They both have all the physical tools, and first of and foremost you have to have that to be able to play and make it in this league… I am way higher on Tytus Howard now than I am Max Sharping because when I look at them on tape Max Sharping he moves well, like at the combine he looked like he moved really well, but on film when he’s pass-setting his feet are all over the place. He finds himself out of position, out of balance… so he’s going to have to get that corrected. But when I watched his combine workout his feet looked pretty good, so he might have gotten with some OL [coach] to get himself prepared for the pre-draft/NFL. So you see some improvement there, but when the live bullets are [flying on film] his feet are all over the place and that’s not gonna fly at this level. When you watch Max Sharping his feet and his hands are not coordinated together [properly yet], but when I watched him at the combine his feet looked a lot better so you hope that you can extrapolate that out to where he will figure it out. If he plays this year, I’ll be surprised. But he has all the physical tools that a year or two down the road he will be ready to go.
Tytus Howard I’m a lot higher on. I think that Titus Howard is going to be ready to go sooner than later. I said it here last week, hopefully he’s ready by the BYE week. Hearing his interviews, seeing how he approaches the game, watching him on tape… he’s going to be ready to play this year and I think he’s going to be a really good player.
If you hit on just one out of the two [OTs] I think you’re doing good because basically you just told Deshaun Watson, you just told the offense that we’re trying to look out for you. You’ve got a bunch of guys on the interior that [among that group] you’re going to have three guys that are going to be solid on the interior. And so you’re just trying to fix the tackles… I am more confident in our offensive line today than I was two weeks ago.
I’m still a little concerned that they don’t have that guy [veteran offensive tackle] that’s in the room that is actually out there doing it and then also willing to and wanting to coach them up and bring them after practice and pull [the young OTs] to the side [to teach them how to play OT]. It takes about two/three years to pick up and fully comprehend the offense… When I look at Bill O’Brien’s offense I see it as an offense that the line, the skill guys, and the QB all have to be on the same page presnap and during the snap… One thing you know with Bill O’Brien and his offense and his ability to adjust. He might not adjust in a time period quick enough that you might like, but eventually he will find something that is correctable and he will make adjustments to try to correct it. And so they have done some things behind the scenes that have made me a lot more bullish on the offense in general and what the OL is going to do as far as them being on the same page mentally and in communicating. I am excited about that.
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[With O’Brien’s offense] it’s not just one set thing. With Kubiak’s offense we just said we are going to line up and we are going to run the ball to the left… If the defense lines up and puts an extra guys in the box, who cares? We’re just going to run our play. And then we are going to run play actions off of that one play. Bill O’Brien’s offense is more like, we’re going to line up and there’s like 5 or 6 different things that we could possibly do on this play depending on how the defense lines up, without changing the play call… The QB is gonna come to the line, he’s going to see something, he’s gonna make some calls… and you have to adjust to the adjustments.
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Part of being versatile is being super smart, you have to be football smart and you have to be intelligent to play multiple positions… So if you are versatile you are also showing you are smart… and you have to be smart to play in this type of offense. That is part of the reason why they laud versatility, because the prerequisite to being a versatile player is you have to be football smart and intelligent.