What's with the Thigpen fixation?

[CrazyHorse]

Originally Posted by Mecca

I can't believe I'm actually watching people say that running the spread helps your OL when it leaves them unprotected..

Is this bizarro world?

It's one of the reasons I have serious questions about a guy like Jason Smith being rated so high as an OT, yes he's athletic, yes he can pass block but he literally never lines up with his hand on the ground and has very little experience run blocking or drive blocking.

I can appreciate your aggrivation. Though spreading the offense doesn't help the O line it does help the QB. The state of the O line when we went to the spread was a disaster. Basically your choices were to line up behind center, hike the ball and be running for your life before you could get a 5 step drop, or to be set at the snap looking for your target.

The O line was a big reason we had to go to the spread because they gave no time for the drop back.

Listen people, we couldn't run, we couldn't pass, we couldn't do squirt until we went to the shotgun. Part of that reason may have been the QB. But there's no doubt the O line couldn't hold a block long enough to do anything else.

Going to a spread may hurt an O lineman that can normally hold a block. But if you are a turnstyle then you have no choice but to go to shotgun. Not being able to run the ball only made it worse.