Why isn't Taylor Moton playing left tackle?

[CarolinaSamurai]

11 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

I've seen enough of Clark to know he's not a very good left tackle either.

So tell me, what happens when Kalil comes back?

If you watch him at RT you'd know how terrible playing him there would be. 

Matt? This isn't a what if man. Your argument is we should play Moton at LT no matter what and that's patently false. Matt coming back is an entirely different situation. So would if Daryl came back or we signed or traded for someone else. 

[iamhubby1]

9 minutes ago, CPF4LIFE said:

My thing is if Clark gets his ass beat on the right side at least Cam has a better chance of seeing the rusher coming and maneuver accordingly. Getting beat on left results in a lot more getting hit on the arm while throwing the ball and strip sacks.  

 

    The problem with this line of thinking is. We already have to make adjustments for Clark on the left side. Moving him to the right, just adds more problems. 

 

    Cam is rarely getting sacked. Clark is not a penalty machine. All in all, our line is playing better than most would have thought. Yet for some, that is just not good enough.

[Mr. Scot]

2 minutes ago, iamhubby1 said:

   I debated you in good faith. Then you moved the goalposts, called out my intelligence, used sarcasm, called out my intelligence once again, then finished of with a taste of condescension. So yeah, by this point, I am a little salty.

    Now you are putting words in my mouth. I have never said we are good. There certainly are things that need to be addressed. But those things have nothing to do with this thread. And being positive is not the negative you are painting it out to be.

    I am sorry. But moving Clark to RT makes a decent/good line worse. I am not thrilled with doing things that way.

    Amini does not need to see the field.  

Hub, I'm not sure where you think I questioned your intelligence. I didn't.

I did question whether you were serious. One, because you've said yourself you like to mess around sometimes. And two, because I find this whole argument without merit.

You've also said you try to stay positive because there's nothing you can do to change things. All well and good, but you defeat your own purpose when you get mad at other people who do want to talk about what should change.

Sheesh.

[Mr. Scot]

10 minutes ago, iamhubby1 said:

    Kalil is medically cleared to practice. Yet he is not practicing. So it appears they are in no hurry to bring him back. That angle is not going to help your argument. 

    Just hang in there until Daryl gets back. Stiff upper lip, and all that.

That's your thing, dude. Not mine.

You don't wanna complain? Fine. I have complaints, and concerns, and questions, and I choose to talk about them.

You do your thing. I'll do mine.

[GRWatcher]

5 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

The coaches that played Curtis Samuel for three snaps at a time when we badly needed to open up our passing game?

The same coaches that kept Amini Silatolu ahead of Andrew Norwell until he went down with an injury?

The ones who also believe that Torrey Smith is our best available deep threat?

Our coaching staff has strengths, but evidence suggests that personnel evaluation isn't one of them.

Yes. Absolutely yes. Many, many times I've questioned their decisions as we all have. However, they are in a much better place to evaluate personnel than I am or even you are, believe it or not. There's much more that they see and more data that they use than we have access to. 

[CBDellinger]

4 minutes ago, GRWatcher said:

Yes. Absolutely yes. Many, many times I've questioned their decisions as we all have. However, they are in a much better place to evaluate personnel than I am or even you are, believe it or not. There's much more that they see and more data that they use than we have access to. 

Winner.  

[Mr. Scot]

1 minute ago, GRWatcher said:

Yes. Absolutely yes. Many, many times I've questioned their decisions as we all have. However, they are in a much better place to evaluate personnel than I am or even you are, believe it or not. There's much more that they see and more data that they use than we have access to. 

They're absolutely in a better position to see the big picture, and they're better trained in the process.

Yet they keep blowing it.

That's the problem.

Have said it before: They don't have to be smarter than us. They have to be smarter than Sean Payton, and Dan Quinn, and Sean McVay, and Bill Belichick, and all the others.

I would have thought they were at least smarter than Jay Gruden, but hey...

 

[iamhubby1]

2 minutes ago, Mr. Scot said:

Hub, I'm not sure where you think I questioned your intelligence. I didn't.

I did question whether you were serious. One, because you've said yourself you like to mess around sometimes. And two, because I find this whole argument without merit.

You've also said you try to stay positive because there's nothing you can do to change things. All well and good, but you defeat your own purpose when you get mad at other people who do want to talk about what should change.

Sheesh.

 

    Yeah, there is no way reading that you find this whole thing without merit, doesn't rub the wrong way. So I think I am going to take my worthless opinions and head on out.

[panthers55]

1 hour ago, CPF4LIFE said:

My thing is if Clark gets his ass beat on the right side at least Cam has a better chance of seeing the rusher coming and maneuver accordingly. Getting beat on left results in a lot more getting hit on the arm while throwing the ball and strip sacks.  

Not really true.  The old blind side may be appropriate for a quarterback sitting still in the pocket but Cam moves around.  Most of his sacks come when he is trying to elude pressure or actually running into it.  Surely not a good enough reason to have Clark suck on the right side and Moton good on either side in pass protection.  Plus run blocking is important for us as well so it just sacks or pressures that are an issue.

[juliosantos]

Why is rivera still hc 

[panthers55]

1 hour ago, CBDellinger said:

Matsko knows what he’s doing.  

This is really the point.  I love posters acting as if they know better than Matso who by most everyone's opinion is one of the best line coaches in the league. But he must be wrong or Rivera is making the decisions and just ignoring Matso and Turner on these decisions.  And yeah I know here comes the snarky remarks like He can make mistakes and the coaches arent always right.  Well on their worst day they are still 10 times better at personnel decisions than anyone on this board

[panthers55]

Just now, juliosantos said:

Why is rivera still hc 

7th best winning record among all active coaches, 2 coach of the year awards, etc.  How many guys are going to be available with better credentials?

[panthers55]

1 hour ago, Mr. Scot said:

They're absolutely in a better position to see the big picture, and they're better trained in the process.

Yet they keep blowing it.

That's the problem.

Have said it before: They don't have to be smarter than us. They have to be smarter than Sean Payton, and Dan Quinn, and Sean McVay, and Bill Belichick, and all the others.

I would have thought they were at least smarter than Jay Gruden, but hey...

 

That whole they have to be smarter than the the other head coaches might hold water if they were playing jeopardy, but contrary to popular opinion here, the players make the plays and difference not the coaches.  You think the coaches made our players commit 3 turnovers which handed Washington 10 points which made the difference in this game.  Without those we win no question.  What they have to do is use the personnel they are handed to the best of their ability and hope the players execute better than the other team.  Somehow I think if we had Tom Brady or Drew Brees, Rivera would be one of the best winning coaches in the game.  

[iamhubby1]

13 minutes ago, panthers55 said:

7th best winning record among all active coaches, 2 coach of the year awards, etc.  How many guys are going to be available with better credentials?

 

    Credentials, schmentials. We demand a Coach that will give us 40 points a game. While holding opposing Offenses to 16 points in the process. Anything less is unacceptable.

 

    We want Lombardi's every year. Hellz, twice a year. 

 

    Seriously, it truly does seem as though folks really do believe it should be just that easy. Fix this mess, and we are gold. Easy peasy.

    

    I mean, sure, there seems to be something just a tad off this year. But man, we have become a team that is competitive every year. Why is that not enough?