OTAs Week 1’s Practice Notes & Highlights: Trevor Penning moving to Right Tackle

If Penning is moved to guard and becomes one of the most dominant guards ever to play for the Saints, would he be considered a bust? I would say no. I would think he was a great draft pick. So why are the Saints trying to put a square peg in a round hole?

Unless Penning worked his butt off this offseason, and used specialized training to increase his foot speed and upper body technique, why not move him to guard?
Sorry, but it’s a pet peeve of mine…. Penning is an incredible athlete with nimble feet…. There is more to being a tackle then feet (athleticism) and that’s what he has to work on, the other stuff.

He missed, practically, his entire rookie season and his ENTIRE offseason. For a RAW rookie from NORTHERN IOWA, that is a death sentence. Last year was basically his rookie season and he struggled because he was extremely raw and relied on his athleticism and physical dominance in college.

If he fails this season, it will be cuz he didn’t have what it takes, not cuz he was a bad athlete.