What to make of Ickey?

[Mr Mojo Risin]

8 hours ago, BlackPanther22 said:

I think it’s really weird how 3 preseason games has completely flipped how people think of a guy who was getting praised for the majority of last season. 
 

Granted, I wasn’t on this board until this off-season so this might be a normal thing on here or maybe he was questioned more on this board but…..yeah. The way perspectives have flipped on players and just the overreactions to stuff in general these past few weeks have been really weird to watch. 

Welcome to the Carolina Huddle. Do yourself a favor and NEVER read a gameday thread the day after. The people here don't use logic to reason. They are extremely emotional posters and it's very weird.

[Paa Langfart]

How many sacks of our franchise qb does Icky have to give up before you guys would give up on Icky as a tackle and who to take his place ?

Edited August 26, 2023 by Paa Langfart

[ForJimmy]

Just now, Paa Langfart said:

How many sacks of our franchise qb does Icky have to give up before you guys would give up on Icky as a tackle ?

During the regular season? Didn’t get go like 9 weeks last year without giving up a sack?

[Paa Langfart]

3 minutes ago, ForJimmy said:

During the regular season? Didn’t get go like 9 weeks last year without giving up a sack?

That sounds about right.  But he may be entering a year of a sophomore slump and has already given up 2 in 3 series of play.

[Cdparr7]

8 hours ago, OneBadCat said:

It's preseason. He was outstanding last year.

 

53 minutes ago, gofightwin said:

Remember when he looked like crap the first two games last year? And then from then out he started looking like a franchise tackle? It’s a new offense again. Maybe we just let the guy figure it out….or we can just start Erving. 

Yeah when we were in a different scheme and running the ball 35 times per game. I remember.

[ForJimmy]

6 minutes ago, Paa Langfart said:

That sounds about right.  But he may be entering a year of a sophomore slump and has already given up 2 in 3 series of play.

A sophomore slump might happen, but he has shown he is a capable LT in this league. 

[bythenbrs]

46 minutes ago, Mr Mojo Risin said:

Welcome to the Carolina Huddle. Do yourself a favor and NEVER read a gameday thread the day after. The people here don't use logic to reason. They are extremely emotional posters and it's very weird.

It’s all about the feelz…

[Jmac]

Icky is a much better run blocker. Saw that last year with our running game. They may have to lean on the running game again to save Bryces ass.

[poundaway]

So Ickey gave up another sack in another partial preseason game. 

He has looked pretty bad in preseason, against some scrubs too. 

Hope he pulls it together.

[MHS831]

THERE was talk that they were experimenting with blocking assignments.  Secondly, the heat impacts big men more than smaller men.  Weeks of camp, with the heat and conditioning, make your legs heavy and lethargic.  A 250 lb speed rusher is going to blow by a 320 lb tackle most of the time--I noticed that Ickey was losing his feet, as if they would get planted and he would reach--but he seemed confused.  These are fixable problems. 

For some reason, the defenses we played were active in their blitzes and stunts (the Jets played a game before facing us) while we were staying vanilla. 

These may be relevant or not, but my experience as a player (college) and coach (high school) is that the offense is usually behind the defense during the first few weeks of practice. 

I am not worried--yet.

[stratocatter]

He is young. You have to wait for the tree find the sun, then it will grow. Or something. 

I haven’t assessed his opponents this year but when he faces top guys he is going to lose his share of plays. You saw it last year. It is sort of like the team we had. 
I don’t care about the drama of the QB dying because of it, the ball is  hopefully gonna be thrown away or QB pulls it down and protects himself. It’ll make it harder for him all the way around, the down and distance won’t be happy either  

I know this much: Reich didn’t pick him and will not stand long for his brand new QB to be abused. If turnstile Ekwanu is the reality, they will sign the best FA LOT next year and wont care what it costs. 
 

Edited August 28, 2023 by stratocatter

[Tbe]

On 8/26/2023 at 12:00 AM, BlackPanther22 said:

I think it’s really weird how 3 preseason games has completely flipped how people think of a guy who was getting praised for the majority of last season. 
 

Granted, I wasn’t on this board until this off-season so this might be a normal thing on here or maybe he was questioned more on this board but…..yeah. The way perspectives have flipped on players and just the overreactions to stuff in general these past few weeks have been really weird to watch. 

You’re seeing two different groups of posters. The doom and gloom crowd shows up in force whenever things are not going well. They disappear when things do go well.

 

[ForJimmy]

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/frank-reich-no-concerns-about-ickey-ekwonu

 

[Martin]

1 hour ago, ForJimmy said:

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/frank-reich-no-concerns-about-ickey-ekwonu

 

I remember 3 years ago (?) when Andrew Thomas was a bust LT for the Giants. And now he is one of the best in the league…