{"id":16784,"date":"2020-06-28T03:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/giants-gifting-andrew-thomas-left-tackle-job-would-be-mistake\/"},"modified":"2020-06-28T03:44:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-28T00:44:00","slug":"giants-gifting-andrew-thomas-left-tackle-job-would-be-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/giants-gifting-andrew-thomas-left-tackle-job-would-be-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"#Giants gifting Andrew Thomas left tackle job would be mistake"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Giants gifting Andrew Thomas left tackle job would be mistake<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Make him earn it.<\/p>\n

By all means, provide Andrew Thomas immedia<\/a>te access to compete for a starting job as a rookie. Anything short of Thomas lining up with the first team for the Giants on opening day will be a disapp<\/a>ointment for the first-round pick.<\/p>\n

Get Thomas ready to play, the sooner, the better, preferably Week 1 against the Steelers on \u201cMonday Night Football\u2019\u2019 \u2014 if the NFL starts up as scheduled. Just make sure he embarks on his NFL career at right tackle, even though he was selected to be the left tackle of the future.<\/p>\n

Something earned is always more meaningful than something given. If the Giants did not already have an incumbent left tackle, putting Thomas as the marquee spot on the offensive line makes some sense. After all, he spent the past two seasons at Georgia at left tackle after playing right tackle in his freshman year. His body type, long arms and wonderfully developed technique all scream \u201cnatural left tackle.\u2019\u2019 This ascension, though, can wait.<\/p>\n

\u201cVery solid kid, hungry kid, he doesn\u2019t even feel like he\u2019s arrived,\u2019\u2019 Shaun O\u2019Hara, former Giants center and currently an NFL Network analyst, told The Post. \u201cIt\u2019s good for a guy like him to come in and, \u2018No, you\u2019re not going to left tackle, you\u2019re playing right tackle.\u2019 You got to earn left tackle.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Nate Solder enters his 10th NFL season, and third with the Giants. He spent the past eight years starting at left tackle. It makes no sense to take a 32-year old veteran entrenched on the left side and move him to the right in order to accommodate a 21-year old. Solder needs to pick up the pace in order to resuscitate a career that took a large step backward in 2019 \u2014 when he again started all 16 game<\/a>s but in 1,011 snaps allowed 11 sacks, according to Pro Football Focus, ranking as the No. 45 offensive tackle in the league.<\/p>\n

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Solder late last season said, \u201cI\u2019ll do whatever it takes to be successful on this team\u2019\u2019 in response to making a move to right tackle. \u201cIf they ask me to spin a hula hoop around my head, I\u2019ll do that.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Attitude and compliance is never an issue with Solder; performance is what the Giants need from him now.<\/p>\n

Will Hernandez is entering his third NFL season, and what he gained playing alongside Solder for 32 games should continue, not be interrupted by moving Solder away. At least some of Solder\u2019s struggles the past two years can be traced to helping Hernandez learn the ropes. The more they line up next to each other, the better, for both of them.<\/p>\n

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Putting Thomas at right tackle allows him to break in next to Kevin Zeitler \u2014 a 30-year old, 330-pound block of granite. Zeitler is as steady as they come, and Thomas will benefit from all the veteran has to offer.<\/p>\n

Ereck Flowers \u2014 despite severe deficiencies with his technique, especially the way he positioned and used his hands \u2014 started from Day 1 as a rookie in 2015, at left tackle. Flowers won the job in training camp, but in actuality there was no real competition. Flowers was in by default, ready or not.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hate bringing up his name because it brings back bad memories, but the worst thing to happen to Ereck Flowers is he started as a rookie at left tackle,\u2019\u2019 O\u2019Hara said. \u201cOnce you start as a rookie, that first year you couldn\u2019t tell him anything, because he had already played. That\u2019s it. He wasn\u2019t listening to anybody. It\u2019s good you got a guy in Andrew Thomas that\u2019s still hungry.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

It is not where you start, it is where you finish. Hall of Famer Jonathan Ogden, the No. 4-overall draft pick in 1996, actually began his NFL career with the Ravens at left guard before moving to left tackle in his second season. Tyron Smith, the No. 9 pick in 2011, started at right tackle as a rookie \u2014 Jason Garrett, the Giants offensive coordinator, was Smith\u2019s head coach with the Cowboys \u2014 before becoming a seven-time Pro Bowl left tackle.<\/p>\n

First-year Giants coach Joe Judge said Thomas, and all the tackles, will compete on both sides.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not the finish line, this is a starting point,\u2019\u2019 Judge said.<\/p>\n

Former Giants guard Chris Snee, a member of the team\u2019s Ring of Honor, scouted and studied Thomas in a former role as an offensive line analyst for the Jaguars.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like Thomas a lot,\u2019\u2019 Snee said. \u201cThe safest pick. Technically sound player, power, will fit in any scheme, he played in the toughest league. As far as technique goes, he is what you are looking for from the left tackle position.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Thomas will eventually make his way over to the left side. Good things come to those who wait.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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