Gholston was handled horribly, last year. He came in late, was asked to learn an unfamiliar position, and was not put in a position to help the team. Those of you who have decided that he is a bust don’t have any patience. As for OTA’s — they mean nothing. Ryan and Pettine have not even begun to work with VG. It may take them awhile to find out how best to use him but, once they do, Gholston will become a force. Don’t sell your VG jersey’s, the best is yet to come.

On another note, just to piss you maddens fans off a lil here are 2010 player overall ratings for entire team http://madden.easportsfans.com/?page_id=277

He’s a better pass rushing option as it is than Bryan Thomas and David Bowens if you want to count guys from last year, the reason he wasn’t played in pass rushing situations last year is because the previous staff were stubborn fools who weren’t going to use a guy who can help them in certain situations if they couldn’t do everything they wanted him to do. Hell, when Gholston was on the field on defense, it was on downs one and two and he was used mostly in coverage. Follow that logic.

Now Gholston certainly wasn’t what everyone expected last year, but he’s no where near as bad as the previous staff’s handling of him would indicate. If he would have been consistently on the field in pass rushing situations, no one would be throwing out the bust label so soon.

Pace!! What are you doing man!! We have to think about Gholston or Murrell now??

Ugh… whatever… at least we will TRY to rush the passer this year. Thats gotta be better than not rushing at all (Mangini needs to get further away than Cleaveland…I can still smell his mediocre defensive schemes from here).

Thanks for weaving some much-needed sanity into these talks — you can tell we’re coming down the home stretch to the opening of TC, everyone seems to be getting frantic.

While we all are drawing up game plans in the sand here, I rest assured that Sexy Rexy + Staff are hard at work, working out solutions to the problem of the first four weeks, along with answers to all our other holes. That’s what they’re getting Woody’s big bucks for.

For right now, I either trust Sexy and his staff, or I don’t. To fix problems, I didn’t really trust Herm and I didn’t trust Mangini. You just get a sense of when someone is a creative problem-solver or he/she isn’t. They weren’t. To this point, I get a feeling that Ryan is. So far, I trust him. I’ll have to wait to find out if my instincts are right or wrong. But until training camp begins to show us a few things about our staff, our team and our abilities, I’m not going to tie myself into a pretzel worrying about it.