Our Offensive Line

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(09-17-2016, 12:45 PM)3wt Wrote: Yeah, I mean Zeitler is a good guard and will rebound.  But I share Lap's wonder at the fundamental nature of his poor play Sunday.   Lap said nothing about the lack of familiarity with Og - mostly because that was not the trouble spot (other than the rookie mistakes Og made that you could expect against a good D-line).  The area of the black hole on the line that day was the C/ RG spot.  And it was an open gate most of the game.

Bodine.   I've nurtured a tiny nugget of hope that he'll realize his "potential".  But I've entered the molecular level of hope.  A few more games like this and it will go subatomic.

Zeitler puzzles me...I haven't take apart all the coach's cut yet, but this is his contact year.  After his rookie season, where he was really, really good, he decided to not be "the fat guy" and worked on his strength and conditioning to become a better player.  The video a lot of us saw in the offseason had me salivating at what he could do next to the up and coming Ced.  

However, he seems to have tailed off.  DeCastro is on whatever all steelers get put on and he looks about 30 lbs bigger, with no loss of agility and has become one of the best.  I just wonder if Zeitler should have gone the other way and gotten bigger while getting stronger.  He might not like the way he looks in his jeans, but he might have been more effective and be looking at a contract near what DeCastro earned.  Right now, I just don't see it.