-2 Head Butts in one game last year + 50,000 fine
-Suspended in College for Off-Field issues
-3 Personal Fouls in 1 game 2008 + 35,000 fine
-2009 Sporting News Dirtiest Player
-Multiple run-ins with Refs

This guy has a future in the WWE after he retires!!

So he took our "low-ball" offer? Hats off to the front office!

probably the only offer he got. Im guessing

NASTEY is GOOD

Man, the front office is just not satisfied with what we have at right guard. I thought Donald Thomas was supposed to be this big revelation, and then quietly, we start sitting him in favor of Gardner (I believe it was) for portions of the game. We hear Thomas can't block well on the move and suddenly he isn't in the starting line up some games. Gardner on the other hand begins to impress and between the two of them, we seem to have a fairly talented rotation at RG. Now we sign this guy? Is he going to play LG or did we really add another RG to our confusing rotation there?

I like the move. He's started every game he's played, so we added a young OG starter for little risk and money. His character concerns are actually not that big a deal--toned down a shade, on field aggression and nastiness are excellent traits in an OL. Now we can use Garner stictly as a backup OT, with OGs being Smiley, Thomas, and Incognito, and Burger. That's pretty good starters and depth right there. Add to that our Pro Bowl LT and Carey (who's good not great) and we've got a solid OL for years to come.

Why does this signing mean they are not satisfied with the starters? You just made that up.


Maybe they are not satisfied with the depth, hence only a 1 year deal for this guy.

If they truly wanted the guy to replace the starters then they would have given him a bigger deal, Panteraize.

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I think it's pretty well known they were not really satisfied with D Thomas last year, that's why he lost his starting job to Garner

Well maybe they love Garner then.

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> I think it's pretty well known they were not
> really satisfied with D Thomas last year, that's
> why he lost his starting job to Garner

I think injuries played a big part of that. Also, it was basically his rookie season.

No, Donald Thomas was in the DOG-HOUSE by the midway point of last year. He can't block on the move.

PLUS....Justin Smiley never plays 16 games anymore. So you gotta have a back-up for him.

This is a nice signing. Helps us in a lot of ways.

Never hurts to have extra horses in the barn, the way linemen get injured throughout the year. Price wasn't exorbitant, so....

INCOGNITO is just the name he uses when he wants to be incognito.

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Why does this signing mean they are not satisfied with the starters? You just made that up.


I didn't make anything up.

Relax, I was just hypothesizing about what I thought may have prompted this signing. To me, it looked like they weren't happy with our situation at RG. So that's how I was interpreting the move, with surprise and confusion about what it may have meant about our starters. In fact, your point is well taken about the signing being more about depth than scrapping our starters, it being a one year deal and all.

We now have one of the best and most versatile lines in the league....every player we have can play multiple positions.

Like Mike said, It is a great insurance policy for Smiley at LG no matter who starts at RG.

...and we can focus the draft on positions of need and double up on those positions.

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A&O & Panteraize

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Don't know how anyone could not see us having a depth need after the game last year where we had one backup playing 4 different positions in one game (Losing a guard and 2 centers).

A good move, cheap risk reward.

If his "I'm gonna change story" holds any truth we may get a guy who can contribute without the baggage.

Worth a chance and thus the reason he only got a 1 year deal. They'll know in time to re-sign him if they like what they see.

We weren't going to focus on the OL in any case.

Rick

That was the Panthers game? We won that game!

That's right, the mess of injuries that had us playing musical lineman still didn't stop Ricky from firing off over 100 yards on the ground that night!

welcome tough guy . now get really pissed off come game time .

Win or lose vs panthers the depth issue was exposed. A weakness doesn't necessarily mean you lose every game.

There were multiple games where OL could have helped us succeed when we did not.

- Example:

Early on on ATL - Terrible
The second half of both the Colts and saints game

numerous others that depth though may not have taken playersa out of the game was imapctive in freshness and weaker second half performance.