I love Herb’s talent and I agree with you about him having the right stuff.. and I made a post two or three days ago suggesting the same things you do here about leaving Herb at LT if he’s doing well because it will be tough for Albert to get up to speed there if he misses the whole preseason. So it kind of makes sense to leave Taylor there and play Albert at RG. Albert’s talent would also make it easier to go ahead and start Richardson at RT if Damion continues to struggle. I do agree we’ve probably found our utility lineman of the future – although I would not count Herb out as the long term solution at RT either.

The thing is this: Herb is a vicious run blocker and well suited to that job, but he’s only 295 and that puts him at a real disadvantage against the elite DE’s on the left side in the passing game… so KC would almost always have to give him some help on passing plays. Fortunately, we have a couple of TE’s who actually know how to block and a O Co-ordinator designing a lot of plays for the 2TE set.

The reason things are so much better on the line this year is Herm took the time to give Herb and Niswanger and the other youngsters on the Oline in last years draft the attention and playing time they needed to develop. As a result, not only did we get a great talent in this year’s draft… we had enough young depth the team felt OK about letting Weigman, and others go during the off season. Folks are saying we’re too young and experienced and the Oline has holes – crapola. It’s one of the deepest and most talented areas on the team, and we’re about to see that first hand.

The best thing about ALL of this? D-Mac and Svitek and the other vets BETTER get their shit in one sock PDQ, or they’ll be collecting pine splinters.

I got faith though and I can’t wait to watch these guys play

I think he’s got it in him, but it could just be me. I also thought Svitek would be our starting RT this year. Go figure. If Herb Taylor DOES prove to the staff that he can play LT, and well, what do you guys think we’ll do, leave Herbie at LT, and put Albert at RG, or Albert back at LT, Herb at RG. Or maybe Albert at LT, Herb at RT. Or vice versa. It’s intriguing. We use to have an ‘all-purpose’ linemen in Chris Bober, he could play anything. I think we found the next lineman that fills those shoes. (Do we even still have Bober? I haven’t heard anything on him in quite awhile, but haven’t seen that he was cut anywhere..) Either way, our line has made leaps and bounds over the aging, under-athletic/under-weight senior citizens we had stepping in last year. I honestly can’t wait for this season.. Or at least the Bears game on Sunday.

I’m not anti Herm or Carl Peterson but I think this statement is a little too much when you consider we went 4-12 last year and even when we we’re winning at the beginning we looked ugly..Just somethin to keep in mind.