Offensive Line Depth

[BigWindyCane1]

Jeff Stoutland had a pretty good OL when he was here. Stoutland is underrated and several OL that he coached in Coral Gables are now in the NFL (at least 5-6 I think). Stoutland can flat out coach. Stoutland might be among the best OL coaches that the Canes have ever had

 

[dolpterry]

Would rather see Sagapolu with his power at center and Clark with his good quick feet for pulling at guard

 

[Big Lou]

LT - Zion Nelson/ Chris Washington
LG - Jalen Rivers/ Justice Oluwaseun/ Cleveland Reed
C - Jakai Clark/ Ryan Rodriguez
RG - Logan Sagapolu/ Ousman Traore
RT - John Campbell/ Delone Scaife/ Michael McLaughlin

Obviously, with Rivers & Campbell out for the Spring that’s not the current lineup, but once they’re all back come Fall camp that’s my guess for the starting 2-deep.

Scaife & Oluwaseun are both Hybrid Guards that can play Tackle, Scaife can play Center too.

Michael McLaughlin & Cleveland Reed are two guys who need to be solid depth this season.

Other than that, our depth is pretty much just hoping & praying guys who haven’t done much thus far just suddenly play above their means, which is really unrealistic even with Mario & Mirabal coaching them up.

Unless we hit the Portal for some more Linemen, our depth is really thin on paper. It simply boils down to how you view it, most will see it with Orange & Green colored homer glasses, but we’ll find out how rosie it actually is come September-October.

Whether we think he deserved it or not scaife was a 2nd team all-acc last year as a guard

 

[Goulds Cane]

Let's recruit the mid west. Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa.get the message. Corn feed farmer kids. Mid west would help alot.

We've tried recruiting Midwest OL before and failed badly (Mahoney, Dykstra) It only works when you get the kids that Wisconsin, Iowa, Notre Dame, Nebraska actually want

The only one that worked was Seantrel Henderson & he was the #1 player in the country, USC got smacked with sanctions, and he was a Stoutland special

 

[Silver King]

Last time we had a good oline was undeŕ coach davis

Allow me to rephrase: "but you can't expect to fix decades of neglect in a single season, or with the usual suspects."

 

[We the Boss]

For 23 we need the OL to be slightly better than average. If we can be better than last year, which wasn’t good, we can go far in the acc.

An accurate qb who can hit quick passes makes OLs better. 1) you don’t take sacks 2) you don’t get behind the chains 3) mix in some deep balls and you don’t get 8 in the box.

Clemson in their heyday did a great job of covering up good but not great OLs. We need to use that playbook.