I stand by it, we've had a lot of problems through the middle. There are better midfielders in the league obviously, but none would have made a real difference compared to O'Meara. Even with him being an above average / elite centre clearance player most years we've still had the worst centre clearance differential since 2019, same goes with contested possessions, stoppage clearances. Pretty much everything through there. Could have replaced him with peak Dusty and we'd have been no better or potentially worse because of how lazy Dusty is defensively.
We made 5 draft decisions around inside mids from 2010-2015 that completely f'd us and meant we felt the need to go hard at the trade table, but even so, the deal for Jaeger was horrendous, parting with those picks delayed the inevitable and set us back years.