JSn

Kaczur is playing very well at RT and is already extended. Extending Light would be more costly. He's the first of the tackles to leave this team.

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Nordberg

I was referring to Nick K.

patriot lifer

i would love to see how he matches up against Dwight Freeney in a few weeks (if he plays him). if he does and were to dominate (knock on wood), i think we might be able to pencil him in as an Ogden-caliber player. wait until this guy has an offseason to bulk up.

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2013 Season:

Nate Solder (6'8" 320 lbs)
Seabass (6'8" 320 lbs)
Rob Gronkowski (6'6" 265 lbs)
Jake Ballard (6'6" 275 lbs)
Logan Mankins (6'4" 320 lbs) (100% recovered)
Dan Connolly (6'4" 320 lbs)
Marcus Cannon (6'5" 340 lbs) (Switch to Guard??)

RB: Ridley, Vereen, Washington, Bolden

unoriginal

I certainly don't have any stats to back this up, but I thought Vollmer was getting a substantial amount of help from Baker and Matthews, though some of that was the result of play action.

They did that a lot with Kaczur in 2005. It will be interesting to see how much of that they feel Vollmer needs going forwards.

BradyFTW!

Yeha, absolutely- that was what really did it for me. I don't think it's a coincidence that Maroney was suddenly running really well now that Mankins and Vollmer were absolutely destroying guys and giving him legit lanes to run through.

alvinnf

Vollmer does a great job extending his arms and pushing the player upfield to create time for his feet. He is constantly getting his mitts on his guy and shoving him upfield. The question is going to be what can he do against a player whos undersized and quick and uses leverage. Guys like Harrison and Freeney, those are the matchup I'm looking forward to.

alvinnf

See; Kendall Simmons?

Deus Irae

It was also a perfect storm (pun intended), with slippery ground ridding the pass rushers of any advantage, and also setting up so that larger, stronger players had the advantage in the trenches.

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muzz

Neal has only played 16 games twice, and the last time was 2005.
He played 32 games in the last 3 years b4 this one, which is <11 per( he HAS played all 6 this year)..
Neal gets hurt, and when he's gone the team seems to really suffer.......I know 1 game in particular that we suffered greatly, and the men in Blue were loving life with him gone from the game....kind've a big game too.....

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I guess drafting BUMS like "I never play cuz I suck" Wheatley,"see the back of my Jersey as I get burned...AGAIN" Wilhiite, and "maybe my knee will let me play by my 4th year" Tate, wasn't good enough,we've got a guy that is giving Matt Millen a run for his $ by drafting a mediocre special teams player and giving him 1st Rd. cake.
Pass rush? Uneccessary when you have 72 CBS playing.
Lbs? What for, we have no pass rush, they gonna chuck it at our lousy CBS...all 72 of them bums

jbb9s

Yup. Neal even got dinged up today - looked like he stayed in but he was definitely in some pain.

Personally, i'd predict that Vollmer gets relegated back to the bench when Light is ready. Unfortunately, (or fortunately for for Vollmer fans), there will almost probably be another OLine injury at some point (hopefully not serious) allowing him back on the field.

Although I still can't believe they dealt Hochstein. He could play almost anywhere in a pinch.