11-07-2017, 05:16 PM
(11-07-2017, 01:49 PM)Wyche Wrote: Pretty much! The thing we were taught (long ago, mind you, lol) off the bat, was get low and get the defender's hands down. Run blocking is much easier than pass pro, so that's what I don't get about this unit. I mean, you use angles to wall off the defender's path to the hole you're running to, and you either drive his ass outta the hole, or you "ride" him out of the play. The danger to the latter is that a cutback from the RB may lead to your man making the tackle. When I was outsized from time to time, I would often just get my angle right with my feet, and allow the guy to pursue himself out of the play.....kinda "ride" him around the point of attack, if you will, especially in pass pro on rollouts and boots. Shit, run blocking was easy then.....just fire out low, hit the sumbitch around the gut, and keep your feet moving and drive for all you're worth. Piano Man likes his guys to stand up straight and play patty cake.
A big part of the issue is, the draft guys who run spread, Read/option offenses in college.
And they have wildly different skills sets than say, a 320lbs earth mover.
Neither is inherently better than the other but you have to know what you have and how to use it.
Their insistence on using under center runs with Mixon, full backs and shit like that is proof that from the HC down to position coaches they are clueless as to how to put things together.
Shanahan made his fame on using smaller OL who could zone block but really weren't ever going to be the biggest or strongest OL. But get your zone steps down with functional strength and you're golden. The goal was always get to the spot first and get "same shoulders" then you gash them. Get to the LBs.
They drafted those "types"...kind of...but outside of Hue no OC really implemented it the way it should which is why we weren't great but we were effective running in 2015. There's a huge disconnect.
