Revisionist History on the OLine

[ivotuk]

So tired of the radio people saying "The offensive line play deteriorated as the season went on."

NO! They talked about it at the beginning of the season, but now they've conveniently forgotten! The only one that brought it up, and kept bringing it up, was John Clayton!

Because of no off season, the NFL went to the referees and said "Take it easy on the flags on the offense."

It was so obvious early in the season, blatant holding, no whistles, no flags. Angry defensive linemen, rightfully so, but still no flags.

Every offensive line looked like it was made up of All Pros. But as the season went on, the NFL let up, and the referees started throwing those flags. And all of a sudden it's "The offensive line has fallen off! Russell's getting hit more!"

Yes he was. Because Schotty was calling those deep plays as if nothing had changed! And Russell was getting hit, so he lost faith in his protection, and started launching the ball before he got hit!

IF WE DON"T CALL PLAYS TO PROTECT RUSSELL, we'll have a David Carr on our hands! The Texans RUINED that guy!

Look at David Carr's first year in the league! The record for the most sacks in a single season!

2002 Houston Texans 16 games 444 ATT 233 COMP 52.48% SACKS 76

2004 49 sacks

2005 69 SACKS and he still completed 61% of his passes! That's one tuff dude!

Our OLine wasn't very good last year, and the biggest culprit IMHO was Iupati. WHY OH WHY do they keep signing these has beens?

Like Wyman says, draft a guy that has Phd at Left Guard!! NOT a guy that can play all 5 positions!

 

[ivotuk]

Some good points by Wyman

WYMAN AND BOB

Hour 1 -Russell Wilson and Shane Waldron

Wyman and Bob discuss Russell Wilson's comments about the offense and his view of Shane Waldron. Plus, the final player in our Seahawks free agent analysis.

https://sports.mynorthwest.com/category ... an+and+Bob

Stelton says some odd things though. "Russell is back there and Metcalf and Lockett aren't getting open, what's Russell doing wrong?"

Uhh...I think it's the play calling, not Russell.

 

[TheLegendOfBoom]

So tired of the radio people saying "The offensive line play deteriorated as the season went on."

NO! They talked about it at the beginning of the season, but now they've conveniently forgotten! The only one that brought it up, and kept bringing it up, was John Clayton!

Because of no off season, the NFL went to the referees and said "Take it easy on the flags on the offense."

It was so obvious early in the season, blatant holding, no whistles, no flags. Angry defensive linemen, rightfully so, but still no flags.

Every offensive line looked like it was made up of All Pros. But as the season went on, the NFL let up, and the referees started throwing those flags. And all of a sudden it's "The offensive line has fallen off! Russell's getting hit more!"

Yes he was. Because Schotty was calling those deep plays as if nothing had changed! And Russell was getting hit, so he lost faith in his protection, and started launching the ball before he got hit!

IF WE DON"T CALL PLAYS TO PROTECT RUSSELL, we'll have a David Carr on our hands! The Texans RUINED that guy!

Look at David Carr's first year in the league! The record for the most sacks in a single season!

2002 Houston Texans 16 games 444 ATT 233 COMP 52.48% SACKS 76

2004 49 sacks

2005 69 SACKS and he still completed 61% of his passes! That's one tuff dude!

Our OLine wasn't very good last year, and the biggest culprit IMHO was Iupati. WHY OH WHY do they keep signing these has beens?

Like Wyman says, draft a guy that has Phd at Left Guard!! NOT a guy that can play all 5 positions!

Man, I’ve said it previously, that is why Seattle offensive line, collectively is bad.

Carroll loves players that can play multiple positions on the offensive line. The real problem with that is they do not play any one single position on the line WELL!

When you do multiple things and try everything, you do not do any one particular thing WELL.

Stop trying everything and dedicate your time to one thing that you can be GREAT at!

And Carroll does not see this. He wants utility offensive lineman players in the event someone gets injured.

Which is an absolute horrible way to build a functional offensive line.

Hell, you may as well play Duane Brown at Center with Carroll’s preference for offensive lineman.

Enough is enough.

 

[hawk45]

Sure let’s just ignore all the film of short passes being schemed and open and Russ staring at them and triple clutching.

AlL tHe RoUtEs aRe lOnG

 

[John63]

Sure let’s just ignore all the film of short passes being schemed and open and Russ staring at them and triple clutching.

AlL tHe RoUtEs aRe lOnG

Or the film showing them not open when it was their time in the progression, or that ones that were open at their point in the progression and that those passes ended up in int off the hands of the reciever.