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The Boston Herald reports LT Matt Light is considering retirement, and that the "expectation" is he won't be back with the Patriots in 2012.
Light hasn't commented on his future since the Patriots' Super Bowl loss, and as far as we know, he never publicly broached the idea of retirement during the 2011 season. Including the playoffs, he allowed just 2.5 sacks in 18 starts last season. Were Light to retire, Nate Solder would be his logical replacement on the blindside.
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This would be a big loss IMO. Clearly long term the goal is to have Vollmer and Solder be the starters, but having 3 starting caliber OTs was huge last year (given Vollmer's injury). I certainly didn't see it coming (perhaps the coaches/organization have been somewhat aware?).
Is Solder ready to start at LT or would a healthy Vollmer move over? Apparently Cannon would be considered the backup RT which I find a little surprising. I didn't think he had the footwork to play Tackle.
The Boston Herald reports G/T Marcus Cannon will be considered a tackle going forward.
Cannon is capable of playing both guard and tackle, but the Patriots apparently like his 6-foot-5, 358 pound size better at tackle. With LT Matt Light reportedly considering retirement and RT Sebastian Vollmer growing increasingly injury prone, Cannon could be in line for a much bigger role next season after cancer treatments limited him to seven games as a rookie.
Sometimes when a veteran says he's thinking about retirement, he's thinking about retirement. Other times, he may be thinking about skipping the first month or so of off-season workouts. I might put Waters in that same category.
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Does anyone know his salary details? All I could find was he was guaranteed $7M but I don't know the breakout between bonus and '11+'12 Salary.
If Light and Waters retire and Koppen and Connolly go elsewhere, they're going to have a LOT of work to do to rebuild this line. Solder, Mankins, Connon, Vollmer....that's not a bad group, but it needs to get a lot better and deeper.
Does anyone know his salary details? All I could find was he was guaranteed $7M but I don't know the breakout between bonus and '11+'12 Salary.
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August 11, 2011 update ESPN.Com's Mike Reiss blogged that "Matt Light -- As previously reported by the Associated Press, the veteran left tackle has a two-year, $12 million pact. It includes a $6 million signing bonus, $1 million base salary in 2011; $3.4 million base salary in 2012 and a $100,000 workout bonus in 2012."
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"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."
- Marcus Aurelius
Is Solder ready to start at LT or would a healthy Vollmer move over? Apparently Cannon would be considered the backup RT which I find a little surprising. I didn't think he had the footwork to play Tackle.
The Boston Herald reports G/T Marcus Cannon will be considered a tackle going forward.
Cannon is capable of playing both guard and tackle, but the Patriots apparently like his 6-foot-5, 358 pound size better at tackle. With LT Matt Light reportedly considering retirement and RT Sebastian Vollmer growing increasingly injury prone, Cannon could be in line for a much bigger role next season after cancer treatments limited him to seven games as a rookie.
Solder should improve with a full offseason in the system. My main concern with Solder is that he had 2 concussion-related issues last year. Those just compound over time.
As for Cannon, he would have been a 1st round pick at OT if it wasn't for the cancer. If he's 100%, he should be a starting caliber OT. But as BB has said on many occasions, the 5 best OL are going to be in there.
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