Time to pump the brakes: the Oline isn't that bad.

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(10-01-2016, 10:27 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Hill is averaging 3.8 ypc while Bernard is averaging 2.7. In this game, Hill averaged 3.4 while Bernard averaged 1.8 on 10 carries. If Hill is a big part of the problem, how is Gio not when he's putting up inferior numbers?

I agree that Ogbuehi has been a big problem thus far. Bodine is as well. He was much better in this game, but I'm still very worried about him going forward. It's fair to wonder if Hill contributes to the run problems, but I just have trouble believing he's a big part of it when (1) Gio is averaging a full yard less per carry and (2) we've ranked 20th or worse in YPC in every season but one (2014) from 2006-present. The one year we were good, it was mostly thanks to Hill, so...

Agreed,

And no matter how you spin it, crack it up, or whatever our run blocking is horrible on 3 run plays out of 4. We get next to zero push, we can't run on 3rd and short or goal to do situations. We can't run when they know it's coming.

You can put blame on many things, the RB's, the play calling, tipping our hand with sets, and on and on. But it's still mostly bad blocking/not sustaining blocks that's causing the problem. If the play is to go in between the RG and T. The RB has to head to that hole. He can ad lib a little bit but can't just take off to go off tackle to the left.

The elephant in the room is the blocking IMHO