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Is it still to early to be worried about Byron Bell?


micnificent28

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I mean giving up sacks to chandler jones is one thing. But getting beat inside giving up a sack to Keisel is awful. Sorry to say It but the starting LT of this season and future is not on the roster. I just don't see how anyone else can spin it this guy while I don't hate him is not a very good player. He's fine as a backup but as a starter vs the NFL's elite. I'll pass.

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Both Bell and Chandler got beat inside last night. They both seem to be over setting to account for an outside speed rush and then they can't recover when an inside move is made. Tampa will certainly be a good litmus test.

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Well, considering we haven't played a regular season game yet with him at LT....

 

 

I would say yes, it is early.

 

Bell is getting dusted by starters during the preseason, and he has a body of work albeit on what is supposedly the less critical side where Cam could see the trains coming. So...I'm not exactly buying that argument.

 

Bell has never been a one-hit wonder.

 

 

Pun intended. 

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again... as of now he is solid around 85% of the time which is good okay considering our oline as a whole (bench included), he just finds ways to really make that 15% look as bad as he can. at times it seems as if he takes blitz plays off and once a man is pass him he quits all together. the bottom line is we have true backups as starters. hopefully that 85% will increase to 90%.

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Not too early, if you're getting beat in the preseason chances are you'll get beat in the regular season. It's not like he's not trying because it's the preseason.

Many of us thought he would be and should be done as a starter after last season, and here he is replacing Gross. Gettlemagic

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Players get beat.

How quickly we forget the struggles Gross had when he first played LT for the Panthers.

It made fans cry for most of his career, that he was nothing but a RT.

Now people realize just how good Gross was, a solid LT.

Bell us our LT for this season. That makes me expect to hear crying about it all season long.

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Look, we all know that Bell is a short-term, stop gap solution. We likely aren't going to find anyone BETTER that can slot in at LT this close to the season. He will more than likely be an average/adequete LT who will get beat probably once or twice per game. We're just gonna have to expect that he will give up a drive killing pressure/sack every so often, it happens to the best of 'em. Hopefully he won't get Cam killed, we survive this season, and we draft a true franchise LT in the first round next year.

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