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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Wylie, as much as any OL we've had in a long time, NEEDS a competent runningmate.

Because Wylie is self-made, man. He's a battler and a grinder and a hell of a story. He doesn't quit on reps and he doesn't take plays off. He rarely just mentally vapor locks either.

He's just a physically limited player. He doesn't have great feet. He's not exceptionally powerful. He's a guy that's going to be fighting uphill on virtually every snap.

Smith being someone he can count on inside is paramount, especially if he also gets a little help on the outside from a chip here and there.

You give him that and he's going to give you a yeoman's effort out there. Nothing spectacular, but he can get the job done. But he NEEDS Trey Smith playing to the level he was playing at last year.

It's just a new normal that we have to get used to. We don't have Mitchell Schwartz out there playing at a legit HoF level. We don't have an athletic technician like Fisher at LT. We're gonna have get more complementary OL play and at times, uglier OL play.

And as fans we're gonna have to accept that. Because this is how most of the world lives, fellas. Loooooots of teams have worse OLs than we have.

Like at least 20 probably.