Martin O'Donnell breaks down the Illinois offensive line
October 27, 2011 11:25 AM
Martin O'Donnell at the 21 min mark (paraphrase):
# Looking at the individual pieces, this OL should be as good or better than last year. But for some reason they aren't working well together.
# At the individual level you can see some obvious problems with OL technique, causing guys to get beat one-on-one.
# We are just not knocking people off the ball consistently enough (repeated several times)
# In the running game, we rely heavily on the zone read and zone read option. This gets OL "position blocking" rather than being aggressive.
# The designed QB runs just aren't effective.
# For the I-formation to work, the OL have to knock people off the ball. Prosch hasn't played because Petrino doesn't think that the I-formation will work because the OL isn't knocking people off the ball. So we try to scheme around that by going to the zone read and zone read option. The problem is that teams have figured that out and it isn't working.
# Last year we ran a lot of simple lead running plays, LeShoure took one cut and there was a hole. The OL was knocking people off the LOS. We haven't run that play much this year because Petrino doesn't think it will work. We haven't consistently knocked people off the ball.
# LeShoure was really valuable.
# On plus side, getting Millines back will really help. It is too easy to take away Jenkins if we don't have a big play No. 2 WR.
# Way too many negative plays. Way too many sacks.
# The PSU game is all on the offense.
Groundhogday
Sports Talk 10/26/11
# Looking at the individual pieces, this OL should be as good or better than last year. But for some reason they aren't working well together.
# At the individual level you can see some obvious problems with OL technique, causing guys to get beat one-on-one.
# We are just not knocking people off the ball consistently enough (repeated several times)
# In the running game, we rely heavily on the zone read and zone read option. This gets OL "position blocking" rather than being aggressive.
# The designed QB runs just aren't effective.
# For the I-formation to work, the OL have to knock people off the ball. Prosch hasn't played because Petrino doesn't think that the I-formation will work because the OL isn't knocking people off the ball. So we try to scheme around that by going to the zone read and zone read option. The problem is that teams have figured that out and it isn't working.
# Last year we ran a lot of simple lead running plays, LeShoure took one cut and there was a hole. The OL was knocking people off the LOS. We haven't run that play much this year because Petrino doesn't think it will work. We haven't consistently knocked people off the ball.
# LeShoure was really valuable.
# On plus side, getting Millines back will really help. It is too easy to take away Jenkins if we don't have a big play No. 2 WR.
# Way too many negative plays. Way too many sacks.
# The PSU game is all on the offense.
Groundhogday
Sports Talk 10/26/11
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