liveanddiedeac
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On Mike and Mike this morning they played a sound bite of Trent Dilfer talking about the quality of offensive lineman coming out of college is not that good and he said it is because in college lineman aren't being taught to move forward anymore, they are taught to back up and move side to side because of the spread offensive schemes. I think he's 100 percent right on that point, our line always looks like they're set up before the snap back on their heels. To me it's almost like it sets a tone of passive play up front instead of letting those guys go and try to knock somebody on their ass. The problem it creates is the lineman have to be able to hold their blocks and if they can't the defense is already at the line of scrimmage or even in the backfield and you get a bunch of no gain runs or losses. It seems the job of the offensive line is no longer move the line of scrimmage forward, but spread the defense out. Anyway, I thought it was an interesting point how it's leading to lineman not being prepared for the NFL style of play. They played another sound bite from Bill Parcels basically saying the same thing regarding the quarterbacks coming out of college.