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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.@ SBLIII you can defend Sony all you want but some of our Struggles running the Rock is on him. If White and Burkhead gets more carries on early Downs from now on I am fine with that the Defense respects them more and that's a fact. They aren't pounders but we have to go with who works.
Michel ain't a 196lbs either he's bulked up some use a stiff arm or improve his lateral steps. He has learn to adjust to how this OLine Blocks.
If you want to rely on White and Burkhead running the football on 1st down you are in for a letdown if you think it will get any better
There are missed tackles and then there are missed tackles. Michel is facing multiple guys with nowhere to go.
Mostly Mason. Cannon I can almost let slide since he's gutting through an injury, but Mason has had the biggest regression from one year to the next, that I can remember.It will get better and Sony will get better. But it starts with the OL and especially with Cannon and Mason. They will eventually be competent and we will average our 4 yard clip again. It won't be as good as last year but as time goes on the running game should not be the big liability it is now.
on every single play?There are missed tackles and then there are missed tackles. Michel is facing multiple guys with nowhere to go.
Mostly Mason. Cannon I can almost let slide since he's gutting through an injury, but Mason has had the biggest regression from one year to the next, that I can remember.
on every single play?
Beddard said that he noticed Mason was limping a bit on Friday. The TE fail is a big issue, Izzo is not getting the job done.Mason played better when he had Andrews on one side, and a healthy Cannon on the other, with perhaps a good blocking TE (or FB) on the right side also. This shouldn't be a surprise.
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This isn't rocket science. We miss the run blocking of Develin and Gronk.
Beddard said that he noticed Mason was limping a bit on Friday. The TE fail is a big issue, Izzo is not getting the job done.
To be fair, Sweeney (at #228) was already taken by the time the pick used to select Webster arrived (at #252)...Even the two other 7th-rounders (#s 239 & 246) that Bill had tossed-aside earlier in the day would not have reached him...So the lowest pick available to draft Sweeney would've been way back at #163.Why we didn’t draft TE Thomas Sweeney out of Boston College who was taken in the seventh round? CB Ken Webster? Really? The Dolphins thank us.
I’m wondering if we overpaid with Mason.
Shaq Mason’s contract details.
Five years at up to $45 million with $23.5 million guaranteed. Wow.
He is going all Ken Simms on us so far this season. Let’s hope Dante can light a fire under his keister.
I’m wondering if we overpaid with Mason.
Shaq Mason’s contract details.
Five years at up to $45 million with $23.5 million guaranteed. Wow.
He is going all Ken Simms on us so far this season. Let’s hope Dante can light a fire under his keister.
Sony was pretty good. Not great, but he found some running room. Patriots are not committing to the run and teams are daring Tom to throw.