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<blockquote data-quote="slugboy" data-source="post: 858478" data-attributes="member: 282"><p>I did explicitly call out Key's start date and its relationship to recruiting on the line. However, I don't think we'd hired Marco Coleman by signing day (not by much) but we still signed DEs, and we had an OC in place. </p><p>Unlike when Gailey started, Collins had been recruiting OL for years, and had relationships--just not as deep in GA, but he had OL recruits he could have tried to pull to Tech. BC seems to do well pulling linemen from the northeast, so you'd have thought that Collins had a few options available.</p><p>Even if you believe we weren't going to sign HS OL without having Key on board first, we didn't cover what we only got one transfer--a guard. The traditional view of the flexbone is that guards and centers are more similar to traditional linemen and that the tackles would require the biggest transition. 2019 comes out as a lost year for the OL regardless of whether you excuse it for Key's late onboarding or not. </p><p></p><p>As far as Offensive Line progress, it hasn't shown up in the eye test for me, but I started pulling some stats from <a href="https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/ncaa/sp/overallol/2021" target="_blank">Football Outsiders</a>. </p><p></p><p>I pulled the last 5 years because it's a round number and Football Outsiders only provides this data back to 2014. Collins is the last 3. Here's our rank in "how much did the OL contribute to our rushing" over the last 5 years:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]11924[/ATTACH]</p><p>Lower is better, and I'm not shocked that a "system offense" up through 2018 generated some of the best per-play yardage via blocking. We hit #47 in adjusted line yards this season, so that trend line is good. 2020 is better than you'd expect, but we didn't play UGA that year, and I'm sure that helped. </p><p></p><p>Here's how it comes out in adjusted yards per play (the scaling changed in 2018, so the previous years would not make sense):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]11925[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slugboy, post: 858478, member: 282"] I did explicitly call out Key's start date and its relationship to recruiting on the line. However, I don't think we'd hired Marco Coleman by signing day (not by much) but we still signed DEs, and we had an OC in place. Unlike when Gailey started, Collins had been recruiting OL for years, and had relationships--just not as deep in GA, but he had OL recruits he could have tried to pull to Tech. BC seems to do well pulling linemen from the northeast, so you'd have thought that Collins had a few options available. Even if you believe we weren't going to sign HS OL without having Key on board first, we didn't cover what we only got one transfer--a guard. The traditional view of the flexbone is that guards and centers are more similar to traditional linemen and that the tackles would require the biggest transition. 2019 comes out as a lost year for the OL regardless of whether you excuse it for Key's late onboarding or not. As far as Offensive Line progress, it hasn't shown up in the eye test for me, but I started pulling some stats from [URL='https://www.footballoutsiders.com/stats/ncaa/sp/overallol/2021']Football Outsiders[/URL]. I pulled the last 5 years because it's a round number and Football Outsiders only provides this data back to 2014. Collins is the last 3. Here's our rank in "how much did the OL contribute to our rushing" over the last 5 years: [ATTACH type="full"]11924[/ATTACH] Lower is better, and I'm not shocked that a "system offense" up through 2018 generated some of the best per-play yardage via blocking. We hit #47 in adjusted line yards this season, so that trend line is good. 2020 is better than you'd expect, but we didn't play UGA that year, and I'm sure that helped. Here's how it comes out in adjusted yards per play (the scaling changed in 2018, so the previous years would not make sense): [ATTACH type="full"]11925[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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