OL Rob Sims (official thread)

[GroveBuck]

Met Rob at an autograph session, while all the other players were sitting around listening to music he was out shaking hands & taking pictures with fans in line. One of the truley nice guys. I hope to see him in the league for years to come. (One of the biggest guys I've ever met also)

 

[Buckskin86]

Monday, June 9th, 2008
Rob Sims this and thatPosted by Frank Hughes @ 02:38:29 pm

Because he practiced today for the first time since having arthroscopic surgery on his right knee, right guard Rob Sims met with the media. He said he was thrown off for a while because this is the first surgery he has ever had, so he's glad to be back out on the field, especially since he learning a new position.

I asked him about his offseason because, as I mentioned last week, he looks much bigger to me. He said he went to the coaching and training staffs and said that while he was in shape last year, he didn't feel strong enough so he asked if he could put on more weight. He said he has gained 10 pounds and now weighs 320. He said he is back to doing lower body workouts, which he gave up for a while, doing a lot of squats, and he works out with Pat Murray, who he said is easily the strongest guy on the team. He said the additional weight and strength gives him more "pop," though he wants to see more when he is actually able to wear pads. He said when he was in college, he could bench in the mid-500s. He said he is regularly lifting in the 400s now, so if he had to get back up to that level he could do it.

Seahawks Insider - Rob Sims this and that

 

[Buckskin86]

Seahawks Notebook: Sims, Mates Adjusting to New Blocking Scheme
By Scott M. Johnson
For the Kitsap Sun
Monday, June 9, 2008

For the Seattle Seahawks, fixing an anemic running game might take more than just jettisoning Shaun Alexander.

The Seahawks hope that a slight change in blocking scheme can help get the ground game back on track.

Starting lineman Rob Sims said Monday that the Seahawks have been using more zone-blocking schemes under new offensive line coach Mike Solari.

"Last year, we did a lot of man-on-man stuff," Sims said. "This year, we're doing more zone stuff, and that's what (the players) wanted to do last year anyway."

The zone scheme leaves offensive linemen responsible for areas, rather than opposing players. Sims said that it fits the personality of Seattle's linemen.

"In the NFL, you're going against the best of the best," Sims said. "When you're man-on-man every single snap, you can get beat. It's one of those things where, if you've got five guys going man-on-man, they're more likely to get beat."

The Seahawks ranked 20th in the NFL in rushing yards per game (101.2) and 26th in yards per carry (3.8) during the 2007 regular season.

Sims was often seen as a scapegoat for the problems in the run game. Down the stretch of last season, he was splitting time with veteran Floyd Womack at left guard. The team eventually brought in veteran free agent Mike Wahle to play left guard, moving Sims to the right side.

"There's so much that I can still work on," said Sims, "and this year I really, really want to get better."

Coach Mike Holmgren said earlier this summer that the starting spot is Sims's job to lose.

"Initially, I thought they might not have that much trust in me," Sims said. "But I stuck in there, I grew up a lot and I think I showed them that I can play for a long time. I'm glad they're starting to trust me a lot more."

Sims returned to practice Monday, one month after undergoing a scope on his right knee. He played right guard with the No. 1 offense, joining a revamped line that also included Sean Locklear at left tackle and Ray Willis at right tackle.

The biggest question mark heading into this season is at center, where Chris Spencer continues to recover from offseason surgery. Spencer is expected to be back sometime during training camp, but he's missing valuable time learning the zone-blocking scheme under Solari.

"There might be a little dropoff," Sims said, "but a month is enough time to learn. I think we'll be fine."

Seahawks Notebook: Sims, Mates Adjusting to New Blocking Scheme : Top Stories : Kitsap Sun

 

[Buckskin86]

NFL: Seattle's Sims likely out for season
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Seattle Seahawks starting right guard Rob Sims has most likely torn his pectoral muscle and is likely to miss the remainder of the season.

The team will not know results of Sims? exam until today, when coach Mike Holmgren will address his status during his weekly news conference.

However, there seems to be a strong likelihood that Sims tore the muscle during the Seahawks? loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, the latest in a string of serious injuries that have tested the team?s depth.

If Sims is done for the year, he will probably be replaced by Floyd ?Pork Chop? Womack, whose own penchant for getting injured is high. Womack will be backed up by second-year Georgia Tech product Mansfield Wrotto.

