Good W last night.....BUT

MoverofFridge2

MoverofFridge2

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I want to see the O-Line hit someone in the damn mouth and mean it!!!!

I really thought our backup line hit UVA in the mouth more than the first stringers. I know the game was out of reach and all that bs, but they went out to hit someone when they had a chance to play.

I'm tellin' ya gentlemen, if our O-Line play does not improve, we could be in some serious trouble with some of the defenses we are about to play against in the near future.

I can not figure out why they do not have that killer instinct. Is it their attitude? the coaching? I do believe we have some very capable individuals up there, but IMO, they are not playing up to their capabilities.

Come on O-Line, prepare yourselves this week to go to Blacksburg and hit the damn Hokies in their grill.

Go TECH!!!!!!

Proud to be A YELLOW JACKET!!!!!!!

let's make it 4-1.
 
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Very valid point and one that brings back some memories I had about forgotten.

Years ago when I coached PeeWee football, our little O'Line was just about anemic. A bunch of 1st and 2nd graders had no real idea of busting anyone. In fact, they were a bit afraid to hit anyone since they might just get hit back. LOL:)

As kids will do while playing, I noticed that they imitated wild animals and made all the sounds to go with them.

Sooo, I paired them off, had them just growl at each other to see who could be the scariest.

They learned that when they did this, they became braver than normal and found it fun to hit the guy in front of them.

I wound up with a team of O'Line growlers that sounded like the Atlanta Zoo in heat.

Their first game, they broke huddle and ran as fast as the could to the line, got down in their 3 pt. and started growling as loud as they could to the opposing players.

The opposing team didn't know what to think so they all started looking at their coach to see what he wanted them to do.

BINGO !!!!!!

Busting in the mouth time arrived with our PeeWees and they loved growling and hitting.

From then on, it was a sight of madness at our practices with all the growling going on.

I know that just made your day and I don't propose that our 1st team O'Line start growling, but I would like to see their intensity level rise up a couple of notches due to whatever their O'Line coach sees will motivate them to do the job.
 
I don't if they are coming in fresh against a tired D or have been playing against our opponents 2nd string, but our 2nd string OL always seems to get better push. I think we need to rotate more people on the OL. I would also like to see Newberry (our strongest OL) play in short yardage situations.
 
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What we have our OL doing just seems strange to me. It appears that we don't have them firing out very often. Mostly they seem to be accepting the rush and trying to control and turn the DL. Maybe I'm missing something, but in looking at the film we don't seem to be trying to "win" the LOS.

Maybe that's how you do it with the spread/shotgun running attack. But it seems like it would make the OL more passive. Am I imagining things or is there something to the scheme we're using?
 
ncjacket said:
What we have our OL doing just seems strange to me. It appears that we don't have them firing out very often. Mostly they seem to be accepting the rush and trying to control and turn the DL. Maybe I'm missing something, but in looking at the film we don't seem to be trying to "win" the LOS.
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You couldn't have said it any better NC, which makes me wonder why you questioned my observations in my thread regarding our team. Our OLine play stinks to high heaven and it starts with coaching. The next thing to worry about is having the right personnel and we don't on the interior side of the line.
 
I'm not convinced that it's the OL or OL coach as much as the scheme we've chosen to play. That's what I'm really questioning BOR. If we don't let the line fire out, how is it their fault if they don't knock people off the line?
 
ncjacket said:
I'm not convinced that it's the OL or OL coach as much as the scheme we've chosen to play. That's what I'm really questioning BOR. If we don't let the line fire out, how is it their fault if they don't knock people off the line?
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Two very good posts NC,
I've wondered the same thing too. We don't really know if they are following orders to NOT fire out or if they just aren't getting it done.
Good posts guy, keep it up.
 
I have always liked this Rodreguez quote (WV HC), "You only need one good block, in a spread offense, to break a good gaining play. You need everyone to make good blocks in a more traditional offensive scheme to break a big play."
 
MoverofFridge2 said:
I want to see the O-Line hit someone in the damn mouth and mean it!!!!

I really thought our backup line hit UVA in the mouth more than the first stringers. I know the game was out of reach and all that bs, but they went out to hit someone when they had a chance to play.

I'm tellin' ya gentlemen, if our O-Line play does not improve, we could be in some serious trouble with some of the defenses we are about to play against in the near future.

I can not figure out why they do not have that killer instinct. Is it their attitude? the coaching? I do believe we have some very capable individuals up there, but IMO, they are not playing up to their capabilities.

Come on O-Line, prepare yourselves this week to go to Blacksburg and hit the damn Hokies in their grill.

Go TECH!!!!!!

Proud to be A YELLOW JACKET!!!!!!!

let's make it 4-1.
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I saw this weakness at the ND game, last night, and I'm sure it was evident against SAmford and Troy. It was there last year, also. We won't control a game if we can't line up and run the ball. We don't even have a back that can move a pile. This handicaps us in the red zone as well. And when we were pinned down deep last night, we just couldn't punch it out of there. We'll be 6-6 if the run game doesn't improve.
 
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