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December 16th Marlon Mack Jersey , 2017 - Seattle has just placed star safety Kam Chancellor on injured reserve after suffering a major neck injury. It seems all but certain his career is over. While the mainstream..." Colts AnalysisThe Glow-Up: How Mark Glowinski revitalized his careerNew,45commentsEDTShare this storyShare this on FacebookShare this on TwitterShareAll sharing optionsShareAll sharing options for:The Glow-Up: How Mark Glowinski revitalized his careerTwitterFacebookRedditPocketFlipboardEmailDecember 16th, 2017 - Seattle has just placed star safety Kam Chancellor on injured reserve after suffering a major neck injury. It seems all but certain his career is over. While the mainstream media focuses on the loss of the physical DB, Seahawks OG Mark Glowinski has also been released in a corresponding roster move. It’s the low point of his career and gets no more than a small blurb on NFL sites around the country. Thankfully, he won’t be stuck in the shadows for long.<hr class="p-entry-hr" id="GvEFZC">Seahawk StrugglesDrafted 134th overall back in 2015 out of West Virginia, Glowinski played limited minutes in his rookie season - not something unexpected out of a 4th Round lineman. Posting a pedestrian 53.1 PFF grade on just 73 snaps, it was a learning year - and one that allowed him to grow into a starting role for the 2016 season. With the offensive line in shambles, Seattle needed Glowinski to step up in that upcoming year, and he hoped to do just that. Unfortunately, an expanded role came with disastrous results, which wasn’t something uncommon in the Pacific Northwest.See, the Seahawks under OL Coach Tom Cable drafted 15 offensive linemen from 2010 to 2018 - the most of any team in that span. Yet, due to Cable’s incompetency, the line remained a crippling weakness on an otherwise stacked roster. Under Cable, they experimented with the likes of James Carpenter, John Moffit, Terry Poole, Ethan Pocic, Justin Senior, Reese Odhiambo, Michael Bowie, Garrett Scott, Joey Hunt, Germaine Ifedi, and even converted defensive linemen Kristjan Sokoli and J.R. Sweezy among others. Most of those sound unfamiliar? That’s because they couldn’t keep Russell Wilson upright. Ultimately, just one of those 15 linemen drafted ended up re-signing with the team (Justin Britt) Quenton Nelson Color Rush Jersey , which speaks to the lack of development that the organization was able to provide.Despite all of this, however, Glowinski was able to manage a decent 2016 season as a full-time starter. Make no mistake - it wasn’t spectacular - but Glowinski served his role and did what he needed to do. Posting a 64.7 PFF offensive grade, Glowinski showed off the power and aggressiveness that made him a sought after target back in 2015, and was extremely efficient against the run as a result. As is the typical case with Seahawk linemen though, he struggled severely in the passing game, allowing 29 hurries and a whopping 44 pressures. He needed to improve in 2017 or his starting spot was in danger. Long story short - he didn’t.Posting an abysmal 23.9 pass-blocking grade in his first couple of games, Glowinski was benched in favor of Luke Joeckel and Oday Aboushi and never saw the field for the Seahawks again. He was released on December 16th and subsequently claimed by Indianapolis. It seemed like it may be the nail in the coffin for his NFL career, but getting away from Cable and his clunky zone scheme was a blessing in disguise for Glowinski’s game.<hr class="p-entry-hr" id="znBCf0">Colts ConfidenceYou know that meme where you see a picture, you put an Uno reverse card next to it, and then right beside it is the complete opposite of the original picture. That’s Mark Glowinski’s NFL career.After a porous stint in Seattle, Glowinski latched on with the Colts, providing much-needed flexibility and depth on an overhauled 2018 unit. He ended up playing a way bigger role than expected, however, when starting RG Matt Slauson landed on injured reserve in Week 6. The hope was that once Glowinski was thrown to the wolves he would do enough to not be considered a liability - simply get the job done and nothing more. As it turned out, the former West Virginia guard would do a lot more than just that.Posting a rock-solid 68.7 PFF overall grade, Glowinski’s ability against the pass improved night and day, allowing just 1 sack and 13 hurries in over 700 snaps played. Catering more towards his strengths, Indianapolis allowed him to be much more aggressive and simplistic in his pass sets, and Glowinski was much better off for it as a result. In his 10 games started, the team went 8-2, and ESPN’s Seth Walder even went as far to say that Glowinski had the highest pass block win rate among all guards with at least 250 pass blocks.After the season ended he would go on to sign a 3 year, 18 million dollar deal to stay with the Colts organization, and he comes into this upcoming season as a locked-in starter. <hr class="p-entry-hr" id="jNZZOK">Future OutlookIt may have surprised many when Colts’ offensive line coach Dave DeGuglielmo was fired this past off-season, given the unit’s spectacular play under his supervision. However, he wasn’t hired by the Frank Reich regime https://www.coltsfanshop.com/Andrew-Luck-Jersey , and despite the success, he and Reich weren’t on the same page. Thus, enter Chris Strausser and the re-hiring of former OL coach Howard Mudd.Mudd returns after an 11-year stint as the Colts’ OL coach (1998-2009) in a senior offensive assistant role. The 