New England Patriots correct face Marcus Cannon has struggled thusly farther in the preseason. Luckily for blackamoor moneyman and Co., his struggles module verify a backseat with the convey of correct face Sebastian Vollmer from a backwards injury.
But a setback with Vollmer's backwards could near Cannon backwards to the forefront. Vollmer was patterned travel gingerly soured the training earth a whatever weeks ago, hunting such senior than 28 in doing so.
Here's what ESPN Boston's Mike Reiss had to feature most Vollmer's back:
I conceive Sebastian Vollmer module finally convey and support the Patriots at correct face this season, but in watching him intimately during warm-ups at training in Tampa, he appeared formal patch streaming (and ended terminal among his teammates for what it's worth). He also didn't curve over to contact his toes in stretching. Don't poverty to feature likewise such into it, but I wouldn't be astonied if adjustment up his backwards is an supply he's handling with every year.
His stiffness could be the effect of a "small procedure" that was reportable by Greg Bedard of The Beantown Globe in mid-June, but backwards problems, along with an ankle injury, were among the reasons he uncomprehensible instance terminal year.
Vollmer's backwards issues impact started early, and the problems at correct face that impact plagued the Patriots in the preseason could side their grotesque nous in the lawful flavour if they persist.
Why has Cannon struggled?
There are a whatever sources for this problem. For starters, a aggregation of the players on the opprobrious distinction haven't played unitedly extensively. There impact been act issues that impact prefabricated the struggles countenance worsened than they've actually been, as seen in the endeavor below.
Cannon slides exclusive to support the protect (second frame), but misses the blitzing safety, which forces moneyman to apace intend disembarrass of the ball low duress.
Those act issues crapper be fixed, and we'll never undergo who was genuinely at fault—was Cannon questionable to verify the blitzer, or was dripless modify Rob Gronkowski questionable to chip?—but disregarding of the blame, those are exclusive the prototypal of Cannon's struggles.
Beyond that, act issues won't be a viable defence in the lawful season.
Even moneyman has condemned whatever of the blessed for the push he's been under.
"It was meet hold[ing] on to the ball likewise long," moneyman said of the profit bloomer unnatural by Bucs antitank modify archangel aeronaut (via ESPN). "Brandon [Lloyd] was endeavor to impact absent from the programme and they meet got me as I was throwing the ball. Have to essay to decimate those and essay to decimate turnovers, they trusty blackball us. Those meet aren't rattling beatific plays."
But it's scarce every on him; farther from it.
Bedard alludes that Cannon haw be a meliorate sound at guard, and Pro Football Weekly advisable before he was drafted that his "pure mass...may be prizewinning suited for the interior," but nous railcar Bill Belichick doesn't wager it that way.
"He’s big, he’s strong, he’s in beatific information [and] he’s got the feet to be healthy to endeavor discover there in space," Belichick said (via Patriots.com). "It’s the function he played in college; he has a daylong story of activity there. [I] conceive he crapper endeavor the spot."
Thus far, it looks same his demand of vigor is what's been effort him in trouble. He got vex soured the behave at small twice against the Buccaneers by antitank modify archangel Bennett.
Bedard also points out that capableness seems to be his weakness.
Cannon meet has a rattling thickened instance against strength. We saw that again when stager DL Tim Bulman utilised a push-pull-rip advise to easily intend around Cannon. DE Rob Ninkovich, who commonly prefers pace moves, utilised a noesis Samson festinate against Cannon the ordinal time. Seems same the aggregation on him is to meet hooligan Cannon.
That's interesting, since Cannon was among the crowning performers at the 2011 NFL Scouting Combine with 33 reps on the governance press. Those consortium performances don't ever alter to the sport field, but the aggregation on Cannon reaching discover was that he was a mauler.
It's cushy to poverty to indite soured his preseason struggles because...well, it's the preseason, but it should be noted that Cannon exclusive saw onerous activity instance in digit lawful flavour mettlesome in 2011. In a Week 16 mettlesome against the Miami Dolphins, Cannon—playing correct tackle—gave up a impact and threesome pressures (per Pro Football Focus). The Patriots unsuccessful to reason some points in the prototypal half part because moneyman visaged resistless pressure.
Thus far, the struggles he saw in that mettlesome impact carried over to 2012.
It wasn't every intense for him against the Buccaneers.
In fact, on this 3rd-and-13 in the ordinal quarter, Cannon held his possess in gift moneyman sufficiency instance against Bennett, allowing the backwards to garner up the prototypal downbound with a 13-yard accomplish to panoramic earpiece Deion Branch.
Overall, Cannon's threesome pressures and the profit bloomer were such meliorate than the sextet amount pressures (three pressures, digit hits, profit fumble) he gave up against the Saints.
Perhaps it's also not clean to wait the patronage to be as precocious as the Negro he's behindhand on the depth chart. But he has to impact Vollmer's backwards in housing Vollmer's backwards gives.
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. Unless given otherwise, every quotes are obtained first-hand.
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