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What an exciting game yesterday! Absolutely thrilling to see this team starting to roll that snowball up.

Quick question - I noticed Jesse Davis playing at Right guard for the lion's share of yesterday's game.

Didn't look at it closely enough, but I don't think Solomon got hurt. Also thought I may have read something where they were going to juggle Davis and Austin Jackson around.

Maybe they just didn't want to have three rookie lineman in for Tua's second game on the road. Wondering if anybody has any intel on this.

Fins up baby!
 
As I mentioned in the "positives" thread I thought Kindley looked fat and sloppy. Certainly worse than early season. Weight is going to be an ongoing challenge for him.

However, it could also be partially situational influence. Georgia with Fromm was a north/south offense. Dolphins with Fitzpatrick were north/south. Even when Fitzpatrick broke script and took off it was always forward.

Consequently Kindley has never really had to deal with evolving angles and responsibility of shifting all that weight to counter a rusher who suddenly is angling sideways. That type of thing is going to be markedly more important with Tua back there, given all the roll influence, and certainly more wrinkles to come. When I noticed him having trouble early in yesterday's game it was because he lost frontage and was facing sideways.
 
I think we should kick Davis outside and have hunt and kindley split snaps at right guard. They both seem to be hitting a rookie wall so reduced snaps for each will help with stamina and focus. The highest priority should be protecting Tua so I feel a lot better with a vet protecting his blind side instead of a struggling rookie. Hunt just doesn’t look like a NFL tackle right now.
 
It’s nice having depth now. I noticed his play was a bit sloppy in the Jets game, so this isn’t completely unexpected.
 
Regulus said:
I think we should kick Davis outside and have hunt and kindley split snaps at right guard. They both seem to be hitting a rookie wall so reduced snaps for each will help with stamina and focus. The highest priority should be protecting Tua so I feel a lot better with a vet protecting his blind side instead of a struggling rookie. Hunt just doesn’t look like a NFL tackle right now.
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I admittedly haven't been watching him, but if Hunt is playing fine why move him?
 
The pace was getting ratcheted up around the time of his benching. Could be a conditioning thing as it's part of the O-line coach's job to see who needs a breather. Will add that when Davis is on he can be very good, so it may have been a spot sub that they rolled with once it was successful.

Playing devil's advocate here as I didn't see anything specific that stuck out about Kindley's play that warranted a full on benching.
 
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