BODINE AND PRESEASON

[Essex Johnson]

(08-30-2016, 08:55 AM)grampahol Wrote: I think some people have unrealistic expectations that their favorite players to dog will always be horrible and that there is never a better player going against them. It's not as if every teams nose tackles are terrible. Sometimes great players make other great players just look bad. It happens.  We tend to focus on plays that go wrong and forget the plays that don't go wrong. Consider Andy last season..if Bodine was as bad as some think Andy would have been sacked multiple times every single game, but he wasn't. I'm not saying Bodine is the greatest center to ever play the spot,but he's far from the worse.

I agree, the frustration I have is people evaluate a player on past performance instead of focus on the actual game at hand, if Bodine had been terrible in this past preseason game this thread would have been titled different, but each game he has played in preseason from my football coaching experience I rated him with a positive performance in the limited snaps he had as a 1st stringer.  Also his backups at center have not performed that well in those games so as for team importance, I see depth at center a concern and hope Bodine stays health.