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MORSE: O-Line Woes, OTA news, Morse's Morsels
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[archstanton543]

It's going to hard to fill Gillette this year. Imagine if they took a LT with the first pick. Games would probably be blacked out.

 

[FreeTedWilliams]

How bad was Steuber that he was cut from this group?

The Maye pick was a mistake, they reached for a guy instead of grabbing a game changing player (or two).

 

[Love The Drake]

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How bad was Steuber that he was cut from this group?

The Maye pick was a mistake, they reached for a guy instead of grabbing a game changing player (or two).

Bills fans said the same thing about Allen.
I think Maye will be a beast for us, plus a great QB brings in free agents.
I think between him and Milton one of them can become a franchise QB here.
They will give Maye every chance to succeed, a little concerning to hear Polk looks slow but maybe he’s not going all out like he would in a game.

 

[jmt57]

Well that's a cold splash of hardcore reality there, Mark.

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One of the Patriots biggest needs in the off-season was a starting NFL caliber Left Tackle. Eliot Wolf whiffed just like Bill Belichick did, failing to get a quality player to join the team.​

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The Patriots did sign a former #1 pick and 6-year starter, Chukwu Okorafor, formally of the Pittsburgh Steelers. He lost his starting Right Tackle job to the player Pittsburgh acquired from the Patriots last year. The 2024 draft was loaded with good, NFL caliber Left Tackles. In my initial Mock Draft, I suggested that Left Tackle and not QB should have been the teams in #1 priority. Without that anchor at Left Tackle, I don’t care who you put at QB, they are not going to succeed.​

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The Patriots prioritized QB and WR ahead of LT. Wolf and staff were caught flat footed and unprepared to adjust to the run of Left Tackles and they ended up being caught in no-mans-land. They chose a player they really liked in Caeden Wallace, who got lost in the quality of Tackles that came out in this year’s draft and I think he is a very underrated Right Tackle.​

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However, they are Right Tackles trying to make the switch. Okorafor has already stated in an OTA interview how hard it is to switch sides. He has 6 years’ experience but has never t the year on played the Left Side, the blind side of a Right-Handed QB. Wallace is extremely confident that he can make the switch but in his 5 years at Penn State he only played on the right side.​

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Michael Onwenu tried to make the switch to Left Guard and failed miserably. Onwenu is strictly a right sided player. Now with Cole Strange’s absence due to lingering problems from his knee injury last year, we are going to need another player on the Left Side.​

 

[40yrpatsfan]

I recall Steuber playing a few downs at some point last year.

 

[Dec54]

Well that's a cold splash of hardcore reality there, Mark.

​

One of the Patriots biggest needs in the off-season was a starting NFL caliber Left Tackle. Eliot Wolf whiffed just like Bill Belichick did, failing to get a quality player to join the team.​

​

The Patriots did sign a former #1 pick and 6-year starter, Chukwu Okorafor, formally of the Pittsburgh Steelers. He lost his starting Right Tackle job to the player Pittsburgh acquired from the Patriots last year. The 2024 draft was loaded with good, NFL caliber Left Tackles. In my initial Mock Draft, I suggested that Left Tackle and not QB should have been the teams in #1 priority. Without that anchor at Left Tackle, I don’t care who you put at QB, they are not going to succeed.​

​

The Patriots prioritized QB and WR ahead of LT. Wolf and staff were caught flat footed and unprepared to adjust to the run of Left Tackles and they ended up being caught in no-mans-land. They chose a player they really liked in Caeden Wallace, who got lost in the quality of Tackles that came out in this year’s draft and I think he is a very underrated Right Tackle.​

​

However, they are Right Tackles trying to make the switch. Okorafor has already stated in an OTA interview how hard it is to switch sides. He has 6 years’ experience but has never t the year on played the Left Side, the blind side of a Right-Handed QB. Wallace is extremely confident that he can make the switch but in his 5 years at Penn State he only played on the right side.​

​

Michael Onwenu tried to make the switch to Left Guard and failed miserably. Onwenu is strictly a right sided player. Now with Cole Strange’s absence due to lingering problems from his knee injury last year, we are going to need another player on the Left Side.​

That's the spirit, possitive thinking.

 

[Stu Pidassle]

I recall Steuber playing a few downs at some point last year.

Steuber was a 7th round draft pick, not the kind of player who should make a difference. Even making it onto the field makes him someone who defied the odds.

 

[PatMan]

 

[Force Zero Boomer]

Sounds like our OL is a train wreck. Hope we didn’t waste a second rounder on Pokey Polk.

 

[WinstonSmith]

It's funny that a healthy Calvin Anderson, someone who has played left tackle in the NFL at least at an adequate level, wasn't even mentioned when discussing options at LT, and yet he was later briefly noted as the guy at LT during this OTA....go figure.

I'll be mildly surprised if a healthy Anderson is not part of the solution at LT.

 

[Force Zero Boomer]

Even odds on Strange retiring within the next two years

 

[Patriot Missile]

It’s concerning but still so early to be making doomsday predictions.

 

[n1997y]

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[Huckleberry1]

I will never understand why Wolf took a QB when they already have Bailey Zappe, who only needed a left tackle to lead them to multiple championships? Crazy. And then he passed on the 10th best tackle in the draft at #34, when their roster was already stacked at WR, led by JuJu as their # 1 WR, and Tyrian Thornton as the #2. What the hell was he thinking? We could have had Joe Alt protecting Bailey Zappe’s blind side for the next 10 years or so, and now we are stuck with a QB they never even needed. We are so screwed.

 

[Clonamery]

I recall Steuber playing a few downs at some point last year.

He on the Atlanta Falcons now.

 

[Clonamery]

It's funny that a healthy Calvin Anderson, someone who has played left tackle in the NFL at least at an adequate level, wasn't even mentioned when discussing options at LT, and yet he was later briefly noted as the guy at LT during this OTA....go figure.

I'll be mildly surprised if a healthy Anderson is not part of the solution at LT.

I like his mettle.

 

[NCPATSFAN1971]

I haven't seen enough of Brissett to bet that he's more mobile than Mac Jones but I think might be and at the very least he probably doesn't look like a deer in the headlights with a defensive line charging toward him. Zappe was more mobile than Jones. And then there's Maye who did well with a bad offensive line at NC. Yeah, I know it's different in the NFL. . .

We haven't even begun real summer camp yet and I think there's no reason to panic on anything yet.

Everybody has an opinion, and I'll have one too but I'd like to see them play in real time in a real game before I offer one. . .

 

[Water Boy]

I'd rather have a decent O-line than a decent WR corp if I had to choose one. It's possible we may have neither.

 

[captain stone]

Steuber was a 7th round draft pick, not the kind of player who should make a difference. Even making it onto the field makes him someone who defied the odds.

Rasheed Walker asks Why didn't Bill draft me instead of Stubby...?