ckparrothead
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L.J. Shelton showed up to camp and workouts overweight, and p!ssed Denny Green off. So...he's in the doghouse, even though he's lost all that weight.
He also got replaced by high profile pick Leonard Davis, whom Denny wants desperately to ascend into a high profile left tackle. It makes sense, Davis was drafted to play Left Tackle, and all this time he's been spending his time inexplicably at guard (and doing a fantastic job there too).
I know people may have a philosophical objection to taking the castoffs of a team like the Arizona Cardinals...but you can't deny that Pete Kendall and L.J. Shelton, probably bring something to the table that we may not already have here in Miami.
L.J. Shelton, btw, is not that bad at all. He commanded a 5 year $22 million extension not too long ago. So IF he's cut, big if, he could be worth pursuing.
At this point I'm all for hording good linemen and just seeing how they shake out.
You know what scares me? Dave Wannstedt publicly stated that the loser of the St.Clair/Carey battle will be the swing tackle.
S-C-A-R-Y.
St. Clair should NEVER, and I mean, EVER, find himself lined up on the field at left tackle. IMO, its worst than having Spencer Folau.
And if Carey is the loser of that RT battle, what does that say about CAREY's ability to line right up and play LT in a pinch? Yowsa.
The real question I think, is IF Shelton gets cut (big IF, all speculation at this point), do we feel like Shelton is better than McIntosh? Yup. We should basically, at least for now, disregard McIntosh's presence on this roster. We don't know when he'll be healed, or what he'll look like afterward, and basically we've got something like 10 weeks to find a roster spot for him anyway since he'll start on the PUP list. If Shelton and McIntosh were available at the same time in FA, I think we would have gone for Shelton not McIntosh, and thats disregarding injury issues with Damion.
Is anyone here even all that confident in Wade Smith? I'm not. I wasn't at the very beginning of the offseason, then I got distracted by other issues, and now as mini-camps and training camps start, and we continue to hear about him getting abused despite this new 10 to 15 pound slab of brisket on his personage, and plus injury issues...I'm getting reminded why I didn't feel he was ready to start as a rookie, and probably won't be ready to start as a sophomore. If he goes from a 16 sack allower to a 12 sack allower, sure thats progress, but that doesn't mean we've got a quality LT yet. Would it be so terribly bad if he needed to be replaced for a year while he continued to develop? Would it really hurt our egos that much?
Also as far as Pete Kendall goes, is he better than Greg Jerman at RG? Probably. Does he have durability issues? Probably. Heck he might even be better than Seth McKinney at Center.
I hope our front office has not lost the will to continue to change this team to make it better. We kept hearing from them during free agency at the beginning, and in previous years, how a significant number of our moves will come late in June or July, even August. But I'm sensing that this is becoming more of a placating excuse for their not doing much in February and March, and I'm sensing a loss of will to really ADD those names late in the game because they are too caught up with who has been here and who has learned the playbook (which isn't even settled yet because of our offensive coordinator disaster) rather than who is more talented and can flat out play and help this team.
L.J. Shelton showed up to camp and workouts overweight, and p!ssed Denny Green off. So...he's in the doghouse, even though he's lost all that weight.
He also got replaced by high profile pick Leonard Davis, whom Denny wants desperately to ascend into a high profile left tackle. It makes sense, Davis was drafted to play Left Tackle, and all this time he's been spending his time inexplicably at guard (and doing a fantastic job there too).
I know people may have a philosophical objection to taking the castoffs of a team like the Arizona Cardinals...but you can't deny that Pete Kendall and L.J. Shelton, probably bring something to the table that we may not already have here in Miami.
L.J. Shelton, btw, is not that bad at all. He commanded a 5 year $22 million extension not too long ago. So IF he's cut, big if, he could be worth pursuing.
At this point I'm all for hording good linemen and just seeing how they shake out.
You know what scares me? Dave Wannstedt publicly stated that the loser of the St.Clair/Carey battle will be the swing tackle.
S-C-A-R-Y.
St. Clair should NEVER, and I mean, EVER, find himself lined up on the field at left tackle. IMO, its worst than having Spencer Folau.
And if Carey is the loser of that RT battle, what does that say about CAREY's ability to line right up and play LT in a pinch? Yowsa.
The real question I think, is IF Shelton gets cut (big IF, all speculation at this point), do we feel like Shelton is better than McIntosh? Yup. We should basically, at least for now, disregard McIntosh's presence on this roster. We don't know when he'll be healed, or what he'll look like afterward, and basically we've got something like 10 weeks to find a roster spot for him anyway since he'll start on the PUP list. If Shelton and McIntosh were available at the same time in FA, I think we would have gone for Shelton not McIntosh, and thats disregarding injury issues with Damion.
Is anyone here even all that confident in Wade Smith? I'm not. I wasn't at the very beginning of the offseason, then I got distracted by other issues, and now as mini-camps and training camps start, and we continue to hear about him getting abused despite this new 10 to 15 pound slab of brisket on his personage, and plus injury issues...I'm getting reminded why I didn't feel he was ready to start as a rookie, and probably won't be ready to start as a sophomore. If he goes from a 16 sack allower to a 12 sack allower, sure thats progress, but that doesn't mean we've got a quality LT yet. Would it be so terribly bad if he needed to be replaced for a year while he continued to develop? Would it really hurt our egos that much?
Also as far as Pete Kendall goes, is he better than Greg Jerman at RG? Probably. Does he have durability issues? Probably. Heck he might even be better than Seth McKinney at Center.
I hope our front office has not lost the will to continue to change this team to make it better. We kept hearing from them during free agency at the beginning, and in previous years, how a significant number of our moves will come late in June or July, even August. But I'm sensing that this is becoming more of a placating excuse for their not doing much in February and March, and I'm sensing a loss of will to really ADD those names late in the game because they are too caught up with who has been here and who has learned the playbook (which isn't even settled yet because of our offensive coordinator disaster) rather than who is more talented and can flat out play and help this team.
