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Originally Posted by Chromeburn
See this is where it gets confusing to me. Ballard signs the guys. But he does not set the depth chart. That's a coach's job. Totally Ballard's fault for not getting a better LT in-house. Although it looks like Raimann and even Fries may work out.
But did they not see how bad he was in camp? Pryor had the job from day 1, no competition. Kelly was hurt to start the season so he couldn't play there. If he was such a liability why wasn't he benched sooner? I mean it took Saturday to come in and bench him.
I blame Ballard for signing him, but I blame Frank for continuing to play him.
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Raimann was being rotated in game one. That’s not what teams usually do at LT. I’d say Reich knew Pryor sucked but his two options were a shitty vet who had provided previous short term replacement level play or an overwhelmed 3rd round rookie who had only played the position for 2 years. And yes, Raimann sure as fuck looked overwhelmed in his initial action. Reich was trying to develop Raimann. See what he had. No live action isn’t the same as regular games. Neither is the limited preseason. Especially for communication on stunts and blitzes. Raimann started against Denver (under Reich) and sucked. If Reich had started Raimann playing like he did initially people would have been calling for him to be fired for that. Immobile QB and shit at LT, not exactly a recipe for success.
You want to know the reason for the constant slow starts? It’s this shit that Ballard constantly pulls - critical position given away to development. LT, DE, WR have all been recent victims of it.