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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Very good when healthy, missed most of last year with serious Achilles injury. They cannot keep all those guards, can they?
I think that is probable..Very correct in that the team is now two over...more moves to go..Simmons if healthy is a good pick up...NOW a tackle to be added...There are a lot interior linemen on the 53.
Mankins, Koppen, Neal
Ohrnberger, Wendell, Simmons, Connolly
In the past we ahve occasionally gone with 4, with the one backup veteran being the Game Day backup at all three positions. This strategy required a couple of Practice Squad guards, sometimes even being paid like a roster player.
The more normal number is 5 interior linemen, with 4 being active for each game.
WE ARE NOW TWO OVER THE NORM
If Simmons is healthy, I would expect Wendell and Connolly to be gone, with the hope that one or both make the Practice Squad.
Bye, bye Neal (IMO). Vollmer in at RT, Kazcur slides to RG until Simmons drinks Scarnecchia Kool Aid.
I think that is probable..Very correct in that the team is now two over...more moves to go..Simmons if healthy is a good pick up...NOW a tackle to be added...
I'm not sure the Patriots wish to go into the season with only ONE back up tackle. That is quite risky.. I am not sure it's a question of whether there are two players better or not...there was a reason they were cut and two interiot lineman kept. Sometimes it's not just who is better but other circumstances that enter into it. I am not sure "WE" will have this situation until LeVoir is off PUP.We had two players capable of starting in Callaghan and Britt. Do you believe that there are better players than them out there? I think that LeVoir is probably almost ready and will be on the team as soon as is allowed. Until then, we have Vollmer and a street free agent to add if there is an injury.
I haven't found evidence yet that Simmons has ever played anything other than RG. So it's not obvious that he can take a couple of other guys' roster spots IMMEDIATELY.
I'm not sure the Patriots wish to go into the season with only ONE back up tackle. That is quite risky.. I am not sure it's a question of whether there are two players better or not...there was a reason they were cut and two interiot lineman kept. Sometimes it's not just who is better but other circumstances that enter into it. I am not sure "WE" will have this situation until LeVoir is off PUP.