Re: Quozzel...thoughts on our offensive line?

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Sep 10, 2017, 7:38 AM

> Finished strong but started out kinda shaky? Want to
> get the resident experts opinion. TIA
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I appreciate it but I'm not an "expert", just an avid fan who likes to talk football. Which, despite the efforts of trolls who shall henceforth remain nameless, is actually the point of football forums.

Keep in mind I'm just a soccer coach who last played actual football in high school. I like film and watch a ton of cut-ups but that's about it.

As far as our OL went, I just saw the obvious stuff that some of the others already mentioned. Anchrum started and got lit up by that #4, Jeff Holland. (He's actually their starting "BUCK" end...and yeah, I did just google that.)

Pollard came in and didn't do much better, surprisingly, I especially noted that one clown-show sequence where he blew up a 3rd-down run by Kelly Bryant by going the wrong way when Hearn pulled...it wasn't quite as bad as those two Florida Muschamp OL's who will live in infamy becuase they ended up blocking each other but it was close. He also gave up a couple sacks. Hyatt was kinda grabby too and I watched him get away with at least one fairly lusty push in the back that somehow wasn't flagged. The dude face-planted and Bryant rumbled right on past.

Overall I thought they did pretty well run-blocking (though Auburn did fight us for every yard of grass) and couldn't give Bryant much time to throw; Auburn does have an elite front. Frankly I was disappointed in our backs; the OL was getting push a lot of times but I thought Choice and Fuller were showing themselves to be what they were - decent pass-protectors who are also unexplosive, three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust running backs. In a game where protection was already an issue you understand why we didn't see much of Feaster or Etienne but we're badly in need of an upgrade at RB. Our #1 and #2 are...adequate, I suppose, but they do not have big-play potential. Expect the younger guys to get worked in a lot more as the season progresses, whatever.

Saw only one bad snap - but it came at another inopportune moment. It was high and messed up Kelly's timing on what looked like a designed dive, and cost us again on another third down.

Overall I thought they did...alright. Again, Auburn's got an elite front - I'd be willing to bet you they're every bit as good as Bama's - and they were just good enough to get Bryant lose for some yards and I think we would have gotten some more yards on the ground if the younger backs were more ready. They weren't able to pass-protect well enough to allow Bryant any kind of time to take shots downfield, though.

Without watching the film again, I'd give 'em a B-. Maybe a C+. Not terrible but too many mistakes too...again, though, our guys will very likely see these Auburn guys again in the NFL so it was always going to be a war up front.

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Quozzel...thoughts on our offensive line?

I think the line is fine. We just miss Gallman terribly

I hope feaster gets more playing time if the first 2 backs