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I don't think the 2nd Albert Gif is too terrible, Brody had time to complete his drop, pump fake and pat twice. Croyle took too damn long to get rid of the ball. The third one isn't good, but it could be worse. Part of being an O-lineman is using the rusher's own momentum to take him out of the play. It looks like Albert attempted to do so and just didn't quite pull it off. He'll get that figured out. He sure is playing high, though.
As for the defense GIFs, I'll say the same thing I always said with Pollard - open field tackles are MFing hard. Really MFing hard. I remember every damn one of those things I ever made in HS because they ain't the easiest thing to pull off. If we keep ending up with guys on islands facing ballcarriers that haven't even been slowed down, we're going to keep looking stupid.
As the defense gets more talent/time, you'll see more gang tackling. There are very few guys in this league that are capable of consistently making an open-field tackle so until we see massive improvement across the entire unit, we're going to keep seeing those GIFs. Those are an indictment on the defensive unit in general as much as they are shots at the individuals directly mentioned, IMO.
And that's twice we've seen Charles kill someone, he's a fearless blocker back there and seems like a tailor-made 3rd down back.
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