11-30-2017, 02:33 PM
(11-29-2017, 07:16 PM)bengalfan74 Wrote: Zone blocking, Directional blocking, Blocking blocking ?
Sorry Nate I'm not jumping on the O-line is suddenly fixed train. I do believe the O-line has gotten better, I just don't believe it's fixed.
I understand what the Browns stats were before last Sunday. But how quickly in a game given an 0-10 record is that team gonna just start phoning it in ?
If it continues this week I'll get on board.
Oh i don't believe the O-line is fixed by any means and i am right there with you, i just saw something much different
and Rfaulk just says its the Browns and we always run it well on them. Newsflash, when Hill ran all over the Browns
they were 31st in the league in stopping the run. They are 8th this season. To say this is the same Browns team in
stopping the run to me is just ludicrous.
(11-29-2017, 07:45 PM)BengalsRocker Wrote: Well... to be fair.
Announcers(Romo?)previously mentioned that the players on our O-Line are more built for a directional/spacial blocking scheme.
Even questioning why they weren't being used in that manner.
Who knows?? Maybe somebody slammed the keyboard cover on PianoMan's fingers and gave his ass the 411?
"Now play the Concerto Blockthiswaysimo you tubby ignorant turd!!"
Love it brother!
(11-29-2017, 10:27 PM)rfaulk34 Wrote: Climb to the highest mountain top and scream it all day. You're just parroting something you read on here that has zero truth.
How many times have you heard anyone associated with the Bengals point to the "new scheme" as the reason they ran so well?
Zero?
That's what i thought.
And while we're at it...could you explain this new fangled, oh so mysterious "directional blocking" and how it works?
No?
That's what i thought.
The difference was, more Hewitt and a more aggressive Mixon hitting the hole and cutting back when it was there. This isn't rocket surgery where NFL teams abandon what they've practiced all year and they all of the sudden become world-beating blockers in one week.
Plus, the Browns.
Wow, no O-line change at all. Just Hewitt the H-back and Mixon the RB. No O-line, Mixon is the next Barry Sanders...
(11-30-2017, 12:11 PM)Wyche Wrote: Yes, the convo with the line was interesting as I listened to the post game. Mixon asked them what they expected, and they talked with him about what he was looking for.
More Hewitt, and more aggression from Joe were key, but the blocking was more aggressive, more pulling, and more directional than in the past weeks. There was still a lot of zone blocking, but I noticed a much more aggressive approach. It's not out of the realm of possibility that they have been adding some wrinkles here and there during practice and finally felt comfortable enough with it to debut it last week.
Exactly Wyche, you see what FIK and i were seeing. Don't care if it was the Browns, there was a significant change
in how this O-line was blocking. Call it whatever you want but they were much more aggressive and there was SOME
directional blocking that i have not seen all season before this.
(11-30-2017, 12:14 PM)Wyche Wrote: It's not hunky dory with the line....by any stretch of the imagination. I feel it was a combination of many things....as has been noted. I'd also add, maybe Lazor has gotten more comfortable in his skin, and seeing what he needs to do to combat the line's ineffectiveness. After all, it's only his 9th game with this squad, with no preseason work to get his fingerprint on the offense.
