Are you serious? There’s a tight end helping, or a back chipping or a receiver on a jet coming almost every pass play. I don’t remember who it was but one of the jet motions smacked will anderson back inside to Thuney get hands back on him. One of perines catches was a chip and release. They’re protecting thuneys outside.

https://x.com/BaldyNFL/status/1870800694892249108

I’ll trust Baldinger.

The Cleveland game they did a lot but he had Myles accross from him, last week I did not see it a ton or any more then they normally do for the other LT. Guess will see with Pitt. With TJ on the right they will need focus help towards Taylor/Morris.. Thuney is going to be alone alot tomorrow.

Anyone who thinks they helped Kingsley the first two weeks as much as they’ve helped Thuney needs to go rewatch. They’ve also adjusted how they approach the game. The last two weeks play callings been more focused on getting the ball out. Thuneys been good for a guard. As long as he can square up he should be ok. The problem is come the playoffs he’s going to look some what like Orlando brown Jr without the length to push guys up the arc. They left Kingsley on an island against Baltimore and cincy. He actually faired pretty well against good to average rushers against the ravens. When he had to line up against Hendrickson they gave him very little help. They were asking a raw rookie for 4-5 seconds often with no help. Since Thuneys entered the line up Mahomes has had his fastest time to throw since the 21 season iirc. This isn’t a knock on thuney it’s a knock on the coaching staff. Hollywood went down and they just tried to forge on with the plan to let brown and worthy threaten deep. They should have gone more traditional wco earlier, got the ball out, stayed in a rhythm and protected green tackles.

Lotta folks talking about loading up on draft picks in a Mahomes like trade for a tackle.

Steelers drafted Broderick Jones and he was good at Georgia. Dude got baptized by Karlaftis and Omenihu.

Would much rather go this route than put all our eggs in one basket

What route? Putting guards at tackle?

We put Wylie at tackle.

And he started as a backup guard

Maybe it was playing hot potato with the LT job before settling on an All Pro LG providing baseline competence at the position and our offense subsequently improving immensely. Yeah, not sure how you take anything away from this other than the fact that LT is and will be a massive issue until it's permanently addressed.

Humphries needs to be blocking for Wentz against the donx, just so we can see what we have.

On an unrelated note, Thuney is a clear HOFer, no?

We even sure Humphries will make it through the game without getting hurt?

He's going into the HOF. He's won 4 Superbowls on two different dynasties, the only real knock is that he doesn't have more all-pros, but he'll get in.

What is the downside with permanently moving Thuney to LT next season?

I don’t see one.

Much easier to find a capable LG than a LT.

I want to say he played tackle in college?

He hasn't been as good as you think. We're giving him and Caliendo a lot of help with the play calling and protections that we weren't for Morris and Humphries. Can it work for a 3-game Super Bowl run? Possibly, yeah. But it'd be nice to get all pro guard play again instead of average to below average play at guard and tackle.

I still expect Humphries to play against the Broncos, and if he's decent, in the playoffs. It's good to know that this alignment can work if not, though.

I want to see Morris get a full game at RT as well.