G Will Hernandez visiting - now SIGNED

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Hernandez never seemed to fully gain his footing. He got Covid and hasn’t been as good as he once was. However, some of his issues preceded Covid. He actually seemed to be better in pass protection than the run game, which was expected to be his strength. He’s likely to sign a make-good contract, but footwork seemed to be his major issue and that’s a problem that’s very hard to fix. Kugler should be able to ascertain what Hernandez has left.
 

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All NFL guards for 2021 (ranked by most sacks allowed).

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DJ Humphries ranked in the top 12 for both sacks allowed and pressures allowed by a T.

He also ranked in the top 3 for penalties by a T.

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I like it next to rodney hudson. Kugler was his coach when he was good, and local guy. Cards needed more run ability to the right last year. Bring him in
 

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DJ Humphries ranked in the top 12 for both sacks allowed and pressures allowed by a T.

He also ranked in the top 3 for penalties by a T.

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Might be optimistic here but Cards played wide sets with 5 out leaving him on an island all season. Plus, kyler never steps up in pocket…im good
 

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DJ Humphries mad the NFL Pro Bowl roster this year. Not as an alternative but on the original roster.
 

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There are 32 starting tackles in the NFC, 6 made the NFC 2022 Pro Bowl roster. DJ Humphries was one of the 6. IMO that is more important than PFF's rankings.
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In what way was you vindicated? You said our RB room was trash, it wasn't. You said Conner was garbage. He had 18 TDs and made the Pro Bowl. You said Green was cooked. He had 850 yards. You said the D was trash and it ended up 6th vs DVOA.

The only way anyone was right was Watt getting injured.

The season didn't end well because Nuk was out (any team would feel that loss) and Kyler's play dropped off. It was not in any way due to who we signed or didn't sign in FA. Actually, no, we should have had a better backup than Wesley, but then I don't recall anyone calling that out at the time.

And this time round, it's been 2 days. The absolute hysteria from some because we haven't overpaid for multi FA's yet is nuts. Probably two thirds of FA's are still unsigned, including most the top 20.
Ah.
 

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This draft is deep in OLs, and we have roughly 5 picks in the late rounds. Would it not be wise to leverage their value, pass on Hernandez and load up on quality OLs late in the draft?
 

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I am sure the hell not going to blame our tackles like DJ for all those sacks which resulted in Kyler not stepping up and sitting on the rim on the backside of the pocket (because our guard sucked and made Kyler have a conniption fit) where a LT is going to lead their man outside of the interior during a play's progression. This is an example where stats are misleading, DJ's a good tackle and we actually drafted him... BTW, DJ is a great run blocker more often than not
 

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I am sure the hell not going to blame our tackles like DJ for all those sacks which resulted in Kyler not stepping up and sitting on the rim on the backside of the pocket (because our guard sucked and made Kyler have a conniption fit) where a LT is going to lead their man outside of the interior during a play's progression. This is an example where stats are misleading, DJ's a good tackle and we actually drafted him... BTW, DJ is a great run blocker more often than not
PFF still credits Kyler with the sacks he created himself.

DJ's PFF grade still dipped almost 20 points from 2020 to 2021.

He looked like the best player on the team in 2020. 2021 not so much.
 

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PFF still credits Kyler with the sacks he created himself.

DJ's PFF grade still dipped almost 20 points from 2020 to 2021.

He looked like the best player on the team in 2020. 2021 not so much.
Our tackle play is good. Not great, but good. Murray’s skill set forces defenses to attack him right up the middle. It’s imperative that we build a strong interior line to combat what the best defenses do to stymie Murray. If we can stop teams from abusing our interior linemen, then Murray will feast.
 

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Our tackle play is good. Not great, but good. Murray’s skill set forces defenses to attack him right up the middle. It’s imperative that we build a strong interior line to combat what the best defenses do to stymie Murray. If we can stop teams from abusing our interior linemen, then Murray will feast.
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So what's the word with Hernandez? Did we end us signing this guy? We absolutely MUST upgrade our guard play & guard depth. KM's success depends on it. I would absolutely support this signing & then we would also need to draft multiple OLinemen, even if they are late 5-7 round picks.
 

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So what's the word with Hernandez? Did we end us signing this guy? We absolutely MUST upgrade our guard play & guard depth. KM's success depends on it. I would absolutely support this signing & then we would also need to draft multiple OLinemen, even if they are late 5-7 round picks.
We need to upgrade the linr but not with later round picks
Later round picks
RB, TE, DT, CB
 

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