re: Is Trevor Penning Salvageable or Complete Bust?

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What is odd is that I saw Penning's run blocking has been the weak point this year despite him being well suited to be a mauler, so I wonder if he hasn't really caught on to the mental part yet.

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It's a confidence issue at this point. As Stinchcomb said, they knew he was raw and needed the reps to work through the growing pains but he lost his rookie season and a lot of training camp to do that. Having not gotten those reps and improvement they decided to throw him out there to work it out in the preseason and early in the year and it was a disaster just like it would have been if they had done that in his rookie year.

IMO he'll become a bust when Saint move on from him, but it's not from a lack of raw talent. Maybe they reached on him but they failed as coaches to recognize he wasn't ready to be thrown to the wolves and they failed to have a decent backup plan.

Sucks that Penning is in such a shitty situation with an organization that doesn't understand how to develop the talent they acquire.

I mean look how long it's taken them to figure out how to use Baun, and there was nothing in his college game tape that suggested he should be doing anything other than what they just realized this past game.

How many other player can you name that are being used in a way that does not maximize their strengths and actually exposure their weaknesses? Or drafting players and disregarding their playing styles or natural positions. Then we call them busts... hint hint ... A center that's playing out of position.

And I'll add no I'm not defending Penning, he's a grown arse man and a professional but he's also a player that everyone under the sun knew needed development and the Saints staff thought they knew better.