I get our situation is horrible after injuries, but I don't blame JJ for trying everything. Given our situation, wouldn't you try pert at guard in practice?
I get the wailing about the draft etc. But a HC during the season doesn't have a lot of choices with ol.
I do not blame him for wanting to utilize Peart. But I do for being overly arrogant for not seeing what he had in depth before was too late.
IMO: And I have stressed this in the offseason . When you have uncertainty going into the off season with the O-line. You have only 2 choices . Spend the money to plug up the holes . Or use a first or 2nd round draft pick. Skilled labor is not cheap and cheap unskilled labor is not good .Just bringing in a bunch of tier two and three players does not work. You either spend it in cap capital of draft capital. If you don't. You may run out of QB and RB capital. It is the same with the D-line . You have to spend or it gets ran through.
People think football is a QB driven league. It is an injury driven league. When you start the season with backups on the O-line because diligence in what you are working with was not ascertained properly. It can work if those backups stay injury free. When they do get injured. You end up with 4th string players doing a job they are not qualified to do other than a few snaps a season.
We spent money on WRs, and DBs. I am all for that. But we needed to fix our trench issues 1st. .We did not have to let Thomlinson walk for Golladay or KZ walk for Jackson . We could have gotten by with Yaidom as our #2 for another season.
We used a 1st round pick on a WR who only has 19% of the offensive snaps so far this season. Our 2nd round pick has had only 58% of the defensive snaps. You cannot get it done if needed impact from your 1st 2 picks is not on the field.
IMO we could have bundled both of those picks together for a OG or an NT. Both we desperately needed.. That is if we found a taker. What we picked in those 2 spots "instant impact players" were needed and not produced . All we have to show for spending big money on WRs ,DBs and our under utilized 1st and 2nd round picks is a start of 0-2.
You cannot Blame the FO totally on this . The HC OC and DC all say what they need to advance their perspective units. It didn't so far.
I hope JJ has a plan and not a whim and a prayer.