03-21-2022, 06:21 PM
(03-21-2022, 06:03 PM)jwalker3853 Wrote: I agree, he will still have pressure BUT......
The improved OLine should significantly reduce the amount of pressure Joe faces game in / game out and - if the running game improves as much as we hope it does - then it will also help reduce the amount of pressure as folks will have to respect our running game and won't be able to just pin their ears back as much. By my estimation, the pressure should be drastically reduced, defenses will have to respect our running game - which will further open up our passing game.
It's hard not to get too excited - even if this isn't an "elite" unit - because this is - on paper - a significantly better OLine than has been fielded the last several years. It all looks really good on paper. Let's hope everyone can stay healthy and it gels the way we hope it will.
Great post Jwalker. That was the problem, teams would stop our running game and just pin their ears back and hit Burrow
as often as they could. We still were able to overcome this somehow with Burrow's abilities but now it won't be so easy to
stop our run game with good to great blockers. Burrow will be able to do more of what he wants and it will take the pressure
off of him big time with a good run game. Take what the Defense gives you.
Won't have to all be on Burrow's shoulders to bring us back. We should be up much more often when we are controlling the
LOS on both sides of the ball.
