[quote]Steel Nation wrote:
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
From the standpoint of line play, I can see the attraction in gravitating toward playing on the defensive side of the ball.
When you’re an OL, you protect, clear holes, protect some more, push and pull to keep a guy in front of you who often has a downhill/running headstart. Your only real fun is the rare play when you get to pull and potentially clean someone elses clock, but even that depends on at least three other guys getting their big asses off the line and out of your way. There’s a snap count to remember, blitz pick-ups, inside to outside responsibility depending on play, etc. It’s truly thankless and completely sans positive recognition, only negative. It’s brainy, white-knighty, and devoid of individual accolades until pro-bowl votes come out.
However, on the defense, you get to go huntin.
And if that killer instinct in your personality, you have a good fuckin time on the other side of the ball.
I think in order to combat this uprising of incredibly athletic and nasty DL’s, the OL positions have to respond somehow. To make it more “fun.”
It’s going to be interesting to see this thing unfold, and it’s pretty fun to see the chess match. Clowney was up against a senior Tackle from Michigan (Taylor Lewann) who is/was ranked as a top 15 OL coming out for the draft. While Lewann did prove serviceable for his responsibility, Clowney still got his. How do you find and develop a “Clowney-stopper?”
It’s yet to be seen. [/quote]
Playing OL can be fun as hell. You get to beat the hell out of the guy you’re assigned to block every play, all day. You don’t have to worry about finding a ball carrier, or whether it’s run or pass (since you already know), you just have to beat the fuck out of the dude across from you. It’s all in how you approach it.
There are some nasty motherfuckers playing O-line.[/quote]
They’re the smartest mofo’s on the team too.
