ESPN Mosley: Diehl wants to be best left tackle in NFC... Flozell #4 in NFCE

[Yakuza Rich]

Cowboy fans on this site love to point the finger and call others homers for simply stating the truth, but Adams is a has been, and will remain so no matter how much you plug your ears and stomp your feet. This is common knowledge amongst serious fans of the NFC East, he's unreliable, prone to mistakes, and just flat out old. I look forward to watching Romo run for his life this season.

While Diehl's career trends upwards, Adams is on the escalator to retirementville.

I don't think anybody is calling Adams an in his prime offensive tackle. But in '07 he dominated defensive ends, particuarly the NFC East defensive ends. He was obviously banged up last season. But I don't think it's ridiculous to think that the Cowboys can get one, maybe two more good solid years out of Flozell. Diehl is greatly overrated. Seubert is a better guard than Diehl was and again, he was 2nd in the league in sacks allowed in '07 and struggles badly against quality speed rushers. I'd only take Diehl over Flozell because of youth and possibly not desperately needing to draft an offensive tackle for the future. But for right now I would take Flozell if I feel I can get him reasonably healthy and if that's the case, I don't even think twice about Diehl.




YAKUZA

 

[Stash]

Not going to dispute Diehl had a bad game in week 15, he allowed 2 sacks and was beaten to the edge by Ware on multiple occasions. But judging a player on a one game sample may just be about the dumbest thing you could do. Our starting LG was out with the flu for the game as well, who knows what kind of impact that had on Diehl's performance, but going up against the best pass rusher in the league it couldn't have been helpful.

As for your claim of Ellis, James and Spencer beating Diehl, I rewatched that game a few weeks ago and I don't remember anything of the sort. Ellis and Spencer did most of their damage lining up against that bum Kevin Boothe who was filling in for an injured McKenzie.

Cowboy fans on this site love to point the finger and call others homers for simply stating the truth, but Adams is a has been, and will remain so no matter how much you plug your ears and stomp your feet. This is common knowledge amongst serious fans of the NFC East, he's unreliable, prone to mistakes, and just flat out old. I look forward to watching Romo run for his life this season.

While Diehl's career trends upwards, Adams is on the escalator to retirementville.

If giving up huge numbers of sacks is your definition of "upward", then you're absolutely right.

If the one criticism you can hold against Adams is age, then go for it. You sure can't compare performance.

The black and white numbers have been provided to you.

And I notice that they remain absent from any of your retorts.

Facts hurt I guess.

 

[Stash]

Spare me the injury excuse, when you're in your mid-30s your body starts to break down, that's why age is held as a knock against the guy. Adams had a season to build chemistry with the replacement LG, Diehl had 2-3 days, big difference.

Spare you the injury excuse?

Do you read what you type?

Adams himself was injured, but that's 'no excuse'?

And yet you want to use the fact that your LG missed one game to cover for Diehl's pathetic performance?

Pffffttt.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Either his hearing got even worse or he stopped getting motivated for even more games because he had a ton of false starts. Not one seemed to really bother him.

9 to be exact. We converted the downs on those 4 of the 6 times Brad "noodle arm" Johnson wasn't behind center.