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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 189883" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>I am still going to wait a day to let the smoke clear some, but this is pretty much on target in my opinion. The O line play has been bad against good athletes, meaning the Clemsons, FSUs and Virginias of this world. The better athletes always win. DCs have seen enough this year to know to send the house, sell out and take chances we can't get deep before they are in Thomas's wheelhouse. Time and again he has had to make an option decision before he is ready, meaning there is no clear decision there, resulting in backs getting mauled behind the line, or force him to throw off his back foot and moving backward to get downfield. The O line that was supposed to be a strength is the biggest weakness. They seemingly do not know who to block, or whether they should -- the guy flying past looking for a QB's head for the trophy case is often just ignored because by golly they are supposed to block somebody in the second level. That, bad blocking on the edge and in pass protection, coupled with Thomas's sudden and frightening tendency to cough it up, together with the downside of Marshall -- he seems to surrender the ball on demand -- does make for the worst offense of Johnson's eight years at Tech. A whole series of games with rushing yardage under 175? Half the plays of the opposition? Still, I'm going to watch a movie, try to figure out why Detroit has the best receiver on the planet but wants to have him lit up as a possession receiver across the middle, meaning his NFL career gets shorter by the week, and why Denver writers are whining about Demarius Thomas's production when he also has become a possession guy. If anybody knows holler at me and save me some time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 189883, member: 2175"] I am still going to wait a day to let the smoke clear some, but this is pretty much on target in my opinion. The O line play has been bad against good athletes, meaning the Clemsons, FSUs and Virginias of this world. The better athletes always win. DCs have seen enough this year to know to send the house, sell out and take chances we can't get deep before they are in Thomas's wheelhouse. Time and again he has had to make an option decision before he is ready, meaning there is no clear decision there, resulting in backs getting mauled behind the line, or force him to throw off his back foot and moving backward to get downfield. The O line that was supposed to be a strength is the biggest weakness. They seemingly do not know who to block, or whether they should -- the guy flying past looking for a QB's head for the trophy case is often just ignored because by golly they are supposed to block somebody in the second level. That, bad blocking on the edge and in pass protection, coupled with Thomas's sudden and frightening tendency to cough it up, together with the downside of Marshall -- he seems to surrender the ball on demand -- does make for the worst offense of Johnson's eight years at Tech. A whole series of games with rushing yardage under 175? Half the plays of the opposition? Still, I'm going to watch a movie, try to figure out why Detroit has the best receiver on the planet but wants to have him lit up as a possession receiver across the middle, meaning his NFL career gets shorter by the week, and why Denver writers are whining about Demarius Thomas's production when he also has become a possession guy. If anybody knows holler at me and save me some time. [/QUOTE]
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