Wow, I'm surprised this argument has become as big as it has ... there are tons of more legitimate gripes about this team above some 3rd string guard sitting on the inactive list or practice squad.

If Shields were to get hurt or retire, Welbourn would move back to his natural RG position and we'd leave Bober at RT. If one of those guys got hurt we'd have Welbourn at RG and put Kevin Sampson at RT, or Bober at RG and Sampson at RT, or if push came to shove I imagine we'd have the option of sliding Jordan Black over to RG or RT to fill a hole.

Yeah, it sucks to lose a guy who could efficiently play, but I think that speaks to our offensive line depth and Indianapolis' lack thereof... although really the Colts do a great job of making sure whoever they have to put gets it done without fail.

BTA, could we of found out if Ryan was going to be able to step in for Willie or Will ?

We will never find out now.

Kinda like having guys on the roster we all feel can play or want to see them play but never getting the chance.

When you give up on them before getting or never give them a chance, you don't know what you have.

BTA,how much better could we be next year if Ryan had came alive and developed, or a Downing, maybe Freeman, or somebody else that we cut and a healthy Wilson with all the glitter and hype he brings to the offense. I dunno .....

DV did say this and he wasn't happy in losing him, it's a #'s game and he lost out.

How about in the Baltimore game when Jordan Black "double teamed" Super Ray-Ray Lewis all by himself?...

I think the amount of responses to this thread possibly speaks to Wilson having been an unpopular choice unneccesarily taking up roster space when he could have logically went on the IR. It is just one more example of poor management by the coaching staff and front office.

This is not an actual reflection on Wilson who might be the greatest thing since sliced bread and hell may even teach Larry Johnson how to block.

I like Jordan Black but I am hoping he is the replacement for the other Will(ie).

j/k

If you want to talk about how stupid it was to take a TE with that pick, I'm sure we'll be typing ditto in response to each other a lot.

When we made the decision to pu Lilja on waivers, it was with the idea that we want guys on our roster that will help us win now (as in this season). With that line of thinking, we made the right choice so far. For it to have been the wrong choice, we not only needed Shield to go down, we also needed a Lilja to pass Black on the depth chart. Maybe that would have happened, I don't know. What I do know is, if we were in the middle of a play-off season, most of us would be pleased with the prospect ofgetting another weapon in our arsenal just in time for the play-offs.

But this one is a fresh take, not having appeared in some column or a dittohead's radio show. This is actually a very cool topic.

What now that Welbourne is on IR and potentially through forever?

I guess I did not know that Welbourne had a potential career ending injury. Shows what a 3-6 now 3-7 record will do to the attention I pay to details.

It's pure conjecture. He's had back to back season ending injuries to the same knee. I guess there's potential there, huh?

The official DV spin is, ( not exact, but close it as I recall )it's a little sore and lose, but it doesn't need surgery. We decided to rest him the remainder of the year and let it heal on it's own.


So for the FWIW department, take over ........

I can't say I see any potential in the guy...