The OL was better than I thought

[Jville]

Anthony Bradford placed on injured reserve.
Link >>> https://www.seahawks.com/news/seaha...m-practice-squad-place-anthony-bradford-on-ir

 

[Fresno Hawk]

I like Laumea, I thought he was a good pick at the time. He's big and had some nastyness when he played in College. He played guard and tackle at Utah. I like Mike is giving the younger players a chance to compete and not just give the spot to someone higher on the depth chart. This year we seen Kobe not give the starting spot back to Jenkins, Knight come in and replace Dodson. This could be a blessing in disguise. We've already seen just about every other olineman except Laumea.

 

[rigelian]

K9 had 16 forced missed tackles while rushing for 41 yards.... this o-line is special.

I think our OL is something special, in the education sense.

 

[nanomoz]

I like Laumea, I thought he was a good pick at the time. He's big and had some nastyness when he played in College. He played guard and tackle at Utah. I like Mike is giving the younger players a chance to compete and not just give the spot to someone higher on the depth chart. This year we seen Kobe not give the starting spot back to Jenkins, Knight come in and replace Dodson. This could be a blessing in disguise. We've already seen just about every other olineman except Laumea.

He climbs and gets a body on someone on the second level exceptionally well. I think he's a natural guard in a scheme that pulls a lot.

 

[Jville]

I'm looking forward to seeing Sataoa Laumea integrated into the active blocking game as well. Jalen Sundell got some snaps last week as a 6th lineman / full back. That followed up on the 6th lineman snaps Olu Oluwatimi saw prior to the sudden retirement of Conner Williams.

I'm enjoying the experimentation going on in the blocking game.

This years campaign is making for a really interesting season.

 

[Lords of Scythia]

I think X's and O's plays a good part, Brock Huard and some other former players chimed in on this. Need more play calls that help the oline. They never move the pocket or use designed rollouts. Lately they've started running more and snapping under center, but the amount of pass plays under shotgun just makes it too easy for opposing defenses to tee off

What I hate is running out of the shotgun - give me goal line run formation

 

[Smellyman]

"Laumea to get an opportunity

Macdonald said rookie offensive lineman Sataoa Laumea will get a chance to compete with fellow rookie Christian Haynes to fill in at right guard for injured starter Anthony Bradford.


Laumea, a sixth-round draft pick out of Utah, has been a healthy inactive for all 11 of the team’s game this season. Haynes, a third-rounder out of Connecticut, has logged 164 snaps at right guard and was previously in a timeshare with Bradford at the position. He played all 60 offensive snaps Sunday after Bradford suffered an ankle injury in the first quarter.


Bradford is expected to miss at least one game."

Credit https://sports.mynorthwest.com/1791...sive-standout-expected-to-return-to-practice/

it should be over Tomlinson. He is the worst of them all

 

[Jville]

Laken Tomlinson and Charles Cross are the only players that have played 100% of this season's offensive snaps. So that's a tandem coaches probably want for continuity given all the turn over we've seen to the right of Tomlinson.

 

[DarkVictory23]

NFL Offensive Lines Rankings Week 13

I didn't think our line looked particularly good last week and per these stats... they weren't. Per this site's metrics, we are now firmly entrenched at dead last for the season and were dead last for the week.

The fact that Laumea is now going to get the chance to split reps with Haynes rather than Haynes just getting the start with Bradford on IR isn't a good sign, either, though I hope Laumea shows us something.

I think Olu is fine, Lucas isn't looking bad (it'll just be about keeping him healthy), and Cross isn't a world beater but I think he's a plus OT. It's just those guards... (also, I wish Grubb would do more to help this group out).

 

[Jville]

Shining a light on snap counts for the offensive line .......



Credit goes to over the cap: https://overthecap.com/snap-count-history

 

[FrodosFinger]

Nate Davis just got released by the Bears they need to at least explore that option as a Bradford replacement

 

[Jville]

"There is no doubt about it that the Bears made a mistake signing Davis in 2023. They got less than one full season’s worth of games out of him (16) and released him partway into his second year despite him carrying their sixth-largest cap hit ($11.4 million). His absences at practice also spawned reports that Davis doesn’t like practicing, poking a hole in the team culture Poles has been trying to build since he took the job in 2022.

The Bears officially released Davis from their 53-man roster on November 13 following the tumultuous start to his second season in Chicago. Davis — a $30 million free agent signing for the team in 2023 — lost his starting job at right guard in the first three weeks of the 2024 season and spent his final four games on the roster as a game-day inactive."

Source >>> https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/chicago-bears/ryan-poles-breaks-silence-nate-davis/


"Davis was Chicago's highest-paid offensive lineman on the roster and started two games before he was benched for the rest of the season. He last played for the Bears in Week 5. To fill the roster spot left vacant by Davis, the Bears signed offensive lineman Jake Curhan (former Seahawk) to the active roster from the practice squad."

Credit >>> https://athlonsports.com/nfl/bears-digest/chicago-bears-cut-offensive-guard-nate-davis

 

[Jville]

Sataoa Laumea announced as starting right guard for Jets game >>>​

https://www.fieldgulls.com/2024/11/...ght-guard-christian-haynes-jets-game-nfl-news

 

[DarkVictory23]

Sataoa Laumea announced as starting right guard for Jets game >>>​

https://www.fieldgulls.com/2024/11/...ght-guard-christian-haynes-jets-game-nfl-news

Well, I mean, you can't be any worse than the worst offensive line in the NFL, so I'm good with this (especially if, as Macdonald said, Laumea's earned it during the week of practice).

I really wish Haynes was able to take that next step, but let's see what Laumea can do.

 

[FrodosFinger]

Laumea is already better than Bradford lol