If they didn't think we were ready for it, I'm sure they wouldn't do it. They'll probably ixnay the wide split thing if Duane Brown's injury is more serious than we know right now.
Are Oline schemes something you can just change in mid-season? Thought stuff like that relies so heavily on everyone being on the same hymn sheet that it takes the entire offseason to put into practice?
In Ryan Harris I think they have their man to replace D Brown to a passable level. From what I read brown can't be expected to be the man we know him to be due to the turf toe, I'd rather he takes it easy for a little while to try and be ready come December/January/February personally.
It's the type of injury that won't get any better playing on it and Harris, though not ideal, was good enough at RT last season to help us put up 13 wins, we can win with him in there, we won't win the Super Bowl with below par LT play later in the season though.
As for Schaub, this ranking is bull**** at this point in the season, there is no rhyme and reason to it, you wanna say 3 INTs in 2 games accounts for his low ranking? Eli sits several places above with 7. And has fewer TDs. And he's not above Schaub due to mobility either lol.
Makes me seriously doubt their rankings later in the season when the sheer weight of stats muddy the waters and it becomes less easy to question.
Away from this ranking, ill give Schaub the respect he deserves for 2 comeback wins, poise, knowledge of scheme, ability to get the ball to players not named AJ, etc right now but ill have in the back of my head how impressive he was at the start of last season.
We all know that he's susceptible to taking that one big hit at any time and then we're done for the season, I'm over the "injury prone" tag, dude just has a way of taking horrible hits which either limit his productivity, or knock him out of the game altogether. Last season I think we had a triumvirate of the lingering lisfranc issues, that shoulder injury he took, and the lack of a preseason leading to him hitting a wall down the stretch.
I think the dude can win the big one with the amount of talent around him, I'm holding my breath that he remains totally healthy because he's capable when healthy, and below average when not.
Some guys are good enough that unless the injury is unplayable, you won't see a decline in their ability to win games, it's not the case with Schaub because he's above average rather than elite.
