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<blockquote data-quote="takethepoints" data-source="post: 403943" data-attributes="member: 265"><p>On several posts above:</p><p></p><p>We have to keep our rushing stats in perspective. Tech was #5 in team rushing in 2017 at 307.4 a game. In general, that'll do.</p><p></p><p>There are, imho, two major things our opponents have gotten better at, however. First, everybody has learned the put-your-MLB-8-yards-back trick and then holding our OLs to disrupt second level blocks. None of that is new. If we had had the same OL on the field for the season instead of putting one together with spit and tape after our 3rd game, I think we would have done fine against these particular tactics. Still, the new holding rules work both ways and DLs can get away with just as much as OLs these days. Second, our opponents have all learned how to take on cut blocks. This makes it more difficult for the ABs we have now in particular; most of them aren't big enough to drive block OLBs reliably. We've been trying to get back to where we were in 2014 where we had Perkins and Hill alternating in regularly, but not so far. This is why I think that Ponchez is going back to AB and that Whatley or Malloy might get playing time early. We need to put the fear of God into OLBs and DBs on the edge again.</p><p></p><p>I'm not too worried about TaQuon; as I've said here before, with a starting year and a healthy (please, oh, Football Gods) OL I think we'll see the TO being called more and working. Then it's just a matter of (please, oh, Football Gods, part duex) getting no more then one game in a deluge next year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="takethepoints, post: 403943, member: 265"] On several posts above: We have to keep our rushing stats in perspective. Tech was #5 in team rushing in 2017 at 307.4 a game. In general, that'll do. There are, imho, two major things our opponents have gotten better at, however. First, everybody has learned the put-your-MLB-8-yards-back trick and then holding our OLs to disrupt second level blocks. None of that is new. If we had had the same OL on the field for the season instead of putting one together with spit and tape after our 3rd game, I think we would have done fine against these particular tactics. Still, the new holding rules work both ways and DLs can get away with just as much as OLs these days. Second, our opponents have all learned how to take on cut blocks. This makes it more difficult for the ABs we have now in particular; most of them aren't big enough to drive block OLBs reliably. We've been trying to get back to where we were in 2014 where we had Perkins and Hill alternating in regularly, but not so far. This is why I think that Ponchez is going back to AB and that Whatley or Malloy might get playing time early. We need to put the fear of God into OLBs and DBs on the edge again. I'm not too worried about TaQuon; as I've said here before, with a starting year and a healthy (please, oh, Football Gods) OL I think we'll see the TO being called more and working. Then it's just a matter of (please, oh, Football Gods, part duex) getting no more then one game in a deluge next year. [/QUOTE]
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