10-21-2016, 12:34 PM
(10-21-2016, 11:40 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Wrong again. Here is as feature article all about Alexander.
http://www.si.com/vault/2016/02/11/lay-it-line
Since 2007, when the stat was first kept, the Bengals rank first in PFF's pass-blocking-efficiency statistic ("a rating that reflects the most efficient pass blockers on a per-pass-blocking snap basis") at 84.1%. The league average is 79.5%. And Cincinnati has been remarkably consistent year to year, ranking outside the top six of that stat just once.
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"Obviously, we do it a little differently in Cincy," says backup tackle Eric Winston, who has played for three other teams in 10 seasons. "And I think it works really well. It's hard to argue with the results."
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"We always used to butt heads," says Hue Jackson, Cincinnati's offensive coordinator and former running backs coach. "When I was made coordinator [in 2014], we spent some time going over all the ways he taught things. Sitting there with him, it made me realize how good he was. How he teaches, the different props and tools he uses—it's different. But the results are outstanding."
BTW, Wyche, thanks for making me look this up because I actually found a second article that praises PA. He was selected as the best O-line coach in the league.
http://www.si.com/nfl/2016/06/07/best-nfl-coaches-paul-alexander-bengals
Alexander has been the Bengals’ offensive line coach since 1994, and added the title of Assistant Head Coach in 2003. He’s served under four different head coaches for the Bengals, and his lines have blocked for four different running backs with 1,000-yard seasons. Cincinnati’s line under Alexander has ranked among the top 10 in fewest sacks allowed totals in four of the last five NFL seasons, and it set franchise records for low quarterback takedowns in two different seasons before that. Alexander has gotten the job done with his front five through multiple personnel shifts, injuries, coaching philosophies, and schematic shifts in the league. At this point, he should be talked about in the same breath as legendary line coaches like Howard Mudd and Alex Gibbs.
That SI article is great, actually gives you some insight into how he operates...always felt Alexander likes to see himself as slightly different but did not realise that it permeated all the way through to how he actually coaches technique.
You have to keep faith with the guy and pray that his picks (and I personally still believe Og, Fisher, Bodine, Zeitler were very much driven by him) develop into the players he clearly thinks they can be.
That said I'm really struggling to see why we have regressed so far since last year when that article was written?
I know Ced is really struggling but everyone else on the line is a carry over and yet the running game continues to be poor and now the pass protection -which as the article highlighted has previously been a big strength - has dropped off.
