Biggest Surprise

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@purplefaithful said:

@greediron said:
Too many to vote for just one.  Settled on Richardson, never thought he would be back, but for a steep discount?  In a backup role?

Yup, that almost got my vote too.

I think SR off the bench as a 3t rotation? 

AWESOME! 

And now with Griff being rumored to be making that switch to playing more 3T role,   I would say having both of them inside with Hunter, and Weatherly or other outside on passing downs... damn well better be lights out.  I have visions of Eli throwing the ball away on 1 MISSI... back when JA was terrorizing him.

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Oli.  When I read at the start of TC that neither Wyatt Davis nor Mason Cole was being given a shot at RG and Dozier's "competition" was Oli playing G for the first time in his life, I was convinced Zimmer had rigged it to hand the RG job to Dozier again. Udoh beat him out in two weeks  B)

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honestly, nothing better for me than a bone crushing sack...
behind that.....a powerhouse O lineman with some “nasty”

All about Oli

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@RS Express said:
Oli.  When I read at the start of TC that neither Wyatt Davis nor Mason Cole was being given a shot at RG and Dozier's "competition" was Oli playing G for the first time in his life, I was convinced Zimmer had rigged it to hand the RG job to Dozier again. Udoh beat him out in two weeks  B)

Iirc zim sets his starters at the start of camp based off of the previous year and lets them lose their positions.  Which was certainly the case with Dozier. 

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@VikingOracle said:
Oli for me is the biggest surprise (followed by the return of Everson).  I don't recall any talk of moving Oli inside during the offseason; it seemed like an afterthought when Davis landed in the doghouse for some reason.  I really didn't think they would bring in Everson because of his tweets -- I thought that would create a weird locker room problem.

There wasn't much talk about Oli at guard in the offseason, but there was plenty of talk about it last year. He was practicing at guard before and during the season. Just makes me wonder how things might've been different if we'd simply given him a shot to replace Dozier then. 

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@Vanguard83 said:
honestly, nothing better for me than a bone crushing sack...
behind that.....a powerhouse O lineman with some “nasty”

All about Oli

Exactly.  If we can reestablish the dominance on both lines, it will go a long way to set the team up for success.