A couple of days ago I heard an analysis of the game by an ex-player whom I will not name. He basically said that the O-Line problems are not entirely their fault. About half the blame is Worley because he drops back way to far that it makes it almost impossible to block fast edge rushers.
I decided to go back and review highlights of our games and sure enough, Worley takes the shotgun snap and will almost always immediately drop back 5+ yards which allows for an easy outside speed rush to make our O-Line look a lot worse than it is.
I never really notices this so I looked at highlights of the Peyton Manning since he takes the majority of his snaps from shotgun. Manning Never drops back more than 2 yards. Most of the time it is about 1.5 yards.
I thought that my comparison may not be a fare comparison being compared to the GOAT so I did the same Worley comparison to Bo Wallace. About 80% of the time Wallace is about 2-3 yards on his drop backs.
Conclusion, I believe there is some validity in Worley being partially to blame on the sacks. To me it looks like if he kept his drop backs to under 3 yards, he would almost always have an extra 1-2 second.
Thoughts?
I decided to go back and review highlights of our games and sure enough, Worley takes the shotgun snap and will almost always immediately drop back 5+ yards which allows for an easy outside speed rush to make our O-Line look a lot worse than it is.
I never really notices this so I looked at highlights of the Peyton Manning since he takes the majority of his snaps from shotgun. Manning Never drops back more than 2 yards. Most of the time it is about 1.5 yards.
I thought that my comparison may not be a fare comparison being compared to the GOAT so I did the same Worley comparison to Bo Wallace. About 80% of the time Wallace is about 2-3 yards on his drop backs.
Conclusion, I believe there is some validity in Worley being partially to blame on the sacks. To me it looks like if he kept his drop backs to under 3 yards, he would almost always have an extra 1-2 second.
Thoughts?
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