08-21-2022, 08:49 PM
(08-21-2022, 05:35 PM)Nepa Wrote: I would think they need to add a vet now rather than later. Already, two guards, a left guard and a right guard, have gone down for the season, one for the Buccaneers and one for the Rams.
The Buccaneers will in particular be pressing for a veteran left guard, having lost Stinnie on Saturday for the season with a torn ACL and MCL. They are down to a rookie who is transitioning from college right tackle and a vet who started one game last year.
Good points as usual Nepa. We will have to offer something to get anyone decent from what I am seeing.
If Prince keeps playing like he did last Friday and Adeniji keeps sucking OT actually might be the bigger need as I still think of
both as Tackles for depth. Saw that with Stinnie, hopefully Cappa stays healthy for us cause if he does we sure got one hell of a
deal and Brady probably should of stayed at home with the kids.
(08-21-2022, 05:46 PM)bengals1969 Wrote: If there were any vets on the street worth warm spit, they’d be off the street. Until there are serious injuries at the guard spot, we have on the team the players going into the season.
I don’t hate on Carmen yet, we’ll need him this season. For all we know last week he could have been feeling early covid symptoms in the Arizona game. COVID is a wonder virus that hits different people very differently.
Carmen has played well at times, he’s a physical guy with talent. You don’t give up on guys like that before the start of their second season.
Agree with all of this honestly, just spell Carman's name right lol
(08-21-2022, 07:33 PM)TheFan Wrote: I like Carman and I want him to succeed. I have no idea if there are work ethic issues, it's just something that seems like it's been discussed a lot and hinted at.
It's weird they haven't really given him a chance to be a RT. Especially given we knew Reiff was likely only going to be a 1 year player. I feel like there's been a lot of times where we try to change a players position after college and it rarely seems to workout. Obviously he was a LT in college but Tackle to Guard seems probably harder than Tackle to Tackle.
LT, to RG, and now LG is a lot of transition for a player so young and learning the league.
Playing on the edge can hurt Carman at times cause he can struggle against speed.
I understand the move to Guard cause it hides that weakness and he is great at going against power when his hand placement
is correct, inside and he sets well. Still a big move for him to go from all the way at LT to RG, let alone LT to RT. It was just the
way everything has fell for him, he is better on the left side cause he is more comfortable there.
We will see how bad Volson gets beat on tonight at LG and if Carman goes against Aaron Donald in practice this week.
Aaron Donald has rare speed that even the best Guards in the NFL cannot handle too. This covid might of really hurt Carman.
(08-21-2022, 07:49 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Isn't that the exact same argument that was made with Ogbuehi by folks regarding him playing RT vs LT? "Sure he was an atrocious RT, but his true position is LT, he'll be better there."
That was the hope and that is all. Completely different players with completely different strengths and weaknesses.
At least Carman is already strong and can move people. Ogbuehi was weak and athletic. Kind of like Adeniji if we want to compare.
