Patriots' defense last night

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by Pitt Gorilla

Wylie and Osemele BOTH struggled run blocking last night due to the Pats' quickness. Fish struggled blocking Winovich throughout. The Pats were outstanding up front.

If the Chiefs are going to pull, they might choose Reiter honestly.

It's so hard to pull with a C though because the downshot is pretty catastrophic.

A NT's job is just rarely all that complicated - impact the C at the snap. There's not much read/react. The reason a trap works is that there's a little misdirection from the G that gets the 5T to delay juuuuust long enough for him to get blindsided by the pulling G.

The NT just doesn't do that really. And the C has the added responsibility of ensuring a quality snap and moving slowly enough out of his stance to ensure that he doesn't step on the QB. You throw a pull in there and there's a LOT that can go wrong.

I don't think I'd have a pulling C in my playbook at all. Maybe in a short of shotgun or speed option play, but never on an interior run play. I just can't see a way it doesn't fall apart almost immediately.