You would just disagree if I said I had seen some positive play out of him, so I fail to see the point in you asking the question or my answering it.
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Same way Morris was getting beat.

We can't see how the play started, but in the first frame there, it looks as simple as Caliendo lunging without having his base under him, Heyward caught/redirected the punch and Caliendo's momentum just took him right out of the play.

That's why it's fascinating to see the OL work on their feints and stuff. They're really like boxers in a lot of ways. When they telegraph that initial hand placement, it's really easy for a pass rusher to just throw those hands out of the way. But the good ones will throw some window dressing in there and mix up their hands and aim points. You see the real technicians throw a 'false' punch out there quite a bit to try to draw a swipe and then just slam into their defender to try to dissuade them from jumping the strike like that again.

When a DL loses really badly, it's almost as comical as when an OL does. And most of the time, it's for very similar reasons.
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Caliendo looks like he's aggressively trying to sell an extended warranty of some kind to Heyward there.
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So my guy tells me that the coaches DO want to be able to slide Joe back into guard, BUT this is all dependent on how well Humphries progresses the next two weeks in practice.

So there you go. It's all contingent on the next two weeks.
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Pretty much what we've thought since Sunday.
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Well yeah. Nobody dislikes DJ. You can clearly tell he’s getting back in shape
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Yup. But if he doesn't progress over the two weeks they are comfortable with keeping Joe at LT.

So it appears, in this weird way, we are all correct in our assessments.

If DJ gets the nod we know he showed enough over these weeks in practice that they feel he is good to go.

He also told me that Mahomes already has a good rapport with DJ and is rooting for him to win that spot.
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This is really all we can hope for at this point.

DJ playing is obviously the higher ceiling. It's just a question of whether or not DJ is ready.
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So they just gonna have him running bear crawls until he can do the field and back without vomiting?

And not those pussy 'there and back' bear crawls either. Oh no, the ones where you crawl out 10 yards then backpedal back to the goal line, then crawl out 20 yards, then backpedal back, and then 30, 40, 50.....then 40, 30, 20, 10.

Because my football coach in HS was a damn psychopath...

Having to go all the way out to goalline to goalline and back was something I only saw him make someone do once and can't even remember why. Some school related shit; got in a fight or something. That's 1,100 yards of bear crawls (and of course the 1100 yards of backpedaling as well). Essentially a half mile of each.

I'm not sure the kid even made it goalline to goalline before he pretty much collapsed and vomited everywhere. Which was, I'm pretty sure, the point. Had he managed to get that done, Coach would've had some other god-awful idea in store until he just broke the kid's will.
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He’s a professional athlete who will have had 3 weeks of practice and conditioning plus actual game reps this past week… I would expect him to be ready to go for the divisional.
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This is why I hedge the shit out of everything and just do so cagey enough that y'all barely notice.

No matter what happened, I was gonna claim victory.
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I feel like conditioning for a 300 lb guy is just a different beast than it would be for the rest of us.

I mean wouldn't it stand to reason that he'd have been doing cardio BEFORE he signed? And over the last several weeks?

I almost wonder if it has nothing to do with stamina. If he ain't there now, when's he gonna get there?

Football shape is football shape and it just seems that the only way you can do it is by playing. That's not gonna happen riding a cardio bike.
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It's just wild to me to think that after two weeks of the best offense we've seen all year with Thuney at LT suddenly him having short arms and the passing game undergoing this mythical truncating (completely unsupported by video evidence) is going to lead to teams 85 Bearing us in the postseason :-)

All because we MUST start DJ Humphries to um, I dunno, be Willie Roaf and THEN we can run this offense as god intended. 11-step drops and 7 seconds of pass protection.

Like, WHAT?
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Yes Clay -- you're right and now it's Andy Reid that simply doesn't understand how obvious it is...
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It isn't about his weight but more than ACL and now the hamstring.

How the body works is that, when there's an injury or "pain", that works as afferent feedback to the sensory part of the brain. And then there's a reduction in motor unit recruitment and thus, his ability to be explosive is very diminished .

So my guess is part of why he got beat on that speed rush is that the hammy and knee still aren't quite 100%.

If he can get through these next two weeks and show progress they will slide him out there.

I do think if he's getting his ass handed to him we can slide Joe out to LT.

At least we have options.
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