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Originally Posted by RealSNR

You can blame Heck for a lot of things, but Kingsley/Wanya this year isn't one of them.

Wanya's just not very good, man. He was good not great in college, and in the pros he's not good. He doesn't have a tackle's frame at all. Looks really small compared to other LTs. He's got a low ceiling, and I don't think his floor was ever high enough to give serious consideration to his possibility of being a franchise tackle for a team one day. Dude got arrested for weed possession in the offseason, and while that's a stupid law that he broke, how the **** do you get arrested for that sort of thing? You kind of have to be an idiot to get caught with that shit.

And Kingsley's got the frame, but he's so damn young and raw. I don't know who the greatest OL coach of all time is, but if he were on staff and were assigned the task of coaching Kingsley, even that coach would need more time than we gave Kingsley given where he started. And yeah, I was in favor of starting him in the offseason, but I figured we'd be a little smarter about bringing him along than we actually were. I really doubt that was Andy Heck's idea to leave him out on an island like that, and even if it were, he doesn't have the power within the organization to make that kind of decision-- that one is entirely on Nagy and Reid.

I'm still excited and dare I say even optimistic about what Kingsley can do. Wanya not so much. In both cases, though, their failures this season aren't the fault of Heck.

Dont die on the Kingsley hill. All he's shown he can do is jump out of a swimming pool in a bathing suit. He's shown a lot of what he can't do on the football field though. And because of how he was handled this past season, it may be that much harder for him to do stuff on the football field, especially LT. But you're right, he is very young so he'll be given time.