Enough with the crying that we took Bryce over Stroud. We need to be talking Ickey over Cross

[Shocker]

Scheme?  He got bull rushed on his ass today.  That isn’t scheme

[WhoKnows]

1 hour ago, 45catfan said:

We aren't giving him any help.  No TEs in-line, very limited RBs in pass protecting. The Texans were bringing overloaded or delayed pressure.  Ickey has struggled, but he can only block one dude and the defense routinely brought two guys from that side.

Sorry, but that’s not true. Houston was just rushing 4 most times. That last sack by Bernard was one on one with no stunts, no delay, no overload, just Mano a Mano. All Bernard did was smack away Iky’s hands and run right over Young. That was just an awful attempt to block Bernard.

Iky has regressed this year and has had terrible moments since preseason game 1. He has to improve or he’s not a LT and we whiffed. Garrett Wilson would have been nice for Young.

[45catfan]

12 minutes ago, WhoKnows said:

Sorry, but that’s not true. Houston was just rushing 4 most times. That last sack by Bernard was one on one with no stunts, no delay, no overload, just Mano a Mano. All Bernard did was smack away Iky’s hands and run right over Young. That was just an awful attempt to block Bernard.

Iky has regressed this year and has had terrible moments since preseason game 1. He has to improve or he’s not a LT and we whiffed. Garrett Wilson would have been nice for Young.

Yes, that one I agree.  But if you are saying that they were just beating us with 4 and keeping 7 back, that's hogwash.

[WhoKnows]

2 minutes ago, 45catfan said:

Yes, that one I agree.  But if you are saying that they were just beating us with 4 and keeping 7 back, that's hogwash.

Was just speaking on Iky’s failures. He’s just getting beat one on one. He’s getting beat on other stunts too, but he almost looks un-salvageable. He’s certainly not learning from the mistakes but he also appears to just be plain getting beat. That’s not really fixable.

[ForJimmy]

38 minutes ago, frankw said:

Icky was pretty damn solid last year. We'll see if he bounces back.

They have him playing in the wrong scheme. He isn’t a finesse zone blocking LT. It falls on Frank for not playing to his players strengths IMO. We had a decent OL for a power running PA offense with man on man blocking, but he is forcing his offense without the players to run it.