Exactly. The interior is much more in need of adjustments than Tackle. Playing musical chairs with 4 of the five starters isn’t smart. Let’s get the interior straightened out then go from there. With 66, 65 and 76 inside leaves too much of a liability with power and size. Not sure how they thought SJ was an answer at guard , there’s just no length , leverage or power there to move anyone.
My gripe was about the perceived awful job that McCoy's been doing at RT based on a few penalties in a blowout throwaway game.
People wanting this are out of their **** minds. He’s not ready to be thrown out there and Pancake has been the best OL which makes it even more idiotic to mess with the chemistry of the most important OL spot. On top of that nobody should want a Fr protecting your most valuable asset. RT ? Sure, but game five isn’t when you start just blowing up the OL. Let’s get the interior fixed then things will suddenly look much better.
You’re legit a moron…Go back to arguing with Wiley’s dad
Who are these people? Are they in the room with us now?
Starting line for notre dame in your opinion is ? Samson, Ben, Rod, McCoy, Cantwell?
Cantwell isn’t ready this year.
Right. Might be time to fire Don Bailey Jr.
Imo best potential long term for post season
Number one I'm going to pacify this statement saying I don't know your football background or knowledge. So I'll just say it like I would most people with the assumption they don't understand the bigger picture. From what I've seen of your post before and what I remember I think you do have a little bit of football knowledge so I simply clarify. The problem with fans making assumptions that seem to be logical is there not looking at the bigger picture. Like I tried to explain to people last year when we knew we were going to be losing virtually our entire offensive line minus one person from the starters and we didn't know what we were replacing with them with in particular the simple logic was we're going to have four new starters and more than likely five new starters if you consider whether or not they were playing their positions then you have to realize the volatility that we're dealing with from snap to snap. And offensive line becomes good as a unit with reps with time that's not one camp that's years. Which is exactly why last season was so good. They had so much time together. Now you look at it as we have an entirely new offensive line yet we still have an almost 50 million dollar roster. We have a quarterback who is one of our bigger investments and that our season is dependent upon. Now how is it that you would deal with that if the decision was on your hands? Do you take the bookend left tackle of the future who has zero reps who has issues with his mechanics and say this is our time to work this all out so that the future of our team is in the best hands possible which also more than likely means you're going to struggle quite a bit inside of this season or do you just simply try and make pieces mesh where you can? I think the logic is simple with the approach that Mario took. As I've seen several people on here clarify before just because dmoney or somebody else talks about how great someone's looks inside of spring camp where there's no scheme applied doesn't make it accurate especially when most of them see things in small windows. Jackson struggled mightily throughout spring camp and fall he's certainly had his moments where you can see his future is amazing. CC was no different when he was a freshman either. He had issues all throughout camp. But you have to see the difference in where we were as a team at that time opposed to where we are as a team now. We didn't have expectations then we didn't have a roster then we weren't somebody that's capable of winning a national championship. The timing of that was very different from the timing of this. So while the future of our team says it would be great if we could count on Jackson at right tackle the logic is we can't just yet that's why he's getting reps in now with limited responsibility. I know I said a whole lot of s*** here just to get this point across and I'm sorry for anyone that took the time to read it all
100% and I couldn’t have said it better myself. End of the day, cantwell just isn’t ready yet. But the future is bright for him.
Haha thanks my man, appreciate the insight. The greentree all American thing we all need to take with a grain of salt.
The key is realizing even these lesser teams have athletes capable of ending our season with one unaccounted for blitz. Just think of that hit nickel took on Saturday. More than likely he had a concussion right there. That's honestly best case scenario in situations like that. In an ideal world we wouldn't have lost the entire offensive line from last season. We lose two or three guys instead of the entire line, you could afford to throw him in there because you already know who you can count on and where. This instance you got a veteran in McCoy who was the lone weakness to the last several years olines starting units & you got Samson with limited reps who's been a backup at guard. Nothing else is known but it's our only way to move forward. Trial by fire.
I don't know if you can quite get to that point by then. But it's obvious the logic is exactly that.
