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well lets be honest, the bills really want glenn to win the lt job and are giving him every opportunity to do that. while i think their minds are certainly open to hairston winning the job, they also realize hairston already has experience at RT and would be a fantastic swing tackle if glenn does win the job
lets put it this way, i doubt they will have glenn spend much time at RT because they dont want to overload him at this early juncture and want him to concentrate on LT. they know hairston can play both so why not give him some time at RT to maximize their fallback options. makes sense
In your opinion who would you rather see over at RT.... Pears of Hairston ? That is if Glenn is ready to go at Lt
I am a big fan of Hairston. It would be easy for me to say I'd like Hairston over Pears at RT. But, I want the best player to win the job. If that's Pears and Hairston becomes our swing OT I like our depth.
I would of thought getting Glenn in at RT some in rookie year might be beneficial, but I also agree that as a rookie they want him to focus on one position.
Gelnn Levitre Wook Urbik and Hairston might be the line
I expect a little bit of a shakeup from last season since Bell is gone and Glenn is in
Pears is hurt, so you don't compound the learning curve by throwing Glenn over at RT, if you want him to be your LT.
Hariston can be the swing guy. He's been here longer and has received reps at both positions before. Pears needs to get healthy. Sam Young has been getting lots of reps at RT. Leave Glenn at LT and let him develop.
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That makes sense, and seems to be Gailey's M.O... He doesn't overwhelm his rookies... LT is just such a premiere position in the NFL and you'd think he might just need some time to feel out the speed of the NFL game, and doing it at RT would give him such an experience.
Hairston already has some RT experience... Pears was solid last year though... BUT If I remember people were down on Urbik some. SO has anyone worked in at RG to challenge or has Urbik been a lock.
Sanders is a project... I forsee him being a PS player this year. We brought in a bunch of OL last year throughout the season who now have some Bills O experience and a full OTA and now camp, so it's going to be hard to make this team.
Sam Young has had his name mentioned a couple of times... he was brought in after pre-season.
We are definitely stacked with some competition... Gonna be interesting to see who wins the depth battles.
Sanders was a 5th rounder who was considered much higher earlier in the year. If you put him on the PS, he's as good as gone. He needs to make the roster if he has serious potential. Either that or he was not worth a 5th round pick. The fact that no one is mentioning him, including Chris Brown, makes me lean towards the latter. I hope not.
Well..... I just read the BB.com day 8 report and Sanders took some reps at RT with the first team to give Hairston a break because of the Pears injury. So, it appears that maybe he's the 5th tackle right now behind Sam Young. Bah. Young played in 4 games last year and has the experience edge. I hope Sanders overtakes him because Young has been no match for whoever lines up at RDE in practices.
Man. Are we STILL struggling to find some OT's?
Hairston - OK
Rears - OK
Glenn - ?
Young - Below average
Sanders - ?
Carmon - ?
Last edited by ParanoidAndroid; 08-04-2012, 09:53 AM.
Reason: addition
I'm fine with going with four tackles on the roster...Glenn could be used as a OG/OT and Sanders has too much potential to leave on the PS. I'd consider starting Glenn at Guard for the preseason and seeing how Hairston and Pears do starting at Tackle. With the seemingly constant injuries the Bills have on the offensive line, it would be good to keep 9 or 10 OL. I'd consider also only keeping two TEs on the roster and bringing in a sixth OL on short yardage situations as a tackle eligible.
Opening day OLs
Wood
Brown
Rhinehart
Urbik
Levitre
Glenn
Hairston
Pears
Sanders
Possible PS Asper or make him the tenth active roster spot on the OL to start the year, barring injuries or phenomenal play from an UFDA or backup.
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