Happy with the win, and glad we threw the ball! I still don’t know how D1 scholarship players can be so bad at run blocking. It’s honestly perplexing
Yes and no. They're not great but they are also hand cuffed by a simplistic scheme. Like we essentially have 1-2 run plays that we run often, the QB never keeps the ball and we bring numbers into the box when we try to run - thinking we can out number people. The problem there is that you also bring more defenders into the box.
What'd I'd love to see is go trips or even just 2x2 and spread, then try to run without all the H's and TE's bringing extra LB's and safeties into the box. Make it a 6 man box instead of 7-8.
Also, I know Rocco is young and Kohl is younger. But if we're going to run zone the way we do, the QB run has got to be part of then game because essentially, that's how you slow down the backside crasher and remove a hat from the box. Right now, defensives have zero respect for the QB run, rightly so, and so in theory, are gaining a defender they would otherwise lose.
Yes, the OL is not going to win awards for its run blocking. That much is brutally clear. But we are also not helping them. So its a weak unit thats being put in tough situation and we see the results.
Honestly from the view point of the stands / couch I'd go
1) Sanders because of his vision and ability to pop one
2) Hansen - yeah, 2.5 isn't great but honestly his first two runs were good vision
3) Sama / Norton
I like Norton but he just seems to barrel into people like the proverbial bull in a china shop.
Also, I'd have to imagine Neal is benched as soon as Remsburg is available.