10-23-2017, 12:35 AM
Did you see Pittsburgh’s offensive line? Did you?
I did and it sickens me how Marvin Lewis and Paul Alexander — and now Bill Lazor — are right on the sideline watching them work and fail to understand how abysmal the Bengals are up front in comparison. Yeah, I know the Steelers hold, chop block, and wrestle defensive players to the ground and never get called for it but forget that; look at what they do to open holes for their runners and protect Pig Pen for up to ten whole BLEEPing seconds in the pocket. Yes, ten seconds. I even used a stopwatch.
Paul Alexander has his linemen drop back and play patty cake. The Steelers lunge forward with pads low. These are the reasons Andy Dalton has a pocket the size of a broom closet and Ben Roethlisberger has a pocket which extends to each sideline. In run blocking the Bengals stand up and push with their arms. The Steelers get low and push with their cores and legs. This is why the Cincinnati runners get stuffed at the line of scrimmage and LeVeon Bell just keeps his feet moving until a hole inevitably appears.
The fix is easy but finding someone in the Front Office with the intestinal fortitude to get an offensive line coach who knows more about moving a piano than playing one is proving impossible.
I did and it sickens me how Marvin Lewis and Paul Alexander — and now Bill Lazor — are right on the sideline watching them work and fail to understand how abysmal the Bengals are up front in comparison. Yeah, I know the Steelers hold, chop block, and wrestle defensive players to the ground and never get called for it but forget that; look at what they do to open holes for their runners and protect Pig Pen for up to ten whole BLEEPing seconds in the pocket. Yes, ten seconds. I even used a stopwatch.
Paul Alexander has his linemen drop back and play patty cake. The Steelers lunge forward with pads low. These are the reasons Andy Dalton has a pocket the size of a broom closet and Ben Roethlisberger has a pocket which extends to each sideline. In run blocking the Bengals stand up and push with their arms. The Steelers get low and push with their cores and legs. This is why the Cincinnati runners get stuffed at the line of scrimmage and LeVeon Bell just keeps his feet moving until a hole inevitably appears.
The fix is easy but finding someone in the Front Office with the intestinal fortitude to get an offensive line coach who knows more about moving a piano than playing one is proving impossible.
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