10-12-2020, 02:37 PM
(10-12-2020, 10:04 AM)Au165 Wrote: ...it's not the scheme. Blocking schemes in football are one of the less complicated things when talking about schemes. There aren't a ton of options and frankly we have tried pretty much all of them in various forms at this point. At some point you have to accept the players are not good. Hopkins is overrated here simply because he wasn't as bad as Price. Jordan has not developed nearly as well as they had hoped and we are probably looking at needing a new LG next year. Jonah has shown flashes but has been horrible at other times, not because of scheme but because of lapses in technique. The whole right side is, and has been, a mess for a while now.
Bad players are bad, that is the issue with the O line. We have gone through three offensive line coaches hoping some magic scheme was going to fix the issues, but the issues all come back to a lack of talent. Think about this, if scheme is the issue and we have former 1st rounder Billy Price on our bench why hasn't another team swooped in to salvage Price in a league where O line is in high demand? If the issues are scheme then another team's "better scheme" should save him right?
...it's because bad players are bad.
Yeah, I mean at some point you just have to admit your players aren't good enough, regardless of scheme.
There was a play in the 2nd quarter where both Hart and Redmund were beaten badly, and it wasn't even a blitz. Another time, I think late 3rd quarter, the right side collapsed again on a pretty simple straight up blitz. Hart didn't even touch his guy and Redmund barely made contact. There were times were both Jordan and Hart were drove into Burrow's lap right after, or as, he planted.
The guard play has been especially bad, and having Hart at RT certainly does them no favors.
