Why Picking up Jonathan Martin was a Waste of Time...

[Cyberjag]

Mike Remmers was so bad he couldn't stick on the Broncos, the Bucs, the Chargers, or the Vikings.  He gets here and lines up next to Turner in our scheme and suddenly he looks like a 10 year starter.

 

I don't know what to expect from either Oher or Martin, but I do expect us to be better at LT than we were last year.  One of them will likely work well next to Norwell, and will be at least as good as if not better than Bell was.  And all of the cherry-picked game tape designed to make me angry at the prospect of Martin starting won't change that.  That's particularly true of college tape, it was around when he was drafted and people who do this for a living gave him a second round grade.

 

One thing is for sure--come late October when Oher/Rookie/Whoever goes down and we need a stopgap for a couple of games, it's nice to know that we'll have someone with a little experience instead of a big Canadian turnstile out there.

[BigCat]

Any questions?

This is a valid point. However, if Coaches Matsko and Brown can make a former DL (Chandler) and a JAG (Bell) into a couple of serviceable Tackles, then I'm sure they can mold True Tackles into something that represents NFL quality.

[MHS831]

The guy comes here looking to turn things around and he is met with a bunch of cynical armchair GMs, killing time between shifts at Sonic. 

 

The one thing I noticed about your video full of carefully-selected plays--he was not wearing a Panther uniform in any of them.  Let's support him like we should have supported Mitchell, Ginn, Remmers, Glanton, Boston, Benwikere, etc---all people I saw blasted by our own Panther fans before they ever saw the field.