Position Group Superlatives - Offensive Line

[brock]

With a comment like that, I am certain you do not. The OL was charmin soft last year. Our top returning OL (TSL and Gauthier) are horrendous run blockers - check their PFF metrics to second your eye test.

Last year's SENIOR STARTERS - Kc McDermott and Trevor Darling...average strength...sub 20th Percentile athletes...Darling was a ONE PERCENTILE ATHLETE. The unit couldn't move a stack of pillows on the field. Those two were senior starters...our returning starters graded terribly as run blockers.

Now, you're asking a guy, Jones, who notoriously lacks strength to start at an interior spot. This was the same OL that came out of a JUCO and benched like 9 reps. Surely, he's improved, but Jones isn't a strong guy. Mahoney isn't even three bills and he's at an OG spot and he was nothing special in limited action last year. As D$ said earlier, he's weak.

The OL in the run game is going to be very poor once again. If you think otherwise, you're nuts.

Some of the young guys at least have strength...but until they are playing real time, I'm not counting on them and they'd be irrelevant to this discussion.

Miami played unwinnable football in terms of blocking in the North Carolina game, Pittsburgh and clemson only with Miami winning one of those and would have won another had rosier hit a few passes down the field. The rest of the games they blocked well enough including vs Wisconsin to win who had the #2 defense in the country. We weren’t too great vs FSU but we also was running mostly with an injured Walton and they held up well in pass blocking that game. Are they elite? No but they aren’t as bad as people make it out to be. Richt recently was praising the talent on the oline just 2 weeks ago so obviously some of your are more concerned about it than he is.

 

[DrStrange]

We recruited a team full of guards. Lost out in some big battles in recruiting when it comes to tackles unfortunately.

What were the battles?

Hello?