(10-09-2023, 12:55 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(10-09-2023, 12:25 PM)JagsorDie Wrote: I thought shatley looked ok-good at LG. I know people like to bring in pff grades and I don’t know where he sits on that spectrum but I thought from the eye test he filled the void well. By eye test I mean he didn’t stand out as a glaring hole so I am not worried about him filling that void in the absence of little. 

Honest question: why would we not put shatley at center and fortner at guard if he is as weak as people are claiming. I heard some people say fortner is a better guard than center, I just wonder if that move wouldn’t be beneficial. I know nyc is a big fortner defender so I’m curious to hear what he thinks.

I'm a Fortner basher. (nothing personal of course - seems like a good dude) I really hoped he'd round into form this year, but he looks worse unfortunately. 

Depending on healthy options available for LT/LG I wouldn't mind seeing Shatley try playing center some. (again)

I wouldn't bother putting Fortner at guard though. I'd just bench him if there are other options available. 
Never seen him play guard at this level, and no idea if it will help, though it's conceivable. Watching him get beat with almost every textbook move this year doesn't give me much confidence he'll benefit much from not snapping the ball, but I could def be wrong. 

Best case scenario is Cam/Little/Shatley/Scherff/Harrison if all are healthy enough. 

Hance could figure in if Cam or Little can't go.

BTW - I thought Shatley looked better this week than last week. (not good last week)

That is what I am thinking as well as best case scenario. The only thing I can think for why they have been apprehensive to do it is because of how versatile shatley is as a back up with his abilities to back up seemingly every position on the offensive front. But even that to me is not a good enough reason to not start a player who is better than someone else at a given position.

I think shatley is a stop gap at center but from what I can remember, he was more serviceable than fortner. I would be interested to see what fortner looks like at guard I just don’t know if I’d be willing to test that out in regular season scenario when [BLEEP] ups matter. This is something I would have thought would have been attempted in preseason if this was in fact an alternative.

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