Kool Aide being served on our improving O Line

[HuskerDocCo]

Yore basically Deab 2.0.

🥴🤛🏼

 

[Ext. 55]

Hey, 6 wins and we go bowling baby!!!

Let’s go!!!

 

[alt f4]

I’ve alluded to this before but basically:

1. Austin was empty enthusiasm. He’d get super fired up about teaching a technique but his enthusiastic tone was much more impressive than what he was actually teaching. Like the stuff he was teaching was high school JV shit but he would act like what he was saying was the most ground breaking thing ever. And therefore the actual lesson he was teaching was lost in translation.

2. Raiola is stoic. He teaches with a much higher attention to detail. He isn’t super fiery.

3. In the run game, Austin was more concerned about the player getting to the correct spot than he was about the player actually getting there quickly and moving someone once he got there.



I don’t think I’ve told this full story in this much detail because I didn’t want to shit all over Matt Sichterman last year. Seems like a good kid. But Sichterman quite literally won the starting RG job over Banks last year by getting his shit blown up by Ty Robinson in a scrimmage. I’m not exaggerating.

Banks was looking like a starter through much of camp.

It was an option trap play and Banks got the first shot at it. RG pull. Took a bad angle. Instead of blocking Robinson squarely, he chipped him just enough to knock him off balance. Got like 8 yards on the play. Austin ripped him for the bad angle. Says if you can’t get to your guy you aren’t gonna play.

Next time they run it, Sichterman gets in. Exact same play. He takes a perfect angle, and is going to get a squared up block on Robinson. Except this time, Robinson literally runs straight through Sichterman and takes out Sichterman and our RB in one motion. Negative 4 yards.

GA goes off. Gets all pumped up, jumping up and down and screaming in joy because Sichterman took a perfect angle. And half the team is standing there like “WTF, the guy got blown up, lost our offense 4 yards, and you’re praising him?” Sichterman was the #1 guard from that point forward.

Does that help you understand the difference?

@alt f4 this is 2nd hand and from months ago, so if you were at practice on that day and remember this sequence better than I am relaying it, feel free to correct me.

I don't remember that situation specifically, but I do recall a lot of 1v1 and 2vs1 run combos where it was good on good and Austin was more worried about tracks and targets vs actually blocking dline. I don't know if tracks and targets were specifically the goal, but nothing else was mentioned.

Austin was a guy that did get more pissed at bad first steps and tracks than anything else. On pass pro 1vs1s that tackle's first kick step and depth must be perfect or else he's getting called out and going again, regardless of the result of the block.

 

[SoCal_Corn]

"noticeably different approach and demeanor" So...what is noticeably different. I mean, come the fuck on.

Noticeably different WONT happen until Teddy comes back.

And then it's just 1 of 5