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The fact that Christian Haynes could not beat out either Tomlinson or Bradford is extremely depressing
 
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Sorry if I missed the post on it, but how is it that Jackson Mitchell is a free agent? He had an excellent college career despite being on losing teams and seems to have all the tools necessary to make it in the NFL.
 
SwingDog said:
Sorry if I missed the post on it, but how is it that Jackson Mitchell is a free agent? He had an excellent college career despite being on losing teams and seems to have all the tools necessary to make it in the NFL.
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His twitter game is A+++ though.
 
SwingDog said:
Sorry if I missed the post on it, but how is it that Jackson Mitchell is a free agent? He had an excellent college career despite being on losing teams and seems to have all the tools necessary to make it in the NFL.
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He's slow and can't defend in space against NFL pass games.

He was a very effective player at UConn, but what tools do you think he has to make it in the NFL?
 
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SwingDog said:
Sorry if I missed the post on it, but how is it that Jackson Mitchell is a free agent? He had an excellent college career despite being on losing teams and seems to have all the tools necessary to make it in the NFL.
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@Chin Diesel Why is this funny?
 
Chin Diesel said:
He's slow and can't defend in space against NFL pass games.

He was a very effective player at UConn, but what tools do you think he has to make it in the NFL?
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He had a great career at UConn, and there are many other players that had similar careers and made it to the NFL. That is my line of reasoning in asking the question.
 
Seahawks OC Ryan Grubb addresses rookie Christian Haynes’ lack of playing time - Field Gulls

“Just technique and power,” he said. “I think that just raw power at the guard position in the NFL is so critical and that’s why obviously Anthony can withstand a lot in there. Just his sheer size and just what he can take on the inside. So I think for Christian, it’s not getting overpowered and overwhelmed.”

That’s probably not the response Seahawks fans wanted to hear, but it looks like Haynes still has a lot of work to do to get on the field consistently
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I thought Haynes was pushing for the starting gig. He was getting heaps of praise all training camp. This is a completely different tone from the HC. Interesting. Still not saying he's not gonna have a future, but seems to be the complete opposite of what was being reported out of training camp
 
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ZOOCONN said:
He needs to work on not getting overpowered? Pffff wtf lol
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He played 15 offensive snaps against the Patriots a couple of weeks ago, and got beat badly on two of his five or six pass protection attempts. He only looked good on one pass pro play, from what I could tell reviewing the game tape. I believe he got a ludicrously low score of 18 from PFF (using its 0-100 scale) for his pass blocking that game.

The Seahawks' main problem this year has been poor guard play, so there's a real desire to see Haynes emerge as a viable starter as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, it's not happening, and he didn't even get any offensive snaps last week against the Dolphins. He must be struggling greatly in practice, because his in-game sample size has been small. The Seahawks do have a formidable defensive line, so those guys might be eating him up.

I thought Haynes looked pretty good in the preseason, regularly pushing the DLs he faced downfield during run blocking, and not getting beat while pass blocking. But those guys clearly weren't NFL starters.
 
ninety-nine said:
He played 15 offensive snaps against the Patriots a couple of weeks ago, and got beat badly on two of his five or six pass protection attempts. He only looked good on one pass pro play, from what I could tell reviewing the game tape. I believe he got a ludicrously low score of 18 from PFF (using its 0-100 scale) for his pass blocking that game.

The Seahawks' main problem this year has been poor guard play, so there's a real desire to see Haynes emerge as a viable starter as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, it's not happening, and he didn't even get any offensive snaps last week against the Dolphins. He must be struggling greatly in practice, because his in-game sample size has been small. The Seahawks do have a formidable defensive line, so those guys might be eating him up.

I thought Haynes looked pretty good in the preseason, regularly pushing the DLs he faced downfield during run blocking, and not getting beat while pass blocking. But those guys clearly weren't NFL starters.
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Following up on my post of 9/29, Christian Haynes played quite a bit against the Lions in yesterday's MNF shootout - 36 snaps at right guard, compared to 54 by Anthony Bradford. Haynes looked a lot more ready last night than he did in week 2 against the Patriots, both to the naked eye and to the wonks at PFF who grade players.

According to SeahawksWire at USA Today Sports, both he and Bradford were credited with allowing one QB pressure, and no penalties (first time this year for Bradford). On the 0-100 grading scale, Bradford scored 67 for pass blocking (pretty good) and 31 for run blocking (his worst score of the young season), for an overall 44.7 score (lousy). Haynes, meanwhile, scored a 68 in pass blocking and a 57 in run blocking, for an overall score of 61.8. That's a big difference in favor of UConn's guy, and I saw that several Seahawks fans were clamoring for more Haynes in the postgame comments sections last night and this morning. A couple were pooh-poohing the idea of him not playing much because he was being "overpowered," which offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb had remarked on last week.

It's looking likely that we're going to see more of Christian going forward. His next game is against the Giants on Sunday in the late afternoon slot. Hopefully, he's ready to break into the starting lineup very soon.
 
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