09-24-2021, 11:48 AM
(09-24-2021, 11:15 AM)ochocincos Wrote: However, this could be attributed to him not being a fit in Turner's blocking scheme, playing mostly out of position (I believe his worst performances were at RG when he's probably a better fit at LG), and/or Turner not being able to teach well enough.
After training camp is over there is not a lot of live snaps or time to learn a system. Once the season starts practices and meetings are geared more toward preparing for a specific team than teaching players our scheme. So what Spain did last year was actually very impressive.
Just 3 days after we signed him he replaced Shaq Calhoun who had started at RG against the Titans and played 85% of the snaps that game. In the next game against the Steelers he started at ROT. It was the first time he had played tackle in his NFL career. After that he started the rest of the season at either LG or RG. So despite having to learn on the run he started at three different positions over the last half of the season.
