(10-21-2021, 09:08 AM)HolsterHusto Wrote:

(10-21-2021, 12:59 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: That's not the way the NFL works. You select an OT and see where you fit them in on your O-Line. Penei Sewell was a LT at Oregon and now he's a RT for the Lions. Jedrick Wills was a RT at Alabama and now he is Cleveland's starting LT. Ben Bartch was a LT at St. John's and now he is playing RG for us. La'el Collins was a LT at LSU before becoming the Cowboys starting RT. Dalton Risner was a RT for Kansas State and he's now the Broncos starting LG. The list goes on and on. When you take the best OT on the board, you play them where you need them the most. In our case, that is definitely RT. A good coach at any level knows this. Judging by his play of the last couple of games, Jawaan Taylor has been terrible. If Little is not even being considered to replace him, that tells me he's either not ready or something is really wrong and just like I though all along, he was the wrong selection. If he was even halfway decent, he should be starting in place of Taylor.

Penei is a bad example here. He started the season at RT and struggled mightily. Once Decker went down, Sewell slide back to his natural LT spot and looked amazing.

Penei's performance doesn't matter. It's the fact that he was a LT and was moved to RT based on the needs of the team. They took the best available OT on the board and changed his position, based upon where they needed him to play. That's what NFL teams do. If Little was truly good enough to beat out Taylor at this point, he'd be our starting RT.

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