re: Someone who knows football technique explain why our line is so soft?

Seriously, why do we even run an RPO when 1 of the 3 options ain’t going to happen…Nuss ain’t running. It’s a terrible scheme because it doesn’t fit this team’s strengths.

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Coaching staff of our oline has no idea what they are doing. Just going thru the motions. It is obvious to anyone paying attention that these players have no clue what to do on many plays. Terrible technique.....bad hs ish really.

Obviously technique is awful but I also wonder if they’re even picking the schemes. Modern spread offenses only use a handful of blocking schemes in their offense instead of having Olineman learn every single play . Malzahn calls it the “living playbook” It makes it much easier to learn especially for young players and transfers. Can’t know for sure but judging by the way we check plays and signal plays in it looks like the old way.

I've seen many practice videos where Davis is coaching them extremely hard. Like he goes harder than most of the coaching staff. The fact they're still so soft boggles the mind.

Makes me wonder if someone isn't coming behind him and playing good cop, whether that's Sloan, Hankton, Atkins, or BK.

You do have point.

My two cents is that they pushed zone zone zone and wanted to run zone 100% of the time, but eventually realized we suck at zone and have now switched midstream. I must say that a lot of teams have had a lot of success over the years running just iz/oz but personally I hate it (for aesthetic reasons as much as anything tbh). One reason why I hate it is that zone blocking takes away from the "go get 'em" kind of aggression you want to see in O linemen - you're thinking about moving laterally and shite. This attitude, I think, bleeds over into the pass blocking, which we saw in spades on Saturday.

It is really difficult to overstate how bad those guys looked and how painful that performance is to watch. Yes losing Tyree was a huge deal and I think the game may have come out differently with him in there for 60 minutes. (Nuss played terrific although no one on the rant wants to admit this). But injury is just a fact of football life and someone has to pick up the slack.

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One of the more informative posts I’ve read here in some time. Thanks for sharing

I don’t think “soft” is the correct term.

I think they are pensive, or unsure.

RPO is hard on an OL. They play like they are unsure of their assignments.

That is coaching, but more than the OL and technique. It’s more about the lack of offensive identity of this offense.

I blame the OC more than I do the OL coach

Pad level is an issue, and it happens when you overthinking your assignments