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FB Owen Schmitt enters camp as the starter

Mora said second-year FB Owen Schmitt enters camp as the starter and that veteran Justin Griffith, who signed recently from Oakland and was Mora's FB in Atlanta from 2004-07, "understands he has more of a mentor role."

 

Greg Bell - USA Today

The article itself is interesting, talking about how the Seattle players get to take home their playbooks, apparently an unusual move. However, it was the notes at the bottom where the FB quote came from.

Obviously now is the time for crazy speculation about who is doing what, but this seems to be straight forward telling us something that I thought might wait until week 1 to be sorted out. Of course the job could be lost, but for this to not be a straight-forward competition with the started named later is interesting to me. And of course I'm excited to see the havoc.

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It does seem a bit early, but why not? If he really is to be our starter I do hope they manage to polish him up a bit, but if I’m not mistaken we’re going to be running less formations involved fullbacks in 2009 anyway.

by Vasilii on Jun 13, 2009 5:46 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

I guess he is our full back of the future!

Is anyone else kind of excited about this?

by Tyopiod on Jun 13, 2009 10:17 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Facemasks everywhere shriek in fear!

Early prospect watch: RB C.J. Spiller, QB Jevon Snead, OT Ciron Black, DT Gerald McCoy, S Eric Berry, DT Ndamukong Suh, CB Ras-I Dowling 6'2, 200, RB Jonathan Dwyer

by Misfit74 on Jun 13, 2009 12:09 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

I am

If anything, it seems to suggest that the Beertruck is making progress and/or showing promise (or maybe that Griffith is just getting old).

by ninjasocks on Jun 13, 2009 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Great news.

Although I’ve heard nothing but good things about Griffith, so I suppose you can’t go wrong either way.

Now we finally get to see if that hype WVU fans kept pouring in about is real.

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by Fearless Frog on Jun 13, 2009 10:29 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

Speaking of hype...

Let’s hope that Schmitt is the new Lorenzo Neal.

His skillset thus far seems he built to lead-block more than anything else and I like it.

Early prospect watch: RB C.J. Spiller, QB Jevon Snead, OT Ciron Black, DT Gerald McCoy, S Eric Berry, DT Ndamukong Suh, CB Ras-I Dowling 6'2, 200, RB Jonathan Dwyer

by Misfit74 on Jun 14, 2009 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

Here's hoping!

If he has half Neal’s success leading the way for RBs I’ll be thrilled.

by thebyron on Jun 14, 2009 8:48 PM PDT up reply actions   0 recs

The fact that...

they have such confidence in him in Knapp’s system is pretty telling. Good news! I really hope he makes a name for himself around the league this year. Preferably, “Runaway Beer Truck!”

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by Grimm Blackwood on Jun 16, 2009 12:48 PM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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