re: Louisiana known for producing skilled players, but what about OL?

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Every year we produce elite, skilled athletes, so it would seem like Louisiana would also have its fair share of talented OL.

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That's actually counter productive. Since Louisiana has very skilled tailbacks, wide receivers, and QB's less emphasis is put on using the oline properly. QB's who get the starting job look more impressive scrambling around all over the place and never learn to use a pocket. Therefore the oline never learns how to hold a pocket.

To me it seems like the best offensive linemen come from areas with less athletic skill players.

Here’s one for next year

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Since Louisiana has very skilled tailbacks, wide receivers, and QB's less emphasis is put on using the oline properly.

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No, man. As has been pointed out by others, it’s a genetic thing. Louisiana is settled by mostly southern Europeans and sub-saharan Africans. The southern Europeans don’t produce a lot of football players, period, and the Africans produce mostly quick twitch athletes who play the skill positions.

Huge linemen come mostly from nordic and anglo-saxon bloodlines. We don’t have much of that down here. The Africans produce quite a few, but they end up on the dline mostly becaus eof their quick twitch abilities.