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Originally Posted by smithandrew051
Most of the charts I saw showed that we have Morris and Thuney more help than Kingsley.
We also adjusted to a short passing game with Thuney.
Probably should’ve done that with Kingsley from the beginning while he developed.
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I think this is potentially the biggest missed opportunity of the season.
That said, there's no reason to believe that Kingsley wasn't learning in practice and just by observing on a week to week basis. Maybe not as fast as he would have, but he improved.
IF he's a starting caliber LT -- acknowledging how big that IF is -- he'll be much more capable of demonstrating that next season than he was this season, regardless of what happened this year.
But it would've been interesting to see if he could've gotten to mediocre over the course of the season and allowed us to keep Thuney inside.
I suspect he probably wasn't. The coaches saw what he was doing in practice as well and never seemed to even consider putting him back out there at OT. Trying to limp him through the regular season in the hopes he was playoff ready when that time came was likely a fools errand.