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Originally Posted by RealSNR
The Geoff Schwartz (or Mitchell? Don't remember) bit about his leaning back creating a larger gap for Trey Smith to clog up and thus causing him to make more mistakes in protection is something I'm more concerned about with Taylor than the penalties.
I have no clue if Schwartz is actually right about that. It just seems like the right side of the line had way more problems this year than it did the previous season.
Also, yeah, I've been saying ever since Collinsworth flapped his vagina in the Detroit game that I don't give a shit about penalties. Especially little 5-yard ****ers.
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I'll say what I said when Schwartz first said it -- I saw PLENTY of times when Smith was getting his ass kicked with Taylor taking a horizontal set.
I saw plenty of times that Smith was part of a combo block and got waxed.
Blaming Taylor for Smith's struggles last year
reeked of a whipping boy taking the bullet for a sacred cow. People like to pick on Taylor BECAUSE of the penalties and so it was a natural fit.
But when we started going over the clips the week Schwartz said that (and the usual suspects glommed onto it), there were so many examples of Smith getting beat because his ass just got beat.
Vertical sets by ANY offensive tackle can create pressure on an OG. We even started going through Taylor's sets looking for how far back he was going and there just wasn't anything worth noting in there. There may have been an example here and there were you could make the argument, but on balance it just didn't check out.