This is accurate. Eichenberg has been moved around to basically every position, including center last year, and hasn’t looked like anything other than a bad player at every position.
I think this is exactly the case. Way too early to be concluding anything about anything.
He indeed was. Just think of it - 6'3", 240 pound, world class athlete, incredible power, and oh yeah, a black belt in karate. Not too many guys messed with Andre.
Is it possible that the Pats trust Onwenu to kick out to RT whenever they need him, and they have him at RG just to give more reps to the other tackles in order to sort out that situation?
Nah, they just need to get more creative with their sponsors: Roblox, Minecraft, LEGO, Waffle House, . . .
Seems to make sense, they're deeper in the middle. Even Mafi had a pretty good game at guard in PS1, Leverett has shown well, and some point you've got Strange back. Onwenu at right tackle means you've just got to get competent play out of one of Anderson, Chuks, Lowe and Wallace.
My theory, which is based on nothing in particular, is that they wanted to start out by taking a good hard look at all of the tackles (besides Onwenu) since they have less proven depth there, and that once they are ready to start prepping the actual line they will use in season, Onwenu will shift back to T.
I was listening to the GM Shuffle with Mike Lombardi this morning and be briefly discussed the line and Onwenu this morning. He said they would like to kick him back out to tackle but he gained a ton of weight (80 pounds?) this offseason. Is that even possible?
There is nobody available basically. Lowe has been bad they chose not to shift Okorafar, but both those guys (and probably Wallace) are better players than anyone available.
I can't speak to numbers of pounds, but he looked bigger to me. At the same time, Okorafor looked almost like a TE to me. I thought looking at them next to each other maybe my eyes were playing tricks on me.
Pats are #3 in terms of waiver claims. With only one cutdown, any external options likely won't happen until the end of the month- I don't think that they'd burn a draft pick to get a LT that they would likely be able to get for only cash.
The NE OL was also blocking mostly PHI 2nd/3rd string DL. They were serviceable but it will be interesting to see how that translates when the games count. Scary to think Lowe was getting whipped even by the 2nd/3rd string guys. We also heard that the NE OL was embarrassed by the PHI starters in practice.
I'm VERY concerned about the tackles, have no doubt, just noting that the line as a whole looked better against backups last night than they did against backups week 1.
Disagree, id probably take most of these guys over Lowe
Bakhtiari, Humphries and Leno are all coming off surgery. Likewise, Brown ended the season on the IR after missing a ton of time. Peters is 42 and has been a part time player the last two years. If those guys could get and stay on the field they would indeed be upgrades . We're not in a position to know where these guys are medically but the fact that they remain free agents at this stage is not a great sign.
Pretty impressive how he's managed to shuttle around some of the worst offensive lines in the league.
Glad he highlighted his play in Maye's scramble from the end zone to pick up the first on 3rd-and-15. I wasn't paying close attention to the game, but that was one sequence where there was indeed a huge hole in front of Maye created by the OL and Robinson in particular, and Robinson kept his guy occupied so he wasn't able to get over to get Maye from the side.
Wow, I really wanted to play this game but I have no idea the people or position beyond Andrews at C and Onwenu somewhere on the right. I’m assuming Tackle, as no one else has been even serviceable. So:
This makes sense to me as well. Implementing a consistent approach to development and evaluation of lineman (assume this is happening) makes it more likely they find their ceiling as individuals and a unit.
