Lael Collins proved us wrong - what changed?

[kskboys]

Hill.

Possible.

I love his lightning first step. Now, if he can just learn how to play the position.

 

[JBond]

Possible.

I love his lightning first step. Now, if he can just learn how to play the position.

He is raw. No doubt about it. Needs to learn to play in control and harness his talent.

 

[cowboyec]

nothing changed.
I thought he was fine.
young guy with tons of talent getting better with each season.
never understood all the angst.
we're a good team with good players.
enjoy it.

 

[kskboys]

He is raw. No doubt about it. Needs to learn to play in control and harness his talent.

If we were going to take a small school project, I can't for the life of me figure out why we didn't take Adderly.

 

[xwalker]

I saw the other day that 1/3 of our cap is tied up in the OL. That’s a ton of cap.

That is a bit misleading because of the method they used to calculate it.

The 1/3 number is cap hits for this season.

Taking the average pay per year and adding up all 5 starting OL, it comes out to 24.96% of the 2019 cap.

That percentage will go down as the cap goes up.

 

[xwalker]

Hope Connor Williams is in the same boat.

CW is already playing well. He has improved each game this season.

 

[xwalker]

Ironically the Cowboys seemed very reluctant to move Lael outside to OT. Many media outlets inquired why the team would not try Collins at least as a backup
while the still raw Chaz Green was still having injury prone issues, sitting behind vet Doug Free.
According to Broaddus, the Cowboys didn't;like what they saw in very limited practice and shut the idea down.

But Cowboys apparently envisioned him as an interior OG (and reportedly they did not think he had the idea arm length for an OT) . and immediately replaced Leary as the initial starter before a toe injury shelved him on IR for the season.Immediately returning Ron Leary back as the starter and coincidentally Leary's lone stand out career year in 2016, that earned him a long term deal with Denver.

Collins' immediate move to starting RT, only became imminent when Doug Free surprisingly retired and caught the team off guard. The plan was to groom 3rd round pick Chaz Green
to be heir apparent to Free, but he simply could not shake injury bug to ever get on the field to develop.

And it's been Lael Collins permanent role ever since then.

Doug Free & La'el:

• Garrett did not want to replace Doug Free as a starter.
• Moving La'el to OT would mean they were trying to replace Free.
• Free retiring was NOT the big surprise that the media claims.
  • Stephen Jones & McClay were already making plans to replace Free.
  • Free had allowed 9 sacks the previous season.
  • It was Garrett that was "surprised" by Free's retirement and wanted Free to stay.

It was similar with Witten:

• Prior to 2018, Linehan did not have the power to decide which players played.
  • Garrett had over-ruled the assistant coaches on starters and playing time.
  • Immediately after the 2017 season, Stephen Jones gave Linehan that power.
  • They contemplated either replacing Linehan or giving him what he had requested.
  • It was obvious at that point that if it failed that Linehan would be fired after 2018.
  • Witten did not like Linehan.
  • Once it was obvious Linehan had been empowered, Witten decided to take the ESPN job.
  • One of Linehan's issues had been that he did not want to play Witten on 100% of the snaps.
• Garrett had similar issues with Bill Callahan previously.
  • Garrett over-ruled OLine coach Callahan on OLine starters.
  • Callahan was going to bench Free but Garrett refused.
  • Callahan had Jerry's ear and Garrett was forced to compromise.
  • The compromise was that in the final 4 games of 2012, Free and Parnell rotated series.

 

[buybuydandavis]

Possible.

I love his lightning first step. Now, if he can just learn how to play the position.

And power up some.

Both of those are straightforward propositions of putting in the work.

 

[dfense]

Here's a wild idea. La'el got a little coached up in the off-season. Much like Dak and his footwork.

 

[ScipioCowboy]

Nothing has changed. We’re usually wrong.

 

[Mr_437]

Well, what happens sometimes when you heap praise upon a particular player (Collins)..he is then presented with a challenge to verify your claim. If LC can neutralize sackmaster Danielle Hunter..fellas it's on.

The trenches is where I'm gonna look to focus on Tonight.

 

[JohnsKey19]

He's been a different player since the OL coaching change last year. Also there are many examples of OL drastically improving after 3+ years in the league.