How quickly we all forget.
2017 we saw the likes of Chris Clark & Kendall Lamm both vying to see who could get our qb's bells rung the hardest by sucking at the position. 2018 it wasn't much better with our "high upside" 3rd and 4th round draft picks in Martinas Rankin and Julien Davenport entering the fold...& sucking. This isn't even talking about the RT spot where we also sucked with the likes of Breno Giacomini & a fading fast Jeff Allen stinking up the joint. We were bad all up & down the line & i'm Pretty sure all of those guys are riding the pine somewhere if not flat out run out of the league just as soon as we moved on from them.
I mean, Did you all really wanna see this happening to DW4 before we moved heaven and earth to get him an NFL caliber o-lineman?
In a weird ass twist of fate, thank god he was already out with his torn ACL or by the time 2019 comes around, we're looking at a Carson Wentz situation & we'd be REALLY screwed.
I say all that to say that the actual ramifications of why we had to make the deal we did to get Tunsil go beyond just getting a “good LT”. By the time 2019 came around, it was clear we had our franchise guy under center & after the beating he took in 2018 with the same "draft and develop" and bargin bin shopping FA approach that had failed miserably, it was time to take a more sure-handed, drastic approach to make sure he was somewhat protected for our forseeable future. Barring a move like that he may not have even entertained resigning with us this year. Also, Getting Tunsil in that deal allowed us to get Tytus who was able to shore up the other side of the o-line at RT.
And as bleak as things look now, there is a
core in place for a new HC and GM to build around with a crown jewel that we were able to preserve................. which is more than i'm pretty we'd have been able to say if we'dgone into 2019 without Tunsil.