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I'm nominating Kevin Carberry.
He came in, and without us bringing in anyone from the outside, turned this OL from a weakness into a serious strength of this team. Yes, you can credit Stafford some for line calls and such, but only up to the point that it doesn't take anything away from what they and Carberry have accomplished. Brian Allen went from the 1.0 probable bust version to the 2.0 nasty version that took a glaring weakness and made it into a strength. Rob Havenstein used to be thought more of as a run blocker and is now rated as the number 1 in pass block win rate. Edwards, Corbett and Whitworth are playing well, and when Whitworth had to sit last week, nobody even noticed 'Boom in there because there was no dropoff (yes, it was the Texans, but they are still an NFL team).
When you look at the team in terms of units, no other unit has made such a dramatic improvement in play, and when you combine that with the better QB play, we have an offense now that is, at minimum, 2018 level and could (and probably will) exceed that level by season's end, especially when you consider they are still working out some kinks.
Based on the results we have seen, this hire is a slam dunk.
He came in, and without us bringing in anyone from the outside, turned this OL from a weakness into a serious strength of this team. Yes, you can credit Stafford some for line calls and such, but only up to the point that it doesn't take anything away from what they and Carberry have accomplished. Brian Allen went from the 1.0 probable bust version to the 2.0 nasty version that took a glaring weakness and made it into a strength. Rob Havenstein used to be thought more of as a run blocker and is now rated as the number 1 in pass block win rate. Edwards, Corbett and Whitworth are playing well, and when Whitworth had to sit last week, nobody even noticed 'Boom in there because there was no dropoff (yes, it was the Texans, but they are still an NFL team).
When you look at the team in terms of units, no other unit has made such a dramatic improvement in play, and when you combine that with the better QB play, we have an offense now that is, at minimum, 2018 level and could (and probably will) exceed that level by season's end, especially when you consider they are still working out some kinks.
Based on the results we have seen, this hire is a slam dunk.