Note to Self: Bradley Sowell is Not Very Good

[Buckybird]

Sowell ain't good but I'm not surprised this thread was started by a guy who used to constantly defend his inferior and higher paid predecessor.

Yep

I think I can easily say this team wouldn't be 9-5 with Levi playing LT all year.

 

[Hollywood]

No kidding. Sowell and Winston play from horrible to slightly below average at best. It's exciting to think what this staff could do on offense with a couple of decent OTs in those spots next year. What they have done with a guy off the street in September and a FA nobody else wanted the entire offseason.... wow.

Maybe this is what it's like to have an o-line coach that can actually coach.


Russ Grimm was just like Mean Joe Greene. I never really saw them coach much at all at practice. They just stood around like the aura of their greatness as players was enough to do the job.

I am so excited about this. It isn't just the fact that the offense is excelling with the current line...it is that you KNOW the front office is actually going to do something to improve the line in the off season.

 

[Hollywood]

The problem I have with all OL stats are that you do not know the play, so you do not know if someone else missed an assignment causing someone else to get a poor rating. The are too many unknown variables that only the coaches and players know for certain.

It is the problem with most stats in football. It is the untimate team sport. There is very little one on one in football even when two players are going at it one on one. CB's stats are improved with a good pass rush. A WR is nothing without someone to throw him the ball. QB's fail if any of the OLinemen fail. Was the lineman supposed to have help? Did the coach call the wrong play dooming everything from the start?

Stats are nice for an guide but if you want to really know how a player is doing RugbyMuffin is right. You have to use your eyes. And even then you don't have the whole story. Just more of it.

 

[perivolaki]

It is the problem with most stats in football. It is the untimate team sport. There is very little one on one in football even when two players are going at it one on one. CB's stats are improved with a good pass rush. A WR is nothing without someone to throw him the ball. QB's fail if any of the OLinemen fail. Was the lineman supposed to have help? Did the coach call the wrong play dooming everything from the start?

Stats are nice for an guide but if you want to really know how a player is doing RugbyMuffin is right. You have to use your eyes. And even then you don't have the whole story. Just more of it.

This is so true.

I used to hear Coach Whiz talk about having one unblocked rusher and that the Quarterback was supposed to take care of that guy. It was his responsibility to see the rusher and know where to throw the ball.

Now I don't know if that is just a bad scheme, or if the quarterback or wr missed a read, or maybe some one really missed a block.

Some times is almost impossible to tell.

 

[overseascardfan]

I am going to continue to campaign for ARZ to bring in 2 OT's next year because Winston is a FA and Sowell is not the long term answer. Unfortunately, ARZ will not get Cyrus Kouandjio as they will probably end up in the late teens or early 20's. I am for bringing in Eugene Monroe as I feel ARZ should have scooped him up from JAX and either Veldheer or Albert. I know they would need to create some cap room but we do need long term upgrades at the OT positions, top priority this offseason.

Hopefully next year's OL looks like:

LT Jared Veldheer / Brendan Albert
LG - Jonathan Cooper
C - Lyle Sendlein
RG - Daryn Colledge
RT - Eugene Monroe

 

[BullheadCardFan]

Hopefully next year's OL looks like:

LT Jared Veldheer / Brendan Albert
LG - Jonathan Cooper
C - Lyle Sendlein
RG - Daryn Colledge
RT - Eugene Monroe

I don't want Colledge back. Hope that Watford can step in.

Agree that we need help at OT, but I don't see us bringing in 2 guys. I think they bring a LT and the rest fight it out for the RT position.