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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1236132, member: 40"] Convenient? Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't you the one who insisted above that a team needs to be able to field an 8 player rotation at OL [which I philosophically agree with, BTW]? I'm referencing that number because YOU brought it up. Referencing the rotation is also germane because we had injuries to our reserves in addition to our starters. The problem that you conveniently fail to recognize is that when Trudo, Palmer, etc. were injured, we were FORCED to play a lesser caliber player like Lasker... who was the proverbial turnstyle that you mention. And you attribute that degraded performance to Adam, when in fact the unit's problems were at minimum significantly impacted by the rampant injury factor that necessitated playing a guy who was a turnstyle because we had nowhere else to turn. Let that sink in for a moment. Maybe--just maybe--playing Palmer, who is a natural guard, at RT wasn't optimal for the performance of the overall OL unit. And frankly, Palmer did OK there, for being a guy out of position--but maybe it would have been better if he could play at RG for Robinson instead of having to play RT due to Foy mising significant time in addition to Robinson. Maybe being forced to play Hayes significant minutes as a RF also wasn't ideal in terms of the unit's performance--but those were the cards we were dealt. And for the record, we didn't play 8 in previous years because we basically only had 6 or 7 guys TOPS who could play. Depth wasn't where it needed to be, and we needed those guys to be iron men--and for the most part, they held up [with the exception of a guy like Pugh being injured in 2012; once he returned, the performance went from ok / average to significantly above average]. The thought heading into this season was that the depth situation at OL was supposed to be improved, due in part to both Lasker's emergence last year where he had to fill in for Hickey and Palmer making a push to challenge at either guard spot, and potentially Emerich as the distant but capable 8th fighting for minutes. That on-paper depth got compromised game one, and never appreciably got better over the course of the season. [/QUOTE]

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