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<blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 605557"><p>Raji was dead to me. I can't view it that way now that he's on the roster.</p><p></p><p>Your post suggests a possible t-shirt slogan: "Hope...it's better than nothing."</p><p></p><p>Here's a possible basis for some hope, and it has less to do with Raji going back to NT than the prudent approach of limiting his snaps.</p><p></p><p>When a guy is asked to take too many snaps (and 60 - 85% year after year is too many for a 345 lb. player), he can go about it a couple of ways. Raji in particular now has a full career of trench battling on his record compared to 2-down NTs limited to 30-40% snaps.</p><p></p><p>One approach for a player who is expecting to be "rode hard and put away wet", as an Indiana farming acquaintance once put it, is to take some plays off and give full effort on the rest. That does not sound like the Raji of recent vintage.</p><p></p><p>The other is to take a little off on every play, pace himself throughout a game, a season, a career, and as a consequence rarely make a play in the NFL game where the margin in one-on-one superiority is narrow and frequently boils down to effort. We're getting warm.</p><p></p><p>A third approach is to go with finesse. 2-gap sumo wrestling is exhausting. Instead, throw a move at a guy, try to slide off him, anything but head-up attack, trying to stand the guy up, and then bull off the block. This resembles the Raji approach of recent years. He's admitted as much in a recent interview, that he had gone too much to a finesse game and is now committed to returning to a more physical approach.</p><p></p><p>So, I hold out hope, provided the Packers commit to a limited snap count. If they throw him out there again for 40 snaps in week 1, I would expect a reversion to his old ways in fairly quick order.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HardRightEdge, post: 605557"] Raji was dead to me. I can't view it that way now that he's on the roster. Your post suggests a possible t-shirt slogan: "Hope...it's better than nothing." Here's a possible basis for some hope, and it has less to do with Raji going back to NT than the prudent approach of limiting his snaps. When a guy is asked to take too many snaps (and 60 - 85% year after year is too many for a 345 lb. player), he can go about it a couple of ways. Raji in particular now has a full career of trench battling on his record compared to 2-down NTs limited to 30-40% snaps. One approach for a player who is expecting to be "rode hard and put away wet", as an Indiana farming acquaintance once put it, is to take some plays off and give full effort on the rest. That does not sound like the Raji of recent vintage. The other is to take a little off on every play, pace himself throughout a game, a season, a career, and as a consequence rarely make a play in the NFL game where the margin in one-on-one superiority is narrow and frequently boils down to effort. We're getting warm. A third approach is to go with finesse. 2-gap sumo wrestling is exhausting. Instead, throw a move at a guy, try to slide off him, anything but head-up attack, trying to stand the guy up, and then bull off the block. This resembles the Raji approach of recent years. He's admitted as much in a recent interview, that he had gone too much to a finesse game and is now committed to returning to a more physical approach. So, I hold out hope, provided the Packers commit to a limited snap count. If they throw him out there again for 40 snaps in week 1, I would expect a reversion to his old ways in fairly quick order. [/QUOTE]
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