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Message: [QUOTE="RandomGuy, post: 2685142, member: 6422"] Doesn't make me angry, in the least. There are folks on this board that decry, what they call "meathead" football. I can't blame them, based on their experience. Dillon is what happens when you get a good back, behind a good Oline. They are going to win 8 plus. BC's line is more straight ahead, often engages in straight up drive blocks, and Dillons hole is pre-assigned. Very much, pro-style. For us, we often engage in zone blocking, where the linemen take a lateral step, as opposed to a forward step, and push the block sideways(surrendering power for speed), with the hope of opening a hole from the movement.. Shanahan's Bronco's were the best I've ever seen, at this(brutal). Other times we RPO block, where the linemen don't know if the run is coming, so by design, they have to pull up before they are 3 yards downfield. Each require a back with a certain skill set... A mauler can hit the hole...(Dillon) For us, we need vision.. Howard is a Mauler. He just goes, but still needs development. I don't even think he waits to see the hole in a ZBS, he just hits it... (kind of a good thing - for now). Every report I heard out of camp, was that Abdul Adams, is really, really good... Seems like he works very well, in a zone block scheme(has vision)... I MUCH prefer a straight up power block, from the Oline. As shown tonight, it scares a defense to death, and a mediocre QB like Brown can throw for 5TD's, because the defense can't beat the Oline on the run... As a football lover first, I really like that. Even HCDB said this week, if you can't stop the run, you can't win. It's the most dangerous weapon on the field, IF you can do it effectively. I would LOVE to see us employ some old school drive blocks, next year.. (We don't do that, now). The Oline gets to crush the little b@stards that have been pissing them off, and frankly, those are every o-linemans favorite block... Howard is VERY well suited to this style... Adams may be suited for ZBS... They are our #1 and #2, next year, IMO. I'm all for mixing it up... But I'd love for the Oline to have another scheme to draw from... While the ZBS/RPO are important to the scheme, a team like WMU simply made sure that someone clogged the gap, regardless of what the Oline did, on the run... (we don't push forward, by design) There are solutions, to ZBS/RPO teams... There are never solutions to an Oline that simply takes you out of the play... *** Full disclaimer. I'm a line Junky. For the last 30 years, I never watch the ball, just the line. When it goes in the air? OK. Then I watch the ball... [/QUOTE]

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