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Rams43
Great reads, zn. Thanks for posting.

I get the "building from the inside out" concept and it does make sense.

But I have a question.

Why wouldn't Jamon Brown be a good "inside out" RG just as much as Hav?

Of course I'll defer to Kromer's decision. But, just for my own understanding, why is Hav a better RG candidate than JB? And vice versa at RT?

Well first it's Kromer. He has a long history of developing guards. Goes back through several teams. So I would ask, why is that even a question? Kromer prefers Hav at guard and Brown at G-backup/ROT. And he's the guy who knows guards and knows who works best in his system. So what's to ask? The coach knows what he wants, as he has proven.

But a partial answer might be this.

Notice that the articles I put up there are from Chicago. There just happened to be a lot of “Kromer’s guards” articles from Chicago. Why so many Chicago articles on this? (And I posted only a few of them).

Because the Chicago football community wanted to know why Kromer was putting Kyle Long at guard, not tackle. According to conventional wisdom, that seemed to mean that Kromer put less value on Long. So a bunch of articles got written about how with Kromer, the conventional wisdom doesn't work, and guard is actually more important than tackle, and he likes certain types at guard. Long fit what he wanted.

Which brings us to the Rams.

Kyle Long is 6.6, 313.

Rob the Hav is 6.7, 321.

So physically anyway, Hav is in the Kyle Long mold.

But they also both share certain traits. Along with big, they're both smart, powerful, aggressive, with solid anchors and great drive blocking instinct and power, and good enough feet do well at pass pro.

Given all that, to me Hav is just a version of Kyle Long west.

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/02/2017 08:58AM by zn.