to let guys sink or swim, and with them we win or lose. We could absolutely really use a Nt-type as a DT3-4 in the rotation. But when people act like without another DT add our unit is going to suck I just seriously question their actual expectations.
Is our current DLine good enough to get a team to CFP if it was on UGA/Ohio St? I think so. I seriously just think people's expectations are insane. It's like people think we can just snap our fingers and have a DLine of Corleone from Cinci Watson from Syracuse, Blay, and Scott and anything less is trash....
Lb I personally don't value too highly and we landed a guy staff likes, so up to them to get the most out of him. We have some young talent that hopefully steps up. Again I've been saying IF alderman/Chase are the guys being relied on that is bad. But if Wiley/Popo/Pruitt are the guys that win the job? I'm good with it, They gotta step up.
At DB I don't at all get the hysteria after adding 4 high quality DBs in the portal to add to OJ and Damari. I do question why we just didn't have Lucas at safety the entire time as that obviously just makes the most sense. But then people act like if we don't get Haulcy who I expect to be very expensive, that it means what our entire DB haul was a fail? I just don't get it.
So like WR is the main complaint as far as swinging and missing. And I share that and think it was a fail - but more so a fail of the winter portal. But does not getting a top WR1 type mean I think Trader shouldn't be counted on to be a starting caliber guy?... You know which is what the original comment i responded to was about....
