Arguments for a Left Tackle in the 2010 Draft.

[milkman]

Originally Posted by Saccopoo

You don't like Long, who, as of last season, was one of the top three left tackles in the NFL, but you're completely happy with Brandon Albert's performance from the past two seasons?

Pay the **** attention, dipshit.

I've said numerous times that Albert struggled.
I never once said that I was completely happy with Albert's performance.

All I've ever said is that he's a kid that is his second year, just learning technque, whose had to go through three scheme changes (four, when you consider the change to a spread last year after Thogpen took over the starting dutoes at QB), whose battled through injuries in his first season, and struggled with a substantial weight loss in a short peiod of time.

And with all of that, I still like his potential, and I don't believe you give up on that potential after only his second year.

And no, I don't like Jake Long, because he will never be a guy with the feet to handle speed rushers on an island.
He's always going to need help.

You may not like the idea of a team taking an offensive lineman early - know that how some people are in terms of how they look at the draft. But the position is key in terms of building a better functioning team wherever/however those players are acquired, whether it be on the premiere left tackle in the draft of an undrafted free agent that slips through the cracks.

JFC, I never said I don't like the idea of taking OL early in the draft, if that OL is a LT with potential to be an elite LT in the NFL.
I don't believe that is Okung.

And you are wrong about Okung's feet. His footwork is very good and his foot speed is also very good. His feet are always moving to make sure that his center of balance and power are situated on a vertical centerline like you want from a top flight left tackle.

Yeah.
I'm wrong, and so is everyone else apparently, because that is one question that is raised by almost everyone.

But you're the only one with the vision to recognize that everyone is wrong.

You want to see bad feet? Here's some bad feet, and on a guy who some people think would be great as our high second rounder:



You know who that reminds me of? Yep, Albert. Tries to use his power and bulk versus using his feet to work guys out and around. Reaches and lunges and pushes versus utilizing leverage and foot work.

Wow, imagine that, a college guard that some think has the athletic ability to play tackle being compared to a college guard that most thought had the athletic ability to make that transition.

Why, I just bet college guards practice OT technique non stop.

Hell, Okung's footwork is substantially better than Bulaga's as well. It's not even close:



I'd put up Davis and Campbell vids, but they make Bulaga's footwork look good in comparison.

The only guy that is close to Okung in terms of a legitimate left tackle is this dude, and he's got issues of getting overwhelmed when they go straight at him.



Comparatively, Okung is closer to Joe Thomas than he is Jake Long. The guy that is like Jake Long is Jason Fox out of Miami. I agree with Mecca that Brown is similar to D'brickashaw Ferguson but needs to up his mass/strength.

You may not like the pick for the Chiefs because you are holding out hope that Albert finally clicks all the parts together or that you just don't think that it's necessary to take an offensive tackle that early in the draft, but it's pretty obvious that Okung is the best left tackle propect in this draft.

If it's so ****ing obvious, why is that even sites that you've used to support your whole Okung love affair question whether he's the best prospect.

JFC, why I am wasting keystrokes on your dumb ass?