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Is Will Campbell still the future at left tackle? The Patriots drafting another OT in the 1st round, could raise some questions. Do you believe the Lomu selection impacts Campbell?
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00:00what if anything does that say to you about will campbell uh who if anyone was making the picks
00:05last night um i i gotta tell you that was a pretty big if you want to talk about mike
00:11vrabel and his role in the organization does anybody dispute that will campbell was his pick
00:18um no no i don't think so i mean he went out of his way he personally worked him out
00:22he was doing
00:23all that this is an indictment on will campbell it is yeah like i know it's not you know you
00:31need
00:31two tackles and all of that but if you're drafting a tackle in the top five in the immediate uh
00:38ensuing
00:39draft you take another tackle and you trade up for it in the 20s like well you played the game
00:44how hard is it to move left to right i think i think it's very difficult especially if you've
00:50played the position so long left tackle if you played the position right tackle so long
00:55i think you're just muscle memory the way you move you're if you're a right-handed guy in general
01:01having your right foot back and kicking off for your inside leg and your left foot is a little bit
01:06easier versus being on the left side i remember as a tight end being able to go to from both
01:12sides you
01:13had to teach yourself how to and practice a lot how to get in a left-handed stance yeah right
01:18and so if
01:19you're so used to being left tackle that means your left foot is back all the time now you got
01:24to go to
01:24the other side and play right now you have to teach yourself i'm now my right foot is back and
01:30i'm in a
01:31different stance how do you think big country feels about them making that pick i think big country has
01:38to have a little concern i know i know he was the fourth overall pick but they moved up to
01:44get this
01:45kid now granted they moved up from 31 to 28 or whatever it was yeah 28 but they still saw
01:52something
01:53in this kid and it tells me all right they see something in him and they're like you're either
01:58a future right tackle or if will campbell somebody that we believe is a left tackle can't get it done
02:07do they then say will we're moving you to the right and now we're moving uh how do you say
02:12his last
02:13low low move low move to the left well i think it's interesting because in my experience like i know
02:19it's guards but still offensive linemen isaiah win remember him yes even mike and whenu those guys do
02:26not like changing sides on the line nobody does so if you're then moving campbell like i also kind of
02:33thought that i mean this can also indicate that campbell kicks into guard i don't know that that
02:39would happen this year because well when elijah vera tucker gets hurt it's gonna have to happen
02:43well i don't know that it would happen this year because i don't know that this kid will be
02:47like ready for real time this year but i also think it would indicate that but then you're now you're
02:53still you're still looking for a tackle because well you would be hoping that that morgan moses is
02:57healthy enough on the right side no but but even if it's next year right isn't morgan moses i think
03:02he's
03:03got one more year left on his deal yeah so he's gonna be 38 years old now you're kind of
03:07banking
03:07on a 38 year old yeah he's gonna be around that yeah it's true so now you're still he was
03:12a part
03:13timer in training camp last year and it worked out for him so now you're still looking for if you
03:17if
03:17you were to kick will campbell into god here's the other thing will campbell is drake may's guy
03:22like they are tight yeah that don't mean you don't think that means anything on the world of i mean
03:28it's not like drake may is tom brady i mean it's still me you don't think he has anywhere near
03:33that power yet no it's about mike vrabel if will campbell if drake may goes hey listen mike
03:38we should keep will campbell left tackle mike vrabel is gonna be like listen kid shut up
03:44this is keith in the truck hey keith oh they just got rid of a darian law they got rid
03:51of they lost
03:51they i think they lost mumford obviously they have a 35 year old right tackle it has nothing to do
03:57with will campbell tackle is a really important position probably in my opinion second most
04:02important um besides you know the defensive end whatever pass rusher so this has nothing to do
04:08with will campbell but it gives an opportunity to probably have the kids swing for a year
04:12and then um you know if he's better than will campbell fine you put him a left tackle and maybe
04:17will campbell can go right side but it's not has nothing to do with will campbell they actually
04:20really needed a tackle okay all right well it upset shine yeah it's so dumb like what so
04:27basically if they needed a tackle because will campbell sucks then you wasted the number four
04:32overall pick two years ago is what you're telling me chime didn't you feel that way in the moment
04:36yep to be fair i've kind of hit on the last few uh patriots first round picks so you can't
04:44say that
04:44when your mock draft had them trading out of 31 to go back around what does that have to do
04:50with this
04:51because you just said you hit on the last couple no i'm saying yeah i'm saying no no i'm not
04:55saying
04:55they were taking i'm not saying nope that's not that's not what i meant by that statement i'm
04:59saying that's not what i meant by that statement nope i'm talking about my evaluations of the players
05:03they took over the last couple years in the first round have been spot on drake may was a runner
05:07up
05:07for mvp will campbell was average to below average the entire season you're saying because of that
05:12because of that we should feel really bad about low mill you should be very nervous well here's the
05:17issue that it has here's the issue greg or potentially pandora's box that you open up
05:22let's say will campbell struggles at left tackle this year you you traded up to draft an offensive
05:29tackle who played strictly left tackle at in his career in college in the first round now the
05:35questions going into next year's training camp or the following year um are do we move will campbell
05:44to right does the lomo kid now does he become left so there there's questions that are going to be
05:49asked if we can move either one of them to left guard right but here's the problem to shime's point
05:56you wasted the first overall pick on a left guard if i would ask you this on the draft uh
06:03uh last year
06:04whatever the last year's draft hey the patriots took a left guard at number four yeah we had this
06:09conversation then like are you drafting someone who's eventually going to be a guard
06:13you
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