Sims moved to the right side from the left this season after the Seahawks acquired Mike Wahle in free agency and immediately placed him next to Walter Jones.

Sims, in his third year from Ohio State, said he had struggled to adjust to doing everything the opposite of what he did on the left side, but he was learning to adapt.

Bellingham, Whatcom County Sports Scores, Stats | Bellingham Herald

 

[brodybuck21]

Bellingham, Whatcom County Sports Scores, Stats | Bellingham Herald

heres to a speedy recovery Rob!

:osu:

 

[Buckskin86]

Rob Sims underwent surgery on his left pectoral muscle Thursday, and his recovery is estimated at four to six months. He suffered the injury against Buffalo and was placed on injured reserve Wednesday, ending his season.

Seahawks | Notebook | Seahawks running-back change won't affect play-calling | Seattle Times Newspaper

 

[Buckskin86]

Rob looks to be back and healthy..

Right guard Rob Sims, who missed 15 games with a torn pectoral last season, looks to be bringing extra pop to every block. Having regained health and strength, Sims might be a major beneficiary of the new blocking scheme.

Novelties give spark to drills | The News Tribune - Dave Boling | Seattle-Tacoma News, Weather, Sports, Jobs, Homes and Cars | South Puget Sound's Destination

The first-unit offensive line is LT Sean Locklear, LG Mansfield Wrotto, C Chris Spencer, RG Rob Sims and RT Ray Willis. The second-unit line -- which is much more fluid because of substitutions -- goes LT William Robinson, LG Max Unger, C Steve Vallos, RG Kyle Williams and RT Na'Shan Goddard.

Seahawks Blog | Lawrence Jackson, Ray Willis get a little testy Saturday morning | Seattle Times Newspaper Blog

 

[Buckskin86]

Originally published Friday, May 8, 2009
Back from surgery, Rob Sims and Chris Spencer look to strengthen the Seahawks offensive line
The team drafted Oregon lineman Max Unger, who could push them both for a starting spot
By Danny O'Neil
Seattle Times staff reporter

RENTON ? Rob Sims didn't know how serious his injury was.

It wasn't until he tried to put his carry-on baggage in the overhead compartment of the team's charter plane in Buffalo that he got his first idea of just how serious an injury he suffered in Seattle's season-opening loss to the Bills.

"I couldn't get my arm past my shoulder," Sims said.

Two days later he was diagnosed with a torn pectoral muscle that required season-ending surgery, and the year in which the Seahawks simply could not stay healthy was under way.

Seahawks | Back from surgery, Rob Sims and Chris Spencer look to strengthen the Seahawks offensive line | Seattle Times Newspaper

 

[Buckskin86]

Sims knows he?d rather be playing than watching
DAVE BOLING; THE NEWS TRIBUNE
Published: 05/10/09

ELAINE THOMPSON/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE
Guard Rob Sims, right, battling Mansfield Wrotto during training camp in 2008, vows to return from his season-ending injury.

RENTON ? One game into Rob Sims? third NFL season, his pectoral tendon ripped off the bone. He finished the game, but could barely lift his suitcase for the flight home.

Through the surgery, and hour after dragging hour of rehabilitation, Sims? mind stayed active. He watched the team struggle through a 4-12 record, and he wondered about his own career. Would this be the end of it?

And that led him to thoughts of his father, the late Robert ?Mickey? Sims.

?You let all kinds of stuff creep into your head,? Sims said. ?I thought about how much I missed playing and how much I wanted to be back. My dad played only three seasons in the league; would this be history repeating itself? I couldn?t let that happen.?

Sims, a 6-foot-3, 312-pound guard, has been racing around minicamps and off-season training sessions like a rookie. ?I?m 100 percent committed ... playing every play like it could be my last,? he said. ?I know I won?t ever take (football) for granted. This is what I want to do with my life.?

As Rob Sims started almost every game of his career as an offensive lineman for Ohio State, winning a national championship as a senior, Mickey Sims kept him motivated.

A gentle giant who weighed 350 pounds, Mickey Sims told his son how his own lax training habits caused his career with the Cleveland Browns in the late 1970s to end prematurely.

