danny daniel
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PREDICTION: The OL IMO will be great this year. The coaches are in motivation mode. The backups are getting cross-trained to play multiple positions so there is a temporary trade-off between learning and performance. We are in the sore and dead leg phase of practice.
Football is played with feet wide and knees bent. That is harder on the big guys. Pre-Camp running and weight lifting does not prepare those big legs for what Camp practice does to the body. After two-three weeks of those feet wide, knees bent drills and those crouch starts the legs get heavy and slow.
In a couple of weeks the performance of the backups will catch up to the learning. Motion and the spring will return to those leg muscles. Motivation will yield to game prep and the OL will excell. In addition we will have depth as required. My glass is half full.
Football is played with feet wide and knees bent. That is harder on the big guys. Pre-Camp running and weight lifting does not prepare those big legs for what Camp practice does to the body. After two-three weeks of those feet wide, knees bent drills and those crouch starts the legs get heavy and slow.
In a couple of weeks the performance of the backups will catch up to the learning. Motion and the spring will return to those leg muscles. Motivation will yield to game prep and the OL will excell. In addition we will have depth as required. My glass is half full.