thoughts on a shake up
 

sunday ticket took a shit on everyone yesterday so i missed a large portion of the game. that said, we couldn't block anyone. the offensive line was garbage.

to make a statement, what do we think of changing it up. and is Dennis Kelly healthy? I think he is


LT- Kelly
LG-nelson
C- ryan or pinter
rg - pryor
rt- smith

we aren't opening up holes in the run game. we aren't protecting ryan at all. i don't see how they just keep it as status quo

It is obvious that what we are trying is not working. Why not try something different like this?

Did the rookie Raimann play yesterday?

he got some snaps at lt i believe. didn't see them

for the record


if we look back at last year, the oline was garbage for like the 1st 4 weeks for some reason. i don't know if we can improve like that but it is worth noting i guess

I think Pinter to center and Kelly to RG is what needs to happen.

Reminds me of what Shula did back in the day. After a shitty start to the season sat a ton of people and played Ted Hendricks amoung others. Reich is to nice of a man to hurt folks feelings like that. These are his boys. There is zero fear out there of our coaches. I agree completely with Omaha that something drastic needs to be done. When this team was ascending we had an offensive line that was feared. Ballard let that go for no reason. To me it is the worst mistake he has made. Finding a decent LT is much more doable than finding a QB and he has found neither. Another 2 million and we would have had a decent RG and some depth. I’m ranting but the guy is a genius talent evaluator but shit at putting together a team. I had thought the two go hand in hand but apparently not.

There were 50 snaps on offense.

Pryor received 35 snaps - 70%

Raimann received 15 snaps - 30%

Raimann saw time in the 4th quarter and I thought he played pretty well. There was one play he got bull rushed back into Ryan, his stance was too high it seemed and let the rusher get into his pads, but he didn't lose the guy, he kept upper-body wrestling him the whole way. Ryan ended up taking a bigger hit from a guy coming from the other side on that play.
In general Raimann looks like he provides much more upside than Pryor, for sure he should be starting at LT now.

Last year, most of the OL starters missed significant time during training camp due to injury / recovery from prior injury.

There were usually 3 or 4 back-ups playing at the same time. I think Glow was the only lineman that didn't miss time.

It continued into the regular season.

I believe Week 5 was about the time when the Colts stopped using Davenport as the primary back-up tackle and switched to Pryor instead.