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Was a full participant in practice. When does he take over Wells spot.
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Hopefully as soon as he's ready to play. And hopefully he's ready soon.
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Given the way things have gone since he was drafted, you are probably right, it could be a while. On the hopeful side though, I have heard that he's a very smart guy and had a reputation for great technique in college.
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His biggest problem is he just isn't physically strong enough. All the talk in the off season was how he reshaped his body, but he just didn't appear to be able to physically be able to get it done. Barnes at this point is much further along than Jones.
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It sure would be nice to see though. All we need is average.
Since Long seems to have mobility issues outside since the injury, maybe play him at guard and kick Grob out to LT.
Grob, Long, Jones, Saffold, Bazzoka.
Heck, I'd try anything after the lack of protection we've been getting.
This would also put Jones between 2 vets.
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Long will not, and cannot play guard. If Jones is going to help anywhere it will be at Guard. And that only happens if they deem Long incapable of being better then Robinson, and it looks as if that decision was made a while ago.
And as bad as everyone seems to think Oline is playing, the majority of the pressure and ultimately the sacks have been due to the brutal blitz pickup by the TEs and RBs.
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One more reason to keep Stacy in more.
I was surprised to see Kendricks get blown up as as bad he did.
Long doesn't seem capable of holding his blog ks at the moment. He can't be 100% healthy.
Why is it that you don't think Long can play guard? Serious question.
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Wells has not been very good in pass blocking but unless Jones or Barnes can call the protections, Wells is here to stay. Maybe if Bradford was healthy, but I doubt it even then. With Davis, no way.
The Rams have to go back to some of their Maximum protection sets for a while. Maybe it will slow down the blitzing.
The Rams have to go back to some of their Maximum protection sets for a while. Maybe it will slow down the blitzing.
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I don't think we know that for sure yet, tbh. If that was true, I'm not so sure the Rams would have kept him around.
I've felt all along this guy is going to pay off for us, and still have some hope that will happen. Even this season.
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i dont get the fascination with Jones. The guy is a back up at best our future center and og is still in college or on another team and will be free agent after this season
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I bet if he was a Seahawk he would be physically able to play.....
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too funny, but probably true....
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That's because he would be working instead of attending Fisher's pool party. Seriously, if you can't practice, then you shouldn't be able to start in a game (I'm looking at you Scott Wells.)
And I don't want to hear about this "Oh, Fisher is just making sure his vets are ready to play on game days." Where exactly has that gotten us so far?
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I can't figure out why anyone would have confidence that Jones could play this year. By almost universal opinion he's not very strong. And if Barnes could call the pass pro last year when Wells went down, I don't see why he couldn't this year.
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I believe it's just hoping he may be better than what we are currently rolling out there on Sundays. I've never heard anyone accusing him of being a future pro bowler.