Quote:It could also just be the coaching staff playing around with different options now to see who might offer the most versatility as they start to pare down the roster.  I wouldn't read too much into anything they're doing right now on either line. 

 

It's still a curious move. I would understand it if we're taking someone from a position of strength and testing him somewhere that is a position of weakness. An example would be at FS, where we just lost Sample. We have a pretty good group of CBs with House, McCray, Colvin, and Gratz fighting for 3 spots. Would I have been surprised if they decided to try out Colvin or Gratz at FS with the lack of bodies there (Sample and even Evans out)? No, I wouldn't.

 

Instead, the opposite seems to be happening. We're taking a guy from a position of weakness (no one really at Tackle behind the starters) and trying him at a position of strength (Linder/Beadles/Cann and Wiz who can swing to G).

 

Keep in mind that Austin was already a G before we shifted him to T. This isn't exactly experimentation, given that he was more of a known commodity as a G. If anything, his shift to RT was the experimentation.

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