2024 was worse. I’m not gonna go say that this OLine is spectacular, but Hythloday is exaggerating how bad this OLine is in a desperate attempt to prove his OLine transfer theory is right. I get it, they’re not perfect, World still has a lot of room to grow, but overall they’re doing a solid job and they aren’t holding the offense back that the playbook for the offense should be limited at all.StevensTechU wrote: Sat Oct 04, 2025 8:57 pmThey've allowed one sack through five games. The running game is overall solid. It's not the best unit, and it would take a lot of effort to figure out exactly where they stack up, but they're not the worst of the last twenty years. Off the top of my head, any of them featuring Doug Brenner, Jake Pisarcik, and/or the 5'9 walk in from Hawai'i whose name escapes me were all worse.dthomas=ddixon wrote: Sat Oct 04, 2025 8:01 pm
That said, Hythloday has detailed the ways in which the OLs technique deficiencies are actually holding the offense back. He says, according to his metrics, this is the worst line we’ve had in 20 years. Building your line with new transfers every year guarantees struggles on the line.
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Yeah you’ll have to take it up with Hythloday and his algorithm.StevensTechU wrote: Sat Oct 04, 2025 8:57 pmThey've allowed one sack through five games. The running game is overall solid. It's not the best unit, and it would take a lot of effort to figure out exactly where they stack up, but they're not the worst of the last twenty years. Off the top of my head, any of them featuring Doug Brenner, Jake Pisarcik, and/or the 5'9 walk in from Hawai'i whose name escapes me were all worse.dthomas=ddixon wrote: Sat Oct 04, 2025 8:01 pm
That said, Hythloday has detailed the ways in which the OLs technique deficiencies are actually holding the offense back. He says, according to his metrics, this is the worst line we’ve had in 20 years. Building your line with new transfers every year guarantees struggles on the line.
Point is, if the offense is “struggling” it’s not Stein. The rate of whiffs by the OL is limiting the offenses ability to create explosive plays.

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They haven’t been scoring great via pff. I imagine he gleans heavily from that.

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Obviously PSU losing to UCLA doesn't "help" the Ducks, but it would also be easy to overreact and think "Oh no, maybe the Ducks aren't necessarily very good after all." I'll be curious to see how both PSU and the Bruins do the rest of the regular season.