Quote:After re-watching the game, I don't think that Joeckel is "bad", but he certainly is not a "stud" in the game.  He did get beat on a couple of plays, but show me one left tackle in the league that never gets beat.

 

  My take is in the 1st QTR when the Jaguars built a 14-0 lead,  Luke Joeckel played well.

 

  It looked like in the 2nd QTR that Joeckel suffered an injury but he continued on playing.   Soon after,   DE Phillip Hunt got the best of him,  especially on two plays.   One was an outside rush in which it looked like Joeckel held him but it wasn't called.    Then,  on a bull rush.    Hunt went from a Street FA signed in the winter to someone who has a very realistic chance of making the team.    If Larry Webster is kept over Hunt,   it will because of potential,  not production/ play.   Hunt was in the rotation throughout the first half.   Webster didn't see the field on Defense until the 2nd half.

 

  Just as a point of reference in terms of trying to evaluate Joeckel's play,   Hunt and Darryl Tapp are different from the other Lions DEs in that they don't have the height and large wingspin.    Hunt is build more along the lines of Dwight Freeney.   Hunt got great leverage on that bullrush.   Joeckel seemed to play better against Devin Taylor,  who has great height and wingspan.  

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