re: Former Auburn OT Greg Robinson struggling with transition to the NFL

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"It is something you have to look at because there have been a host of players out of that Alabama defense that over the years have come in as high draft choices and, frankly, been major disappointments,"

"Is it a trend? Is it one or two? No, it's more than that. You go back to Kareem Jackson, Mark Barron. You look at Dre Kirkpatrick, Rolando McClain and his situation. You look at Terrence Cody. The list goes on and on. There is a concern about that, and it's probably because they're coached up so well and they're in a great system.

"They all complement each other. They come into the league thinking they pretty much are as coached as they can be, and basically they've hit the ceiling. They're good as they're going to get. So there's not that upside that you see with some of the other guys. Maybe that's a factor."

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DJ Fluker sure didn't struggle much

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Kevin Acee went onto the airwaves this morning as a guest host on AM 1360 and had some insight on things happening at Chargers Park. One of the biggest things that stood out from his appearance were his comments on DJ Fluker.

Acee mentioned that Fluker is having his struggles and there is some people that believe that he would be a better guard. There was already some chatter like that before the draft and now it seems more and more like a possibility.

So now what?!

We keep evaluating and evaluating to see if he can be an NFL right tackle and if he cannot be that guy, then we might have to swallow our pride and make that move. Hopefully they figure it out sooner rather than later.

One of the articles in the morning dump mentioned this possibility already. Fluker would be moved to right guard, Max Starks would be the right tackle and King Dunlap would be the left tackle. Musical offensive linemen!

If Fluker moves to guard, it gives us one more reason to drop Clary onto the unemployment line. Unless we just move him back to right tackle…. but that would just be ridiculous.

Maybe that is why the Chargers have already talked to right tackles Winston Justice and Eric Winston in free agency? They could be options.

Fluker needs to erase all the talk of his struggles. We need the offensive line to step up this year and make things happen.

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and Chance Warmack did very well.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Every insider I've talked to thinks Chance Warmack will be very good player at the very least.

The Titans rookie right guard is very good some of the time already.

But his worst plays are part of what’s creating problems for the Titans on the interior line.

I believe center Rob Turner is the bigger issue and the player-rating website Pro Football Focus agrees. Turner is a minus-7.0 in run blocking and a minus-3.6 in pass protection. Warmack is 0.7 and minus-6.8. Left guard Andy Levitre is minus-1.8 and plus-4.2.

Titans coach Mike Munchak talked about Warmack on The Wake Up Zone in Nashville Tuesday morning:
“I think they all have to play better. It’s not necessarily his technique that’s struggling it’s more of the things that each week is a different challenge with the type of defenses players he’s playing against, not just him but the rest of the group. Decision making with a combination, oh backer ran through. It’s the speed of the game, things where you go, ‘Oh he’s helping too much,’ ‘Oh, he’s not helping enough.'

“On the first third-and-1, he didn’t help the nose tackle enough, he was worried about getting to his linebacker so you don’t get the right fit with him and Rob and all of a sudden we don’t get a first down. The next time he’s helping too much on the down guy and not getting off on the backer. That’s the life of an offensive lineman and really an NFL player up front in the trenches, on offense or defense. He may have five or six plays like that all game like that, out of 70. I can show you the rest of the plays, 60 plays, where you go man, this guy looks pretty darn good and he does.

“But he’s going to have plays like that still that he’s struggling with and he’s not alone when you have four of your six guys up front that are new, including the tight end, you’re going to have some of this happening at times and it’s got to get better.”

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