Chiefs Training Camp: New Right Tackle, Sort Of

he’s never shown much as a DE, IMHO… so, why not?

I’d rather see him have a fighting chance at his natural position than try to fit a square peg in a round hole. The last thing this team needs is more position changes.

about the DE losses. we have dorsey, jackson, magee, and gilberry. not to mention shaun smith taking reps at the position, too. I honestly don’t think any DE’s other than them make the roster.

“O’call! You sucked so much last Friday we feel that a converted DE can play better! You wanna lose your job to this guy?!”

“They’ve told me offensive line right now and that’s it,” Greenwood said. “If they tell me to play quarterback, then I’ll throw the deep ball.”

Desperation on the O-line.

Why am I unimpressed?

the other night, we’ll see how he fares against TB. I’ll tell ya, if there is a team that will expose our o-line weaknesses it’ll be Philly

sometimes you don’t.

just another body for the line

The Lines are going to be this teams achilles heel.

There is nothing wrong with trying a guy out at a different position, even if it is to the other side of the ball. In Greenwood’s defense, this is better than getting cut. If the Chiefs see something in him as a future OT, then let them work with him.

Sure this is the NFL, but you see this type of thing in the college game all the time. You see a lot of DE’s converted over OT there. Take in for example the two best LT’s KU has had were converted DE’s… Anthony Collins who is now playing for the Bengals and Tanner Hawkinson who was a Freshman AA (RS FR) after starting out at TE, then DE, and finally at LT all in a span of one red-shirt year and a off-season.

Greenwood might be a great prospect to put on the practice squad. If he is 278-pound now, there shouldn’t be a problem getting him up to or over 300 pounds by next training camp. In the mean time let him keep learning the position technique wise.

Haha, I guess I should close in saying I’m not surprised HIV is crying about this… then again it is constant thing.

Does this Greenwood kid have any experience as an offensive lineman? If he does have experience, how did he fare?

Family Guy is now on Netflix’s watch instantly. Huzzah!!!

but can he catch?

I recall a guy by the name of Mark Bortz who was an all-Big Ten DT and drafted by the Bears back in the early 80’s. They turned him to OL and he was an anchor on the superbowl team. They always talk about wanting a guy with an attitude and a mean streak, that they make the best OL, and maybe he has it. Interesting thing to watch.

On the other hand, we saw that Jamaal could average 5+ behind last season’s line. I don’t like going RB or QB before OL, but looking to compete sooner, rather than later, adding Dexter McCluster DOES give them a good shot at keeping some lightning on the field at halfback for a full season (+ postseason?).

I’d just prefer to see the team build focus on the trenches and the perimeter, to give a solid read on the QB, RB, and LB positions. In NFL history, there are all too many Heisman winners, in particular, that go bust for reasons beyond their control. Yeah, it’s great to have a tough couple of scat backs who can make somethin’ outta nothin’, but history suggests that those kinds of guys don’t last long in this league, if the OL doesn’t give them somethin’.

IMO, that was the gamble on Cassel, too. Get a QB who can survive behind sucky OL, while you slowly apply your system approach to long-term prosperity. I WILL say THIS for Pioli ‘n’ crew. They didn’t follow this strategy with unproven college prospects, but went with Cassel AFTER he hung in through the New England OL re-tool in ‘08. They didn’t draft a backup lightning (McCluster) until Jamaal showed HE could hang in through 11 games, at least.

So, I respect the wisdom of mgmt, to date, although I’ve parted ways with them numerous times on their sequencing in the rebuild. I haven’t seen anything as glaring as Grbac/McGlockton or the failed good-old-boy network in force during the Peterson era, but then Carl built the Chiefs to respectability pretty quickly, himself. It was getting over the top that was the problem, and the entrenched beaurocracy that needed to be turned over and wasn’t.