What's with the Thigpen fixation?

[OnTheWarpath15]

Originally Posted by doomy3

I'm not arguing that fact at all. But I have repeatedly seen Mecca say he wouldn't take an OLineman from a spread offense.

Now that only thing I can draw from that is because the spread covers some of the lines defaults. If linemen operating in the spread is actually HARDER for them as Mecca is saying in this thread, then shouldn't we be trying to draft them?

It's a transition thing. Making the transition from college to the NFL.

Being a LT in a spread offense in college is easy. You rarely have to run block, you rarely have to pass block for more than 2 seconds, and you're lining up against a lot of guys on a week to week basis that will be doing something other than playing football for a living - with rare exception.

Being a LT in a true spread offense in the pros would be hell.

You're facing the best of the best, week in, week out, and have to actually hold your block long enough for NFL level plays to develop - combined with the added speed of the game - and you're ****ed. And that's just the pass blocking part of the equation.