In fact he is. He was a guard in college and he was drafted as a guard. He just ended up being pressed into service at tackle because because Seattle had a hole in that spot and previous drafts who were supposed to fill that hole were not panning out. If you recall he was kind of lost out there for the first couple of years. Then he got better with experience, which is what you expect.

Willis, on the other hand was a tackle in college and was drafted as a tackle. He didn’t pan out as well as they wanted at first either. Then he was pressed into service as a guard because injuries created a need there. He did well there. It turns out, I suppose, that Willis is one of those guys that just performs better in game conditions than he shows in practice. Well, now they have him at tackle which is his natural spot. He needs more experience, but that’s where he’s likely to stay. Locklear’s natural spot is guard. As long as Jones remains out they need him to play tackle but if you can get everybody back and healthy then you want to put him in his natural position because natural is optimal. I.E. he’s become a good tackle but in the long run he’s likely to become a better guard.

But coming into the season, I believed our front seven is the strength of our team, and i still want to believe this. A four-man rush with occasional help from an LB or DB simply must get to the QB more often or more teams will beat us with a controlled passing attack.

We have very good D linemen, but It might be that Bradley still needs one more dominating DT to line up next to Mebane in order to make this work. Does anyone know what’s going on with Red Bryant and why he isn’t playing more? I thought he was going to become that guy but now I am wondering.

I’m now pissed the most at Dockett’s post-game comments . . .hope the Hawks are reading this guy, who’s questioning their leader’s toughness, and respond the right way when we see them again . . .

Remember thought that they never got much rushing going – and also, we pretty much kept the receivers in front of us (Fitz had all those catches but his average was < 10 ypc), with the only exception i can remember being the Breaston TD catch (also a helluva catch). Given that AZ started what, like the 3 or 4 drives inside our 40 yd line (the pooch k.o., the hass fumble, the Breaston punt return) – holding them to the points they got was actually a decent effort.

What still bothers me most about the AZ game is our defensive line. I think we lost the game because we had too few healthy O linemen available, and because Fitgerald & co are unstoppable, but if we were going to be competitive in that game our defensive line had to step up and pressure Warner. We made AZs O linemen look better than they are. Kerney made some plays, but in the end, I am most disappointed in Tapp, LoJack, and Mebane. We needed more out of them.

Agree with that. Excepting the Colts game, and who can stop that guy anyway.

I think Jennings is back to decent form this year as well. I like what I’ve seen from our defense for the most part.

One note from Sunday – what a luxury to have a guy like Fitzgerald – b/c he doesn’t really even have to get open to catch a pass – the CB is literally right next to him, but you just throw it high, and nobody else in the league goes up as high, and with as much body strength as he does, so if anyone’s gonna catch that ball, he is. Several plays in the game, he was covered as well as you can cover a guy, and the pass was still completed.