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Originally Posted by Dante84
What's a good metric with which to judge Taylor's performance relative to his pay? I'd also like to see this compared to RT's exclusively, rather than a list that includes LT's who have a substantially higher average contract value.
I know his pass blocking has been average, but I'd also be curious to see his impact on stalled drives, missed points, lost yards, etc... due to penalties.
Is it EPA?
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I've looked primarily at pass block win rates. Mostly because I don't really care about his run blocking (I know I should. Still don't).
As for LT vs. RT -- it just has much less impact on my analysis given that A) They're both extremely expensive now and B) We need our RT to be able to block as well as our LT because we put our TE off the line as often as we do.
Now I think a good argument exists that the right answer would've been to retain Wylie at a much lower figure than Taylor and then sign, say, Armstead. But at the time Armstead signed, we still had OBJr.
When we signed Taylor, the situation we found ourselves in was one where we HAD to get a guy who at least had the tools to play LT to say 'yes'. Wylie didn't. Taylor does have the physical tools to do that job.
And someone would've paid him LT money, IMO. So again, the market is what the market is. LT vs. RT becomes less and less relevant at that point.
The options were pretty damn limited when we declined to Franchise Brown, couldn't get a reasonable extension done and ultimately entered the off-season without a single OT under contract. We put ourselves in quite a pickle.