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Originally Posted by smithandrew051
There is one parallel with the OLs between the Bucs and Eagles Super Bowl that I wonder about.
Schwartz goes down. Remmers comes in at RT. I don’t remember him being terrible there. As I remember it, he was fine. Not great, just fine. Wylie was fine in relief at guard. Same with Allegretti. Again not great, but not a disaster.
Fisher goes down. We move Remmers to LT. Wylie to RT. Wiz to RG off the couch. The line becomes a disaster in multiple spots.
LT sucks this year. We move Thuney there eventually and Caliendo goes to guards. Thuney is overmatched at LT in the Super Bowl, Caliendo is a disaster. Two spots now aren’t good enough.
Should we rotate guys around like this and make multiple spots bad? Or just keep guys where they’re playing at least good enough? Then adjust accordingly for the weak spot.
Sure seems like we kill the communication and comfort level and create multiple weak links when we move guys around to account for 1 spot.
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In retrospect, moving Thuney to LT wasn't the play. It just ended up damaging the entire left side of the line. Hard to know that before yesterday, though, considering he was mostly fine against Houston and Buffalo.
That Fisher Achilles tear that ruined his career btw might be the most impactful injury in Chiefs history. We'll never know if we win that SB with him, but there's a distinct chance we would have and he likely would have kept being a productive LT for years to come.