I read quite a bit on the Giants as well as participate here and everything I have read says Flowers is the kind of guy you want at LT. First, he is huge, has good feet, athletically he is excellent for a man his size and he has a mean, nasty attitude. We have seen how durable and tough he is as he has not missed a game since being a Giant and fought through a nasty ankle injury in his first year. He has long arms and strong hands. He is very good in the run game.
I have read and heard all of this from people like Eric, Pat Traina, Ralph V and many others. The big issue, especially in the pass game, seems to be technique and working to improve that technique. He has an issue with penalties as we are all aware.
For my uninitiated brain, this tells me his work ethic may be poor and that he has a problem working to accept coaching to better his technique and then continuing to work at it. Sounds to me like he is hardheaded and remains very immature. I understand he is still very young. I've always thought playing left tackle is more about having good technique than anything else. All the rest is a bonus but if you have lousy technique, your career will be short.
So, for those who know better, why hasn't his technique improved. He certainly has had coaches with great credentials and he seems to have all the other intangibles. Why hasn't he got any better from year 1 to year two?
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The Sunday before Flowers Draft, I wrote a column on "the Perfect Storm for Schreff". I posted al list of every Offensive linemen Jerry drafted after the 2nd rd. since hitting on Snee in RD 2 of Eli's class. Everyone was garbage. My feeling was if we did not draft a OL in Rd1, we would be forced to draft best offensive linemen in 2nd, period.
Well Washington blew up that theory, and took Schreff at 6. And moved him to Guard anyway. The following year, we could have had Martin, but obviously we didn't do too bad with Odell.
There's a Miami party boat full of Joeckels, and Fishers, drafted higher then 9 at LOT recently who just haven't panned out. At least our guy is only 22.
I would rather have JPP, Ellison, & Marshall, and give this kid another year to refine his craft, then throwing all that money at Whitworth and Wagner.
Get it together Ereck. Some us did not give up on you yet.
If so, he needs to do it.
He did play well in the playoff game.
The Sunday before Flowers Draft, I wrote a column on "the Perfect Storm for Schreff". I posted al list of every Offensive linemen Jerry drafted after the 2nd rd. since hitting on Snee in RD 2 of Eli's class. Everyone was garbage. My feeling was if we did not draft a OL in Rd1, we would be forced to draft best offensive linemen in 2nd, period.
Well Washington blew up that theory, and took Schreff at 6. And moved him to Guard anyway. The following year, we could have had Martin, but obviously we didn't do too bad with Odell.
There's a Miami party boat full of Joeckels, and Fishers, drafted higher then 9 at LOT recently who just haven't panned out. At least our guy is only 22.
I would rather have JPP, Ellison, & Marshall, and give this kid another year to refine his craft, then throwing all that money at Whitworth and Wagner.
Get it together Ereck. Some us did not give up on you yet.
+1. Flowers actually has panned out better than a some of those guys. He's only 22, has two years experience, and I am still hopeful he can become a really good player. He has all the skills.
He was less critical overall than the mob, the national media, etc, but EF definitely took his turn breaking down a few plays each game.
Agree that his lack of ability to rebound when he had a bad series or two was noticable.
Karate is excellent in providing a combination of balance, attack and defense all at the same time. For those of you who are not millenials, Andre Tippet of the Pats was a blackbelt. He points to Karate as a huge reason why he was able to win vs the O-lineman. You learn how to get your opponent off balance too.
In fact, I would be getting the OLs, DLs and LBs all on this program.
He did play well in the playoff game.
Let's hope the Flowers we saw that game is the one we see this next year.