Colledge experiment appears over

[rbaloha1]

Thank goodness. Maybe continuity returns.

[SkinBasket]

Thank goodness. Maybe continuity returns.

Or maybe we continue to suck like we did before Clifton got injured. I'm assuming that's not the continuity you meant.

[Brohm]

"Earned the Harold E. Sponberg Award, given annually to the top down lineman scholar-athlete"

The anti-Barbre :P

[mmmdk]

he's a decent LG, leave him there and never move him again.

he clearly can't play tackle, so there's no point in trying him there over and over again

is he healthy now?

Let him move on into free agency.

[hoosier]

The thought of Lang playing LT is somewhat scary. I hope that next week we're not speculating on how Matt Flynn will perform. But I suppose we can choose to emphasize the positives in this: Colledge gets to return to LG where he seems to perform somewhere between adequate and very good. And although Lang is an untested rookie, he can't be too much worse than Colledge at LT. And, most positive of all, now ARod knows he doesn't have the luxury of being able to hold onto the ball. Maybe he'll even start performing better under this kind of durress.

It's not like Lang has never played LT before. He was the starter at LT for Eastern Michigan for his last two years in college. I think you give the guy some experience and see what he can do.

Yeah, I have to agree, at this point they don't seem to have any better options. Certainly keeping Colledge out there and hoping he suddenly figures out how to play LT isn't the answer. But seeing as Lang is a rookie from Eastern Michigan I wouldn't be hugely surprised if he fell on his ass a few times either.

[MJZiggy]

he's a decent LG, leave him there and never move him again.

he clearly can't play tackle, so there's no point in trying him there over and over again

is he healthy now?

Let him move on into free agency.

Like we have o-linemen to spare...

[mmmdk]

he's a decent LG, leave him there and never move him again.

he clearly can't play tackle, so there's no point in trying him there over and over again

is he healthy now?

Let him move on into free agency.

Like we have o-linemen to spare...

U got a point there

[esoxx]

My colledge experiment ended after five years.

[rbaloha1]

My colledge experiment ended after five years.

Not helping himself during $ year.

[bobblehead]

The thought of Lang playing LT is somewhat scary. I hope that next week we're not speculating on how Matt Flynn will perform. But I suppose we can choose to emphasize the positives in this: Colledge gets to return to LG where he seems to perform somewhere between adequate and very good. And although Lang is an untested rookie, he can't be too much worse than Colledge at LT. And, most positive of all, now ARod knows he doesn't have the luxury of being able to hold onto the ball. Maybe he'll even start performing better under this kind of durress.

Now that is a more than half full glass....Hoosier, you need to swing by my "reasons to be optimistic" thread.

[wist43]

If an OL has to function as a single unit, and that unit consists of 5 parts, how disruptive is replacing 3/5 of the unit??? Very disruptive of course.

I've been against all of this musical chairs nonsense from the beginning... in some circumstances it can be justified, i.e. moving 1 guy, but in this case, you're essentually replacing 3 guys, when 1 goes down - it's bad enough to have already lost a starter, you're just compounding the problem with the musical chairs approach.

Combine that with the fact that the 1st guy off the bench is deficieint, IMO... and you have a recipe for 8 sacks.

Glad to see Colledge back at G.

[hoosier]

The thought of Lang playing LT is somewhat scary. I hope that next week we're not speculating on how Matt Flynn will perform. But I suppose we can choose to emphasize the positives in this: Colledge gets to return to LG where he seems to perform somewhere between adequate and very good. And although Lang is an untested rookie, he can't be too much worse than Colledge at LT. And, most positive of all, now ARod knows he doesn't have the luxury of being able to hold onto the ball. Maybe he'll even start performing better under this kind of durress.

Now that is a more than half full glass....Hoosier, you need to swing by my "reasons to be optimistic" thread.

I was trying to see both sides of the coin. I'm really not feeling too optimistic about the OL right now, and am especially disappointed that McCarthy and his coaches, who seem to have been given at least average OL talent to work with, haven't been able to put together a consistent line yet. Maybe I got spoiled by Shermy's OLs in the last years of his tenure, and by GBs success in finding and developing gems in the late rounds (Timmerman, Rivera, Flanagan, Tauscher). The current regime doesn't seem to be very good at that kind of development.

[PackerTimer]

If an OL has to function as a single unit, and that unit consists of 5 parts, how disruptive is replacing 3/5 of the unit??? Very disruptive of course.

I've been against all of this musical chairs nonsense from the beginning... in some circumstances it can be justified, i.e. moving 1 guy, but in this case, you're essentually replacing 3 guys, when 1 goes down - it's bad enough to have already lost a starter, you're just compounding the problem with the musical chairs approach.

Combine that with the fact that the 1st guy off the bench is deficieint, IMO... and you have a recipe for 8 sacks.

Glad to see Colledge back at G.

I totally agree. I've never liked either. Colledge is pretty much a guard now. He should not be moved out to Tackle. To me all the adjustments seem to make multiple positions weaker as opposed to one.