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(07-26-2018, 12:33 PM)Nate (formerly eliminate08) Wrote: Another nice thread Holic, good job brother. I usually disagree with a lot of PFF's rankings and such but i really
cannot argue with anything these guys said. The right side of the Line is still a question no doubt but bringing in
a new O-line Coach is bigger then anything here. There was a player on that Cowboys Line that used to be bad
and Pollack coached him up, forget his name at the moment but he has done it before.

I think RG will be muchly improved this season with either Westerman or Redmond. Hopkins isn't going to start
or atleast i highly doubt it. These two looked much better then Hopkins last year and Westerman has always
looked good everytime i have seen him.

At RT, one of Fisher, Hart, Redmond, Perkins, Taylor should be serviceable once they get enough snaps and if
none of them are we can move either Boling or Glenn to RT if we really have to.

The SAM position is really the position that i am always uncomfortable with at Linebacker. Vigil did not play well
here at all last year, even if he had a bad knee, it was bad. Evans is also more of a WILL backer, so is Vinny.

One of Worley or Jefferson i hope steps up or Evans gains some muscle and watches more vids of the way our
guy Burfict tackles. He launches from the hips and explodes into the tackle, watch and emulate.

Doug Free?  

I think RT has to be our biggest question mark, no doubt.  I am extremely pleased, however, at the drafting of Billy Price.  I feel like the center position was such a weakness that it also impacted the play of the guards to both sides as well as potentially limiting the playbook (even on rushing downs).  Bodine would get shoved backwards so often that pulling guards would not have much of a chance to reach their destination.  I saw it implode a few times and then it seemed as though we didn't go back to it for some time.  I have confidence that if Fisher beats out guys like Redmond for the RT job, it won't be because of his draft position.  They are all under similar timelines for needing their next contract.

One thing I would like to see return for short yardage and the goal line is the "unbalanced line" with the extra lineman lined up as a TE.  I know that it was really designed as a compensation for not having the greatest line to begin with and it was more of a numbers game, but I think having Fisher, Ced, Redmond, or Hart (whoever does not win the RT job) lined up as an extra blocker would make it very difficult on opposing defenses. 

The key to making the formation work (and I would LOVE to roll this shit out against pitt) is to have a couple PASS plays designed out of this formation.  Like where we are lined up on 3rd and 1, have the extra blocker come in, pitt sells out to stop the run, and a guy like John Ross runs a deep route and the Bengals take a shot with him.  It is like when Navy does a fake run option and goes play-action out of their triple option formation.  

They would have to set it up with a couple successful runs out of the formation before taking a deep shot, so they would sell out to stop the run.  

I would love to see that, and I even think a player like Auden Tate could slip out of the formation as a red zone target when lined up for a short yardage gain to move the chains.