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<blockquote data-quote="aaeismacgychel" data-source="post: 1940873" data-attributes="member: 748794"><p>I think that without more data this year, it comes down to how optimistic or not you are on Zy as a football player. The optimistic ones will say he graded out much better as a guard last year, and he looks completely uncomfortable at tackle. The pessimists will say his injury has rendered him completely ineffective and no longer able to play football.</p><p></p><p>What we know is that his pass blocking is so low because he is getting absolutely torched by speed rushers who are running or spinning around him. Adding to that is that both his positioning and jump at tackle has been atrocious and glacial. Not a good combo.</p><p></p><p>The reason I'm leaning more optimistically is that there is a lot less room for a DT to maneuver than a DE making it tougher to just run around you, and similarly, DTs at the college level tend to rely more on power moves than finesse or speed. As such, for me, I'd at least try him back at his more natural position of guard and see if he performs a lot better. If not, then yeah, it's time to sit him down, but my gut feeling is he'll look a lot better when not on an island against speed rusher DEs.</p><p></p><p>One other thing- I'm pretty surprised based on his performance that Lunney didn't give Zy more help by getting a TE to regularly chip. Seemed like a Nagy type decision when facing Myles Garrett not to do that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aaeismacgychel, post: 1940873, member: 748794"] I think that without more data this year, it comes down to how optimistic or not you are on Zy as a football player. The optimistic ones will say he graded out much better as a guard last year, and he looks completely uncomfortable at tackle. The pessimists will say his injury has rendered him completely ineffective and no longer able to play football. What we know is that his pass blocking is so low because he is getting absolutely torched by speed rushers who are running or spinning around him. Adding to that is that both his positioning and jump at tackle has been atrocious and glacial. Not a good combo. The reason I'm leaning more optimistically is that there is a lot less room for a DT to maneuver than a DE making it tougher to just run around you, and similarly, DTs at the college level tend to rely more on power moves than finesse or speed. As such, for me, I'd at least try him back at his more natural position of guard and see if he performs a lot better. If not, then yeah, it's time to sit him down, but my gut feeling is he'll look a lot better when not on an island against speed rusher DEs. One other thing- I'm pretty surprised based on his performance that Lunney didn't give Zy more help by getting a TE to regularly chip. Seemed like a Nagy type decision when facing Myles Garrett not to do that. [/QUOTE]
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