This Pic....

[Mel Blount's G]

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LMAO.

I've got balls the size of church bells and enough hair on my a$$ to weave an Indian blanket. I'm not apologizing for anything, I think our OL stinks right now, and I hope to hell I'm proven wrong as the season progresses. But, I don't think that will happen.....

-Jooser

:P

Pappy

[Jooser]

Re: This Pic....

LMAO.

I've got balls the size of church bells and enough hair on my a$$ to weave an Indian blanket. I'm not apologizing for anything, I think our OL stinks right now, and I hope to hell I'm proven wrong as the season progresses. But, I don't think that will happen.....

-Jooser

:P

Pappy

LMMFAO ROFL!!!!!!!

[Iron Shiek]

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I didn't post this pic to rag on Starks only. The whole line has been very stinky so far. Charlie was running for his life last night. It's painful to watch this OL at times. If Ben didn't have such awesome improvisation skills, we would be in major trouble. I simply pointed out Starks watching the hit in the background, I didn't blame him for this particular play, but my old high school coach would've chewed some butts for standing around watching . He looked like crap last night and there's no denying that point. The outside speed rush kills him every time.

I guess it was more about the "Fat" Max comment and the need to point him out vs. the guy who let the DT get by him to steamroll Batch.

Unless there was a stunt, the guy was probably Essex, since Collins lines up in a 3-technique outside the RG. I thought I saw Legursky get the start at LG last night in place of Kemo (although I still don't know why).

Know remember Joos, this is a still shot of Starks (still moving) and not one of those hand-on-his-hips "Arby's" pose (I still love that Photoshop job). Just because his eyes are locked in on that train wreck with Batch doesn't mean that he is necessarily a passive bystander. That said, Starks did get off to a pretty disturbing start last night.

I kind of isolated him a few times after the first couple of plays and saw him do a much better job getting out of his stance (once, I could have sworn that he committed a false start). They did help him with TE chips and double teams from time to time, and he still wasn't able to fully lock on to his man most of the time, but he did settle in.

I couldn't agree more about the speed rush being Starks' main problem. I don't think it kills him every time (after all, he only gave up 4 sacks last year ), but it does seem pretty evident that it's a problem he needs to fix. A lot of folks call Starks fat and slow-footed, but I've seen him fire out of his stance and get his hands on the likes of DeMarcus Ware, Dwight Freeney, or Bertrand Berry, and hold his own. I think he's got the tools (when in shape), but he's pretty inconsistent in applying them.

Yeah this picture reminded me of that arbys photoshop...but not because max wasnt doing his job...it just looked funny.

But honestly I dont expect any sudden vast improvement from the o-line. Just dont do worse than last year and I guess we'll manage. I hate saying that and I am pretty sure I said it last year but I just don't have huge expectations just yet out of that unit.