Mike Pucillo v. Todd Wade

I say we put Mike Pucillo in over Todd Wade because Mike Pucillo is actually accustomed to being a guard.

Well clearly Pucillo makes this team. He gives us depth at C and G and looked just fine tonight.

Yes, there was clear improvement from last week to tonight. Wasn't Campbell sacked like three times against the Titans in the first quarter or so?

There was far better O-line protection -- hopefully Pucillo is the missing piece of the puzzle.

You have to figure that Wade is now behind simply by missing this game. They still haven't had time to really evaluate him at the position.

I'll preface this by saying that I was a huge fan of moving Wade to G. The raves he got last year and his performance when he played showed he is at worst a decent NFL RT. That couple with the supposed easyness of the G position made me believe that a decent T could probably be a decent G. I mean G is supposed to be the easiest position on the field.

I started becoming concerned when the rhetoric about Wade switched from "Man he looks great in practice" to "Well his is making a tough adjustment and he is working hard on overcoming the difficulties."

Seems to me that it really shouldn't be all that hard. Now that the rhetoric has not changed and he is missing time I am pretty much convinced he can't do it. Just a gut feeling but I think this experiment ends soon. Too bad whit got hurt like he did. I suspect he could have been decent for us.

I say we put Mike Pucillo in over Todd Wade because Mike Pucillo is actually accustomed to being a guard.


I agree with you. The left side of the line looked good, at least in pass situations. When Samuels gets back they will start to pimpslap people.

NEXT choice plz ....?

I hope Wade will be able to make the transition, only these next few games will tell, IMO they are probually about even, below average at this point. It will be great to get CS back!

either way we will have a problem there this year

either way we will have a problem there this year

I agree. If were basing it on last week vs this week, I would say Puccilo played better at the spot than Wade did vs Tenn. However, the line as a whole played better this week too.

However, no matter how you look at it, we're going to miss Dock. Not saying we should have paid him that type of money, but we are defintley taking a huge step down at that position, and I think we'll see that while Dockery may not be an elite gaurd, he's much better than "average" like many people want to belive.

I agree. If were basing it on last week vs this week, I would say Puccilo played better at the spot than Wade did vs Tenn. However, the line as a whole played better this week too.

However, no matter how you look at it, we're going to miss Dock. Not saying we should have paid him that type of money, but we are defintley taking a huge step down at that position, and I think we'll see that while Dockery may not be an elite gaurd, he's much better than "average" like many people want to belive.

Well Dock isn't on the same planet as Hutchinson and he signed a bigger deal. He was not worth it and we need to move on.

If we struggle with the three time pro-bowler in, then I will worry. Right now I like what I saw from last week to this one.