Not elite at anything. Part of it is discipline, part of it is the scheme.
Run blocking is horrible. Most of that is scheme. We telegraph what we doing and teams stop it. Have you ever seen the aerial of our plays in condensed sets? There is no hole ever. If they do their job, it looks like a MAZE to the 3rd level. That’s some crap. And we have success when running out of spread formations. So the players can do it, but condensed only hurts us.
Pass blocking again is mostly scheme. Because we telegraph our runs so much, we actually clue in the defense when we want to pass. But that said, player talent not good. TEs are invisible. Lofton has massively underperformed according to preseason projections and his route tree is so limited. Bauman doesnt attack the ball. So when you take them out of the equation, as a defense you can sit back in zone and double/triple Mali and send the others.
Beck is handcuffed, and maybe rightfully so? But like he said, he’s running the play called and not audibling out of the play when he knows they are f&cked. But he has to take some blame since he doesn’t take his checkdowns more often.
But back to the Oline. They are not elite.
What’s ironic to me is that if Mario and Mirabel are insistent on this type of offense, they suck at matching the players to the positions that would help the team do better. You want to pound the ball up the middle? You put studs at the G and C position. Brockermeyer is who he is (but why not give Rodriguez a shot here? I thought we cross trained lineman? Don’t we have anyone else we could try?, Either way, you surround the center with FM and Anez, you just might be able to open some holes up the middle. Put Okunlola at RT (he wouldn’t be protecting the blind side).
