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Searles and Richt's play calling created a false perception about our current OL

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The perception is that we don't have talented enough players to have a decent to slightly good OL. Not true.

We've recruited good talent for the OL, we just haven't trained that talent. With a new O staff, a new S&C coach and 8 months to get ready, there is no reason why our 2019 OL cannot be at least above average and consistent. With our D and playmakers on O, and with a scheme that takes all of those things into account, there's no reason for our OL to take a massive step forward this year and I predict it will.
 
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I'll agree that our OL is not as bad as so many seem to think it is. With our QBs, Defenses only had to defend about 1/3 of the field. We couldn't make the opposition pay for blitzing or for leaving one on one matchups on the outside. Given this state of affairs, all a good team had to do to stop us was load the box in running situations and blitz the **** out of us in passing situations. The OL looking over matched was inevitable.
 
We haven't seen hardly anything of what our line is capable of. The last coaches played the likes of Mahoney instead of our blue chip recruits. Cleveland Reed, John Campbell, DJ Scaife, Navaughn Donaldson, KaiLeon Herbert, Zach Dykstra, Zalontae Hillery, and Corey Gaynor. What have we actually seen out of any of these players? The two who have gotten meaningful snaps are moved around from position to position and had to play in hands down the most predictable offense in NCAAF. With these guys, impact graduate transfers, and new coaches I fully expect our O-Line to be drastically better next year.
 
When everyone and their mother knows you are going to run the ball and they stack 7 or 8 in the box because they dare you to throw, what do you think is going to happen with the o line? Funny how they got better when we went spread. O line was weak because of the horrible scheme and inability to complete short passes or burn teams for stacking it up. Lots of offenses across the country would have loved to have some of our OL. Can’t wait to see them in a new scheme. Sure they aren’t Alabama but they were a victim of vanilla predictable playcallinh.
 
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I really hope you're right, really. But, I played OL for 42 starts in (small) college - bad is a relative term. O-lines are built, they don't just take massive steps.

Ours didn't play particularly well as a group, and combinations were changing all the time from last spring till the end of the season. Hard to build or get continuity playing together with rotating positions. If you never played O-Line, you just don't know how important that is. They talk about QB/WR's being on the same wave length - its the same with Cs/OGs and OGs/Ts.

They were horrible picking up blitzes most of the season (gave us no chance against LSU). Their run blocking for two seasons has been inconsistent, and lets face it we didn't have a beast of a schedule, or see too many great defenses, by any stretch. Our 3rd down issues were a great indicator. O-line is pretty simple you know who to block and you move people to be successful and this O-line seldom got push. Just replay the NC and watch Clemson's O-line - not world beaters this season, but showed up in the big game.

To me they developed a little this season, but we are still a below average college line, and not close to what we need to spark this program. Hopefully there's development, they get a decent grad transfer or freshman step up, and establish it early in the spring so they can work together, because that Gator front 7 will be for real.
 
OL is fat and slow. Lose the weight, get in condition and stronger. Then the OL will be alright.
 
Boys got talent obviously wouldn’t be playing D1 football if they didn’t but they weren’t being probably coached, they need to work on technique and execution. Hopefully the new oline coach can install that
Ps this reminded of this Gem
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