FormerEvil":3dfzl0cn said:
He's still horrible and was a disastrous draft pick but he has shown improvement from god awful to just bad.
Just, no. He was horribly misutilized by the Hawks in a way that was doomed to failure from the get go. He is neither a tackle, nor a right sided guy (despite Cable's claims to the contrary). At the NFL level, he is a natural left guard who had to try to adjust to the right tackle position. That made him a step slow because he had to think about every move, rather the letting it come naturally. Early this season, he had to retrain himself to stop thinking about every move. As he relaxes into the LG role, I think he will be above average.
This was very much a left handed guy being forced to write right handed scenario. Now he has to retrain to use his left hand. Ultimately, it is what comes naturally.
I can understand why we utilized him at RT last year as we had a good left guard in Carp and Britt was a serviceable right tackle, and our RT alternative made Britt look like an all pro. I think the switch should have happened immediately after Carp left, and we should have been looking for a replacement RT in the offseason.
I actually thought Glow was being brought in to groom at RT (still a good possibility), and it may be that they thought they could get away with the RT Britt thing just long enough for Glow to develop. Britt regressed at RT in the offseason, and a change had to be made.
It's been trial by fire this year, but the line is gelling and on trajectory to be league average to slightly above average by the end of the year. Plug in some of our developmental guys in the offseason, and I think we are looking pretty good going into next year. The big question is LT though. It is unclear what we should do there.
-bsd.
