Singletary: Heitman's job in jeopardy

Originally posted by Schulzy:
If this actually happens, Singletary is more clueless than I thought. Heitmann is far and away superior.

The real battle should be at RG, where the trio of suck (Baas, Rachal, Snyder) will/should duke it out.

What's so dominant about Heitmann?

Baas needs more than 1 decent overall game before this is news

Originally posted by kray28:

Originally posted by defenderDX:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

Originally posted by WestCoast:
interesting...maybe someone should show sing the ball getting snapped 50 ft. over smith's head.

1 play...

That came back to haunt us later in the game losing to 2 points.

We lost by three, strictly speaking, in the end, the 2 pt differential caused by the safety didn't matter as a field goal would have still won it for the Saints on their last drive.

I led the charge calling for Baas to be moved over so don't take this the wrong way but the short field led to 7 as well so that one bad snap cost the team 9 points and the game.

I'm not mad, he still has room for growth in a position he's all but outright owned since he was plugged in there(should have happened a lot sooner imho) but we can't have anything like that happen again. Putting Heitmann back into the Center position would be a mistake. Baas is on his way to proving that much, as far as I am concerned.

~Ceadder

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

Originally posted by Schulzy:
If this actually happens, Singletary is more clueless than I thought. Heitmann is far and away superior.

The real battle should be at RG, where the trio of suck (Baas, Rachal, Snyder) will/should duke it out.

What's so dominant about Heitmann?

He's so Cereberal, didn't you know that?

~Ceadder

wtf is this s**t

Heitmann is probably the most consistent big guy on our line.

Originally posted by Ceadderman:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:

Originally posted by Schulzy:
If this actually happens, Singletary is more clueless than I thought. Heitmann is far and away superior.

The real battle should be at RG, where the trio of suck (Baas, Rachal, Snyder) will/should duke it out.

What's so dominant about Heitmann?

He's so Cereberal, didn't you know that?

~Ceadder

Yeah, I'll take Al's word on what he said of Heitmann being the most intelligent man on the line (which is highly required of the offensive axis), when Eric is consistent he can be the best center in the NFC West (keyword: when).

Heitmann also brings tons of experience/help to the young guns (and could have helped us a lot against the Seahawks), but I doubt he'll return to the starting job until the Falcons game (or if Baas gets swallowed up into the crowd noise at Arrowhead)

all due respect for heitmann's service, might actually be a changing of the guard. someone mentioned that baas simply may have been playing out of pos the whole time and now solari sees longer term potential than with eric who's been with the team 2nd longest

Originally posted by DrofThuganomics:
Heitmann is probably the most consistent big guy on our line.

Consistently pushed around you mean.

Look, I like Heitmann, but there is a reason that Defensive players were able to submarine the ball carriers in the Backfield.

If Baas continues to play well then Heitmann is the odd man out and the backup to Baas.

If this Line continues to be stingy with the Sacks FOGEDDABOUDIT.

Yaay he's the most cereberal Center in the league. Big whoop if he can't get Push and gets stood up on every Run play. And he does. I still think that he could be a factor for us at Guard.

But Rachal doesn't perform too bad(the Opposing D got around Davis because the inexperience of Chilo) and Snyder was a wall for most of the Saints game. It's going to be uphill for Eric. And really, shouldn't it be? We want the best guys out there. He'll get his chances to prove that he's at least worthy of getting back onto the field at the RG position. We should be happy that our Line is starting to gel. Instead people are trashing players because "they aren't as good". Well excuse me for saying this but ZERO F@KIN SACKS says a lot. Especially when they do it against the Saints opportunistic Defense. Anybody remember the last time the Line gave up ZERO Sacks? I don't.

~Ceadder

i'd say keep baas in at center, hes bigger and stronger. baas is too slow to play guard where he needs to pull

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
Hell except for 1 bad snap Baas has played really well at center. He's a more natural C than Guard. He brings more bulk, size and strength to the position and he's been driving people off the ball and he's been a brick wall in the passing game. I don't have any problems with his game.

As for Rachal getting his starting job back... We should keep him out.

Also I a remember seeing him pulling pulling and getting out in front of gore I believe on the screen. Maybe one or 2 other plays as well. He moves better than Heitmann as well....question I have is do they keep wragge when heitmann returns....or do they waive him and pick up another ILB

Originally posted by btwagner:

Originally posted by SanDiego49er:
Hell except for 1 bad snap Baas has played really well at center. He's a more natural C than Guard. He brings more bulk, size and strength to the position and he's been driving people off the ball and he's been a brick wall in the passing game. I don't have any problems with his game.

As for Rachal getting his starting job back... We should keep him out.

Also I a remember seeing him pulling pulling and getting out in front of gore I believe on the screen. Maybe one or 2 other plays as well. He moves better than Heitmann as well....question I have is do they keep wragge when heitmann returns....or do they waive him and pick up another ILB

assuming baas stays at center? hard call...depends who has more value. might be boone since tw is current backup center and can backfill the other line positions.

Couple thoughts:

1. I think Singletary is going to give Solari what he wants. If Solari thinks Baas is the better option, I'm willing to trust his judgement.

2. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. We should know more after the next couple games.

Having another guy who can play C and OG isn't a bad thing...some of the younger fans in this forum may not remember he was drafted as an OG and played there his first few seasons. The thing Baas has over Eric is he's a tougher blocker...he strengthens the interior OL, which was a problem last year. As for Rachal...I'm on the fencepost with him. What I know is Snyder played well there Monday night...but, of course his biggest value is he can play anywhere on the OL save C.

Originally posted by CorvaNinerFan:
Having another guy who can play C and OG isn't a bad thing...some of the younger fans in this forum may not remember he was drafted as an OG and played there his first few seasons. The thing Baas has over Eric is he's a tougher blocker...he strengthens the interior OL, which was a problem last year. As for Rachal...I'm on the fencepost with him. What I know is Snyder played well there Monday night...but, of course his biggest value is he can play anywhere on the OL save C.

Agreed except last sentence. I don't ever want to see Snyder at tackle again!