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Bell works out fir Chiefs

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sharkkiller Rookie

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He was serviceable on the right side, just could not handle the left tackle position. Very few people can do that job -- fewer than 32 do it every year. Kid is experienced, still coachable and big. He'll find a home sooner or later.

 

He may be one of those that ends up doing better on his second team.

 

I wish him well.

 

Can you explain how fewer than 32 people play left tackle every year? Are there teams out there that just don't have that position? 

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Can you explain how fewer than 32 people play left tackle every year? Are there teams out there that just don't have that position? 

 

 

As can be seen by the number of failed left tackles each year in the NFL, the math would point out that less than 32 players each year can answer the bell to be a quality starting left tackle at this level of competition.

 

Teams either have someone holding down the position that they guard with their lives and will pay astronomical sums of money for (remember our own Jordan Gross), or have been through a situation like we have been --- having someone who isn't on the same level as the competition they face.

 

Short of QB, LT may be the most important player on a team, and definitely on the offense at least. It's a hard position to play demanding size, strength, agility and incredible technique, and it is played usually against a specialist or rotating group of specialists. There's no help generally and there's no taking plays off.

 

And there are simply not 32 players in the league, one for each team, that are good enough to do the job as well as it demands.

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As can be seen by the number of failed left tackles each year in the NFL, the math would point out that less than 32 players each year can answer the bell to be a quality starting left tackle at this level of competition.

Teams either have someone holding down the position that they guard with their lives and will pay astronomical sums of money for (remember our own Jordan Gross), or have been through a situation like we have been --- having someone who isn't on the same level as the competition they face.

Short of QB, LT may be the most important player on a team, and definitely on the offense at least. It's a hard position to play demanding size, strength, agility and incredible technique, and it is played usually against a specialist or rotating group of specialists. There's no help generally and there's no taking plays off.

And there are simply not 32 players in the league, one for each team, that are good enough to do the job as well as it demands.

That make sense. But that is not what you said. If you had added the word well or effectively to the end of your sentence it would have saved us both some time.

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