Some people have been talking about Everett and Malik as if the ultimate choice has a major impact on the OLine. I think that we can't answer that and there are several reasons.
1). whereas it is true that mobile quarterbacks like to break the play often and roll out to [they hope] evade pressure, I have seen quarterbacks violate the "commonsense preference" of mostly rolling to their strong hand --- i.e. the are some QBs who, counterintuitively, like to roll away from their strong hand. {this isn't completely nuts as it forces you to square your shoulders before finally delivering the ball, whereas rolling to your throwing hand allows you to just wing it, but with correction for your own body motions forced into the equation. ... same thing with shooting the basketball.}
The point, if I have any, is: I don't know which way Zaire preferentially rolls. If he rolls right [against his strong hand] then he's no different in that particular mode than Golson. If he rolls to his strong hand, then both set plays and roll plays put strain on the Right Tackle to protect his unseeing back, whereas Golson needs the Left Tackle to do that job.
With either guy, in the set-up plays, the blindside tackle needs to be an eraser like ZMart, and the sightside tackle needs to be more of a predictable moving object --- blindside needs to be free to absolutely "dance" anyway he wants so that the rush never gets close; sightside ideally could do that too, but you rarely have TWO Zach Martin's so you put up with "solid competence" there, and let the QBs sightside instincts help by moving in the pocket.
2). so the second thing we don't know about this lefty/righty issue is: how good are our tackles? ZMart is regrettably gone. We have no assurance of an eraser on either end even if we wanted to put him on the blindside. Will Elmer be an eraser? I think so, but next year? or ever? Who knows? Will Stanley be an eraser? I've less confidence in that, but high hopes --- real good? Yes. ZMart quality eraser? Ummmm..... Will McGlinchey beat one of them out? Maybe, but for sure we wouldn't know if he's our next eraser yet ... or Biven, who I think will one day be All-American quality, but probably not at tackle.
Hiestand will have to set up his OLine in Spring practice without much thought for Lefty/Righty but of which best five function best where --- get his Five Fingers of Doom in place with his two best puncher-dancers on the edges and let the QB situation do whatever it's going to do. We don't know nearly enough, even having seen Everett in a lot of games, because our Giant Moveable Wall is no longer residing at LT.
THAT could be the biggest unsung deficit we have going into 2014. The ability to put a player at a critical position either offensively or defensively that you never have to worry about again, because he is just going to dominate his area, is a rare luxury. Let's pray Big Steve is up to filling those shoes.
grin: Of course, it was the Spring game, but I would have been disappointed if we failed to put any offensive points on the board after freezing our butts off 
