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Weston (Richburg) was always meant to play center (played guard last year because of injuries) he's done a great job of commanding the offensive line.Get 22 free meals with this incredible HelloFresh meal kit deal Those two guys are first round picks with a lot of talent and have really settled in to their positions. Then they moved (Justin) Pugh over there (to the left side). This year with the Giants, we drafted Ereck Flowers and that has really helped at left tackle.
I think that's one thing that people don't realize, the talent gap isn't that large, but the mental side of things some guys are better than others and those are the guys that stick around. There are a lot of offensive linemen that are gifted physically but they don't pan out because the mental aspect doesn't work for them. That's the basis of pass protection, it's a tough job and one that is a lot more mental than physical.
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We're backpedaling to pass block while a guy who's a better athlete than us is running full speed at us. When things go well you probably won't get any recognition. If you're an offensive linemen you buy into that mentality that you're not going to get noticed unless something bad happens. When it comes to offensive line play, we know it's a thankless job. It's pretty remarkable I was in Carolina for four years and I don't remember a single play call we had. I don't remember much of anything in terms of how we did things in other places. It's really that simple, when you leave you forget it all. In the facility you just have to come to learn the system, the personality of the coaching staff, of the locker room, and then you just buy into what their system is. It's a tough situation when it's year-to-year changes, but you just adapt, you learn to be flexible with your travel plans, flexible with your living arrangements. I've had five different offensive line coaches in five years in the league (we switched coaches one year in Carolina, then I was in KC, Minnesota and now here in NY). The toughest thing about my NFL career so far has been the constant change.
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I think if I was in a pro style offense it would have been a little better. I played better my senior year but, I think playing in spread offenses hurts offensive linemen. It wasn't really documented that I was hurt, but you can't use that as an excuse when you play all year with an injury. I think I didn't go as high because I was hurt my junior year in college and I didn't play very well. I got a couple of calls "We're thinking about drafting you here, we might draft you," it was a long day.Ĭarolina called me (in the 7th round) and I was super relieved. As the day went on, that was back when the draft was two days long, just nothing happened and my phone didn't even ring until the 5th round. My agents were pretty honest with me - they said 4th-6th round. My year, we had 10 tackles go in the first two rounds, so I thought I was going to go a lot higher than I did. Heading into my draft year (2008), I felt that I was the 10th-15th best tackle. My parents were okay with me going to Oregon because of that and I'm very happy I went there. They failed on a lot of key points, so my parents weren't disappointed I didn't go to UCLA.
My dream growing up was always to go to UCLA - it was my parents' dream too, especially my dad, but UCLA just didn't do a good job of recruiting. My junior year is when I started playing offensive line and in the middle of that year is when it all started to click on how to play football. I didn't play at all my freshman year, my sophomore year I played tight end and a little bit of defensive line on varsity. When I got to high school, my math teacher was the JV football coach and he saw me the first day of school and asked me to come out for the team. That was my main exposure to football as a kid, it never really crossed my mind that I would ever really play football, because I knew I was too big to play Pee Wee. On top of that, my dad was a 49ers fan, he's from the Bay Area, so Sundays were 49ers days. We went to every home game each Saturday and then if they weren't home and were on the road we'd watch them. I remember going to games as early as age five. Growing up in Los Angeles, my parents are UCLA alums and we had season tickets to UCLA football games.
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