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Oline Love


Fox007

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I think our Oline played well considering the shambles it is in.

 

They opened holes for DWill and NO FALSE START PENALTIES!

 

When is the last time the Line had no false starts?

 

They had 1 penalty for a holding I believe...but not too bad.

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O-Line was solid for what they had to work with..... D-Line was lights out..... if we had a clear issue it was our weak secondary. Josh Thomas burned on two straight plays..... Every time our D-Line put pressure on Wilson he found an open receiver. I hope this is something we address next draft early.

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I really think Scott has earned a starting job...I've never seen him mess up on a play yet. Sure he had that holding call, but I don't know if I'd even put that on him...that was a weird protection call. They had him pull all the way across the line to block the rusher coming off the opposite edge (I think the announcer called it a "Molly" protection or something?) which is asking a lot of a man his size. It's not his fault he lacked the speed to get there in time, so he had to compensate by holding the defender which was only for a split second anyways...it didn't seem blatant to me by any means.

Now that G-Will is bound to miss some time, I think that paves the way for Amini back at LG and hopefully Scott at RG. Then I actually feel pretty good about our OG depth with Wharton and Byers...never thought I'd say that...

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Two starting guards out and they still kept Newton mostly upright and gave Williams room to run.

 

The one caveat to that: Dorsey and Shula are pretty clearly coaching their QBs to get rid of the ball as quickly as possible.  Wise decision behind a banged up OL, but minimizes my OL praise a little.

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Two starting guards out and they still kept Newton mostly upright and gave Williams room to run.

 

The one caveat to that: Dorsey and Shula are pretty clearly coaching their QBs to get rid of the ball as quickly as possible.  Wise decision behind a banged up OL, but minimizes my OL praise a little.

 

Line still did what they are asked to do.

 

We should be able to push the ball down field on quick passes....look at Cruz last night for example.

 

Some of that would take anticipation and trust...which may not be there yet with the WRs

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