10-19-2016, 08:18 PM
(10-18-2016, 05:14 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Not sure if it's been mentioned, but in a cincinnati.com article about the benching, there were numerous quotes from o-linemen talking about how they struggled early. One quote from Boling was pretty interesting. He mentioned that he struggled one year and pretty much had to rough his way through the whole season. Then Paul Alexander was able to point out some things that helped him greatly after the season ended. Boling said that Alexander can't really coach guys up while the season is going.
I would be interested to know why. Seems like it'd be easy to coach a guy up and make a couple tweaks to his technique during the season, instead of letting him continually get killed through the year.
It's likely not just a couple tweaks. A coach can usually take care of that.
Lap was talking about muscle memory for linemen and how easy it is to revert to old, bad habits. It's a matter of doing it over and over and over and over and over again. Not something that can just be corrected in a weeks time. Even if he does play better in a particular week, it could be messed up the next week.
Just a matter of getting that correct muscle memory, so when things get hot and heavy, it's done right without thinking about it.
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