(10-08-2019, 12:30 AM)TJBender Wrote:

(10-08-2019, 12:24 AM)Eric1 Wrote: Here's Mario Addison's exact words on it..

“I knew Norwell liked to be aggressive, but this time he was passive,” Addison said. “So, I stabbed him and grabbed his hands and ran back to the quarterback as hard as I could before he could recover.”

I'm not going to make excuses for Norwell because he's played like flat [BLEEP], but at some point you have to ask how much of that is the result of him possibly having been shoehorned into a different style of play? Players fall off a cliff, but for someone as young as Norwell to go from the best guard in football to the fourth-best offensive lineman on his own team, which isn't exactly swimming in all-pros...how?

Right? He has been really bad the moment he stepped on the field for us. Most of us were giving him a pass last year because of the "oh he's injured" excuse. But this year he is healthy and he looks even worse... What's the issue here? 

I agree with you completely. How do you go from giving up little to no pressures/sacks for years, to all of a sudden looking like a fish out of water. He has been blown backwards into the QB so many times already this season that I've lost count. Not to mention how useless/how many whiffs hes had in the run game.

It's just baffling.

And honestly, I think Norwell has been the worst guy on our OL this season. Dare I say it, but I think Cann has been better than him. 

I'd probably put Norwell as the 6th best guy on our OL so far. Hes had so many flat out BAD plays already that it's ridiculous that he's in his 6th year, with 70 games started. Then you add onto the fact that he has a cap hit of $16m this year... I just can't.. 

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