[washingtonismoney]

WiM, about recruiting, other than not taking a QB in '15 (which was probably a mistake), could we really have done better? It's not like these LBs were scrubs coming out of high school.

Well, given the game was (seemingly) lost on the lines, I'd focus there. Between 2013-2015 classes, the team recruited 9 offensive linemen -- on the light side, I'd say. (I think rule of thumb is to recruit 3.5 OL per class.) Lost Oser to injury, which stretched things. And then only two highly-ranked OL (Tucker and Nick Wilson). To be fair Burkett's offer list suggests a markedly better player, and to be fair he's looked pretty good in the first three games of the season.

Defensive line-wise, the team hit big on Thomas and Phillips. But then the team is relying on an undersized Dylan Jackson for familiar, re-hashed reasons.

Now, fortunately the line recruiting looks promising on both sides of the ball for 2015-17. So I'm pretty fine with the future. But this year was setting up so well, and it looks like the team won't take maximum advantage.

[washingtonismoney]

WiM, about recruiting, other than not taking a QB in '15 (which was probably a mistake), could we really have done better? It's not like these LBs were scrubs coming out of high school.

Well, given the game was (seemingly) lost on the lines, I'd focus there. Between 2013-2015 classes, the team recruited 9 offensive linemen -- on the light side, I'd say. (I think rule of thumb is to recruit 3.5 OL per class.) Lost Oser to injury, which stretched things. And then only two highly-ranked OL (Tucker and Nick Wilson). To be fair Burkett's offer list suggests a markedly better player, and to be fair he's looked pretty good in the first three games of the season.

Defensive line-wise, the team hit big on Thomas and Phillips. But then the team is relying on an undersized Dylan Jackson for familiar, re-hashed reasons.

Now, fortunately the line recruiting looks promising on both sides of the ball for 2015-17. So I'm pretty fine with the future. But this year was setting up so well, and it looks like the team won't take maximum advantage.