Pinter has been a major disappointment, seemed to fill in nicely for Kelly at C last year, but RG and C are two different skill sets.
I suspect that some of the struggles for Braden Smith are due to the poor play of Pinter, but not all of them. I think we under estimate just how good Jack Doyle was at blocking and this has also had a major impact, which seems to be being overlooked. He had been around for years, and just knew his job.
Pryor, just seems too slow to play on the outside, but might be good at guard, agree that assuming the German is healthy he should be given first dibs at LT. The new Kelly, i know nothing about him, to be able to say he should or shouldn't be playing in any position.
A line of Raimann, Nelson, Kelly, Pryor, Smith, might be a more solid foundation for our offense. But i also think that we have hung them out to dry with some of the atrocious play calling at times. We need to be using Campbell on quick slants, where the ball is out of there by the time Ryan has hit his back foot. This is what Brady has made a living off doing. 5-8 yard gains in the middle of the field are hard to defend. Just ask our defensive players and coaches when playing the first two weeks!! You can keep your TE's to block and the RB if so required.
Deep shots need to be taken when we know we are going to then keep the back and a TE in to block, expecting just the OL to be able to protect for 5-6 seconds is unrealistic at any point in time. To me these are too simple a concept, and if not adhered to, you are almost asking for miracles to happen to make a 30 yard completion without getting your QB killed.
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