77-year old is known league-wide as a “coaching legend”, so his return means great things for Glowinski and the Colts’ line.My colleague Zach Hicks wrote a great article breaking down what exactly to expect out of this new staff’s philosophy, but to sum it up - aggression will be key. In Mudd’s past, he’s used extremely aggressive pass sets, and kept things simple. As Cover 4’s Erik Turner noted, “He wants his linemen to be problem solvers, not robots.”Thankfully, Glowinski fits in perfectly with this style of play being implemented. A strong-bodied, nasty player, Glowinski is at his best getting downhill and using that strength early and often. Topping the bench press testing back at the 2015 combine, he’s a straight-up mauler - which means the simpler the better.For that reason (among many others), he didn’t fit in Seattle. But he’s found a home and both he and the Indianapolis Colts are better off for it. WESTFIELD, Ind. — Last season, Darius Leonard led the league in tackles, earned the Defensive Rookie of the Year award and was an All-Pro. Most players would consider it a spectacular start to an NFL career.The Indianapolis Colts linebacker views his rookie season another way — as a solid foundation to complete some unfinished business in 2019.“I wasn’t named MVP, I wasn’t a Super Bowl champion and I wasn’t a Pro Bowler,” Leonard has said repeatedly. “So there are still goals I hadn’t reached last year. I just go in with the same mindset as proving everybody wrong and just outworking everybody on the field.”For Leonard and All-Pro left guard Quenton Nelson, this year’s prime focus is proving 2018 was no fluke — and they’re willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their goals.While Leonard flew around the field , piling up tackles and filling stat sheets, Nelson’s impact on Indy’s offense was equally impressive. The sixth overall pick in the 2018 draft teamed with rookie right tackle Braden Smith, a second-round pick, to fill two glaring holes on an offensive line that allowed a league-high 56 sacks in 2017.Together, Nelson and Smith helped the Colts go five straight games without yielding a sack, the league’s third-longest streak since 1982; gave up a league-low 18 sacks all season; and paved the way for the Colts to rush for 200 or more yards in back-to-back games for the first time in the same season since 1985.Nelson’s reward: a Pro Bowl selection and his own spot as an All-Pro.It’s only the second time in league history rookie teammates made the team. The only other players to achieve the feat were Hall of Famers Gale Sayers and Dick Butkus of the Chicago Bears in 1965.Now Leonard and Nelson are chasing bigger objectives for their encore performances.“I would say more goals are more detailed on what I want to accomplish Josh Ferguson Jersey ,” Nelson said after Thursday’s first training camp practice. “It’s really about cleaning up my technique. But the No. 1 goal is to win the Super Bowl.”Just how much better can this tag-team tandem get?Well, they excelled in spite of all the potential pitfalls rookie face: learning new teammates, new coaches and new systems.Consider, too, that because of the draft and pre-draft workouts, Nelson couldn’t participate in all of the Colts’ offseason practices, and an injury prevented Leonard from making it onto the field until the first day of training camp.Leonard also played most of last season with an ankle injury that forced him to miss one game and eventually prompted him to undergo minor surgery in May. Leonard pronounced himself fit and ready to go when the Colts reported to camp at Grand Park Sports Campus in suburban Indianapolis on Wednesday, weighing in at a trimmer 220 pounds and determined to increase his 163-tackle total after correcting the mistakes defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus outlined on a highlight reel of missed tackles.“Getting off blocks a lot faster,” Leonard said. “I tend to stay on blocks much longer than I expected. Talking with Floos, we saw some things that I needed to work on, kind of my plant, point and drive, making tackles inside-out. Sometimes I overshoot a lot of tackles and I just use my athleticism and long arms. So now I just want to work by pinning their hip and making plays from there.”Nelson also starts Year 2 with a new look. His neatly trimmed hair has grown out, he’s added a Fu Manchu and he appears more vocal than he was last season. He made a slight change to his offseason workouts while preparing to work with two new offensive line coaches, Chris Strausser and Howard Mudd, who emphasize technique. But at least Nelson knows the starting five is back, ready to keep Luck upright again and deliver on the goal of finishing with a top-five rushing offense.Nelson knows what he must do to make it work.“For me, it’s getting my hands inside, keeping my elbows in in the run game and the pass game, and really trusting and believing in my technique,” he said.And if Nelson and Leonard hone their skills just a bit, they and their teammates know anything is possible.“It’s hard to imagine he could’ve had a better year than he did last year,” coach Frank Reich said when asked about Leonard. “As good as he was, it’s crazy to think that there are a million ways he can get better and he has to get better. I have heard him say that himself and we all know that that is the way great players think.”22<button class="view-gallery">View Gallery</button> Gallery:Greetings from Westfield: Colts training camp 2019AP | Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved.