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Elko's comment on the OL today spoke volumes to me after watching our guys block ghosts as blitzers ran right by them. "Our focus is a lot less on cohesiveness and more on strain along the OL. We want to see kids play harder and block better."

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I found that comment very interesting. It sounds like they are trying to coach out some bad habits leftover from Addazio. I also like how their focus isn't on cohesiveness or "gelling" right now and is instead on making them better blockers. Under Jimbo it always seemed like he talked a lot about the "gelling" aspect. Maybe they should have been more focused on making them better blockers.

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Gyles Marrett said:

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Hubert J. Farnsworth said:

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Elko's comment on the OL today spoke volumes to me after watching our guys block ghosts as blitzers ran right by them. "Our focus is a lot less on cohesiveness and more on strain along the OL. We want to see kids play harder and block better."

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I found that comment very interesting. It sounds like they are trying to coach out some bad habits leftover from Addazio. I also like how their focus isn't on cohesiveness or "gelling" right now and is instead on making them better blockers. Under Jimbo it always seemed like he talked a lot about the "gelling" aspect. Maybe they should have been more focused on making them better blockers.

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It takes a lot of cohesiveness and being able to know what each other are thinking when you're trying to figure out who is going to pick up the ghost rusher and who's going to block and actual defender.

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Randy Rhodes said:

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Ok they know the problem and are dealing with it?

Whats the problem?

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The OL can't block.

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Hubert J. Farnsworth said:

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Gyles Marrett said:

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I forgot who on TA radio said it yesterday but someone mentioned Foster should still be the starting center. With him missing all spring the only way I'd agree with that is if everyone else we try at center completely sucks. I've seen nothing out of his play that makes me think he can miss spring and still be our best option at center...but we will see.

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I hope someone else beats Foster out. In the press conferences, the coaches didn't seem thrilled when a question was asked about him and they gave very short answers. To me, it seems like the coaches wanted him to forgo track to learn the new system but he wouldn't do it. Elko's 2 word "he's track" answer with nothing else told me a lot. Klein kind of blew his Foster question off and instead talked about Nabou and Shanahan practicing at center.

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Bill Superman said:

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We will live and die this season by our O Line play. After our past two seasons' OL performance and the fact that we haven't had a healthy QB since Mond was here, this will be the deciding factor on if we can crack the coveted double digit win column.

Elko's comment on the OL today spoke volumes to me after watching our guys block ghosts as blitzers ran right by them.
"Our focus is a lot less on cohesiveness and more on strain along the OL. We want to see kids play harder and block better."

We could have been leagues better had our guys even stepped in front of the rushers for even just a moment. After the last two season's OL debacles, simply playing harder, until the whistle and just attempting to block someone is a huge step in the right direction.

Regardless, it's only up from where we've been. Can't wait to see us hold the line, even if it's just for a second.

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VP at Pierce and Pierce said:

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Hubert J. Farnsworth said:

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Gyles Marrett said:

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I forgot who on TA radio said it yesterday but someone mentioned Foster should still be the starting center. With him missing all spring the only way I'd agree with that is if everyone else we try at center completely sucks. I've seen nothing out of his play that makes me think he can miss spring and still be our best option at center...but we will see.

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I hope someone else beats Foster out. In the press conferences, the coaches didn't seem thrilled when a question was asked about him and they gave very short answers. To me, it seems like the coaches wanted him to forgo track to learn the new system but he wouldn't do it. Elko's 2 word "he's track" answer with nothing else told me a lot. Klein kind of blew his Foster question off and instead talked about Nabou and Shanahan practicing at center.

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His scholarship is for football and unless he is Olympic caliber he needs to be at spring practice. Hopefully a big improvement of the OL will be in the weight room. That unit looked slow, weak, too bulky, and out of shape the past few seasons. Poor diet and poor weight training.

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Gyles Marrett said:

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VP at Pierce and Pierce said:

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Hubert J. Farnsworth said:

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Gyles Marrett said:

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I forgot who on TA radio said it yesterday but someone mentioned Foster should still be the starting center. With him missing all spring the only way I'd agree with that is if everyone else we try at center completely sucks. I've seen nothing out of his play that makes me think he can miss spring and still be our best option at center...but we will see.

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I hope someone else beats Foster out. In the press conferences, the coaches didn't seem thrilled when a question was asked about him and they gave very short answers. To me, it seems like the coaches wanted him to forgo track to learn the new system but he wouldn't do it. Elko's 2 word "he's track" answer with nothing else told me a lot. Klein kind of blew his Foster question off and instead talked about Nabou and Shanahan practicing at center.

