The Offensive Line

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We have a defensive linemen playing guard, a grad transfer in his first year here playing the other guard spot,

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This is the biggest thing. One of our guards was playing DT last year, and the other was playing at Texas and couldn't get on the field for some of the worst UT teams in history.

Also, we're wasting our best lineman at center, and Skipper is an enormous (literally and figuratively) liability in pass protection and always has been.

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that's your problem right there. you can't keep someone in front of you if you can't get low. In basketball you don't play defense with your hands you play with your feet. our high school coach used to make us wear towels over our neck and hold on to them in practice while playing defense, we could only play defense by staying in front of the person we were guarding. you HAVE to move your feet and keep your knees bent.


i thik our o line is TOO big. you have to be able to get lower then the person you are guarding


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see here how he gets lower than the man he's blocking. and i've never played football a day in my life this is common sense / physics shite.



I think Kurt, the d line coach and even robb smith are good coaches. they all have nfl backgrounds (smith bucks, d line coach eagles, anderson bills) but i think there is a big difference between teaching a grown man scheme and teaching a teenager technique and they struggle mightily at this.