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Today we are talking about Andrew Thomas which is the most enjoyable player profile projection for me because I can just say all good things and really know bad things and just be hyped for the guy 6 foot 5 320 pounds franchise left tackle at 24 years old going into year 4 signed a 5 year 117 and a half million dollar contract with 67 million guaranteed most for offence alignment of all time for guaranteed money was an all pro left tackle

2022 Justin we have our best player locked up for seven years and that's an amazing feeling for the Giants their quarterback and their fans you just kind of use this a little bit of a throwaway line but my main point to sort off is by saying Andrew Thomas is the best player on the New York Giants right now I think he has been for the last two years and I don't think enough people really recognize that I know he's an offensive lineman but the fact that the Giants have the

second most valuable position in the NFL lockdown changes what an offense can do and despite the offense not being great the last two years has already made the offense a lot better Andrew Thomas being such a good left tackle has already made the offense a lot better you played all last season but you go and look at the games he missed in 2021 and that's when the Giants offense was like inoperable even with Daniel Jones at quarterback you know where you know that

I remember that first Cowboys game where they put Nate slur left tackle and just getting abuse abuse and then he missed the the other four games when he went on IR and they just could not do think I mean remember they're just rolling Daniel Jones out play after play versus Carolina they just weren't able to do things that with him they are allowed to to and if you look at Daniel Jones success in the NFL to me and I've been saying the sense that to that beginning of 2021 it is most correlated tied to Andrew Thomas more than anything yeah because if you had a bad left tackle I don't care how good the coaching

is it would not have mattered with him there not just a good left tackle a dominant all pro left tackle his Daniel Jones success is most most correlated to Andrew Thomas more than any other outside right player or coach so let me ask you this what is Thomas doing that has made him so successful how has he grown grown as a player

and also I want to add this little tidbit and nugget in there to if you want to touch on it is what Thomas is what Thomas is doing and how he's operating like technique wise different from what you see other tackles in the NFL doing or I know you watch the college game a lot more what other tackles are being taught in the college game.

It is different than what you're being taught growing up in the game but what it's similar to is what the best tackles in the game are doing what the Lane Johnson's what the layman retunials are doing because those guys can and what starts with is you know I want to go through numbers and stuff but what it starts with is he is confident enough in his speed his foot speed and his strength to where he can invite players to bull rush him.

He can invite a trying to try and go inside on me because my feet are fast and I'm going to close that I'm going to close that off for you and it was something funny you know as a rookie he over punched right he over punch he would lunge you get his shoulders over his knees and then now when you watch him his hands come from wide and and late right if I call them for years like symbol hand the high school symbols and they come wide and late and it's the circle technique that Andrew Thomas uses and it's very different from your conventionally taught to punch and we were

talking to somebody recently like pat flirty pat flirty we teach you to punch and deliver a shock and Andrew Thomas that is the opposite of what he does he has the two you know like most coaches teach the two handed punch where Tom and Thomas does punch with two hands but where Thomas like does not want to let pass

rushers use his own hands against him which right when you punch that's when guys are going to swipe at you they're going to try and work you inside and they're trying to get you off balance where Thomas has the strength and the speed to allow guys to try and get into his chest but he also still punches right where he shows that hand he takes it away and then he punches now it's not the perfect placement that you want on a punch but with what he's able to do it's really a beautiful thing but it all starts with the foot speed yeah like it you know if you don't have the foot speed of the strength that he does

the circle punch can isn't going to do you a whole lot of good where he fires out of his stance like just that quick out of his stance and then the foot speed to mirror any type of move you get and then the strength to handle most power yeah and I think even just going back to like his draft evaluation why I liked him the most and I you know why I think you liked him the most too was just for how athletic he is like he he was never the you know now he's pretty close to perfect but even

coming out of Georgia wasn't like the perfect polished tackle prospect but he always had that athleticism and that's what that is what is making him elite right now and I go back to that I like I there's a

clip that I have from that Seahawks game I constantly go back to this clip say one how to rushing touchdown where Thomas starts with the double team going

with the guard hits hits that hits that defense alignment and then blocks the linebacker moves up to that secondary level when he moves up to that

secondary level it looks like he's literally levitating and it's just just moves right to that secondary level so fast so explosive so effective and that's

of the running game but there's left that isn't really just show off the most when he's past blocking yeah and again it's just he gets out of his stance and even did a

video of this with Sean here the other day where he's getting first step second step and then that third step he's kind of

reading what the past rushers doing if you see if he's going to show some my inside move he'll kind of stay where he's at but most of

the time they're going to try and work the corner versus Andrew Thomas and you're not going to and he's going to get to that

third step he's going to you know not let you get you know use his hands against him and then once he's engaged it's

over like once he's engaged with you it's truly over it's going to mirror you yeah he has the foot speed to

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