Offensive line depth (R. Thomas' injury)

[Trample the Elderly]

Originally Posted by SFREDSKIN

Can you say Alex Mack? He would have been an excellent addition.

You know I was just thinking that. Mack plays guard and center too. Do you remember all the flack we got when we said we should have drafted him. Ah but he's not a first rounder. We don't need another center. BS!

[SFREDSKIN]

Originally Posted by Trample the Elderly

You know I was just thinking that. Mack plays guard and center too. Do you remember all the flack we got when we said we should have drafted him. Ah but he's not a first rounder. We don't need another center. BS!

No disrespect to Orakpo but we should have traded down, picked up Mack and and DE with the other pick. I guess it made too much sense.

[The Goat]

Originally Posted by SFREDSKIN

No disrespect to Orakpo but we should have traded down, picked up Mack and and DE with the other pick. I guess it made too much sense.

Um that's a pretty good idea. Personally I think the ultimate '09 Redskins draft would have been trade back, take Michael Oher w/ our first pick and then find someway to get Rey-Rey when he somehow fell into the 2nd round. Both are starters and making WAY bigger contributions to their teams than Rak has made. Rey-Rey is freaking awesome at SLB. 8 tackles first game. Just 4 today but he's added a sack and somewhere in there he caused to freakin fumbles!

...I'm still appalled at how so many Skins fans poo-pooed Rey as a guy who couldn't play at the pro level and would make a terrible SLB. Nooooo, let's take a pure DE instead and let him learn to be a LB

Ah, I need to let it all go. I am real glad at the optimism about Rinehart hopefully stepping in at RG and making an impact. Let's see the mean streak he had in college come out this weekend

[skins89moss]

Originally Posted by SFREDSKIN

No disrespect to Orakpo but we should have traded down, picked up Mack and and DE with the other pick. I guess it made too much sense.

Please stop the draft has been over bro. Why even do the we shoulda coulda game. We got Orakpo and thats the fact.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by SFREDSKIN

No disrespect to Orakpo but we should have traded down, picked up Mack and and DE with the other pick. I guess it made too much sense.

Making a trade requires more than one team of course

[T.O.Killa]

Every time I here this crap about how if we sustain an injury, we wont be prepared I get pissed off. Name one team in the NFL that can afford to lose there LT. We will be fine. Rinehart will be the starter. Montgomery was active because he plays center and guard in a pinch, like this game. They are as prepared as they could be, they kept 10 Olinemen. What more do you want. Rinehart is young, has a year under his belt and is ready to show us why he was drafted third. If he sucks they will cut him and sign someone else for god sakes. No team, has a team full of second string starters. Last year we had injuries to our RT,RG,LT, what did you expect.

[Longtimefan]

Originally Posted by T.O.Killa

Every time I here this crap about how if we sustain an injury, we wont be prepared I get pissed off. Name one team in the NFL that can afford to lose there LT. We will be fine. Rinehart will be the starter. Montgomery was active because he plays center and guard in a pinch, like this game. They are as prepared as they could be, they kept 10 Olinemen. What more do you want. Rinehart is young, has a year under his belt and is ready to show us why he was drafted third. If he sucks they will cut him and sign someone else for god sakes. No team, has a team full of second string starters. Last year we had injuries to our RT,RG,LT, what did you expect.

This team needs to improve on the O-line, plain & simple.......No excuses.

[T.O.Killa]

Originally Posted by Longtimefan

This team needs to improve on the O-line, plain & simple.......No excuses.

So far they have given up 3 sacks, not bad.

[Longtimefan]

Originally Posted by T.O.Killa

So far they have given up 3 sacks, not bad.

Sacks allowed is just a portion of playing effectively on the O-line. If that was all there is to it, one could say they're a very good O-line, but you and I both know that is far from being acurate.

[T.O.Killa]

Originally Posted by Longtimefan

Sacks allowed is just a portion of playing effectively on the O-line. If that was all there is to it, one could say they're a very good O-line, but you and I both know that is far from being accurate.

In my mind our O-line is vastly improved this year. I think Dockery is as good as picking a guard in the first round. Mike Williams will only get better every day, he stays in shape. Last year the Ravens with all there great drafting had to turn to an old man, with a monster beer belly, that was on his couch watching football to play RT. It happens, injuries cannot be prevented. Rinehart will step in next week and play great. He showed that he is capable of that in the preseason. If that does not work, we will put in Batiste. If that fails, there are plenty of guys out there that could fill in.

[budw38]

Originally Posted by T.O.Killa

Every time I here this crap about how if we sustain an injury, we wont be prepared I get pissed off. Name one team in the NFL that can afford to lose there LT. We will be fine. Rinehart will be the starter. Montgomery was active because he plays center and guard in a pinch, like this game. They are as prepared as they could be, they kept 10 Olinemen. What more do you want. Rinehart is young, has a year under his belt and is ready to show us why he was drafted third. If he sucks they will cut him and sign someone else for god sakes. No team, has a team full of second string starters. Last year we had injuries to our RT,RG,LT, what did you expect.

I hear you . Not to rain on your party , but The 2005 Steelers lost G's Faneca , Simmons , C) Hartings , Wr R. EL , Te , Tuman and RD Bettis ,, and repeated in 08 . It is still early in our season , but lets be honest , our offense has been very poor in scoring the last 4-5 years and we seem to bring in WR's / Fb's and TE's , the only constant is OL and QB . We are avg. 1 off / Td per game our last 10 games ?

[T.O.Killa]

Originally Posted by budw38

I hear you . Not to rain on your party , but The 2005 Steelers lost G's Faneca , Simmons , C) Hartings , Wr R. EL , Te , Tuman and RD Bettis ,, and repeated in 08 . It is still early in our season , but lets be honest , our offense has been very poor in scoring the last 4-5 years and we seem to bring in WR's / Fb's and TE's , the only constant is OL and QB . We are avg. 1 off / Td per game our last 10 games ?

Yeah and Rothlisberger was the most sacked QB in the NFL. OK, now the constant is poor QB play. Although, tonight JC threw two nice passes in the red zone that should have been caught.

[The Goat]

From Buges assessment I'd say Chad is the likely replacement...he was inactive today cuz the Montgomery kid can play center/guard. Chad should be alright overall but there are too things to keep in mind: 1) he sporadically misses big assignments and lets a dlineman or blitzing LB through clean so the risk of a big injury on JC just went up a bit and 2) last year when he struggled in practice he just went into a tailspin of sorts (i remember it from a few articles). Let's hope he's got the mental game down better. We really, really need a brawler on that side...so bad. Rinehart was a freak in college...he mauled more defenders to the ground than any other LT his senior year (i remember reading this). To me that indicates a mean streak...with any luck he digs down and finds that nasty bastard inside himself and we see the oline gain some swagger

[JWsleep]

I do have faith in Buges to make things work. Also, I think Rinehart will be fine as a guard--he's not a tackle and we've tried to move him out there.

We'll see.

[skins89moss]

Originally Posted by JWsleep

I do have faith in Buges to make things work. Also, I think Rinehart will be fine as a guard--he's not a tackle and we've tried to move him out there.

We'll see.

When has the last time Joe Bugle has developed a rookie lineman to start for us. Oh It is undrafted Heyer. You would think Buges could pick a lineman in the late rounds to help develope into a started, oh we didn't draft a O-line this year we took linebackers. Hmmmmm when will we learn that our O-line is getting old and we need young blood.