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  • January 3, 2017 at 1:16 am #62268
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    off the net from jrry32

    Havenstein limped off the field in the Saints game. Since that time, Havenstein has looked god awful. If you watch him Havenstein wasn’t putting weight on his right leg. Essentially, he was trying to block with one leg.

    Havenstein shouldn’t have been playing the last few weeks. IIRC, he’s given up 4 or 5 of the 9 sacks he’s allowed this year since the Saints game.

    I went back and checked to see Havenstein’s performance since the New Orleans injury. In those 5 games (NO, NE, ATL, SEA, and SF) since leaving the field with an ankle injury, Havenstein gave up 5.5 sacks. In his first 23 games in the NFL, Havenstein gave up 3.5 sacks.

    It totally explains why Havenstein went from a guy who we considered an above average RT to the worst RT in football. Havenstein even left the SF game with an injury to that exact ankle after a 49er rolled up on it.

    Moving forward, I’m no longer concerned about Havenstein. A RT isn’t going to look good when he can barely put pressure on his right leg (outside leg in pass set). He has no ability to defend the edge rush. Once his ankle heals, he should be back to his normal self.

    We need to overhaul the entire OL anyways. But Havenstein and Donnal both come from college programs that ran the ZBS. Robinson and Brown are athletic enough to play in a ZBS.

    January 3, 2017 at 8:26 am #62278
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    I agree with this theory. I’ll even go a step further and say I think he’s had a lingering injury all year.

    His rookie year he was a different player than the one we watched this year and it led me to wonder about his health around mid season. He was held out of pre-season dealing with a mysterious balky ankle…nobody from the team was really commenting on it.

    January 3, 2017 at 9:55 am #62285
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    zn wrote:

    Havenstein and Donnal both come from college programs that ran the ZBS.

    interesting. it seems as if this oline did better last year under cignetti’s zbs. gurley too.

    January 3, 2017 at 10:03 am #62286
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    at the very least they need to find a new left tackle and a new center. at the least.

    maaaaaaaaaaaybe robinson could slide over to guard. that’d be huge if he could.

    January 3, 2017 at 10:22 am #62287
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    InvaderRam wrote:

    at the very least they need to find a new left tackle and a new center.

    And even that may not be the case.

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