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His scholarship is for football and unless he is Olympic caliber he needs to be at spring practice. Hopefully a big improvement of the OL will be in the weight room. That unit looked slow, weak, too bulky, and out of shape the past few seasons. Poor diet and poor weight training.

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While I want to see a different option at Center....There's not really an option to do it the other way around. If he's going to play football and track they don't let you save football scholarships by putting him on a track scholarship.

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Detmersdislocatedshoulder said:

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the best offensive lines play with attitude and set the tone for the whole team. give me five brawlers who want to punish people and i will show you a good offensive line.

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VP at Pierce and Pierce said:

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Gyles Marrett said:

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VP at Pierce and Pierce said:

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Hubert J. Farnsworth said:

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Gyles Marrett said:

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I forgot who on TA radio said it yesterday but someone mentioned Foster should still be the starting center. With him missing all spring the only way I'd agree with that is if everyone else we try at center completely sucks. I've seen nothing out of his play that makes me think he can miss spring and still be our best option at center...but we will see.

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I hope someone else beats Foster out. In the press conferences, the coaches didn't seem thrilled when a question was asked about him and they gave very short answers. To me, it seems like the coaches wanted him to forgo track to learn the new system but he wouldn't do it. Elko's 2 word "he's track" answer with nothing else told me a lot. Klein kind of blew his Foster question off and instead talked about Nabou and Shanahan practicing at center.

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His scholarship is for football and unless he is Olympic caliber he needs to be at spring practice. Hopefully a big improvement of the OL will be in the weight room. That unit looked slow, weak, too bulky, and out of shape the past few seasons. Poor diet and poor weight training.

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While I want to see a different option at Center....There's not really an option to do it the other way around. If he's going to play football and track they don't let you save football scholarships by putting him on a track scholarship.

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I understand that, my point was football is paying his all his bills and rehabbing all his injuries. It is time for him to focus on football only and that starts in the weight room and actually playing the sport. He hasn't shown to be good enough to just walk out there in the fall and dominate.

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Absolutely correct. If we had a good unit who performed well then ok go to track. But HIS unit pretty much single handedly is responsible for our urgent state of affairs. Oline dominates and we have a different season. Until that happens all jobs up for grabs until great tape and results and work established.

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VP at Pierce and Pierce said:

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Hubert J. Farnsworth said:

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Gyles Marrett said:

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I forgot who on TA radio said it yesterday but someone mentioned Foster should still be the starting center. With him missing all spring the only way I'd agree with that is if everyone else we try at center completely sucks. I've seen nothing out of his play that makes me think he can miss spring and still be our best option at center...but we will see.

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I hope someone else beats Foster out. In the press conferences, the coaches didn't seem thrilled when a question was asked about him and they gave very short answers. To me, it seems like the coaches wanted him to forgo track to learn the new system but he wouldn't do it. Elko's 2 word "he's track" answer with nothing else told me a lot. Klein kind of blew his Foster question off and instead talked about Nabou and Shanahan practicing at center.

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His scholarship is for football and unless he is Olympic caliber he needs to be at spring practice. Hopefully a big improvement of the OL will be in the weight room. That unit looked slow, weak, too bulky, and out of shape the past few seasons. Poor diet and poor weight training.

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Hubert J. Farnsworth said:

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They seemed lost much of the time, absolutely did not understand their blocking assignments which to
Me is absolutely the fault of the coaching . Exact opposite of gelling.

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It wasn't just not knowing assignments. Their blocking technique was terrible and they got whipped a lot, even when they followed their assignment correctly. They also couldn't move hardly anybody in run blocking. It was like they would hit the defensive line and just try to hold them in place instead of driving them back. It was terrible coaching, an awful blocking scheme, and just bad execution.

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It was the worst coaching and scheme that I've ever see next to Fran. At least one of the O Linemen was confused on every given play. There was always someone blocking nobody. Blitzers would rush right by those guys and they would ignore them and look for someone else to block.

Every play you could feel that something was likely to go wrong and it all began at the line. The RB's never had a hole anywhere, especially where there was supposed to be one.

I've never seen anything like it. Would have loved to listen to Addazio try to explain it, but Jimbo knew better than to allow that.

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Demo_Slug said:

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I didn't understand what strain meant in Elko's comments. Seems awkward but specific.

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Demo_Slug said:

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I didn't understand what strain meant in Elko's comments. Seems awkward but specific.

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Demo_Slug said:

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I didn't understand what strain meant in Elko's comments. Seems awkward but specific.

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Bill Superman said:

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We will live AND die this season by our O Line play.

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