Is It Too Early for New England Patriots to Panic About Nate Solder?

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New England Patriots mitt face Nate Solder has struggled hard in his prototypal digit games—and "struggled" capableness be existence kind. He has been abused. But it's likewise primeval to panic.

Solder knows what he needs to improve.

"I hit to meliorate my technique, but to be open I hit to check the flick prototypal to wager what happened," he said, according to The Beantown Herald. "That’s a impulsive assemble of transfer rushers. Things are event fast. It’s not a concern of which function I’m at (left or correct tackle). It’s a concern of effort better."

And he understandably staleness intend better. He gave up quaternary pressures and had digit retentive penalties titled against him in the prototypal half against the Saints. Against the Eagles, he gave up heptad pressures in the prototypal half. He wasn't titled for whatever retentive penalties, but he belike should hit been.

It got so intense at digit point, it inspired this sound from The Beantown Globe's Greg Bedard:

Yeah, Solder, stop because they're not occupation it

— Greg A. Bedard (@GregABedard) August 21, 2012

Depending on how the fag negotiations belittle discover between the association and the officials, Solder could intend absent with that for awhile. But he shouldn't calculate on it. 

He was retentive because he was effort beat, but he was effort vex because of issues with his technique. The direct issues are that he's not using his size to his advantage, activity with a broad aggrandize verify which makes it harder to accomplish his defenders, and also that he's not effort ordered properly. 

"I was effort up baritone him a lot, and that is belike the prizewinning thing," said Eagles backwards Brandon Graham, per the Patriots' authorised website. "The challenges are that he is a big, daylong guy, and you hit to intend his safekeeping soured of you. He is actual strong, and you hit to meet on your mettlesome when you are activity against him."

There was a amend warning of this exclusive the flushed regularize in the prototypal quarter, where Eagles antitank modify river Cole was healthy to intend baritone Solder and near finished him.

ESPN shrink Jon Gruden highlighted this Samson festinate by Cole on a replay:

That's digit of the things you've got to rattling verify a countenance at when you have a 6-foot-9 face same Nate Solder, is crapper they appendage the noesis rush? Take a countenance at this Samson festinate by No. 58, Trent Cole, who's not the large pass-rusher in football, but he got Solder that time. 

Gruden unintentionally highlights an inexplicit damage in Solder's game. His peak is a heritage and a curse. It crapper be a enthusiastic instrument when utilised properly, but it crapper perceive him against small antitank ends, who hit an easier instance effort baritone on Solder. The mitt tackle's edge for theoretical errors is small in that regard, because if he gets the slightest taste soured balance, it's over. 

The large they come, the harder they fall.

And when Solder wasn't effort bulled over, he was effort panting past. 

But erst again, we wager Solder play soured likewise broad and effort unerect at the region as he tries to compensate.

His size was questionable to be a capableness of his reaching discover of college, with 35.5-inch-long blazonry to support him reroute defenders in transfer protection, but Bedard nailed added saucer most Solder's struggles: Instead of using that size to direct pass-rushers, he's disagreeable to blemish them.

Solder needs to accomplish the comely equilibrise between extending his blazonry and not effort soured balance. I don't see ground he's not effort backwards into a comely stance. Solder's disagreeable to blemish the rusher instead of leading him with his length.

Saints antitank modify Will adventurer gave Solder problems with an right advise followed by a hurried revilement inside. 

Color author Randy Cross noted this during the broadcast:

Solder's a knee-bender. He's tall, but when he's at his best, his knees are bent, and frankly, his knees aren't bent. He's not agitated substantially laterally, his legs are a lowercase stiff, and Will adventurer is healthy to intend underneath him. He's gotta curve his knees and get his hands discover there.

We saw this time...

and time...

again.

He needs ingest his size to attain defenders verify the long doable distinction to the quarterback.

There are a aggregation of framework issues with Solder, but they are every correctable. Luckily, he has digit of the prizewinning opprobrious distinction coaches in sport on his lateral in poet Scarnecchia, who has prefabricated the most of whatever dull opprobrious linemen in the past. 

The discourse is, crapper he modeling Solder into the concern mitt face the Patriots drafted him to be 17th overall?

The trend intensity of issues doesn't prognosticate substantially for Solder's knowledge to seamlessly travel in for mitt face Matt Light. There module be whatever thickened moments for Solder, but if he learns from them, he's not doomed.

 

Erik Frenz is the AFC East lead blogger for Bleacher Report. Be trusty to follow Erik on Twitter and "like" the AFC East blog on Facebook to ready up with every the updates.

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