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Yeatman moves from TE to OT

greasyObnoxious said:
ya think? Steinbach and Jake Scott played most of their respective careers at 295. we had talks with both
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are they tackles...i don't think so...the issue i see is can you sit with yeatman on your 53 and wait for him to put on good weight to at least get to the 300 lb mark...that could take all season...i don't know...i envision him more as a 3rd tackle in jumbo packages if he was active this year anyways...will be interesting to see how he puts on weight but i think that light he's gonna struggle against legit strength...in the short term at least...if he's got great feet i'm sure that will help
 
hooshoops said:
are they tackles...i don't think so...the issue i see is can you sit with yeatman on your 53 and wait for him to put on good weight to at least get to the 300 lb mark...that could take all season...i don't know...i envision him more as a 3rd tackle in jumbo packages if he was active this year anyways...will be interesting to see how he puts on weight but i think that light he's gonna struggle against legit strength...in the short term at least...if he's got great feet i'm sure that will help
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you didn't say OT in your original post. you just said "lean linemen". anyhow, obviously no, both Steinbach and Scott are guards, even though Steinbach played LT in a pinch if i'm not mistaken. if you want to keep Yeatman on the roster, you're going to have to risk having to play him at a less than ideal weight. he's not going to grow into an OT body in just a couple of weeks. IF you want to keep him around to be solely a tackle eligible. he isn't going to be much more this year as an OT.
 
i think really whoever loses the battle at right tackle b/t murtha and martin is gonna be the swing tackle off the bench anyways...left or right side...i doubt yeatman can break into that rotation that quick but we'll see...
 
hooshoops said:
i think really whoever loses the battle at right tackle b/t murtha and martin is gonna be the swing tackle off the bench anyways...left or right side...i doubt yeatman can break into that rotation that quick but we'll see...
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pretty much. now if we still ran the wildcat and had a TE line up at LT.....
 
how is incog a fit for a more lean athletic oline going forward...doesn't add up for me...at left guard no less
 
Can someone explain to me why you want an athletic LG but the RG can be a powerful slug. I've been reading this for about 2 years now and been wondering why, basically is incognito a better RG than LG.
 
DolfanISS said:
Can someone explain to me why you want an athletic LG but the RG can be a powerful slug. I've been reading this for about 2 years now and been wondering why, basically is incognito a better RG than LG.
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among other things because the LG is usually lining up against the more athletic of the DTs.
 
ideally your left guard is your primary move athlete in your interior oline... you want good feet good ability to move and hit a moving target and sustain you want guys who can get to the 2nd level and lead a rb around the corner etc...mike pouncey moves like a te as a pulling player very very athletic...pouncey would be a heck of a left guard but his athleticism on the pivot may be 2nd to none at the center position in the league...

as for incog he's more of an anchor and brute strength player...has stone feet for a left guard...much better fit imo on the right side where he can play more to his strength and mauling style give him a straight ahead target and he's pretty good...but we haven't changed it in what 2 years now or more i don't think we will now...that's just my opinion on incog at left guard athletically and on the move very underwhelming...

think about the way that logan mankins moves for the pats and the way he always makes solid contact and has such great awareness..thats what you want in a left guard...he's the current prototype

i can't count how many times incog has been slow or late or doesn't make sustained contact when asked to pull...he just doesn't have the feet or athleticism to do it at a high level...he needs to be in a phone booth as much as possible
 
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hooshoops said:
ideally your left guard is your primary move athlete in your interior oline... you want good feet good ability to move and hit a moving target and sustain you want guys who can get to the 2nd level and lead a rb around the corner etc...mike pouncey moves like a te as a pulling player very very athletic...pouncey would be a heck of a left guard but his athleticism on the pivot may be 2nd to none at the center position in the league...

as for incog he's more of an anchor and brute strength player...has stone feet for a left guard...much better fit imo on the right side where he can play more to his strength and mauling style give him a straight ahead target and he's pretty good...but we haven't changed it in what 2 years now or more i don't think we will now...that's just my opinion on incog at left guard athletically and on the move very underwhelming...

think about the way that logan mankins moves for the pats and the way he always makes solid contact and has such great awareness..thats what you want in a left guard...he's the current prototype

i can't count how many times incog has been slow or late or doesn't make sustained contact when asked to pull...he just doesn't have the feet or athleticism to do it at a high level...he needs to be in a phone booth as much as possible
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And to think that Incognito is paid $3.3M this year and $4M next year. (That means is paid more than Matt Moore, David Garrard and almost as much as Fasano). After being kicked out of St Louis and a brief stint in Buffalo, Incog's stone feet caught the eye of Sparano and negotiated extremely well.
 
We were a team that was built to win in cold weather games, now we aren't. We're going to a passing offense with smaller o-linemen. Not a recipe to win in games in the northeastern U.S. late in the season.
 
DefensiveEnd76 said:
We were a team that was built to win in cold weather games, now we aren't. We're going to a passing offense with smaller o-linemen. Not a recipe to win in games in the northeastern U.S. late in the season.
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if you have a QB, you can win anywhere anytime. Tom Brady doesn't seem to have any trouble in the northeastern U.S. late in the season. Aaron Rodgers doesn't seem to have a problem in the cold north late in the season.
 
greasyObnoxious said:
if you have a QB, you can win anywhere anytime. Tom Brady doesn't seem to have any trouble in the northeastern U.S. late in the season. Aaron Rodgers doesn't seem to have a problem in the cold north late in the season.
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What do those 2 have in common? They are both use to playing in cold weather whereas our QBs don't play in it.
 
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