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Well the consensus around here seems to be that Free has regressed again. Not sure if he's trying to play thru a secret injury we don't know about, he stopped taking PED's, we aren't disguising his weakness with TE help, or he just lost motivation. Often times in the past (Specifically with Bernadeau and Livings) they were playing thru some injuries and we just didn't know about it till later so there's a slight possibility Free is not 100% and Garrett is keeping it under wraps. Ok then just for the sake of discussion, what if (Oh boy here it comes) we slid Martin over to RT and inserted Bernadeau at RG? Don't freak out, let's just have some fun for a minute.
From what I understand Bernadeau is finally healthy, a year plus after his last surgery and was showing tremendous improvement, so much that if he had gotten the nod over Leary there wouldn't be much of a difference. Granted I'm glad they chose Leary because we are going with the youth movement on the O-line. I really don't know for certain if Martin will ever play tackle (Since he has alligator arms,) or if they are just getting him acclimated to playing at the Pro level by inserting him at guard his first year with hopes to slide him over in his second year. It just seems to me he'd still be an upgrade over Free right now but of course this is more theory than fact at the moment because we haven't seen him play tackle at the Pro level. The talent and strength seems to be there for the most part though.
The long term solution here is to draft a tackle in the first three rounds and be done with it. My guess is that we might insert a stop gap FA next year unless Parnell finally gets it together. Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Parnell get injured and that's why he didn't look so good in preseason? At least not good enough for the coaches to give him the nod over Free. I know there is at least one fan around here in Parnell's corner but most on this board seem to believe he looked bad in the preseason and also regressed. I know Weems got hurt but he's still injured so he's out of the equation for now at least.
And lastly I heard T-Fred on sports radio yesterday say he excels at run blocking more than pass blocking because they ran the ball a great deal more then they passed the ball while he was at Wisconsin. He said he's still adjusting to pass blocking in the NFL as is Martin, naturally. Time is our friend and as of now it appears these guys are just getting better and better. Personally I want to see something between a 60/40 to 70/30 run to pass ratio from here on forward. We have the horses to run down other teams throats and quite frankly it's a team strength right now. It's also kept or spotty defense off the field with time of possession being in our favor. And finally with one last tweak to our O-line, it's a perfect setting to bring in a draft pick at QB to take over the reins and get us over the hump and back to winning 10+ games again, somebody in the first two rounds would be ideal.
From what I understand Bernadeau is finally healthy, a year plus after his last surgery and was showing tremendous improvement, so much that if he had gotten the nod over Leary there wouldn't be much of a difference. Granted I'm glad they chose Leary because we are going with the youth movement on the O-line. I really don't know for certain if Martin will ever play tackle (Since he has alligator arms,) or if they are just getting him acclimated to playing at the Pro level by inserting him at guard his first year with hopes to slide him over in his second year. It just seems to me he'd still be an upgrade over Free right now but of course this is more theory than fact at the moment because we haven't seen him play tackle at the Pro level. The talent and strength seems to be there for the most part though.
The long term solution here is to draft a tackle in the first three rounds and be done with it. My guess is that we might insert a stop gap FA next year unless Parnell finally gets it together. Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Parnell get injured and that's why he didn't look so good in preseason? At least not good enough for the coaches to give him the nod over Free. I know there is at least one fan around here in Parnell's corner but most on this board seem to believe he looked bad in the preseason and also regressed. I know Weems got hurt but he's still injured so he's out of the equation for now at least.
And lastly I heard T-Fred on sports radio yesterday say he excels at run blocking more than pass blocking because they ran the ball a great deal more then they passed the ball while he was at Wisconsin. He said he's still adjusting to pass blocking in the NFL as is Martin, naturally. Time is our friend and as of now it appears these guys are just getting better and better. Personally I want to see something between a 60/40 to 70/30 run to pass ratio from here on forward. We have the horses to run down other teams throats and quite frankly it's a team strength right now. It's also kept or spotty defense off the field with time of possession being in our favor. And finally with one last tweak to our O-line, it's a perfect setting to bring in a draft pick at QB to take over the reins and get us over the hump and back to winning 10+ games again, somebody in the first two rounds would be ideal.
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