Sims knows he’d rather be playing than watching | The News Tribune - Dave Boling | Seattle-Tacoma News, Weather, Sports, Jobs, Homes and Cars | South Puget Sound's Destination

 

[BB73]

DAVE BOLING; THE NEWS TRIBUNE

As Rob Sims started almost every game of his career as an offensive lineman for Ohio State, winning a national championship as a senior

As a senior? 2002 was his freshman year.

 

[Buckskin86]

Seahawks visit Fort Lewis and take on obstacle course
The Seahawks visited 16 different units housed on the base. Some saw medics, others visited the Stryker Brigade. It was all part of a team-building experience.

By Danny O'Neil
Seattle Times staff reporter

FORT LEWIS ? Seahawks guard Rob Sims is hardly the first athlete to hit the wall.

It's just not usually so literal an experience as it was for Sims on Thursday at Fort Lewis.

This wall wasn't some metaphor for exhaustion or that point in the season when a rookie begins to run out of gas.

This was an actual wall, built from wood and nails and standing about 8 feet tall. Sims was supposed to jump onto the wall, then climb over as part of the Army's obstacle course at Fort Lewis. Except Sims didn't jump up on the wall so much as he jumped into it, his arrival announced with a thud.

"You're not supposed to knock it over," coach Jim Mora said as he watched.

Sims hung on the wall a second and then jumped up, pulled himself over and continued through the 15 or so other obstacles on the course just like 50 or so of his NFL teammates did as one part of their visit to the Army base south of Tacoma on Thursday.

"The goal was basically bringing the Seattle Seahawks, give them a physical, team-building activity so they could see how soldiers work," said Cedric Henson, Sergeant First Class who gave the Seahawks their marching orders in the obstacle course.

Seahawks | Seahawks visit Fort Lewis and take on obstacle course | Seattle Times Newspaper

 

[Buckskin86]

Sims, Locklear thinking redemptionSEAHAWKS: One side of offensive line wants to forget 2008, anxious for fresh start this fall
ERIC D. WILLIAMS; The News Tribune | ? Published August 05, 2009

Renton ? They?re seeking redemption and hoping to erase the memories of last year.

Rob Sims and Sean Locklear were two of the Seattle Seahawks? five projected starting offensive linemen at the beginning of the 2008 season. Both finished the season on the injured reserve list.

For now, they?re playing next to each other, with Locklear keeping the spot at left tackle warm for teammate Walter Jones, and Sims at left guard.

If all goes well and the team?s cornerstone at left tackle returns to the field, Locklear will again slide over to his right tackle position.

But Sims? move to left guard is permanent. The team released veteran Mike Wahle on the first day of training camp after he failed a physical.

Sims tore his pectoral muscle in the first game of the ?08 season against Buffalo and had to sit out the rest of the year. Now in his fourth season, the fourth-round selection out of Ohio State understands he has yet to live up to the expectations the team had for him when he was drafted in 2006.

?It?s going to be a better, more consistent Rob this time around,? Sims said. ?The first two years it was shaky, with me getting used to playing at this level and things like that.

?Last year I thought I had it, then I got hurt and I?ve been working hard ever since. You never stop working, and here I am.?

Sims, Locklear thinking redemption - Football - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington

Sims, Locklear thinking redemption - Football - The Olympian - Olympia, Washington

For Rob Sims, football is fun again
By Clare Farnsworth
Posted Aug 6, 2009

As Rob Sims was making his way to the practice field, he spotted a TV cameraman. The Seahawks? fourth-year guard did a near face plant into the lens and let out a booming roar that had to startle dogs on the other side of Lake Washington.

Yes, the fun is back in football for Sims.

?Definitely,? Sims said after practice at the team?s training camp. ?The game is fun again.?

His teammates have noticed the change in his outlook, especially center Chris Spencer ? who not only lines up next to Sims but is one of his best friends on the team.

?He?s so comfortable out there it?s just coming so easily for him,? Spencer said. ?We were in the cold tub the other day and I just told him, ?Man, I?m just so proud of you, battling back the way you have.? ?

Spencer then acted like he was choking up and wiping away tears before adding, ?No, really, Rob is doing really, really well right now.?

