bearsfan1977
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...hopefully not over a cliff.
As it stands, Leno-Daniels-Whitehair will man the left side and C positions. I think by the time the season starts (if there is even a season), Bars and Spriggs will man the right side.
It was very obvious that Pace is comfortable with the players he has, and especially, in my mind, perhaps overestimating the importance of Castillo’s arrival. I have to think last year’s shit show was due to a combo of poor play AND awful schemes. At times it looked like they were blocking themselves or running out into space looking like they didn’t know what to do next. You can’t have that happen from a group who played ok in 2018 to playing like that in 2019 without their being major scheme issues.
Bars-decided to stay and not join the Pats roster. The staff obviously thinks highly of him, and without the injury, he may have gone in round 3-4 in the draft. Has been working out with Quentin Nelson (played together at ND). I think he beats out Ifedi and hopefully performs well.
Spriggs-drafted into a weird situation in GB. Brought in because Bulaga had been having injury concerns, but stayed healthy after Spriggs was signed. He played spot-duty and then got hurt before the 2019 season, so I don’t think it’s fair to call him a bust. Truth is, he hasn’t had that many opportunities yet. I don’t know this for sure (maybe Windy can provide input), but it seems like OL would be like most other positions-you need to play and get in rhythm a lot in order to learn the finer points of the position.
So I think those will be the 5 starters barring any bigger names being acquired.
I will say my biggest knocks on Pace are:
1) Mitch over Mahomes or Watson, and
2) not devoting resources to new bodies at T, and especially, handing out those contracts to Massie and Leno last year, which makes it difficult to get out of for at least this upcoming season.
We’ll see if Castillo is as good as everyone says he is.
As it stands, Leno-Daniels-Whitehair will man the left side and C positions. I think by the time the season starts (if there is even a season), Bars and Spriggs will man the right side.
It was very obvious that Pace is comfortable with the players he has, and especially, in my mind, perhaps overestimating the importance of Castillo’s arrival. I have to think last year’s shit show was due to a combo of poor play AND awful schemes. At times it looked like they were blocking themselves or running out into space looking like they didn’t know what to do next. You can’t have that happen from a group who played ok in 2018 to playing like that in 2019 without their being major scheme issues.
Bars-decided to stay and not join the Pats roster. The staff obviously thinks highly of him, and without the injury, he may have gone in round 3-4 in the draft. Has been working out with Quentin Nelson (played together at ND). I think he beats out Ifedi and hopefully performs well.
Spriggs-drafted into a weird situation in GB. Brought in because Bulaga had been having injury concerns, but stayed healthy after Spriggs was signed. He played spot-duty and then got hurt before the 2019 season, so I don’t think it’s fair to call him a bust. Truth is, he hasn’t had that many opportunities yet. I don’t know this for sure (maybe Windy can provide input), but it seems like OL would be like most other positions-you need to play and get in rhythm a lot in order to learn the finer points of the position.
So I think those will be the 5 starters barring any bigger names being acquired.
I will say my biggest knocks on Pace are:
1) Mitch over Mahomes or Watson, and
2) not devoting resources to new bodies at T, and especially, handing out those contracts to Massie and Leno last year, which makes it difficult to get out of for at least this upcoming season.
We’ll see if Castillo is as good as everyone says he is.
