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For those who do not read my usually boring detailed OL posts but are looking for anything positive to read on our Ram Team after last Sundays rotten XXXX! I got something you may want to know.
First allow me to say that most may know I have been a negative critic on the promise of OT Joe Barksdale making it as a good starter in the NFL. * I have been a advocate of drafting a OT high in the 2014 draft. * I was an advocate of that in this past yrs draft. * I have been a constant wet damp stinky ragging poster on this young man. Not any longer!
Yes, I know it was his only his first NFL start @ ORT. Yes, he did play heavy in the first two reg. season games @ ORT when Saffold was injured & it was not much to post about other that Blah! I should also recall his two starts @ OLT last yr in two bad nasty losses. Yes, he did have four pre season games where he also got a ton of experience @ both ORT & OLT posts but still nothing much to smile about. But I just reviewed the entire Dallas game & watched & re-watched Barksdale on every play....be advised I am :bign: :spz: on my review.
Hey Joe Barksdale (JB)you have caused me to eat my past posts on you & I am poking on the keyboard with my size 13 foot in my mouth. Kudos :2u: on your Dallas game performance. Hey Boudreau forgive me for second guessing you on Barksdale and Joe Barksdale if you have read my prevoius posts on you well I was wrong ...you are the man. While the other four Ol'ers were in a total state of disarray Joe Barksdale held up as the jailbreak went on.
On one play that will go down this year in all Cowboys highlight reels....in the 3rd quarter with 8:18 to go DL'ers DeMarcus Ware & Hatcher teamed up a scheme on JB & Dahl. Ware rushed JB & Hatcher took Dahl on, Ware stopped & stunted inside Hatcher caught Dahl & JB side by side facing right & in line & pushed both of them back giving Ware a direct hit & sack on Sam. It was a perfect set up disaster that I do not recall ever seeing done so perfectly. JD did have designed help by the RB who was to chip Ware but Ware side stepped the Ram RB & bee lined for the kill. That was the biggest negative to report on JB. You should know that JB lined up across DE Ware about 40% of the time & gave up very little while DL'ers Hatcher & Ware wore down & disrupted blocks of Long & Williams. The worst that can be said was two other plays where his man did cause Sam to hurry. Compared to what happen to the other OL'ers that was OUTSTANDING! Don't believe me? Please take time to verify what I have stated.
When your best starting OL'er this past Sunday is a player who started his first NFL game @ ORT says much on the future promise of this third season OT Joe Barksdale. I will once again watch him deal with the 9ers DT McDonald & Ahmad Brooks a very hard assignment for-sure, yes they are very good but that DE Ware is got to be the best DE I have watched in a long long time. Presently Rams DE's Quinn & Long are not playing anything close to the level as DeMarcus Ware .
I do not even think Rodger Saffold would have done any better last Sunday. This provides me hope for the rest of the year @ ORT post. I not so sure I would risk Saffold back in as starter may be best to keep him ready as the swing reserve OT cause he has proved beyond a doubt Saffold can not stay healthy to perform or fill the needed requirement to remain on the field due to constant injury after injury as a starting OT in the NFL. Barksdale's has already surpassed Saffold in his ability to play an entire game this young 2013 season & come out fully healthy something Saffold has not done. If I am Boudreau I would ask myself why not stay with the positive ongoing development of a possible future starting Ram ORT? It will certainly help this team next season ....Saffold will not be a Ram but earning a sizable pay increase with another team needing a OLT.
First allow me to say that most may know I have been a negative critic on the promise of OT Joe Barksdale making it as a good starter in the NFL. * I have been a advocate of drafting a OT high in the 2014 draft. * I was an advocate of that in this past yrs draft. * I have been a constant wet damp stinky ragging poster on this young man. Not any longer!
Yes, I know it was his only his first NFL start @ ORT. Yes, he did play heavy in the first two reg. season games @ ORT when Saffold was injured & it was not much to post about other that Blah! I should also recall his two starts @ OLT last yr in two bad nasty losses. Yes, he did have four pre season games where he also got a ton of experience @ both ORT & OLT posts but still nothing much to smile about. But I just reviewed the entire Dallas game & watched & re-watched Barksdale on every play....be advised I am :bign: :spz: on my review.
Hey Joe Barksdale (JB)you have caused me to eat my past posts on you & I am poking on the keyboard with my size 13 foot in my mouth. Kudos :2u: on your Dallas game performance. Hey Boudreau forgive me for second guessing you on Barksdale and Joe Barksdale if you have read my prevoius posts on you well I was wrong ...you are the man. While the other four Ol'ers were in a total state of disarray Joe Barksdale held up as the jailbreak went on.
On one play that will go down this year in all Cowboys highlight reels....in the 3rd quarter with 8:18 to go DL'ers DeMarcus Ware & Hatcher teamed up a scheme on JB & Dahl. Ware rushed JB & Hatcher took Dahl on, Ware stopped & stunted inside Hatcher caught Dahl & JB side by side facing right & in line & pushed both of them back giving Ware a direct hit & sack on Sam. It was a perfect set up disaster that I do not recall ever seeing done so perfectly. JD did have designed help by the RB who was to chip Ware but Ware side stepped the Ram RB & bee lined for the kill. That was the biggest negative to report on JB. You should know that JB lined up across DE Ware about 40% of the time & gave up very little while DL'ers Hatcher & Ware wore down & disrupted blocks of Long & Williams. The worst that can be said was two other plays where his man did cause Sam to hurry. Compared to what happen to the other OL'ers that was OUTSTANDING! Don't believe me? Please take time to verify what I have stated.
When your best starting OL'er this past Sunday is a player who started his first NFL game @ ORT says much on the future promise of this third season OT Joe Barksdale. I will once again watch him deal with the 9ers DT McDonald & Ahmad Brooks a very hard assignment for-sure, yes they are very good but that DE Ware is got to be the best DE I have watched in a long long time. Presently Rams DE's Quinn & Long are not playing anything close to the level as DeMarcus Ware .
I do not even think Rodger Saffold would have done any better last Sunday. This provides me hope for the rest of the year @ ORT post. I not so sure I would risk Saffold back in as starter may be best to keep him ready as the swing reserve OT cause he has proved beyond a doubt Saffold can not stay healthy to perform or fill the needed requirement to remain on the field due to constant injury after injury as a starting OT in the NFL. Barksdale's has already surpassed Saffold in his ability to play an entire game this young 2013 season & come out fully healthy something Saffold has not done. If I am Boudreau I would ask myself why not stay with the positive ongoing development of a possible future starting Ram ORT? It will certainly help this team next season ....Saffold will not be a Ram but earning a sizable pay increase with another team needing a OLT.