Well, we get to play another one next week too. In fact we get to play a lot of them this year so we had better improve in a hurry.
In season o-line coach is not going to make a diffrence...but not to worry I have a friend who knows Wise, he is going to retire at the end of the season
I quote Kurt ad nauseum. This is a great post. I am sorry to say but anyone that thinks Brick had a bad game yesterday is a freaking meathead plain and simple. At least watch the line play before you type something totally stupid. Most plays he had his guy fine and on many plays he had to take on two because of the turnstyle Clarke. The line is only as strong as the weakest link. When you have 3 it does not fing matter. You can have Walter Jones there and if he has to contend with his guy and then come off the block to get another guy that got by the left tackle well even he is going to look like shit. Funny thing though he did fine even under those conditions. Also the right side of the line was the big problem. How many times did the safety or a cb come through unscathed. They overloaded that side because they suck!
Now I get it. The reason Anthony Clement is a journeyman OT is not a lack of talent, but the coaching he never got.
Well. I've been saying that for some time: 1. Clement might not be the Pro-Bowl calibre RT everyone would love to have, but then it's the coaching staff's job to train him to the level, where he is actually serviceable. Was he? 2. Regression of Ferguson and Mangold worries me.
It's not even mid-season...these guys just like to complain. Stand behind your team if you're a fan. Don't be a fair weather guy.
That is ignorant. If players were only as good as their talent, there would never need to be any coaching. Why do baseball players need coaches? Because occassionally they go through slumps, and the coach is the one responsible for picking up on the smallest changes that may be affecting that player to help get him out of it. The same holds true for football. Technique must constantly be tuned, especially for the particular system that the player is competing in. A running team would emphasize different technique from a passing team. It also depends on the kind of running back and quarterback you have in the backfield. You would have different technique for a north/south runner and a scatback, or a pocket passer who is mostly immobile vs a pocket passer that has feet under him.
I remember reading praise for how Brick was progressing in training camp - both physically and with regard to his technique. But right now, he looks like total crap. I'm hoping he's not a bust. #4 indeed!
IMO the most understated fact is that the jets miss the lineman who was responsible for making the OL calls on the LOS. I have never seen so many plays where an OL looked up and had no one to block- it has happened most frequently to Clark. They traded away the OL who was making the OL calls and havent found an adequate replacement. It has really hurt them.
I think he was being sarcastic. The problem with this board and threads about the offensive line is that a lot of people pretend to be experts on the offensive line, and nobody really pays that close attention to it. Nothing wrong with that, and I'm not accusing anyone because I do the same thing a lot. Some people like to watch the line more than others, and some people watch game film on the line more than others. People just know that Clement, Moore, and Clarke are journeymen, they see Brick get burned on one play, and they hear Mangold is awesome, so they blame Brick. Brick hasn't been great by any stretch, but he's been fairly solid pass blocking.
