What should they have done differently?
With all the recent hand-wringing about our offensive line, I'm curious what ideas y'all have for what we should have done this offseason, given that you can't predict injury and going in to free agency:
- We had an All Pro-caliber left tackle (Tunsil)
- We spent a first round pick just last year on an imperfect but promising right tackle (Conerly)
- We had a Pro Bowl-caliber right guard (Cosmi)
- At left guard (Coleman), we had a young guy who has been inconsistent but who has played very well at times; he lost the starter competition in the spring in part due to injury and in part because he got outplayed by the winner (Paul - who we let test the market and ultimately brought back)
- Our center (Biadasz) was unspectacular but very solid
- Our depth included veterans like a guy who started at two different positions on two Super Bowl-winning teams (Wylie) and a solid depth piece on three Super Bowl-winning teams (Allegretti); both of whom were key pieces when we made the NFC Championship in 2024, starting 14 and 17 games respectively before getting pushed down the depth chart in 2025
With all of that in mind, what should the front office have done differently? Who should they have signed or traded for? Which tackle, guard, or center should they have drafted instead of the guys they did (which did include an o-lineman)?
For the record, these are not rhetorical questions; they're sincere. I'm certainly no expert and don't pretend to do any deep film analysis on players or anything like that. I do feel like releasing Biadasz was a pretty clear mistake (so much so that I suspect there was more to his release than we are aware of), but even so, I don't think that single transaction was the make-or-break move that has people starting to panic over our o-line.