R.I.P. Team Sewell

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(09-12-2021, 08:27 PM)bfine32 Wrote: No doubt. Hunter is one of the best Edge players in the NFL and the only time he sniffed Burrow was when we decided to have Sample block him. Hopkins got used by Pierce twice and the RBs missed a couple blitz pick ups. But the pocket was there for Joe and the running game was clicking

Yep! Aside from Hopkins getting juked twice by Pierce the line did its job. The other sacks were on a) The silly idea of blocking an elite DE with a TE and b) We had two plays were the back missed the blocking assignment. Burrow had a clean pocket the vast majority of the time and Mixon had some room to run. And this was with Hopkins in particular being very rusty because ZT only had the first team offense play three snaps all preseason.