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<blockquote data-quote="Greg C." data-source="post: 219923" data-attributes="member: 195"><p>I asked Dr. Z of Sports Illustrated to rank the O-line positions in the same way that Ross Tucker did, and he actually answered my question in his mailbag column today. Unfortunately, the thrill of having my question addressed on a big-time web site soon faded, as Dr. Z failed to even phrase the question properly, and responded with a bunch of gibberish. So much for my fifteen minutes of fame. Here's the damage: </p><p></p><p>• Greg of Marquette, Mich., noting that my colleague, Ross Tucker, ranked the OL positions according to degree of difficulty and placed them in this order (toughest first) -- LT, RT, RG, LG, C. Well, I guess that's the way it is in the NFL, but from my meager background, at a much lower level, I can only tell you my personal reaction.</p><p></p><p>In the army, and before, I played both tackles and found them equally hard. Then for a week my army coach decided to shift me to center. Oy vay! Nose tackles -- middle guards they were called in those days -- were taught to beat up the center. I had a headache every night. I wrote my mother that I wanted to come home. Then my buddy, Joe Palmieri, our fullback from Fordham, said, "Schmuck, just keep ******** up your assignments and they'll figure you're too dumb to play center, and they'll move you back."</p><p></p><p>Bingo! And thank you, my paisan Joe! Back I went to tackle. Yeah, center was toughest for me. Later I was a guard in the semi pro leagues and I didn't like that much, either. Didn't like much of anything, actually. A wideout! That's what I was born to play. But there weren't too many of them in our league who ran a 6.8 forty.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greg C., post: 219923, member: 195"] I asked Dr. Z of Sports Illustrated to rank the O-line positions in the same way that Ross Tucker did, and he actually answered my question in his mailbag column today. Unfortunately, the thrill of having my question addressed on a big-time web site soon faded, as Dr. Z failed to even phrase the question properly, and responded with a bunch of gibberish. So much for my fifteen minutes of fame. Here's the damage: • Greg of Marquette, Mich., noting that my colleague, Ross Tucker, ranked the OL positions according to degree of difficulty and placed them in this order (toughest first) -- LT, RT, RG, LG, C. Well, I guess that's the way it is in the NFL, but from my meager background, at a much lower level, I can only tell you my personal reaction. In the army, and before, I played both tackles and found them equally hard. Then for a week my army coach decided to shift me to center. Oy vay! Nose tackles -- middle guards they were called in those days -- were taught to beat up the center. I had a headache every night. I wrote my mother that I wanted to come home. Then my buddy, Joe Palmieri, our fullback from Fordham, said, "Schmuck, just keep ******** up your assignments and they'll figure you're too dumb to play center, and they'll move you back." Bingo! And thank you, my paisan Joe! Back I went to tackle. Yeah, center was toughest for me. Later I was a guard in the semi pro leagues and I didn't like that much, either. Didn't like much of anything, actually. A wideout! That's what I was born to play. But there weren't too many of them in our league who ran a 6.8 forty. [/QUOTE]
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