Oline combinations

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(08-25-2020, 08:22 PM)Yojimbo Wrote: I’ve seen a lot of knee jerk reactions if the offense has a good day, then that means the defense sucks and when the defense has a good day then the offense sucks. What I think we’re seeing is the two honing their edges against each other and we should see it go back and forth if both are good.

In scrimmages and team drills the offense and defense are scripted to allow the coaches to get a look at exactly what they want to see.  Just for example, on a day when the coaches are looking at the offenses ability to pick up the blitz with four wide the defense will be blitzing every play against limited blockers, or if they want to look at how the defense handles mismatches in man coverage the defense will deal with that on every play.

So it is hard to judge exactly how the offense or defense looks under normal game situations.