[CBFF] Packers demote rookie lineman Colledge

[Phil DeNomme]

There were a few on CBfans that thought very highly of him.

-----Original Message-----
From: cbff-bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com
[mailto:cbff-bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com] On Behalf Of Tom Shannon
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 2:53 PM
To: post at chicagobearsfanforum.com
Subject: Re: [CBFF] Packers demote rookie lineman Colledge

Really?  I like to think I keep up with the draft fairly well and I've got
to be honest.  I never heard of him.  I do understand the desire to grasp at
a LT.  But it tells you something when they decide to make him a LG instead
- and (so far) he fails at it.

Tom S.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cbff-bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com [mailto:cbff-
> bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com] On Behalf Of Phil DeNomme
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 2:10 PM
> To: post at chicagobearsfanforum.com
> Subject: Re: [CBFF] Packers demote rookie lineman Colledge
> 
> It's funny cause so many bears fans thought we should take him in the
> first
> round at one point
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cbff-bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com
> [mailto:cbff-bounces at chicagobearsfanforum.com] On Behalf Of Tom Shannon
> Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 1:52 PM
> To: post at chicagobearsfanforum.com
> Subject: [CBFF] Packers demote rookie lineman Colledge
> 
> Its early but I'm guessing this is another wasted draft pick for the
> Packers.  I'm underwhelmed with Thompson's career as a GM so far.
> 
> Tom S.
> --------
> 
> http://www.benmaller.com/archives/2006/august/15#110278
> 
> Packers demote rookie lineman Colledge
> 
> It turned out that Packers second-round pick Daryn Colledge, the former
> Boise State left tackle who is trying to make the transition to left guard
> in the National Football League, was the one to go. When the Packers lined
> up in practice, rookie Jason Spitz had moved from right to left guard and
> fifth-round pick Tony Moll, recently considered a project at right tackle,
> was in place at right guard. No one on the starting offensive line played
> particularly well against San Diego, but Colledge probably struggled the
> most. He was a step behind on too many plays and did not get his pads down
> low enough to be effective in the running game. The coaches insisted that
> the moves were not necessarily permanent and that Colledge, who practiced
> at
> left guard with the second team, could earn his way back into the lineup.
> But after being named a starter practically from the day he was drafted,
> the
> 6-foot-4, 299-pound Colledge got every opportunity to prove himself.
> 
> 
> Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the
> things we did not do that is inconsolable.
>             -- Sidney J. Harris
> 
> 
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