BuffaloBillyG Posted May 22, 2023 Share Posted May 22, 2023 2 hours ago, MrEpsYtown said: IMO Morse is right there. He is sliding to the stacked backer. If he slides left there he is sliding to no one. It is true that he has leverage on that inside technique but pass protection calls are more predicated by the alignment of potential blitzes or by number of hard men on the line of scrimmage. It is possible that the back was supposed to help Saffold, but Saffold is just terrible here, perhaps he thought he was getting help. Should Morse have maybe thrown his left hand out to help Saffold on the slide right? Maybe, but Bates clearly knows he is getting help here. Perhaps Morse got the call wrong, but that is the way I learned and teach the slide. Makes sense. Saffold doesn't help his case here with a lazy looking rep on this play, for sure. It does, at least appear he thought he had help....but even if he had it he didn't look ready to even assist. Hopefully, the arrival of McGovern is a step up for the pass pro so Allen doesn't have that instant pressure right in his face all season, again. Thank you for the insight as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YattaOkasan Posted May 22, 2023 Share Posted May 22, 2023 While were flaming the OL any thoughts on pro football reference giving this years OL a better pressure percent than previous years? or that it was top 5 for pressure%? i hesitate with these type of stats that require some evaluation but found it striking. Dont think they are top 5 but think they have been better than previous years. I think we have some recency bias that causes us to perceive it different (2022 the OL fell off and 2021 the OL grew stronger). https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2022/advanced.htm https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2021/advanced.htm https://www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2020/advanced.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrEpsYtown Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 21 hours ago, BuffaloBillyG said: Makes sense. Saffold doesn't help his case here with a lazy looking rep on this play, for sure. It does, at least appear he thought he had help....but even if he had it he didn't look ready to even assist. Hopefully, the arrival of McGovern is a step up for the pass pro so Allen doesn't have that instant pressure right in his face all season, again. Thank you for the insight as well. Yes 10% totally lazy, it appears almost as if he completely missed the snap count or something, he practically still in his stance when the DT is already at his heels. Terrible. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Riverside Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 On 5/19/2023 at 12:36 AM, Buffalo_Stampede said: He was bad. One thing about an OL, a bad apple does ruin the bunch. Brown also gets beat but it Saffold holds up his guy at all then Allen steps up and Brown washes his guy out. We got the old version of Roger Saffold, who once upon a Time was a pretty good player I’m just glad that the bills made the investment in Ocyrus that is an investment that is going to pay dividends quick 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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