Agreed, Alyo.
The author of this piece (check the byline, everybody) seems to think that earning the shot doesn't matter.
"With the Rams’ corners struggling, it might be time for Morris to give the rookie Tre Tomlinson some snaps.
At worst, he’ll play at the level that Kendrick did in recent weeks."
How do you know that Carmen DaSilva? You don't. Again, you're throwing shade and not enlightening. A better column might be: "Possible reasons..." and then dig further into DB play and what might drive coaching decisions. Why don't you write it?
Whenever this topic comes up, I remember that Tomlinson had one penalty in four snaps in his time with the big boys on the real field and was then giventhe hook. He was probably told not to draw penalty going in, and had been working on it in practice, under the coaches guided supervision. Ya think, maybe?
I think we want to selectively forget, along with his scrappy play pre-season there was the time he got penalized for grabbing a guy's facemask and throwing him out of bounds. Looked like the other guy might have grabbed first, but that kind of retaliation will get you dinged every time.
If he's a penalty machine at this point he needs to learn how to channel and control his drive, his physicality, his feistiness so it doesn't get the team in trouble. Making that assessment day-to-day is up to his position coach, Aubrey Pleasant. If Morris overrode Pleasant on this one they'd be damaging Tomlinson's development and if Tomlinson didn't immediately draw fewer penalties than Kendricks, they'd both come out looking stupid.
