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Originally Posted by Keith
You know, this is the sort of thing I wondered when I saw this news.
Yeah, Pitts has a "sore ankle", but what if this is underscoring something Gibbs is wanting to see, working Studdard with the 1's? What if Pitts isn't fitting what Alex Gibbs is wanting with the new scheme (speculation here, nothing I've heard specifically)? Then it stands to reason that Kubiak is going to let Gibbs get and try what he wants, especially in the preseason.
I dunno... I'm probably reading too much into it as I'm known to do from time to time.
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I rewatched the first couple of games....Studdard has shown a lot of improvement. I don't think he's ready to supplant one of the starters....maybe by the end of the year. Pitts gets a bad rap, deservedly even if sometimes overblown because they aren't near as bad as when he was out of place at LT. He still saved Brown's but more than once in the pre-season so far on some stunts. Brown has been dead on 1vs. 1 in pass protection....he gets pushed on the bull rush, but doesn't give...but I noticed a few times when Brown seemed frozen by a twist by the D and Pitts picked up the slack. Brown will get it, but I think he needs the experience of Pitts right now.
Browns also wiffed in the run game a few times....usually when the play goes away from him. More than likely it was because he's just not had that many live reps cut blocking. I haven't seen anything yet that will keep him from being a long term solution yet....in my completely non-expert opinion of course.