Clint Boling is garbage

[BengalChris]

(11-15-2016, 05:42 PM)Bengalfan4life27c Wrote: Ogbuehi has actually improved he's still bad but Ive seen improvement. Bodine is still consistently underwhelming self. Z and Whit are still both playing above average. Which brings me to Clint Boling hes not a rookie hes a veteran his play has been actually pathetic got beat on back to back plays on our last drive. Story of his entire season.

(11-15-2016, 06:19 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Boling is the 2nd best OL on the team. (For what that's worth on a bad OL.)

He's also an elite pulling guard. Average-ish otherwise, but that still evens out to an above-average player. He also didn't take a 1st round pick (Zeitler, Ogbuehi). Not sure what improvement you've seen from Ogbuehi, or how you've seen Zeitler as above-average.

Only person I have seen actually improve is Bodine, and he's gone from awful to just below average (with still very bad snapping ability).

My god you know our OL is really bad when we start comparing the microscopic improvements they may or may not be making.

There's also blocking scheme problems. On one play I saw Eifert have to pull all the way from the left side of the formation to the right to be too late to block JPP who had a clear shot at Dalton. That's an odd way to underestimate JPP. Eifert blocking JPP strait up is already a mis-match, but to have to come all the way across the formation is just bad scheming against a very good player.

I feel the like Paul Alexander was sitting at his desk thinking, "We'll just trick JPP into thinking he's got a free shot at Dalton, then super TE will appear." It really looks like he was trying to be cute with this blocking scheme, yet he can't even get these guys to block strait up first.