Mr. Scot

Agree with all of this. Rhule isn't the Xs and Os genius, but head coaches don't have to be if they have coordinators who are.

Not that I know of, but I won't claim to have researched it.

Gotta give it to 'em, well played. Honestly not sure what the point was, though. Once they were at #3, they had their pick.

If Rhule doesn't win the Super Bowl this year he needs to be on the hot seat!!! Yeah...like that

Good points. We gave Henning a lot of hell back then but I think we see now that he was legitimately one of the best OCs we had. Fox was the problem.

I'd guess they're not done yet, seeing as right now there's two #15s, two #40s and two #47s.

Very true. And yeah, I remember.

Are we at training camp or Camp Granada?

Pretty sure I was with me all day, but if you say so

I don't think so either, but ya never know.

To be fair, the Super Bowl adjustment was probably more Henning than Fox.

#5 is still open.

Oddly enough, was actually taking a look at the roster earlier today and happened to notice that the new punter no longer had a number. Wondered if there might be changes a comin'

Being reported he'll be getting his wish to change to #2. Tommy Stevens changes to #15. Punter Oscar Draguicevich will have to change too since he has 15 before. Guess that means Shi Smith gets #12.

Because somebody reported it? To be specific, the author of the NFL.com article that I read about Moses's release 'reported" it. (I don't remember his name)

There's probably a whole discussion to be had about what kind of guys you want manning your offensive line. Power running teams have tended to use massive road grader types, while teams that employ West Coast style schemes like us often depend on lighter, more agile / athletic types (the 49ers of the 80s worked well with guys like Harris Barton and Jesse Sapolu, for example). I know one school of thought is that you go massive in the middle and more athletic on the outside, and that kind of seems to fit who we have. But we've also seen Rhule and Fitterer demonstrate a preference for athleticism in general. Guess we'll see how it works out.

That punishment was reserved for those who forgot to wear ties.

Probably also worth remembering that our head coach has some background working as an O-line coach.

Kavika Pittman Don't know about Washington, but Gibbs was Denver's OL coach for a lot of the Shanahan years.

I'd also add that this would be a good time to have someone comparable to prime Ryan Kalil. Kalil was one of the best second level blockers I've seen in a long time.

Well that, plus a sad number of those defensive lineman did lose their ACLs. Mentioned one of our own above. That wasn't against Denver but it was the same scheme.

You don't have to be terrible all around to give up a lot of third down conversions. All that's necessary for that to happen is for your team to have one or more exploitable weaknesses. We definitely had that in our secondary, which is why the team looked to improve that area this year.

One thing worth remembering regarding Gibbs and Shanahan's zone blocking schemes in Denver... Those teams made a lot of use of cut and chop blocking, and a bunch of defenders wound up injured because of it. Tampa was doing something similar when colossal POS Keenan McCardell ended the career of then Panther Kavika Pittman. I don't see us employing that aspect of the scheme.

Voth not long ago said that somebody was assigned to help Remmers with Miller, but they didn't do it. A few people on here speculated it might have been Mike Tolbert. That's kind of still on coaching though. How do you let a guy get away with not doing what you told him to do? And if he won't, couldn't you tell someone else?

Rivera was stuck in that "left corner / right corner" thing at the time too. (used to drive me bonkers)