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2 Left Tackles! Sweep left! Seriously, was Romine was overrated? I thought he should have cracked the lineup by now!
Maybe it was a Freudian slip. Romine filled in some at TE when Rudolph was out with the injury. I didn't expect him to catch passes but I thought he would be an effective blocker. He wasn't. As LT he has to deal with the DE going to outside or slipping inside. As a TE he's outside the DE but got beaten badly, physically.
I was stunned.Before I saw those plays I had expected Romine to be the '10 starting LT. After those plays I expected ND's record in '10 to be worse than '09. I though the OLine had a fatal hole at LT. I then thought Robinson or even Stewart would be moved over there to eliminate a turnstile waving at rushing DE's. I didn't give Dever a thought.
Wenger also played disappointingly, particularly at center. I was hoping it was Latina's instruction/scheme that was the problem. Apparently not.
Warinner has done a lot of reshuffling looking for the right combinations and apparently he's not afraid to play the younger guys. I liked the OLines play in the B&G game but recognize the big holes and all those rushing yards came against a ragtag DLine. We didn't play #1 against #1 in the B&G game so we'll have to wait until September to see just how well they perform.
I think it was Mike Frank who commented on Cave's limitations at center and noted that Warinner had other options although untested.
Next to Crist's knee, the OLine remains the biggest question mark on this team. Fans raise concern about the Defense being on the field too long with Kelly's hurry up offense. Think how long they Defense will be on the field if Crist's knee doesn't hold up or the OLine is a porous as the past 3 seasons.
