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Originally Posted by htismaqe
Is it common? Yes.
Is there hope for Kingsley? Yes
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Yeah - I just keep coming back to Charles Leno for this one.
Leno got his ass kicked as bad/worse than Kingsley did. On national television in prime time. He was a HORRIFIC display for a rookie (hell, it may have even been his 2nd year) that clearly wasn't ready for the moment.
And within 2 seasons he was among the better LTs in the game. Not elite, but certainly above average.
And there's also a distinction between a guy who was a 2nd round pick because of a lower ceiling (Morse is always my go-to example here; Bolton is another one) and one who was a 2nd rounder because of a virtually non-existent floor (this is where the bulk of 2nd round picks actually tend to fall).
Those guys who are low floor guys are going to have HORRIFYING moments of ineffectiveness as they learn. Why? Because if they didn't have to learn, with the ceiling and traits they have, they'd have been top 10 picks. Those moments were priced into the acquisition cost.
We took a low floor, high ceiling player and then held him to the short term standard of a low ceiling, high floor player.
We just ****ed that up. The fans did. The coaches did. Nothing about the Kingsley situation was handled correctly last season, IMO.