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I actually think were going to have bigger problems on the left side of the offensive line. Broderick Jones is a big concern. He just seems unmotivated. He is supposedly a good athlete but he just isn’t progressing. I read and article where they (the Front Office) expressed a concern of Jones’s lack of motivation. He doesn’t seem to be getting the technique down. Not sure how you can’t develop your hands but that seems to be his weakness. Seamalu is concern simply due to his age and the fact he never really recovered well from the injury last year. Hopefully this year will be better.

I felt like they should have just left Jones at RT and played Fautanu at Left. Why would you play your worst O lineman on the QB’s blindside? This whole moving him back to his natural position thing is a joke. He is going to be just as much of an issue there if not more of one than he was last year at RT.

If he fails I would honestly look to develop our big TE into a Tackle and move Jones to guard next year. Doesn’t help us this year but it saves us from having to draft for OT and G next year.

 

washington may be jones best helper. i disagree about making washington a tackle. he needs to be made a TE and not the 6th lineman. we have a few young guys they need to look at at guard and tackle first. i wouldn't mind seeing fautanu get a few looks at LT and then if jones doesn't work out find a RT. which may already be here. we have a lot of young guys here. i want to see what they can do first before we even think about drafting.

 

We shall see. I don't care how long ago it was, this team still has 6 rings, and has been to 8 SBs. They aren't stupid. NFL isn't changing that much. You still got teams that haven't even been to a SB, let alone win one.

 

I do believe that Art II was the catalyst for the Canada firing watching this garbage offense. But Bags Tomlin did him a solid by hiring him. Dino Tomlin was recruited to Maryland in 2018 by Canada who was interim head coach at the time. So there is history there. Canada was hired in 2020. He also was the Offensive coordinator for Pitt in 2016.

 

Coaches at every level typically get hired because of who they know. They don't use Indeed.com or such. It is interesting to read coaches history and see how they connect.

 

I didn't say he had no history with Tomlin. I said he has more history with Rooney.

 

just saw this about the steelers possibly looking for more o-linemen.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nf...S&cvid=688f8d0b0d4f4f438ecc8089799fd7ec&ei=19

 

I have a feeling the Pickett/Canada thing was by design. Canada had worked with him in college, albeit briefly. My bet is they felt the familiarity would be beneficial to pickett’s development.

 

Can’t imagine they wouldn’t be looking. I don’t think they ever stop looking, but now with Anderson down for the foreseeable future they really need another tackle

 

my only problem with that is waiting for the cuts. at that point we are trying to start over at the beginning of the season already.

 

They just came out and said they aren’t going to move Fautanu to LT. The best bet if Jones fails is Anderson or Dylan Cook. Jones is going to end up as a guard in this league if he can’t develop. He is big and strong and can run block he just can’t be outside on an island without committing himself to learning technique. They say he is athletic. I don’t know how you don’t develop as a professional in this league if your athletic.

 

anderson is hurt. cook is it right now. scharping or nester in a pinch. not ideal though. i'd see what cook could do first.

athletic without brains doesn't make a player a lock. jones lost weight and now say he's undersized.

not sure why they are being hard headed and put jones back on the right side and move fautanu to the left. they say he's not ready? they did it with dan moore, who by the way the titans are loving.

 

Like over 1/3 of the league

 

Who said anything about waiting?

 

How many times did I say on here , and people laughed when I said Moore wasn't as bad as they thought.

 

He was middle of the road in most regards

He gave up the most sacks last year of any tackle

 

reading the article it talks about waiting to see who the eagles cut. That won't happen until preseason is over. Otherwise there are not guys just sitting there.

 

The problem with statistics rears its ugly head again. How many of those were because of the qb putting himself in harms way? Remember when Mason took over 2 years ago and what the lineman said? Why they wanted him to start? Because he was where he was supposed to be. He didn’t do pickett’s spindarella move and get himself sacked.

 

He was 140th out of 140 if we exclude what you are suggesting I bet that moves him all the way up to maybe 124th out of 140

Yippei

 

Ok.
Where did you get those numbers from, PFF???