This is Beautiful

[BIGH2001]

But Rex ryan and ESPN told me that we didn’t have an offensive line.

[Bear Hands]

I wonder if Hunt knowing Wilkins' tendencies during their 2+ years together in Miami helped as well.  That's a lot of practice time where they squared up on the line. 

Awesome to see Icky doing better.  He looked very confident in the run game again, much more like what we were sold on. 

These young LTs can go through ebs and flows.. I.E. Cross is starting to crush it it, Andrew Thomas is finally playing a bit better.     

[PanthersGTI]

7 minutes ago, HPPantherzfan said:

While this years O-line looks 1000 times better and I’m loving it.  I’m going to stop dogging on last years line.  After researching, Bryce was holding the ball way too long and on top of that he had the same bad habit he had to start this year, he was running into sacks.  I don’t think the o-line, or any player from last year, was as bad as lots of people want to make out they were.  

Nah, they were trash last year. There is a reason they went out and spent all that money. The inside of the line was a turnstile and Ikky hit his sophomore slump.

[HPPantherzfan]

4 minutes ago, PanthersGTI said:

Nah, they were trash last year. There is a reason they went out and spent all that money. The inside of the line was a turnstile and Ikky hit his sophomore slump.

Definitely not saying they were great but there are reasons, even after spending all that money on the oline, they were breaching that Bryce had to be sub 3 seconds, which he wasn’t last year

[strato]

1 hour ago, Shocker said:

Hmm, would have sworn I saw Ikey give up a sack on a total whiff block.  My memory is shet these days so maybe not

I think he blocked someone on the play which technically probably saved him but I remember the play and somebody missed something for sure.

[ForJimmy]

I hope Lewis is good to go this week...

[ForJimmy]

41 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

My worry on Colbert is that he may not make it the entire season and there's no solid plan B. 

BC could be ok there and Raym is at least a natural center.

[Jon Snow]

19 minutes ago, ForJimmy said:

BC could be ok there and Raym is at least a natural center.

I hope we don't have to find out. 

[ForJimmy]

4 minutes ago, Jon Snow said:

I hope we don't have to find out. 

I'd imagine most teams are in a similar situation though.  Good OL are hard to come by and few teams have decent depth there.

[onmyown]

Super bowl teams in the last 25 years most in common:

1. Top oline

2. top qb play

3. top defense

in that order. Exceptions being Eli Manning’s line another a couple others.

you can do a HELLA lot with just an oline

Edited September 24 by onmyown

[MtnJax]

Maybe I’m wrong, but in the TD pass to Diontae, Ickey got beat pretty bad and Dalton had to move his pocket to get that pass off. That feels like a pressure to me

[kungfoodude]

3 hours ago, PantherChris said:

Wasn't his assignment, he was blocking down. Moton wasn't credited a sack either because Sanders blocked him

Yeah, those were both supporting blockers that fuged those up. That seemed pretty obvious.

[kungfoodude]

2 hours ago, Bear Hands said:

I wonder if Hunt knowing Wilkins' tendencies during their 2+ years together in Miami helped as well.  That's a lot of practice time where they squared up on the line. 

Awesome to see Icky doing better.  He looked very confident in the run game again, much more like what we were sold on. 

These young LTs can go through ebs and flows.. I.E. Cross is starting to crush it it, Andrew Thomas is finally playing a bit better.     

The fact that the entire line looks so much better speaks to how much of a dumpster fire our 2023 season was.

[PleaseCutStewart]

2 hours ago, HPPantherzfan said:

While this years O-line looks 1000 times better and I’m loving it.  I’m going to stop dogging on last years line.  After researching, Bryce was holding the ball way too long and on top of that he had the same bad habit he had to start this year, he was running into sacks.  I don’t think the o-line, or any player from last year, was as bad as lots of people want to make out they were.  

The problem with last year's line was the interior got destroyed far too often (as in like pushed backwards several yards when pass blocking) and might be the reason that Bryce drops back way too deep for no reason every pass play.

I honestly didn't think Ickey played that terrible last year outside of his penalties. LG was awful and really put pressure on him to guard his guy while trying to help out on inside pass rushes also.