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If the QB tends to keep the ball instead of read the mesh point, the DC and players can "cheat" their reactions toward what they know is the likely choice the QB will make. The RB is no longer a true running threat. A read option is no longer a threat to make the DL chose between a give or a QB run.

This can’t be overstated.

A badly executed option read is just a horribly slow developing run play and against any kind of competition is asking to have the play blown up for a loss.

This happened so routinely that we had to kill the option read and go to the QB power run against LSU where they just told Jalen “Mongo run ball” so he wouldn’t stand there like a cave man taking a calc test pretending to read the LB while the defense converged on the mesh point.

It was the most basic offense I’ve ever seen Bama run going back to Darby up the middle during the Shula era.

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Posted by dominantD

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Posted on 1/5/25 at 4:04 pm to tide06

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Booker was 1st team AA and is being mocked as a mid 1st rd guy and the first OG off the board so I’d say he’s pretty well thought of nationally and at the next level.

But the thing is, you mentioned two other OLs being "overweight" and not Booker. Being a good football player causes you to overlook his massive gut flopping around and hanging out of his untucked jersey? Nice logic there.

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Posted by tide06

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Posted on 1/5/25 at 4:39 pm to dominantD

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But the thing is, you mentioned two other OLs being "overweight" and not Booker. Being a good football player causes you to overlook his massive gut flopping around and hanging out of his untucked jersey? Nice logic there.

Booker is an offensive guard. Having a gut didn’t seem to seriously impact his speed or effectiveness.

Proctor and Pritchett are tackles and were a step or two slow from the jump this year. Their extra weight and resultant lack of quickness greatly impacted the amount of edge pressure we had to deal with and reduced our effectiveness in the perimeter run game all season.

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Posted by dominantD

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Posted on 1/5/25 at 4:47 pm to tide06

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Back to top Posted on 1/5/25 at 4:39 pm to dominantD quote: But the thing is, you mentioned two other OLs being "overweight" and not Booker. Being a good football player causes you to overlook his massive gut flopping around and hanging out of his untucked jersey? Nice logic there. Booker is an offensive guard. Having a gut didn’t seem to seriously impact his speed or effectiveness.

Again, dear sir or madam, in your first post I referred to, you mention ALL FIVE OLs with commentary on each. Your specific reference to RG (Roberts) mentioned him being overweight. So being a guard is not pertinent to this discussion. If we are discussing relative degrees of being "overweight", then it is inarguable that #52 was moreso than #77 this season. 77 was hurt all year, which was likely the primary contributor to his falloff in performance in 2024. And if we are assuming that DeBoer prefers lighter, more mobile OLs to pull etc, then NEITHER one of those guys really fits the bill.

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