Can the PACKER OL improve in 1 week?

I think they would function better if Saturday was not in there. He gets destroyed in the middle and then it is jail break to the QB. I think Sitton and Lang have to work as much about him as their own jobs. I would feel more confident if EDS was starting. At least he may be able to hold up a second more than Saturday is.

So they would be better Sunday without Saturday?

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Originally posted by Floridarob:
I think they would function better if Saturday was not in there. He gets destroyed in the middle and then it is jail break to the QB. I think Sitton and Lang have to work as much about him as their own jobs. I would feel more confident if EDS was starting. At least he may be able to hold up a second more than Saturday is.

IMO, Jags were sending multiple guys up the middle picking on Saturday and MM/AR did what they were suppose to do in some respects, they went to the TE's and the TE's literally dropped the ball. I thought we could of ran screens left and right to the RB and Cobb all day long last Sunday but we chose not to.
Hope to see more screens and the TE's wake their arse up.

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Originally posted by Floridarob:
I think they would function better if Saturday was not in there. He gets destroyed in the middle and then it is jail break to the QB. I think Sitton and Lang have to work as much about him as their own jobs. I would feel more confident if EDS was starting. At least he may be able to hold up a second more than Saturday is.

Dietrich-Smith didn't show a lot as a run blocker last year, but he's a young guy that can only improve. Saturday is a fossil in NFL terms, and we all know where his ceiling is at by now. If Saturday is still playing the same way after the bye and still starting, it is just inexcusable. At any rate, this team has shown where its biggest deficiency. For years, the Packers have been playing "athletic" undersized centers, and they've been unable to run the football consistently. If that ever is going to change, they need to stop playing these 6'2, 300lb centers like Wells, EDS and Saturday. A smart, quick undersized center may be able to keep your QB clean, but odds are that he isn't going to be able to get your rushing attack rolling in January. Since Flanagan left, the Packers haven't had anything close to the sort of road grader they need to play at Lambeau.

Any chance we can use Larry McCarren?

Shucks...guess not.

I'd settle for Mike Flanagan.

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Jags were sending multiple guys up the middle

That happens to be what Arizona is very good at. They run the same style of defense as the Packers and love those crossing blitzes up the middle.

Saw an article earlier this week talking about Daryl Washington and Paris Lenon running the cross blitz. They run it and try and force the center to account for Lenon so the back has to account for Washington (8 sacks this year).

So while Starks is healthy and has been given more snaps in practice this week, tomorrow may not be the best time to increase his workload.

Probably going to see a lot of screens to Green and bubble screens to Cobb tomorrow.

When they added EDS as eligible last week to run block, he actually did a good job. You can see an article and see the plays in which EDS was in here: Packers Film Study: Expanding the Running Game.

EDS might not have been in the interior, but at least he hit someone and cleared out some space for the back. I'm ready to give him a shot. He did stand his ground last year against Detroit. It wouldn't hurt to have him start in there and if he can't get the job done, switch to Saturday.

I think we can expect a center to be drafted in the first three rounds some where.

It appears the answer to my query is somewhere between"Probably not or No."

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Originally posted by Mcpacker64:
It appears the answer to my query is somewhere between"Probably not or No."

Depends on which Oline shows up. The one that played against Seattle? Or the one that played against Houston? Whichever one shows up is the answer to your query.

Heck yes the O-line can improve. The whole team was flat last week. They said it themselves: the players, the fans, everyone was just low on energy in Lambeau last week. That's easily changeable.

I doubt it they just don't have fast enough foot work!!

Clubber Lang and EDS played well.

They managed to get the rushing attack rolling in the second half of 2007 after being awful in the first half of the season. Of course that was a group of young guys (Spitz, Colledge and Wells) learning on the fly. These guys are all vets. Let's hope that today's showing was due to them gelling as a unit or something along those lines. It's something than the OL has done almost every year since McCarthy has been in town. I hope that Saturday can get the Pack to the promised land this year, but they need to try to get a cornerstone, franchise center in there next year.

**** next year. This was a signature game right here and now.

Basically, Campen and MM are pissing away Lang's ability for two "LT" draft picks and pushing him to a G spot.

I said it three years ago, Lang should be playing RT.

Where does Booboolaga play then? LT?

LG

Can we put EDS at C please?

How'd he do today?

All I know is he's a lot bigger than Saturday.

I didn't focus in on the guy, but the running game was working and Arod was sacked one time I believe. The Arizona front is pretty good IMO so I'd say EDS did a fine job.

Remember that scene from the movie Castaway where Tom Hanks finally starts a fire?

176 running yards Sunday.

You gotta love crab.