The area of Emperor de Pengu’s game I’d most like to improve over the remainder of the season is definitely his on field awareness and general football intelligence. I swear, you watch him on the field, and sometimes it’s like he doesn’t even know what he’s doing out there on the field. Most Offensive Lineman take a certain stance pre-snap, and I have never seen de Pengu drop into said stance. Now some might argue that it’s impossible for him to do so given his lack of knees, but honestly stop making excuses for the damn bird. If he wanted it badly enough, he’d drop down into the stance like every other god damned offensive lineman. Likewise on certain plays it looks as if he just completely ignores the defensive lineman, and is more interested in finding tiny pebbles that may or may not be scattered across the Colorado Yeti field. While I can appreciate that this sort of thing is typical penguin behavior for a bird of de Pengus age, it is hardly befitting of an offensive lineman for a professional football team. I think I speak for the entire organization when I say we love having de Pengu on the team, we’d just like to see a bit more consistency out of him from week to week.
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