Brady Christensen scores highest ratings of the season at LT again.

[AU-panther]

1 minute ago, X-Clown on 1 said:

Dumb question....but we gave up 7 sacks. Why are they not accounted for? Does this mean they were coverage sacks or the QB held the ball? Or does Cam have to take credit for them all because he didn't win the game with his 5 yard run?

Sacks are a QB stat as much as a o-line stat.  PFF will often assign the sack to the QB.

 

[Jay Roosevelt]

How is Michael Jordan still employed?

[rippadonn]

We didn't even get the opportunity to see him play at LT this whole year because of Fhule so we can't pass on a great LT in the draft.

[UNCrules2187]

3 minutes ago, X-Clown on 1 said:

Dumb question....but we gave up 7 sacks. Why are they not accounted for? Does this mean they were coverage sacks or the QB held the ball? Or does Cam have to take credit for them all because he didn't win the game with his 5 yard run?

2 of those sacks were Sam scrambles where he ran OOB behind the LoS while outside the pocket rather than throwing the ball away because he's a moron.

[Waldo]

He is an improvement of Turdving but he is still a liability in the run game from what I saw.

At 25 and the quality of coaching on hand, I wish I could hope but that is a bridge too far for me.

[TheSpecialJuan]

wow

[LinvilleGorge]

At this point, Rhule seems to be just flat out daring Tepper to fire him.

Maybe he should take a page out of his starting RG's book - it's the NFL, dumbass depth chart decisions happen.

 

[rippadonn]

But... analytics.

[tukafan21]

To be fair, I think Rhule might be right on this one at the moment, and it has nothing to do with Brady

He's not an elite sure fire LT, he could be a pretty good one, but he's not that... and with our draft pick, we very well could get that, and I'd much rather have that type of guy than Brady out there if we have the choice.

So take an elite LT with our first rounder, move Brady inside to RG, sign a Center or draft one with a mid round pick, and give Deonte a shot at LG next year.

The problem is this is also why Rhule is an idiot... because had he been playing Brady out there for the last couple of months, we might know if he was good enough to at least be an above average starter and we could have used the draft pick to address one of our many other needs.  But since we just won't know before the draft and we have a chance to get an impact LT from day 1, you can't pass that up.

[mav1234]

Christensen, who Matt Rhule sees as a guard because of his arm length, is promising. Better coaching and interior line play, and who knows. At a minimum he appears servicable.  I'm curious how his run blocking grades were.

[NYPantherFan]

Now that LT is taken care of, I guess the question around here from now on should be "Can he play guard?"

[mrcompletely11]

27 minutes ago, NYPantherFan said:

Now that LT is taken care of, I guess the question around here from now on should be "Can he play guard?"

LT is taking care of?  Say what now?

[theinstrumental]

To be fair the Saints have an elite edge rusher and Christensen didn't have to deal with him at all since Cam Jordan plays on the other side. I wonder how BC would have done against him, but at the very least it looks like he's better than the embarrassing example set by the interior linemen so far. 

[mrcompletely11]

2 minutes ago, theinstrumental said:

To be fair the Saints have an elite edge rusher and Christensen didn't have to deal with him at all since Cam Jordan plays on the other side. I wonder how BC would have done against him, but at the very least it looks like he's better than the embarrassing example set by the interior linemen so far. 

Thats the frustrating part, we really cannot accurately judge BC.  Yesterday, to me, he looked really overmatched but the IOL did him no favors.  Fact is BC should have have been inserted at the beginning of the losing streak to change things up.  Now we are not going to have enough film to know if we need to draft one at 6.  Would be nice to know he is an above average option but we jsut dont know