(11-26-2019, 11:49 PM)TJBender Wrote:

(11-26-2019, 11:08 PM)LMD Wrote: It is very possible--and realistically pretty likely--that I'm reading too much into the move. I am a fairly large pessimist, in general. It's only been one week so I'm not going to start yelling that Bryan's a bust or the coaches should all be burned at the stake or anything that dramatic. Just an interesting subplot to keep watching. If the trend continues and the team continues hiding Bryan to try salvage the run game, it'll be discouraging and possibly warrant more reflection on Bryan's overall development (he doesn't need to replace Dareus exclusively; they can give snaps to Russel at that spot while still giving Bryan his snaps around the line to keep him in the game rather than hiding him on the bench)...

But they are giving him snaps. Lots of them. Here's the thing: when you're losing by eight thousand, the other team is going to do a lot of running it down your throat. In that situation, do you want your line anchored by a 290-lb. swing lineman who runs sub-5.0 and is better suited to making the QB's life a living hell? Or do you want 325 lbs. of thicc boi plugging the A gap like he plugs those airplane toilets on the ride home?

I'm taking thicc boi in that scenario, and the Jags are too, hence his snap count. Things would be bad for Bryan if we were up by ten and the other team was passing 60% of the time, but he was still losing lots of playing time to thicc boi.

"What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky. The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing; Rush in and die, dogs - I was a man before I was a king."