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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Teams move their best rushing ends around to exploit the best match-ups. In this case, if Light were moved to RT to make room for a pass-blocking specialist LT, Jason Taylor would merely switch to the left side of the defense on passing downs.That group is the one we're all so happy about having signed long term too
Maybe it's time to draft a real LT, move Light to RT and upgrade two OT spots with one pick ?
First, not all teams do move their DE around like that. Second, it's still better to have the best pass rush not coming from the blind side. Say what you want, you still want, and need, your best pass protector on the left side.Teams move their best rushing ends around to exploit the best match-ups. In this case, if Light were moved to RT to make room for a pass-blocking specialist LT, Jason Taylor would merely switch to the left side of the defense on passing downs.
You're right about the blind side vs. face side issue, but its mitigated somewhat by Brady's excellent pocket presence. I've seen more than a few plays where he'll step up and away from a blind side rush.First, not all teams do move their DE around like that. Second, it's still better to have the best pass rush not coming from the blind side. Say what you want, you still want, and need, your best pass protector on the left side.
Miami moves Taylor around. We don't move our DE and OLB side to side much other than when injuries force it. I guess I don't really know how many teams do it.However, most teams do move their DE depending on matchup and blitz packages. Most pertinent to this discussion is Miami, which certainly moves Taylor around - he was spotted schooling both Kaczur and Light this afternoon. As BB said in his press conference: "They do a good job with him in their scheme and make it hard to find him."
Dr. Z said:OK, Tom Coughlin has been roasted enough for that foolish field goal try into the wind. But here's my beef, and it was one of the big reasons they lost. You do not, absolutely do not, take one of the two or three worst pass-blocking tackles in the league, Bob Whitfield (who relieved the injured Luke Petitgout in the first quarter) and leave him on Alex Brown without any help. Brown positively feasts on stiffs. It turned the game, created two meaningful sack-fumbles. I can hear the conversation now between Coughlin and his OL coach: "You think he can handle it?" "Yeah, yeah, he'll be OK." No, no and NO! You do not let these guys do your coaching for you. No position coach gets as close to his players as offensive line coaches do, consequently none get as skewed a view. The gallant marine lieutenant and his troops. OK, men, follow me, we'll take this hill! And they all get killed.
The offensive coordinator is supposed to make adjustments and change the play calling. He didnt. END OF STORY
For those saying that they have never seen an o-line play so bad, I'm sorry, but you must not have been following the Patriots for more than 6 or 7 years. I can remember the Zefross Moss and Sale Isaia years when the O-line was just plain horrible with Bruce Armstrong the only good player on it.
That group is the one we're all so happy about having signed long term too
Maybe it's time to draft a real LT, move Light to RT and upgrade two OT spots with one pick ?
Before we start the umpteenth McDaniels thread bash, maybe we should examine the coach most implicated by the poor blocking scheme employed today by the offensive line - Dante Scarnecchia.
Not only is Scar the man most involved with the offensive line, in many respects he also has greater authority than McDaniels, as he is (at least nominally) the assistant head coach.
This is almost a violation of the sacrosanct, but I think if the buck is going to stop somewhere, some hefty change is due to go to everyone's favorite miracle worker. Today's performance by the tackles reminds me of a Dr. Z quote from a Power Poll a couple weeks back, when the Bears ate the Giants alive, before we got to them. Keep in mind that Zimmerman is a former semi-pro lineman and one of the few national writers that charts line play:
If we're going to speculate about just how much malevolent influence McDaniels has when it comes to taking what we think could be an overal offensive scheme worthy of Don Coryell and turning it into an inept abomination of all that is true and good in assertive play-calling, I can't see any harm in wondering whether Dante, in the gameplan meetings this week, perhaps thought that Light and Kaczur "would be fine" against the unfriendly Dolphin edge rush.
Marcus McNeil looks great for SD, he went #18 in the second round. 14 picks after Chad JacksonEveryone says draft a real LT, but that is near impossible in today's draft. In the last five years, the draft probably has produced three, maybe four tackles who are better than Matt Light. The draft hasn't produced a dominant All Pro LT since Orlando Pace and Walter Jones.