ILike,
See, that's where I differ from just about everyone (except maybe Foster).
I don't see Spitz as anything more than a serviceable backup. He's better than Barbre or Coston, but not significantly better than Colledge.
And I want backups at a level that other teams will be tempted to go after them as free agents.
Maybe Bulaga is a tackle. But even if he is, if he's the second best LG we've got, I want him starting. Now if Spitz were at Sitton's level, then working him solely at LT would make sense. Better to work him as backup at LT than backup at LG.
But Spitz isn't Sitton. Spitz is....well, Spitz.
And, IMO, Spitz isn't Bulaga at G, either. IMO Bulaga with zero pro reps has more potential for excellence at OG than Spitz has with all his time in the NFL.
I probably would prefer to draft another OT to drafting an OG. But if I went OT again (e.g. trade up for Brown or Safford or Veldheer), I'd say to him and Bulaga and Clifton and Tauscher and Lang and Spitz and Colledge: Three of you are starting on opening day for the Green Bay Packers. Four of you aren't.
My guess is that Clifton and Tausch will win two of the positions just because they have the experience. But they wouldn't get it just because I paid them a lot of money a few months before. They'd have to prove they're better than Bulaga/Brown/whoever. And given that I feel that way about Clifton and, especially, Tauscher (who is one of my all time favorite Packers), it sure ought to true of Spitz, Colledge, and Lang.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)