Re: Armstead out 4 - 6 months (shoulder)
 

This is tiring, every offseason it's the same injury crap.

Doesn't Ramcyzk have an lingering injury also?

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I just know this is a blessing in disguise per guido...makes sense. Losing starters now equals a good thing.


Doesn't matter about his injuries. If he goes down we are getting better

Re: Armstead out 4 - 6 months (shoulder)
 

Why are you shocked? Honestly, we have already been playing without him that's why getting that ot in first round was all the more important. This really is nothing new to me.

Re: Armstead out 4 - 6 months (shoulder)
 

Everything about him off the field is a issue.

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Peat - Turner - Kelemete - Warford - Strief. Let Ramczyk be the swing guy at tackle.

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Mass and what? Is that the coach's motto for the team?

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See, I can't move my family of 4 to a new house without a Saints player incurring a long-term injury. This team and I are spiritually linked.

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"Why yes I am a Genius, just ask me!"

I listen to Rick Venturi on the radio here in Indy. He can tell you what the Colts need to do to win, how to stop the other team ect. ect. ect. Yet when he's been a real coach with a team what happened? As an NFL HC he is 2 - 19. He talks the talk but talk is cheap!

Re: Armstead out 4 - 6 months (shoulder)
 

Well quit frickin' movin' Neugey!

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Re: Armstead out 4 - 6 months (shoulder)
 

Ryan Clady sounds like a decent stop-gap.

I'd imagine we already have a list of 10 or so veteran LT's that could possibly be cut before the season starts.

Re: Armstead out 4 - 6 months (shoulder)
 

From reports earlier this week Peat has improved light years with his technique and coaches and players have commented that he's doing several things smoothly that he struggled with last year.



We may want to keep him at 1 spot, especially since he seems to be mastering it now.

Re: Armstead out 4 - 6 months (shoulder)
 

Bingo, and like I said in an earlier post... If we slide Peat over to LT then we weaken the interior of the O-Line and that's the pressure that Drew struggles with the most.

Re: Armstead out 4 - 6 months (shoulder)
 

My insider tells me Armstead will be back in September.

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Yea I would say our guard positions are more important than our left and right guard positions the way Drew steps up in the pocket.

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And Peat is not? :p

Re: Armstead out 4 - 6 months (shoulder)
 

Barnes has apparently looked better since dropping weight. Maybe he can hold it down. Be nice if the rookie could get er done. Then we'd be cooking with some serious gas

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The elite pass rushers in the NFL aren't coming up the middle, they are coming off the edge.

Re: Armstead out 4 - 6 months (shoulder)
 

Wait..... what?

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lol I meant guards not L and R tackle. If I had my choice of where to elite players go I would want them at guard. The LT still needs to be on point, not saying that position doesn't need attention.

Re: Armstead out 4 - 6 months (shoulder)
 

Apparently it was just a freak thing. He was working with tackling dummies and fell in an awquard position on a mat.
I have had 3 surgeries to repair labrum and rotator cuff. It sucks. It was ten years ago and I still feel it sometimes. They literally had to drill a button into my bone and loop it around it.

Bright side is maybe this will be it. As bad as injuries have been the past several years odds say we are due for a break.

On a side note I have torn a few labia in my lifetime.

Re: Armstead out 4 - 6 months (shoulder)
 

I'd choose the latter (tackle). Circle back to last season. When Armstead was injured, Peat moved from GUARD to LEFT TACKLE. Coach Roushar plugged in someone else to play G. Again, the nasty edge rushers in the NFL are coming off the edge, not up the middle.

I think Peat will see a lot of time at tackle to protect #9's blind side.

Re: Armstead out 4 - 6 months (shoulder)
 

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31, but we only need him for the year
Austin Pasztor is an option as well. Maybe Jake Long will get off the couch for the opportunity to block for a couple hall of famers

Re: Armstead out 4 - 6 months (shoulder)
 

If it's about getting the best players on the field you leave Peat at LG and Ramczyk plays LT. Here's a guy talented enough to be a first round pick and what good would it do us leaving him on the bench now that we have a hole on the O-Line? If he wasn't capable he wouldn't be here.

I understand the hesitation though. It's scary having a rookie protecting Drew's blindside, but an O-Line of Ramczyk-Peat-Unger-Warford-Strief can still give us one of the best lines in the league.

Re: Armstead out 4 - 6 months (shoulder)
 

Main thing will be to get Unger back healthy, strong at Center...

We've got three LT on the roster in Armstead, Peat, and Ramcyzk...

Armstead is good, when healthy, but when was he last healthy?

I'd worry more about the interior, Center, than LT if I'm a Saints fan...

Re: Armstead out 4 - 6 months (shoulder)
 

Maybe, just maybe Ramczyk balls out as a rookie ... shades of Carl Nicks 2.0.

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I saw someone say this over on Reddit:

"I remember when we lost our star LT before the 2009 season too."

That's the kind of optimism I'm sticking with too for now otherwise it'll be a long summer!

Re: Armstead out 4 - 6 months (shoulder)
 

Much better than always expecting doom and gloom like others. Bravo!

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I say go with the rook at LT and take our lumps early. Let him get some experience and when Armstead does come back then we have a monster o line. This does hurt but it can turn in to something positive. Im more concerned about the DT issue.

Re: Armstead out 4 - 6 months (shoulder)
 

Armstead's body is either breaking down or he isn't training properly.

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This labrum injury really didn't have anything to do with either. It was a freak accident. From what I understand he slipped on a mat and landed directly on a shoulder. That would cause the ball to grind into the joint and tear the labrum. If he would have been in pads they would have cushioned the impact and would would have most likely been fine. The world's healthiest athlete would have fared any better in that scenario. It was just bum luck with a degree of blame belonging, once again, to the CBA which prohibited practicing in pads until later.

Re: Armstead out 4 - 6 months (shoulder)
 

We all get the "freak" injuries however this is becoming a theme for Armstead. The big fella simply can't stay healthy. As JP stated earlier, when is he ever 100%?

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Let's also not forget that once the shoulder heals up there's still the mysterious knee issue that he's been battling for 3 years.

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I'm not discounting the knee. I'm just saying that the latest injury was unique and totally unrelated to any chronic issue. It could have happened to a player with no injury history at all.

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I swear to God that we are the unluckiest team in the league! We are truly snake bit.

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Do we need new strength and conditioning trainers?