That definitely was not the case last year, when Sims tore the pectoral in his left shoulder dung the opener and spent the rest of the season on injured reserve ? and way too much time in the training room. As his team struggled through an injury-ravaged 4-12 season that saw all five starters on the offensive line eventually end up on IR, Sims wrestled with his inability to help.

?It was rough to watch and rough to be out,? he said. ?I was depressed for a long time there.?

But that was then, and this is now.

?All that stuff is in the past ? pressure, negative media, all that kind of stuff,? Sims said. ?I?ve put it behind me. I?m done with all that.

?Last year taught me a lot. I forgot how much I love the game. So every day I?m out here and get to put on the pads, it?s a blessing.?

Sims is not only back on the field, he?s back at left guard ? the position he started playing in middle school, where he excelled as an all-state performer at Nordonia High School in Ohio and an all-conference selection at Ohio State and the spot he filled during his first two seasons with the Seahawks

For Rob Sims, football is fun again

 

[Buckskin86]

Seattle's Sims steady at left guard
By TIM BOOTH (AP)

RENTON, Wash. ? When Rob Sims arrived in Seattle four seasons ago, he played so well in the few starts he got as a rookie for a playoff team that many believed the Seahawks had their replacement for Steve Hutchinson.

Problem was, Sims says he didn't come close to having the needed maturity or experience.

"They were demanding a lot from me and everybody was expecting (Hutchinson) and honestly I wasn't (Hutchinson)," Sims said. "I put that extra pressure on myself because my goal was always to stay in this league a long time. Anytime you hear anything bad you're under a microscope. Anytime you hear something bad you think it's your last shot. So I pushed, and pushed, and pushed and pushed myself too hard."

Now, after missing most of the 2008 season with an injury and back at his natural spot of left guard, Sims is trying to forget the criticism from his first few years in Seattle and prove to the Seahawks they have one of their offensive line questions answered.

With the retirement of Mike Wahle at the start of training camp, Sims was shifted back to left guard, the position he played in college and his first two seasons with Seattle. Unlike those first couple of years, Sims now understands the effort needed to team with Walter Jones and solidify the blindside of quarterback Matt Hasselbeck.

"The cool thing about it I played with Walt my first two years, and it was a blast and I learned a lot, but I just didn't know enough about the game for me and him to be on the same page," Sims said. "I was young and he was a veteran and he did his thing and I was kind of catching up and trying to emulate him. Now I know myself I know how I need to play, I'm more confident."

The Associated Press: Seattle's Sims steady at left guard

 

[Buckskin86]

Linemen in size, but QBs at heart
By Clare Farnsworth
Posted Oct 1, 2009


Left guard Rob Sims: Warren Moon. Warren Moon? The Hall of Fame quarterback who is now the analyst for Seahawks radio broadcasts?

?I always played quarterback, and Warren Moon was my favorite player,? Sims said. ?I wanted to be a quarterback, but I got hungry.?

Sims didn?t just grow up, he outgrew any hope of playing the same position as his idol. Instead, he is a 312-pound chip off the old block ? his father, the late Mickey Sims, was a tackle for the Cleveland Browns (1977-79).

But while he was still ?little,? Moon was Sims? man.

?When I was growing up he was just the guy,? Sims said. ?Being an African American, it was cool to see Warren Moon out there doing his thing.?

Now, Sims frequently crosses paths with the player he grew up wanting to me.

?I was calling him Mr. Moon,? Sims said. That ended because he got tired of seeing Moon cringe every time Sims would give him a little too much respect.

?It was just one of those things,? Sims said. ?He was just such a big figure ? and imposing figure ? especially in the African American community. It was just big to see him do his thing, especially for a little kid who wanted to play quarterback. It was cool.

?I guess my stomach had other plans.?

Linemen in size, but QBs at heart

 

[Buckskin86]

Hasselbeck 'very doubtful' for Colts, but Sims returns
Left guard Rob Sims returned to practice Friday for the Seattle Seahawks and appears good to go for Sunday's game in Indianapolis, but quarterback Matt Hasselbeck sat out again and "looks very doubtful," according to coach Jim Mora.

Rob Sims
Both Sims and left tackle Brandon Frye practiced in full on Friday, giving the Seahawks a little more stability in the front line that will protect backup quarterback Seneca Wallace in his second straight start.

Hasselbeck 'very doubtful' for Colts, but Sims returns