What did you think of the offensive line?

[parker]

It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be against the Chargers' DL.  That doens't mean they played good, just not as bad as I feared.  

[LinvilleGorge]

LT is a huge need for this team. Which should come as no shock because it has been since Gross retired after the '13/'14 season. We gotta get Hurney out of here before he panic signs Okung for 6 years/$100M.

[Khyber53]

11 hours ago, top dawg said:

Suspect to serviceable, but we probably need to upgrade the center and draft an LT. Little would probably make a better LG. 

This sums it up completely.

[Mr. Scot]

The interior line was pretty much what I expected.

Scott was okay, definitely not great. He was beaten badly by Bosa on the last play, but that's a mismatch to begin with.

Still, as average as Scott may have looked, Little wasn't even that good.

Little all too frequently looked like he had absolutely no clue what he was doing. On more than one play I saw him standing around looking like he was trying to figure out what went wrong. It was ugly.

It's not surprising that he got benched, and knowing that he got benched in favor of Scott doesn't say much for him. Maybe he'd be better inside, but I'm not counting on it. I think the honest truth is he's just terrible.

Truth be told, the best parts of our line yesterday were Bridgewater's quick release and the fact that the Chargers DL wasn't at 100%. Had Melvin Ingram been healthy, I question whether we'd have won yesterday.

[Icege]

Gotta prep for a colonoscopy + upper EGD tomorrow, so re-watching the OL will fit right in with how crappy today is going to be.

[pantherj]

I specifically watched the o-line in this game.

Scott was nowhere near Remmers bad, but he was fooled badly on 2 standout plays and got benched. Scott actually run blocked like a damn brahmah bull on a few plays, and he was winning big in the run game, but our OC decided to run to right a lot where we were not getting as much push. It was odd.

The picture is becoming clear on Little's problem. It's his weak arms and poor hand placement, and if he can't clean that up he'll be a career backup.

Miller had a few plays where he was run blocking as well as you're ever going to see. The Chargers were having all kinds of problems dealing with our run blocking. The Chargers d-line was losing and looking undersized, and when that happens in the trenches you'll see a breakout from even an average RB.

Even Paradis, who isn't that powerful, was having some fun run blocking the Charger d-line.

The Chargers appear to be built for speed and pass rushing, so when we bullied them in the trenches it took their spirit. TB had it in his mind to get the ball out quickly and this took the Chargers pass rush advantage away to a certain extent. 

To sum up we won in the trenches when running, and held up enough in pass protection to prevent any breakdown in the offense. Our o-line is more powerful than I thought.

 

[SmokinwithWilly]

We need to keep Hurney as far away from building an oline as possible. There's bad, then there's Hurney. Other than Gross, which if you go back and look at that draft should have been even if Mickey Mouse was GM, he has done squat for ever putting together an oline. He is one of the worst "team" builders I have seen.

[Mage]

1 minute ago, SmokinwithWilly said:

We need to keep Hurney as far away from building an oline as possible. There's bad, then there's Hurney. Other than Gross, which if you go back and look at that draft should have been even if Mickey Mouse was GM, he has done squat for ever putting together an oline. He is one of the worst "team" builders I have seen.

He drafted Travelle Wharton, Ryan Kalil, Evan Mathis (although he didn't do much for us as he did for others), and Geoff Schwartz.  Panthers had one of the best offensive lines in the middle to late 2000s (see: 2008).  Hell Jeff Otah would have turned out to be a great player if it wasn't for injuries.

Yeah if you wanna say he hasn't done squat for the offensive line lately, you might be right.  But you can't talk about Gross and leave out those other guys.  Hurney did a great job building an offensive line back then.

[Mr. Scot]

Couple of plays in particular that highlight just how bad Greg Little was...

Early on in the game on a pass play, as soon as the ball was snapped Little le backed so far off the line that the defensive end had a huge hole to just move inside and go straight at Bridgewater. The end didn't even have to engage, and all Little did was sit back and watch it happen. Luckily, Bridgewater through the bowl before the rusher could blow him up.

Later on a run play I watched Little take a couple of steps forward while guys just ran right around him virtually untouched. He then stopped and just stood there like he had no idea what to do next.

There were plenty more bad plays too, plus the fact that the offense didn't really seem to get rolling in the second half until he was benched.

He's bad...real bad.

[Basbear]

Bunch of brainlets in here

#3 LT that was a 2020 wavier claim, 2018 UDFA, only took reps at RT and OG

#2 LT being rotated with the above #3, had a injured filled first season

#3 LG just got off convid list

-"Joey bosa (top five DE...) made some plays, OL is garbage!!!"  

[Seltzer]

20 hours ago, t96 said:

They were okay, not great but not horrible either. We still need some serious help at guard and center.

Yep.  Offensive interior is as bad as our tackle situation was until this year.  I hope Daley will be a bright spot, but we still need to upgrade at both spots.

Teddy has done a good job masking some of the issues.  Paradis is not as big of a bust as Matt Kalil, but at this point he doesn't appear to be able to regain his previous form pre injury.

With all Brees' issues with decline, he would really get exposed behind this offensive interior.