Lucas Patrick’s switch to Center after McCoy left

kennydfresh said

He's playing out of position, not to mention your going against 2 elite DTs. You had OL running into each other. Losing McCoy was a huge blow to us. Losing your center throws the whole team out of whack.

Corrections: Move Ruiz to center, move Patrick back to LG, and move Nick Saldiveri to RG. Done.

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I'm pretty sure that Patrick has played a lot of Center in his career and while Ruiz played Center in college, I don't think he's taken many snaps, if any at Center in practices with the Saints. I don't recall hearing him playing Center at any point in camp this year which would make it hard to move him to Center in a week.

Patrick is the backup Center so I wouldn't be surprised to see them stick with the same guys this week or just put Landon Young or Saldiveri at LG. Someone mentioned that Hergel took some snaps at Center during camp so maybe they could put Hergel at Center while keeping Patrick at LG and Ruiz at RG to reduce the number of moving parts.