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Originally Posted by Chris Meck
And AGAIN, that is the price we pay for drafting #30 or later for half a decade.
Going to the conference championship game or Super Bowl every year for 6 or 7 years in a row makes it harder every year to get there again.
Quality offensive tackles are really difficult to find, and near impossible when you are in the draft position we are every year.
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Again, I agree with you, but this is also a first world problem. There is no "fix" for our draft position other than losing and none of us want that. So, we just have to adapt as well as we can. Off the top of my head, that yields just 3 choices.
1) Draft and develop Tackles
2) Trade for them
3) Acquire them in free agency
We drafted Kingsley and he didn't develop like we hoped. We traded for Orlando Brown, and that was only moderately successful, but he bolted for Cincinnati at first opportunity. We signed a couple others out of free agency and none of us are all that happy with the results.
Clearly, we'll approach the problem with whatever is necessary, but good Tackles are very expensive in free agency and passable ones are expensive too. Drafting good Tackles is difficult when you pick last, or near last, but they are much cheaper that way. Finally, trading for a good Tackle can be very expensive too.
That's life in the big city. Vereach doesn't have the Midas touch with everything, but he's done a fantastic job overall. We sure as hell can't complain (much) about the results he has given us.
This is just the way it is. None of the choices is great, but ignoring the problem only makes it worse. You pick your poison here and live with the consequences.