BonifayRam delving into the goodies:
This early season has yet a different look to it. Sure appears that the swing OT's (Saffold #3 OT & Robinson #4 OT) will come from the starting OG's, not a good way to plan but that's what up currently @ OT. The smaller (jack of all trades) Mike Person who has three seasons worth of TC's & Pre seasons under his belt now entering his 4th, would be the best bet to get a ton of action @ OT the next two 1 1/2 months....he has the look as an emergency OT & the best OT non starter. I would bet that he is bigger & stronger when we see him this year. The Long & Saffold injury dark cloud is still lurking around I'm sure Alan.
Boudreau top mission presently & its a must.....find a bona fide back up right OT somewhere.
The
interior reserves has a different look as well with older veteran Joseph (yes who has had a rough time recovering from that 2012 knee surgery & following staff infections in it) & now younger vet Tim Barnes with starting experience. I just have a good feeling about these two top interior OL'ers myself. I will just call OC's Barrett Jones & Demetrius Rhaney rookies to save time both can play many positions too. Looks like I probably just covered & mentioned the top solid 10 player OL cadre.
I tried the Starbucks Komodo Dragon you recommended and while I liked it, I had almost the same reaction that CostaRicoffee had:
http://www.starbucksstore.com/komodo-dragon-blend/011028501,default,pd.html
1 / 5
Watery taste not as Advertised !!!
March 28, 2014
CostaRicoffee
From: Brentwood, CA, USA
Starbucks Personality:A shot of espresso
I'm advanced in coffee expertise and either the batches are different looking at the reviews or reviews are filtered or else people are clueless about coffee -
This is a bad light watery taste coffee ; I'm used to top quality from another company.
That review was on the same page as this one:
4 / 5
Dark Coffee Lover
April 8, 2014
BFozardCoffeeTime
From: Fort Worth, TX
Gender:female
Age:55-65
Drinks Starbucks:All day
Starbucks Personality:A press pot of single-origin coffee
This is great coffee. I ordered the whole beans. It is a dark roast and very strong. I believe that you can actually use a little less than the standard 1 coffee scoop per cup (which is what I usually use). If you use too much, it actually is a tad bit bitter. But when I used a scoop less and added my cream (which is how I drink my coffee), it was a very good tasting cup of coffee. The pound should last me a while!
So one guy thinks it's watery and the other guy thinks ti's too weak. For myself, I thought it was a tad weak but but very good. Perhaps the quality control of this product isn't very good and the strength varies from pound to pound.
Be that as it may, my favorite is still a mix of 3/4 Sumatran and 1/4 Kenyan. Nirvana!
It's great to be talking O-line (and coffee) with you again Vernon!
I'm much less sanguine as you about the prospect of Person being our top emergency/best non-starting OT. Even with all the difficulties we've had with O-line injuries he has only been an after thought for Boo so far and he's had three years to get "bigger & stronger" and how's that been going? For absolutely no good reason, I'm more comfortable in thinking that Jones will be the better answer.
Other than the new draftees, our O-line interior depth lost all it's experience when Williams and Smith departed. Of course it could be argued that the loss of those two was addition by subtraction but I can't help wishing that the Rams had been successful in their effort to trade up to get Zack Martin in this years draft. That might have solved the back up RT (and G) issue you mentioned.
I'm hoping, like every year, for great developments in TC and the pre-season to ally my fears.
