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Why isn't Nelson moved to right?

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Playing for future.. Do you remember when we played freshman Shaq and Pinkney? Hurp derp
 
Most of the time, the LT is going against the WDE, which is usually the best pass rusher but the weakest of the DEs. If he’s getting mauled by him, I’d hate to see what the StrongSide DE would do. Zion is just weak as an OL right now, his 40+lbs of weight since he’s came to Miami, isn’t likely 40lbs of muscle, and you see that clearly. His potential is just high, but you see where lifting wasn’t his biggest thing in HS. It’s going to take about 2 GOOD years in our workout regime in order for him to consistently hold his own.
 
biz423 said:
Most of the time, the LT is going against the WDE, which is usually the best pass rusher but the weakest of the DEs. If he’s getting mauled by him, I’d hate to see what the StrongSide DE would do. Zion is just weak as an OL right now, his 40+lbs of weight since he’s came to Miami, isn’t likely 40lbs of muscle, and you see that clearly. His potential is just high, but you see where lifting wasn’t his biggest thing in HS. It’s going to take about 2 GOOD years in our workout regime in order for him to consistently hold his own.
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or a year of the sauce
 
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Shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic?

Zion is already totally lost with his footwork and timing on the left side that he's used to. You think if he flips all of that it's gonna help him?

Moving backwards and absorbing force is a very unnatural athletic feat. Muscles and muscle memory adapts based on your movement specific to what side your position is. Switching sides is usually a process that takes time and rushing it results in poor play and injuries like what happened to Donald Penn when the Raiders tried to flip him to RT. There's a reason NFL teams who need a RT usually draft a college RT nowadays. Flipping sides is not really a thing.
 
Zion's problem isn't strength, it's speed.
He's either forgetting the snap count or he's getting out of his stance way to slow. When he does get out of his stance on time and correctly aligns with the defender he usually blocks well enough.
That is coaching 100%.
 
There were numerous people on this very forum that called Zion Nelson "TYRON SMITH". There were numerous people on this very forum that LOVED bumping a random article about Nelson from spring and fall camp trying to OWN THE MOPES. There are people TO THIS DAY that are standing firm on the take that StArS d0nT M477eR and will use Zion Nelson starting football games RIGHT NOW to justify their takes.

Listen brothers...maybe Zion Nelson becomes a better football player with more reps. But he is unplayable right now. He doesn't even know the snap count on any play. He's checking in with Donaldson on every.single.play. when they break the huddle and lineup. He has constantly been late off the snap. At times, still in his stance as the edge player is bending.

The reality is, he shouldn't be playing at all right now. But, someone has to start at left tackle. Outside of Scaife, there is not another lineman that we have that can realistically play tackle. Its Scaife, Nelson, and Campbell. Thats just ******* gross. Also, you can't put Donaldson and Scaife on the same side...these guys are responsible for getting Nelson and Clark/Campbell aligned and knowing the snap count.

We have a massive issue on the OL and right now, the only way out of this **** is to play the best five right now and hope they get better with reps individually and as a unit.
 
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If Zion is struggling with speed does much then we need to move him out of the lineup or change the snap count up.
 
I'm just going to spitball here, because this is something I would have played with during practice in a similar situation with our personnel.

LT - Scaife, LG - Nelson, C - Gaynor, RG - Clark, RT - Donaldson

Its clear Nelson is in our best five as terrible as that sounds, but kicking him inside where he's always going to get help or be the help on offense might lessen the blow. The OL will still be bad, but maybe not comically bad like it now. I don't know...Miami is in a really bad spot right now. You don't want that motley crew of young players all lined up on the interior either, but again, we are in a bind.
 
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