jblaze":2v4ipran said:
In our offense our RG is lighter and more of a tactician that pulls and gets to the second level.
LG is bigger and road graders in our offense. Cable laid out what he looks for in each spot earlier this year.
I don't think Sweezy is going anywhere, he'll get re-signed in the offseason. Glow will likely stay a versatile backup for a while.
Okung will likely walk so we need a solid LT with our first pick, probably a RT with our 3rd rounder and we'll live with our guards. Center may be a free agency pickup. They seem least impressed with center than anything.
Would you provide a link to where you think Cable said that our LG has to be a bigger road grader? I know some posters on this board have speculated on that, but in reality, James Carpenter is the only bigger, road grader type we have had at LG since Tom Cable has been here.
Most of the other starting LGs under Cable have been longer with a different body type:
Robert Gallery in 2011,
Paul McQuistan as a part-time starter at LG in 2011 and 2012 (John Moffit, J.R. Sweezy, and Carpenter also started some games at LG),
Justin Britt is the current starter at LG, and the current backup is another longer athlete with a similar body type in
Kristjan Sokoli.
Schneider also said prior to this season than re-signing Russell Okung would be a priority. That doesn't mean we will have the money to re-sign him, but I do think it was noteworthy that he mentioned Okung instead of Sweezy. I think it's also noteworthy that they have been training a backup for Sweezy for the last several months by keeping Glowinksi primarily at one position.