We're taking zero OL this year?

[Techbert]

How does the addition of 2 or 3 tight ends CGC has signed count in the OL calculus?

It just reduces the negative in the blocking dept we added by changing schemes. So it does not help. It just avoids it being worse.

True freshmen ol don't matter for 2019. The lack of signees in one year at OL is a futures issue, and we will have time to take care of it.

 

[00Burdell]

Signing an OL who likely won't contribute cripples a program for five years (1 redshirt year and 4 eligible years) - its basically equivalent to a reduction in scholarships of one for five years.

Not signing the aforementioned OL only hurts for one year.

Take your pick.

 

[texstinger]

Here's one to keep an eye on for the class of 2036 or so...

Nope, sorry.

Although the youngster has his mind rite, the great hair / good looks / smile and overall tude screams DB, WR or, maybe, TE.

 

[coit]

Here's one to keep an eye on for the class of 2036 or so...

He’s got his pointing fingers all set. Heel up too as well, probably.

 

[ramblin57]

Looks to me like you sign a lot of high rated OLs 2020 class and take again grad transfers if you need them. They're only here for one year. Should be of interest to both as they have a lot of opportunity to play.

 

[olgoldandwhite]

I figure we will pick up at least one transfer and the go for then cream of the crop next year.

 

[GTCrew]

Looks to me like you sign a lot of high rated OLs 2020 class and take again grad transfers if you need them. They're only here for one year. Should be of interest to both as they have a lot of opportunity to play.

Yeah.

I would've been a lot more worried in tbe old days before the transfer situation in college changed to get so much more common and easy.

 

[CornerBlitz]

Get ready for smashmouth football. No more blocking phantoms and diving on the ground. We'll see what we've got available soon enough and go from there.

We just finished the era of smash mouth football and that is not the direction CGC is taking us. We will mostly likely be a zone-read or something similar...certainly not smash mouth.

 

[savbandjacket]

We just finished the era of smash mouth football and that is not the direction CGC is taking us. We will mostly likely be a zone-read or something similar...certainly not smash mouth.

I have a hard time calling it smash mouth. Yes, it had its moments and it was a grind your opponent (or sometimes yourself) into submission type of offense, but it never felt smashmouth. Sometimes it felt more like Chinese Water Torture.

 

[gtrower]

Think we sent out a bunch of 2020 OL offers over the weekend.

 

[ncjacket]

I have a hard time calling it smash mouth. Yes, it had its moments and it was a grind your opponent (or sometimes yourself) into submission type of offense, but it never felt smashmouth. Sometimes it felt more like Chinese Water Torture.

Just check opposing teams comments. They always said they had to expect a physical game.

 

[savbandjacket]

Just check opposing teams comments. They always said they had to expect a physical game.

I understand that and that they didn’t like playing against it. It still never felt smashmouth from the stands.

 

[Ed Sawyer]

It still never felt smashmouth from the stands.

What the öööö does that even mean?

 

[00Burdell]

I have a hard time calling it smash mouth. Sometimes it felt more like Chinese Water Torture.

The play calling was water torture but each play was a one-round fist fight. As suggested, check out Bud Foster's description of playing against CPJ's offense.

 

[ibeeballin]

What the öööö does that even mean?

Even though we ran the ball 80%, it didn’t always feel like we were trying to out physical people. We did too much “cute” stuff, particularly with TQM. We were smashmouth-ish. For every game like 18 USF, 16 UK, UGA, or 14 Miss St we’ll have 18 Duke or other games where didn’t try to impose our will. We tried to outscheme them

 

[Ed Sawyer]

Even though we ran the ball 80%, it didn’t always feel like we were trying to out physical people. We did too much “cute” stuff, particularly with TQM. We were smash mouth-ish. For every game like 18 USF, 16 UK, UGA, or 14 Miss St we’ll have 18 Duke or other games where didn’t try to impose our will. We tried to outscheme them

Yeah, we didn't run inside veer as much as a flexbone team should, but running counters doesn't make the scheme soft. Playside OL are still drive blocking.

I think some of y'all are going to just end up trading "Sewak flop" jokes for "Key whiff" jokes with the new zone scheme. A lot of the stuff people have criticized in the past with the OL are problems of skill, not scheme. Clemson and UGA make a lot of offenses look bad. Just look at what Clelin Ferell did to Jonah Williams in the title game.

 

[User 10337]

As a wise man once said...iiwii

Just like your mom, your standards are quite low

 

[User 10337]

Yeah, we didn't run inside veer as much as a flexbone team should, but running counters doesn't make the scheme soft. Playside OL are still drive blocking.

Not necessarily. Depends on what defensive front is presented. Playside tackle inside releases on anything other than a 3 technique.

I think some of y'all are going to just end up trading "Sewak flop" jokes for "Key whiff" jokes with the new zone scheme. A lot of the stuff people have criticized in the past with the OL are problems of skill, not scheme. Clemson and UGA make a lot of offenses look bad. Just look at what Clelin Ferell did to Jonah Williams in the title game.

We will be running gap and man schemes too if we do the same things I learned from CBK. Key loves power, counter, iso, counter trey, draws and lead draws.

Zone blocking is tremendously easier than learning all of the obscure rules against every single defense that could be presented against the TO. If you can count to three, you can zone block. Then it’s about how athletic/skilled you are to execute.

Our previous OL problems were problems of skill and scheme imo. @ibeeballin is correct when he says we were to cute.

 

[CornerBlitz]

I have a hard time calling it smash mouth. Yes, it had its moments and it was a grind your opponent (or sometimes yourself) into submission type of offense, but it never felt smashmouth. Sometimes it felt more like Chinese Water Torture.

All bad football feels that way. It wasnt Alabama style ‘man on man’ smash mouth on the LOS, but definitely a physical brand of football when being executed correctly.

 

[18in32]

I'm excited about CGC and what he's doing – but it's crazy to say that CPJ's wasn't a physical brand of football. The times it wasn't, were times when our players just weren't as big/strong/talented as the other team. "Physical superiority cancels all theories."

I hope CGC can win a ton, and also come up with a ton of memorable one-liners, too. What's EDSBS gonna do without him?