I’d be fine with Nijman moving back under that scenario. My assumption is that unless and until Bakh is traded, he’s our LT, rightly. If that’s the case, of those who’ve played in a game, Nijman is far and away our best RT, and I think better once he gets the footwork down more on that side. Tom is a viable option at LT, but I think less so at RT where his agility is less significant and his lack of strength more so. I’d prefer to see Tom at C this year if not needed at T. Walker, Jones, Tenuta making a leap could change things up too. Hopefully one becomes a viable RT behind Nijman or even starting if Bakh did go and Nijman replaced him.

Lots of big guys not mentioned, hopefully they're getting developed, prepared, and allowed to legitimately compete for the roster this year.

I doubt that Deguara is going anywhere, and he'll probably get more snaps than any other TE in the opener. If that changes during the season, it'll be because Musgrave and/or Kraft are impressing the coaches more. Also, Deguara plays Hback and is a fullback-type lead blocker on some plays.. He has a role in this offense this year.

Tom is our sixth starter on the Oline. As soon as the first guy gets hurt, he'll be in the lineup.

I'd have Bakhtiari at LT, of course. Then I'd put Jenkins at center, where he can call out blocking as well as handle the ball on every play. He'd also make both guards better. I'd play Nijman at RT, Runyan at LG, and I'd move Myers over to RG.

Somebody will get hurt, so it's kind of moot, anyway.

Actually, while the difference has narrowed a little, statistically most runs occur to the strong side. Since most teams have right handed QBs, that means that the right tackle is usually facing the best run blockers and is ideally the best OL in the run game.

At LT, the premium is on agility and stopping, diverting and definitely delaying the blindside blitz. Typically that’s where teams primarily employ the fastest and most agile rushers most often.

So while Ts can be interchangeable, to do so they need both great mobility and great strength at the point of attack and in engaging defenders down field. Tom is a smaller, highly agile guy, but he’s not a powerful anchor and he’s smaller. Nijman is, moreover, he’s a plus run player at T. ESPN rated him the best run playing T in the league in 2022.

So some LTs and RTs can play equally well on both sides, but they are few and far between. Others are very much more one sided. Nijman is a phenomenal athlete, who, physically, probably can play both. Tom profiles to left much more than right.

In actuality, that’s the one position he really didn’t hold up well at. A limited showing, admittedly.

Dude. No choice. You play the best guy you have that's healthy.

It was like a Jenga tower last year. Your 3 top dogs are all coming off a serious injury. Then Runyan got hurt and we shuffled some more, and in one of these iterations, we had them playing side by side, which created a big problem in the B gaps.

Once everybody got their "legs" under them, so to speak, we played pretty well and Newman and Hanson didn't see the field anymore.

The problem, which I keep repeating, is that since we didn't do anything in the draft, Newman and Hanson are the #7 and #8 OL. These other guys have never taken a snap in the NFL. And that's not a problem.....until guys get hurt and we have to do some shuffling.

Tom looks like a 6th man to me who we can put in the game and keep moving the ball. And as long as we don't take any more injuries, we're OK. IMO, that's unlikely to happen.

We just signed a guy, Sciaffe,who should be able to come in and compete for an interior backup position. I'm generally a happy camper, but I'm not happy about the depth of our Oline.

If ONE of these guys has improved since last year, that would be great: Newman,Hanson, Rhyan, Walker, Jones. I'm not being greedy, but it would be great if at least one of these guys can help us this year.

I'm hoping Rich Bassacia has all these "special reamers" competing as well as himself competing to replace MLF /JB. Massive issues from those two last year, I just want to see it fixed and in game adjustments become reality.

Thank you, PackFanNY!!! HUGE!!!

Thanks for the link...it was encouraging.

On the same site another article today discussed that Stokes may be behind schedule. The author even mentioned Stokes may have had a setback and may even be traded or cut? SMH...

And a 3rd article today at WI Sport Heroics also quoted Rich Bicassia as saying the Packers are in talks with Crosby's team to bring him to camp.

''''Aaron Rodgers talent resulted in a lot of wins that covered up a lack of talent in many areas of the roster at times.''''

This is fundamentally wrong on so many levels that I'm not even sure where to start, so I'll go with Math.

In a 16 game season, an average team, with average coaching, etc., and an average QB would win 8 games, plus or minus. And that's what we had last year. 8 wins. We had a very AVERAGE OFFENSE, and an AVERAGE DEFENSE.

And Aaron Rodgers? AVERAGE AVERAGE AVERAGE in every measure. I'd like you to point me to ONE game last year that we only won because he was able to cover up the lack of talent on the roster. Because I can absolutely point to several games where it was HIS poor performance was a primary factor in the loss.

'''' Coaches now will have to prove they can coach every position on this roster well because there is no MVP talent'''

So wrong. When LaFleur came aboard in 2019, Rodgers had been hurt all of 2018, and had missed half of 2017. There was no MVP talent at QB. Even in 2019, when Rodgers stayed healthy, he was pretty average in quite a few measures. But in 2020 and 2021 Rodger was the MVP.

So where was the MVP talent before 2020? Is there any possibility that the coaches might have possibly had anything at all to do with his success? Or did he just decide to be awesome?

Here's the bottom line: Gutekunst and LaFleur took over a team that had missed the playoffs two years in a row. It was led by an aging HOFer. They squeezed two MVP seasons out of him while simultaneously preparing his replacement, who is ready now, and then got two picks for a guy we didn't want on the team anymore, a 43 and probably somewhere around 24 next year. We used the 43 on Musgrave.

That's what happened. Aaron Rodgers wasn't carrying anything. Watch his highlight reel from last year. Every throw is a soft lob down the sideline. Really accurate and precise, but no substitute for stepping into the throw and rifling a strike over the hashmarks..

Packers are going to be better than 8-9 this year, and I think you're going to see an old, tired Aaron Rodgers on a cold day in New Jersey and realize we're a lot better off.

AR did not cover up anything. He did not made anyone better around him, espacialy outside his 3 person "friend" circle.
He forced the ball to DA (and Adams showed us that he may helped more AR than the other way around) and felt sorry for his all the time. If eyerolling, fingerpointing and everyone else blaming "cover up" than he did it.
He was than even better with his covering up when the games start to count. Than he played like 5% of the SC and not 20% like the other top QB did.
We wont miss his cover up at all, not on and not off the field.
Should he run the Jets into the ground, they deserve it.

What I liked about the Sciafe thing is that he has two salient qualities: He's pretty fast for an offensive lineman, and he's got a pretty good wing span.

I've actually seen him graded out as a better pass protector than run blocker, but a little better than average at both. Obviously, the personnel people thought he was worth being on on the 90 man roster.

I agree that the best case scenario is back up RG. I'd tend to agree that he's not a needle-mover.....unless he is. Maybe he really blossoms under the same coaching that helped Nijman exceed what people thought he could do. Or maybe he gets cut. Or maybe he breaks himself. But I'm just happy that we brought somebody in, because after our first six, I'm not very happy about playing any of those guys.

I think it'd be better to keep him this year and then trade him after the season. If you want to win in the NFL, you don't throw away perfectly good Left Tackles. He'll help us more this season than any draft pick in next year's draft, that's for sure.