Free agency 2023

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Originally Posted by Chromeburn

Not really. Other teams have paid guards. Cowboys have pulled it off. The underperformance is the problem. And that is mostly attributable to one player disrupting the entire unit. Pryor just couldn’t get in sync with the oline at tackle or guard. Things started to stabilize once Raimann got better.
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This proves my point, or at least the point I was trying to make. If your LT sucks then your OL is in all likelihood going to suck. Ballard overspent at the less critical position and therefore (at least in his mind) he had to go cheap at LT. And it was an epic fucking disaster.