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Originally Posted by ChiefsFanatic
The offensive line needs to be reminded that they need to sustain their blocks, and keep the defender engaged, when a screen pass is coming to their side of the field.
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It's a hard line to walk though.
For instance, the screen that Suggs batted down early in the game is Fisher's fault at first blush for not getting into Suggs body. However, the OL also can't just sell-out on the screen pass or they'll give it away - they have to give that an appearance of being a regular pass play.
On that play, Fisher did a pretty basic kick slide and got over into a basic protection, full anticipating Suggs to be coming. The problem was that Suggs didn't get upfield
at all. He started from a wider stance and looked like he was going to try loop around Fisher. That or he just smelled screen from the start and killed it.
That was the only screen yesterday that I could really recall being wrecked by a DL and it wasn't really Fisher's fault. There wasn't much he could've done differently.