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Calinative said:
And what about non-pulls lol

yeah we get it he's significantly undersized and his main strength is movement ability.... So seems Dawson is trying to use him to his strength at least.
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He was fine. You can see some of his reps on duo and stretch zone runs in Tengwall's video. Because of his stature, he's going to struggle when he is 1on1 against a DT. You can really see it against the bear fronts we see on the late downs and <2 yards to go runs. If he doesn't have help from the Center he is susceptible to being shoved into the backfield moving laterally on wide zone runs too.

It just seemed to me like people went overboard criticizing him to the point that they were being cruel, and were divorced from what was actually happening on the field. Over the last couple of games he isn't playing like he was against Stanford and Wake, yet everyone still highlighted his stinker reps while pretending all his reps were like those. I've said more than enough on the topic, so I will bow out now.

We'll see how he does against Pitt, who is elite at stopping the run has stopped bad rushing teams from running really well (h/t @252cane )
 
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flips said:
Calinative said:
And what about non-pulls lol

yeah we get it he's significantly undersized and his main strength is movement ability.... So seems Dawson is trying to use him to his strength at least.
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He was fine. You can see some of his reps on duo and stretch zone runs in Tengwall's video. Because of his stature, he's going to struggle when he is 1on1 against a DT. You can really see it against the bear fronts we see on the late downs and <2 yards to go runs. If he doesn't have help from the Center he is susceptible to being shoved into the backfield moving laterally on wide zone runs too.

It just seemed to me like people went overboard criticizing him to the point that they were being cruel, and were divorced from what was actually happening on the field. Over the last couple of games he isn't playing like he was against Stanford and Wake, yet everyone still highlighted his stinker reps while pretending all his reps were like those. I've said more than enough on the topic, so I will bow out now.

We'll see how he does against Pitt, who is elite at stopping the run.
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Are they really elite vs the run or have they just played teams who can’t run? The best run game they have played is syracuse and they are ranked 66th. Going to be interesting to see the matchup of the o-line vs them
 
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