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Originally Posted by pugsnotdrugs19
The key difference between Kingsley and your typical raw, young T is the kid was throwing no-hitters. Letting Mahomes get pummeled by pass rushers who were essentially just running a cone.
That’s where I feel like they’re looking at him and saying, he needs at least two offseasons in the weight room and working technique before we entrust him with a job.
Does it suck to be in that spot with a 2nd rounder? Yeah, but at least it’s a guy who could still easily take a starting job in year 3, probably LG. Not all hope is lost.
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Against an All Pro caliber DE -- yes.
Against the Ravens, he was fine. Not great, just adequate.
And against the Broncos he was fine except for Bonitto, who kicked his ass. But he neutralized the other Broncos DE pretty well.
I think that's a heck of a lot closer to an ordinary rookie OT learning curve than we want to acknowledge, especially when he was just being left out there on his own. The Madden sliders were set to All Madden for the kid and he just wasn't ready for it.
And man, why should we have expected him to be?
Coaching did him dirty this year, IMO.