Thread: Tom Nalen on Losing Matt Paradis and on Garrett Bolles' Play!

Originally Posted by Jaded

McGovern has only started a handful of games at C, he can get better.

Maybe. I don't know. Orlando Franklin kept watching him on tape and saying "he doesn't play like a center. He plays like a G." Maybe they can fix that.

Everything here is complete speculation. You can’t possibly even look at how a guy played last year and compare it to how he’ll play this year. We now have one of the best OL coaches in the league. Something we haven’t had since Alex Gibbs. Having Musgrave as the OL coach is like swapping VJ for Belichick and not expecting improvement.

I’m in wait and see mode with this coaching staff but I’m optimistic that this staff with their long history of success will make a huge difference over the guys we just got rid of who have no idea what success really is. VJ and his staff were terrible - worst staff in the league - and still won 6 games last year.

Originally Posted by HORSEPOWER 56

Everything here is complete speculation. You can’t possibly even look at how a guy played last year and compare it to how he’ll play this year. We now have one of the best OL coaches in the league. Something we haven’t had since Alex Gibbs. Having Musgrave as the OL coach is like swapping VJ for Belichick and not expecting improvement.

I’m in wait and see mode with this coaching staff but I’m optimistic that this staff with their long history of success will make a huge difference over the guys we just got rid of who have no idea what success really is. VJ and his staff were terrible - worst staff in the league - and still won 6 games last year.

That's the operating theory. Hire Munchak and have him whip the feeble OL into shape. Maybe it will work. He's gotten improved OL play everywhere he's coached before.

And Garrett Bolles does have elite athleticism, but he also is a complete bonehead with horrible technique who gets multiple holding penalties on successive plays.

Mark Schlereth insists that he blatantly held on three successive plays against the Chargers but the ref didn't call the last one purely out of pity, even though that hold was the worst of the three.

I'm not a former OL with 12 years experience and multiple SB rings, so what do I know? I just watch and see Bolles sucking all the time.

Originally Posted by Cugel

Maybe. I don't know. Orlando Franklin kept watching him on tape and saying "he doesn't play like a center. He plays like a G." Maybe they can fix that.

Did he elaborate? And did he play with Paradis, can’t remember?

One thing I know about former OL teammates, from listening to Ryan Harris, is they’re not exactly objective. If Deebo is anywhere close to being as biased as RH then his opinion can’t be taken seriously.