Mickey Loomis’ End Of Year Press Conference

Nolan said

liveoakh said

The EXACT things they are saying about Penning are the EXACT same thing they said about Ruiz, and Pete. They couldn't play the position they were drafted to play either. Penning isn't even a RT, we will be lucky if he can play LG.

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No they are not. 1st Peat didn't get hurt and miss almost all of his rookie yr. PLUS he was never going to beat out Armstead @ LT or Evans @LG or Strief @ RT. the plan was to move him to RT to replace Strief sooner or later. He struggled moving to the right side and in a effort to get the best 5 O linemen on the field, they moved him to LG in 2017. He had the benefit of almost 2 yrs of learning before starting @ a new position.
Ruiz came in during the Covid yr as a C. He was not gonna beat out all pro McCoy @ C so they switched him to LG a new position. He also had injury problems and did not look good his rookie yr. but he started to improve in his 2nd and 3rd yr. He seemed to just like the rest of the OL to regress this past yrt,hat may be because of Ram's knee issues and him playing next to him.
It's not that Peat or Ruiz could not play the position they were drafted it that we had ALL-PROs in those spots and to get the 5 best guys on the field they changed positions