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Stop complaining about the OL and give them some love

Htowngriz said:
But SHU didn't have skill position or special teams guys on level with ours, so we won the game going away. No team is perfect.
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That’s my point. We won going away as a result of our skill players. I exclusively watched how the position groups that are arguably the biggest question marks on the team performed. If you watch play by play those units you will see a much different picture than what the final score would indicate. Our offensive and defensive lines most certainly DID NOT perform well in that game. To suggest otherwise is turning a blind eye. Do it yourself. Watch each play but only look at the lines. It’s harder to do when watching live but you can slow it down to .25 or .5 speed on YouTube. Anyway, it’s worth doing if you’ve got the time
 
Here's a question I've been pondering about the DL from Saturdays game. How much was the DL's performance on Saturday impacted by the absence of Solo? Ya he's a LB, but he plays on the edge so much and helps eat up a lot of blocks. I thought we severely missed him on Saturday. Hopefully everything is resolved with him cause we're gonna need him on Friday.
 
hm.grwn.grizfan said:
Like I said, I only know that colter referenced them on his show yesterday when he was talking about the game vs SHU. I’ve never seen the PFF grades and know next to nothing about how they’re compiled or how accurate they are. Are they NFL scouts doing this compilation?
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Think a service does them and they are notoriously not valid for FCs schools.
 
hm.grwn.grizfan said:
That’s my point. We won going away as a result of our skill players. I exclusively watched how the position groups that are arguably the biggest question marks on the team performed. If you watch play by play those units you will see a much different picture than what the final score would indicate. Our offensive and defensive lines most certainly DID NOT perform well in that game. To suggest otherwise is turning a blind eye. Do it yourself. Watch each play but only look at the lines. It’s harder to do when watching live but you can slow it down to .25 or .5 speed on YouTube. Anyway, it’s worth doing if you’ve got the time
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I'm not disagreeing with your assessment. I'm saying every team has strengths and weaknesses. Some Griz fans seem to expect perfection at every position at all times.
 
hm.grwn.grizfan said:
Like I said, I watched the lines exclusively. Do the same and tell me I’m wrong. 🤷‍♂️ we’ve got elite skill position players who were playing against a very undisciplined and overmatched secondary. That they won those matchups and were able to score quickly the way that they did was no surprise. I was looking at and commenting on the line play. The question I have when watching them exclusively is whether they can just physically assert their will in a game. Against SHU that should have ostensibly been the case. It wasn’t
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The coaches don’t agree with you. Back to OL school for you. Pass protection was terrific.
 
hm.grwn.grizfan said:
That’s my point. We won going away as a result of our skill players. I exclusively watched how the position groups that are arguably the biggest question marks on the team performed. If you watch play by play those units you will see a much different picture than what the final score would indicate. Our offensive and defensive lines most certainly DID NOT perform well in that game. To suggest otherwise is turning a blind eye. Do it yourself. Watch each play but only look at the lines. It’s harder to do when watching live but you can slow it down to .25 or .5 speed on YouTube. Anyway, it’s worth doing if you’ve got the time
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Did you forget to watch pass and pocket protection?
 
mthoopsfan said:
The coaches don’t agree with you. Back to OL school for you. Pass protection was terrific.
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Honestly, pass protection wasn’t bad. That’s one area they have improved for sure. It’s the run blocking that’s got to improve. At the end of the third quarter the series that really stood out was where we had a 2nd and 3 from about the 15 and on three consecutive plays we tried to get those yards through the run game. We got zero push and turned the ball over on downs. That stood out
 
Someone should not be heavily criticized too harshly for B or B- work, but the Griz need a solid A performance out of the o-line to win the NC! We all would love to see that. The o-line needs the motivation to keep getting better and better, but it is true that negativity from fans on here does nothing to improve their play.
 
granitegriz said:
Someone should not be heavily criticized too harshly for B or B- work, but the Griz need a solid A performance out of the o-line to win the NC! We all would love to see that. The o-line needs the motivation to keep getting better and better, but it is true that negativity from fans on here does nothing to improve their play.
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Old school mentality would say constructive criticism does help with motivation to improve. Participation ribbons and sweet nothings written into press clippings isn’t going to get it done. The o lines pass protection has absolutely improved. Run blocking not so much. If players are on Egriz reading the comments we might have found the problem. It would not be time well spent and better they utilize it for improving their performance. I honestly cannot figure out why so many fans get butt hurt over criticism on a fan board. It makes no sense. The Griz are 7-0. They should be! Very favorable schedule this year and if they want to win jt all then they should be improving at every position each week. The O line hasn’t when it comes to run blocking. They just haven’t!
 
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hm.grwn.grizfan said:
Truthfully, outside of a quick ChatGPT search I’m not well versed in what they are or how they’re compiled, and have no idea how accurate they are. I’ve just heard Colter Nuanez reference them on his shows.
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Pass Blocking Grades From Week 8:
Liam Brown - 85.4
Cannon Panfiloff - 82.3
COLIN AMICK - 79.7
Lucas Freitas - 79.5
Cade Klimczak - 67.4
Patrick Matan - 66.6
Dillon Botner - 60.0

Run Blocking Grades:
Liam Brown - 76.4
Cannon Panfiloff - 69.1
Cade Klimczak - 68.7
Dillon Botner - 59.6
Luacs Freitas - 58.1
Patrick Matan - 54.3
Colin Amick - 53.3
 
Colter_Nuanez56 said:
Pass Blocking Grades From Week 8:
Liam Brown - 85.4
Cannon Panfiloff - 82.3
COLIN AMICK - 79.7
Lucas Freitas - 79.5
Cade Klimczak - 67.4
Patrick Matan - 66.6
Dillon Botner - 60.0

Run Blocking Grades:
Liam Brown - 76.4
Cannon Panfiloff - 69.1
Cade Klimczak - 68.7
Dillon Botner - 59.6
Luacs Freitas - 58.1
Patrick Matan - 54.3
Colin Amick - 53.3
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I think this brings up more questions than answers.
 
Colter_Nuanez56 said:
Pass Blocking Grades From Week 8:
Liam Brown - 85.4
Cannon Panfiloff - 82.3
COLIN AMICK - 79.7
Lucas Freitas - 79.5
Cade Klimczak - 67.4
Patrick Matan - 66.6
Dillon Botner - 60.0

Run Blocking Grades:
Liam Brown - 76.4
Cannon Panfiloff - 69.1
Cade Klimczak - 68.7
Dillon Botner - 59.6
Luacs Freitas - 58.1
Patrick Matan - 54.3
Colin Amick - 53.3
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Thanks for posting these
 
Colter_Nuanez56 said:
Pass Blocking Grades From Week 8:
Liam Brown - 85.4
Cannon Panfiloff - 82.3
COLIN AMICK - 79.7
Lucas Freitas - 79.5
Cade Klimczak - 67.4
Patrick Matan - 66.6
Dillon Botner - 60.0

Run Blocking Grades:
Liam Brown - 76.4
Cannon Panfiloff - 69.1
Cade Klimczak - 68.7
Dillon Botner - 59.6
Luacs Freitas - 58.1
Patrick Matan - 54.3
Colin Amick - 53.3
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Those numbers actually track pretty well with what we’re seeing. Decent to good pass pro and sub par run blocking
 
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