We need some OL Help

[Duffman57]

I think that our OL is fine size/physical wise. We moved the ball on LSU well enough to win that game. We just killed too many possessions with penalties and turnovers.

How so? We averaged 3.5 YPC, and had under 100 yards rushing....

Thats just not gonna work in our offense, and our OL just got destroyed all game long, with constant penetration, not only from Mingo (who was real disruptive) but also alot from #90 and #77 (Brockensomethin and Downs) who are smaller DT's but still dominated our line.

We need a couple of guys that can get push on the OL, Simmons, Banner are ideal guys to catch for our style of game, can dominate, but are also quick enough to gain the leverage and angles needed in our O.

[briarduck]

I know this is just a reaction to our loss thread but our O-Line recruiting has been great and hopefully will get even better...we will always struggle (although we'd gotten much better) to get the top recruits at every position we have still been in position to win these games we just have to play mistake free, firing on all cylinders and have decent reffing to win against top talent. What all this means to me is we have to get to the title game more often and stop screwing up once we get there and as fans stop over-reacting with a loss against great competition.

How can we not like the direction of the Duck program...

[wheaton4prez]

I think that our OL is fine size/physical wise. We moved the ball on LSU well enough to win that game. We just killed too many possessions with penalties and turnovers.

How so? We averaged 3.5 YPC, and had under 100 yards rushing....

On how many attempts? (Only had 28 carries. Way below our average from last season.)

Our high YPC and total yards has typically relied on having a 50+ yard TD or two. Against LSU, our number of opportunities to strike one of those plays was reduced by penalties and turnovers.

Thats just not gonna work in our offense, and our OL just got destroyed all game long, with constant penetration, not only from Mingo (who was real disruptive) but also alot from #90 and #77 (Brockensomethin and Downs) who are smaller DT's but still dominated our line.

We need a couple of guys that can get push on the OL, Simmons, Banner are ideal guys to catch for our style of game, can dominate, but are also quick enough to gain the leverage and angles needed in our O.

You can't expect any O line to not allow great D line players to occasionally get through. Our O line was not destroyed all game long. Thomas had time to throw and wasn't sacked once.

Thomas never ran the ball and we rarely (if ever?) ran outside by design, allowing the D to focus on the inside. Despite that, our line did open holes enough for a few solid drives. We just didn't have enough of them, got behind and went to the pass to try to catch up.