Albert's recovery is the one thing about the 2015 season that I'm worried about (as of now, knock on wood). This is some seriously awesome news.
All the reports about Albert (outside of that "is he limping?" scare) have been positive. The insiders have been insistent that there has been no concern and that he's either on track or ahead of schedule. My faith in them and their info has minimized any worries on this that I may have had.
Good News indeed. Was my single biggest concern going into the season. His play on the left last year was excellent and his leadership created some cohesion out there. I assume they will bring him along slowly to minimize set backs. Now I just have to worry about our guards.
You could argue that his injury (along with the implosion of our defense) was the difference between the first half of the season and our second half. Our OL went from decent to really bad (helped along by some head-scratching OL shuffles by our coaching staff).
Albert being healthy - and this looks like a best case scenerio - was probably the most important question mark that we had going into camp. Though I wasn't worrying, this is still awesome news!
Not surprising "news." It's been stated by all involved, throughout, that he'd be ready. Let the bugaboos go people!
Ya know, I don't think there is any argument at all. There was our line play with Albert and our line play after Albert that was giving up sacks at the same rate as that horrible unit from the year before. A clear line of demarcation between the two.
I was saying that the argument was over what was the biggest factor, our OL implosion or our D implosion. Some people want to blame it on Tannehill or the coaches, but IMO it was clearly two key injuries, Albert and Delmas that were most responsible for our late season collapse. (Although, I do believe that the coaching staff handled those issues poorly and made things worse). I see the health of those two units as the key to our season, along with other obvious and usual key players like Tannehill, Suh, etc. I'm not worried about Tannehill progressing or other players developing outside of getting at least competent G play. I think Tannehill is already at the point where given the support of a healthy team that he'll put up excellent numbers.