The great OL debate....what would be your starting 5?

Who should be starting 5 OL

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#26
#26
Jax_Vol said:
At least until Coleman gets healthy. He can play. The ankle injury is just much more troublesome than we know.

Jones and Hall can handle the right side.

Weisman can handle center.

We need to work harder on the left side...not sure of the best twosome over there.
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:good!: This. Plus: By every which way I can reason, The Hall/Jones combo on the right side pumps up the left side...regardless of who's over there. Last year when they were inserted both run and pass blocking seemed to have gotten a huge steroid injection. I expect Richmond to get it together soon (hopefully for this game) and most everyone has confidence in Weisman calling assignments and handling the middle. Remember last season when Hall and Jones clearly whipped their opponents in Tuscaloosa and from there-on through New Years? I'll be very surprised if the gayduhs aren't extremely surprised at the improvement in our OL this weekend. AMIRIGHT?:yes:
 
#27
#27
Vols_14 said:
He gone. Better question is what about big Charles Mosely?
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He's still around, saw him buying a lot of stuff at walmart earlier this week. He must either be bad, or Mahoney doesn't like him. He's been with the team for 2 years, first was taken by injury, last year he switched from DT to OG, so I don't really see any reason why he hasn't played by now.
 
#28
#28
Rockytoptn83 said:
Kendrick, Robertson, Wiseman, Jones, Hall.

It has to be these 5 to be successful.
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I chose this but I watched the offensive plays again last night. I didn't notice before but Richmond got significant reps and played decent. Thomas didn't play as bad as I originally thought. But for whatever reason, things go south if they're on the field at the same time.
 
#29
#29
Dudleys87 said:
any choice with Richmond is not the answer.
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I would have probably agreed yesterday. But I rewatched the offensive plays last night. Richmond played more than I originally noticed. Seems few others here noticed.... which is a very good thing. He's still far from "dominating" or anything of the kind. But he played well.

Thomas played better than I originally thought.

The info coming out of the coaches seemed to be accurate. None of them made just a ton of errors. It just seemed that the errors were spread out so that as a group it seemed they made a lot. The sum of the parts didn't equal the whole... and in this case not in a good way.
 
#31
#31
Watching all of our offensive plays I think Wolf is the biggest liability in our blocking...he was rarely able to block his mad or either completely wiffed multiple times
 
#34
#34
sjt18 said:
I chose this but I watched the offensive plays again last night. I didn't notice before but Richmond got significant reps and played decent. Thomas didn't play as bad as I originally thought. But for whatever reason, things go south if they're on the field at the same time.
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Same thing I thought watching the play by play while paying attention to Coleman during my lunch break today.

The bad blocks
2:00 doubled the DT with Jones and the DE was left untouched for a sack. Not sure how this every happens. If you have a guy in front of you with no RB expected to pick up the block you then you have to block him.
4:53 beaten and Dobbs was sacked hard. Hands down the worst blocking by Thomas for the Ohio game.
6:51 dove for a block and just missed his man.
13:00 he just didn't finish the block resulting in a blocked pass.

What I liked
5:45 His blocking was super nice. Helped slow down the DT and then bounced over to pick up the DE. The run went to the opposite side but he effectively got hands on with two guys.
6:42 He pushed the DE out of the play on the QB draw to give Dobbs room.
7:51 He had a really nice block on the LB to get John Kelly 5 yards.
14:05 Effective block to put the LB on the ground.

The rest didn't really stand out but it didn't stand out either way. Any play where you don't miss your block is good IMO. 4 bad plays out of 72 plays, according to teamrankings.com, is not bad IMO. I might have been a little too hard on him about his play vs Ohio.
 
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#35
#35
I'd have to see 'em everyday in practice, know the details of any injuries or other problems that might keep them from playing 100%...and of course, know the offensive game plan so I have the best five guys to execute that plan...without knowing the real details, it's like pulling names out of a hat...
 
#36
#36
fossilfiction said:
Same thing I thought watching the play by play while paying attention to Coleman during my lunch break today.

The bad blocks
2:00 doubled the DT with Jones and the DE was left untouched for a sack. Not sure how this every happens. If you have a guy in front of you with no RB expected to pick up the block you then you have to block him.
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Has to be scheme. I focused on Kendrick on time through and he did the same thing several times.
4:53 beaten and Dobbs was sacked hard. Hands down the worst blocking by Thomas for the Ohio game.
6:51 dove for a block and just missed his man.
13:00 he just didn't finish the block resulting in a blocked pass.
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Yep. Unfortunately they're all making 3 or 4 bad plays per game... on different plays.

The rest didn't really stand out but it didn't stand out either way. Any play where you don't miss your block is good IMO. 4 bad plays out of 72 plays, according to teamrankings.com, is not bad IMO. I might have been a little too hard on him about his play vs Ohio.
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:good!:

But like I said... it becomes bad as a unit if you have 4X5 mistakes per game and they come on different plays.... or on the wrong plays like 1st down.
 
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