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Cannon is Russ Hochstein in a higher cap era. By the way, as is almost always the case, when the real numbers come out this is not 2 years 9 mill. I would bet that almost 50% of that contract is incentives tied to playing starter level snaps. So if he is a backup he is paid like a backup and if he starts he is paid like a starter.
Think about this: If we assume (which is a dangerous thing to do) that Bedard's number of 11 negative plays for Solder is correct. ( Which will include the plays Ingram illegally used hands to his face as a weapon, and any plays that actually might not be his mistake and Bedard wouldn't know, and penalties
) That would mean essentially that Solder won on the other 63 plays the offense ran If Brady was successful 63 of 74 plays he'd be player of the week. Solder does it and he's the first one we think of when we're looking for a thumbs down.
My point is that to my mind we tend to rate our offensive linemen so much differently and unfairly than all the rest of the players. Again, using the faulty PFF numbers, last season, Wendell was routinely criticized as a total failure for allowing just 5% of his snaps result sacks hits or hurries. That's a 95% success rate. Yet if you had a pass rusher who managed even a 10% success rate at creating sacks hits and hurries, he'd make the pro bowl.
I'm not saying don't criticize him. I want him to do better. In fact, I expect him to do better. Just please acknowledge that you understand the inherent unfairness in how we grade offensive linemen compared to other positions.
PWP, I never intended to imply that MY analogies had any more validity than the other being used. Its just my off kilter way to point out the inherent poor logic of being used to rate and criticize offensive linemen. We all know that it's possible for the OL to lose every individual battle and still come away with a successful play. Just as its equally true for the OL to win every battle and for a lot different reasons the play fails.
If you meant "3 or more", then half of them do. The other three of those each have an aggregate conference record over .500, unlike the AFC East, as does one of the divisions with only 2 teams over .500. So the AFC East, with its aggregate record of .500, seems rather middle-of-the-pack.
Not only did it look like he saw Browner coming, it looked (to me) as though that was why he didn't hang on to the catch. It looked like a textbook case of hearing footsteps.
If he were a little more durable, I wouldn't mind seeing Vollmer at LT. I remember his rookie year, he had to sub for Matt Light for a couple of games. I think one of them was the Colts and he absolutely dominated Dwight Freeney.
