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[omahacolt]

Originally Posted by YDFL Commish

OL change was necessary, but they keep making the wrong changes.

OL lineup should be:

Raimann-Nelson-Pinter-Kelly-Smith

if kelly can't play center, he won't hold up at rg.


fries or pryor at rg. or keep smith there and play dennis kelly at rt

[Chromeburn]

Originally Posted by ChoppedWood

Seems like going up-tempo really works for this team, each game when we've had to mount drives, we've looked better when it's been faster pace. Seems like it is much more read and react than "do these 87 things in this exact manner and we'll succeed". Seems more improved, seems more effective.

But doubt dumb fuck for being the football savant we are all supposed to believe he is- can connect these dots.

The downside to uptempo is you wear out your defense if you don’t have sustained drives. You could always go to the line early and that makes the defense stay in their stance a long time.

[Chromeburn]

Originally Posted by Lov2fish

I saw some stuff last night saying achilles. This morning everyone is saying high ankle sprain. Getting MRI today.

I think the Achilles stuff was just fab reaction. Hopefully. Fingers crossed.

[ChaosTheory]

Originally Posted by omahacolt

if kelly can't play center, he won't hold up at rg.


fries or pryor at rg. or keep smith there and play dennis kelly at rt

I'm generally in favor of leaving the guys at their natural positions. So leave Kelly or bench him, but don't move to guard. I've rewatched some and I'll watch the 22 tape later on, but I don't even know for sure if Pinter played better than Kelly. He may have, but all I really know is Pinter looked far more comfortable at C than at RG.

Pryor is big and strong, but he is too lumbering for OT. Is he too lumbering even for RG?

[Racehorse]

Who would have guessed before the season that we would be 2-0 against the AFCWest and winless in our own division?

[ChaosTheory]

Originally Posted by Chromeburn

I think the Achilles stuff was just fab reaction. Hopefully. Fingers crossed.

At first I thought it was non-contact, but you can see he gets his ankle rolled from behind. Likely several weeks out best case.

[Hoopsdoc]

Originally Posted by Spike

Pinter is ok as a center, just not at guard. Pryor, who the fuck knows what Ballard was thinking. He sucked ass at the left tackle position, moved him to right tackle and he sucked there too.

Really, the Pryor debacle alone should be enough to get Ballard fired. It gets worse the more you think about it.

Hell, they signed someone last year when they had a young mobile quarterback. How in the hell he thought it acceptable to NOT sign someone this year with a 37 year old statue for a quarterback is inconceivable.

And then to give the job to a journeyman guard who had never played more than a handful of snaps at tackle?

Just pathetic.

[Brylok]

There's no excuse for having no LT when you've had years to get a replacement for Castanzo. We could have just signed Leno from the Bears when we had the chance, but no, Ballard is too smart for that. It should probably cost him his job, and I'd support that decision.

[Chromeburn]

Originally Posted by ChaosTheory

At first I thought it was non-contact, but you can see he gets his ankle rolled from behind. Likely several weeks out best case.

X-rays came back negative. Some good news for once.

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[YDFL Commish]

Originally Posted by ChaosTheory

Pryor is big and strong, but he is too lumbering for OT. Is he too lumbering even for RG?

If you ever want him to pull, get downfield and make a block on the 2nd level, yes he is a turtle.