What I've heard about Lukas is the dude is destroying the 2nd team OL. And by destroying, it's being worded that he's just getting around his guy with ease. This could be good on him, bad on 2nd team OL or mixture of both. The reporter (Jason Wilde) said let's see how he does vs David Bakhtiari.
Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool
So pads have been allowed to be put on already?
The Packers don't exactly have the best group of starting OL in the NFL... in fact, some of them (Newman, Hanson) out right sucked... so yeah, if he struggled against the backup he'd be in deep trouble...
Just off the top of my head right now, I'm struggling to think of the OTs after Bakhtiari, Tom and Nijman...
Aw, they're starting to come back to me... Walker from Penn State? And Jones whom is huge, a number of the undrafted ones are huge.
I want to hear about Van Ness vs Tom and Nijman...
Van Ness pure power vs Tom's lack of power but great technic and athletic ability might be interesting... because it's strength vs weakness, I think you have to give the edge to Van Ness, but that might seriously help Tom improve against it, and force Van Ness to improve techniques other than just the bull rush.
Van Ness pure power vs Nijman's great size, but lack of desire to dominate, and not the best quickness also might be great in a battle of the bosses, and great arm lengths. I would give it to Van Ness, just because he wants it more, where Nijman seems to be much more willing to settle for draws and partial wins.
Just to be clear, I have compared Tom to Bakhtiari and think Tom has great ability, but like Bakhtiari, Tom's weakness is pure power and Van Ness game is about pure bull rush power and arm length. Van Ness should be able to challenge our OTs, as his strengths are our best OTs weaknesses.
Now if Van Ness is beating them with something other than a bull rush, or pure power move, that could be impressive or other teams starters that are better at dealing with pure power.