(10-24-2021, 04:19 PM)flgatorsandjags Wrote:

(10-24-2021, 02:50 PM)enigma Wrote: Coming from a guy with O-line in his name, you'd think you would know that it's not as easy as having people shift around in different spots on the offensive line and play at a high level like its a Madden game. Taking things into account long term, those instances generally speaking don't end up occurring regularly.

There are significant intricacies involved at each level of the offensive line, less so between LG-C-RG, even if there are some characteristics/tendencies that translate to multiple positions along the front line. Tackle to tackle though is a larger hurdle to overcome, and while there are some players who have made that switch, its not as easy as it seems.

Here's a quote from CBSSports with Penei Sewell who struggled initially being switched to RT early on, before reverting back to LT after Decker's injury where Penei is now doing well. "It is not that easy," Sewell said Thursday, per the Detroit Free Press. "Man, it's a whole different feel. Again, it's like, let's say I'm right-handed so I've been writing right-handed my whole life, and then one day you're just asked to write your full name left-handed at full speed, the same speed that you write with your right hand. So yeah, it's a little bit of an adjustment."

Shifting guys around like turnstiles or musical chairs would do nothing but create more disjointedness on the line, especially when players like Cam Robinson have only played LT their whole career and then switching him over to the right side and expecting him to excel in that position. I don't disagree that Jawaan Taylor has been the weakest link on this line but maybe he's better at RT than if Robinson shifted over or transitioning Walker Little to a RT. At the end of the day, nobody knows the reasoning behind the player selections except the coaches. But if Cam Robinson is not in our future plans, then I don't want Little to be playing RT this year if Robinson is gone the following year, unless he's forced to if an injury occurs to Taylor.

The most important thing I want is for Trevor's blindside to be at it's highest level of play if I had to choose a segment of the offensive line over another. And right now, the O-line unit is top 5 in the league where some of it is due to their play and other portions are because of how good Trevor relieves them.

Yes it's difficult to switch sides for a lot being you have to do pretty much everything the opposite as multiple lineman have talked about it.  I remember o-line before stating that he didn't want to draft a guy and have him switch sides because the difficulty of it but now he wants our tackles to do it lol

I did say that and I have since changed my mind. I was wrong. For years we have suffered major injuries on the O-Line and we lacked the versatility to plug in the best backups to fill the voids, because they were designated as a RT only, a LT only or a OG only and so on. I see other teams plugging holes with their best players, because they give their backups reps all along the O-Line to get them used to playing different positions and creating versatility. They can move their players around on the O-Line and make the best possible lineup when injuries occur. That's what I want for us.

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