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Elijah Lofton is knocking people back again.

As the president of his fan club headed into the season, my biggest surprise was the drop off in his physicality. I think the shoulder injury had a lot to do with that.

When Lofton is blocking like a fullback, his overall game becomes much more effective. We’ll need all of that and more against the best LBs in America.
 
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Arvell Reese has been standing up and shedding blocks from the tackle spot all season. expect this to be a tough game for fletcher, lofton, and Baumann, trying to block this dude, make catches, or run in space
 
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tdubs_truckernutz said:
Arvell Reese has been standing up and shedding blocks from the tackle spot all season. expect this to be a tough game for fletcher, lofton, and Batman, trying to block this dude, make catches, or run in space
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DMoney said:
Elijah Lofton is knocking people back again.

As the president of his fan club headed into the season, my biggest surprise was the drop off in his physicality. I think the shoulder injury had a lot to do with that.

When Lofton is blocking like a fullback, his overall game becomes much more effective. We’ll need all of that and more against the best LBs in America.
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He did lay a couple of really great ones on some of those Fletcher runs. He is about to face a different level of LB though in 5 days. Those TAMU guys on the 2nd and 3rd level didn’t want to get muddy. Reese and Styles will bring it to him and see how much he likes it.
 
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I was very high on Lofton as well, like you said we will need his physicality in the run game. The other backer that plays beside Reese went there as a 6'4" 220-pound safety out of high school. He's up to about 245 now, so their backers are very athletic and active in pass coverage.
 
CBurrr93 said:
One thing I’ve noticed since Dawson has been here. Why in the world do we not have a running back or tight end screen option? AM was lining up with their hair on fire yet we refuse to have a screen to the running back in our playbook. Mildly infuriating
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I posted this earlier today in another thread...it's crazy. His playbook is way too small...at least game to game.
 
CBurrr93 said:
One thing I’ve noticed since Dawson has been here. Why in the world do we not have a running back or tight end screen option? AM was lining up with their hair on fire yet we refuse to have a screen to the running back in our playbook. Mildly infuriating
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We’ve run multiple screens to loften. Nine of them have worked out unfortunately.
 
BS85 said:
I poates this earlier today in another thread...it's crazy. His playbook is way too small...at least game to game.
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It’s just such a simple play to at least put hesitation in the defense mind and theoretically with our athletic line could pop for an explosive. Our only screen is a terribly blocked one to a wide out. Doesn’t make much sense.
 
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DMoney said:
Elijah Lofton is knocking people back again.

As the president of his fan club headed into the season, my biggest surprise was the drop off in his physicality. I think the shoulder injury had a lot to do with that.

When Lofton is blocking like a fullback, his overall game becomes much more effective. We’ll need all of that and more against the best LBs in America.
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I knew when I saw the same thing D$ was whamming his bag to those wham blocks by Lofton
 
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@DMoney you think Lofton can make this block from inline or better to use Bauman? Real nice play. Tricked Downs with the WR screen action to the right.

Here's another trips right that was an explosive running to the weak side B-gap:

(1:15:45 mark)

PSU ran the toss sweeps with 7 OL (which we obviously aren't going to run) to the left side, and Michigan popped a few out of 1-2 personnel to the left side too. They can still be had running to the left side C/D gap or B gap when the TE is to the right. This is the game to pull Cici and Cooper early and often.

Gotta figure Mario is licking his chops, if we catch them in man, to call the TE crackback run outside to the left that he, Morehead, and Mirabel used a handful of times to end Kerry Coombs DC career when they beat OSU in '21. Obviously not gonna be as easy as it was back then since Patricia isn't a moron like Coombs was, but Day would absolutely lose it if we popped an explosive run off similar action. Make ****bird think he been cast in "Groundhog Day" remake.

edit: the first Michigan run - explosive to the left - something we should try stealing too (they had just 1 TE in here). Marsh/Toney started in backfield, motioned out to the left then came back across pre-snap



this is a much easier block for Lofton to make, help the LG with a DT then get to second level. pull Cici and Cooper a lot please. we can get explosive runs to the left even when OSU is zone. Downs does the same thing here as he did against IU, when there are 3 WRs to the right he flows that way when they are in zone and theres no safety to tackle the RB
 
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