changing our strength corch? Probably not. He hasn't thrown any interceptions so far to my knowledge. And I don't think he's calling any of the plays either. But one common theme to this season in the first 5 games is that we're getting our tails whipped on both sides of the line. Wait, that was the case most all of last year too. LSU wasn't just Fournette. Those ESPN highlight plays where he made kitty litter of our DB's happened where? Yep, all in the secondary. He didn't run over Montravelosity or Dontavious or J'auntavious or Latrondavious at the line. Nope, they all had 320 pound linemen sitting on them, giving them noogies and wedgies.
Who here either said out loud or at least thought to themselves more than 5 times against both Division 5 JSU and Air Force's bitch, SJS...."Damn, we are getting our shit pushed in on the line"?
That training video just before the season was impressive. And I'll be the first to say that I guarantee there's not a better "conditioned" team in the country. But going
fast from set to set to set doesn't help you when some monster who squats 600 and bench presses school busses is lined up across from you. Plyometrics and Crossfit and Yoga and Pilates aren't something you can use to push the center back into the backfield and disrupt a play. And I doubt that time after time after time, they're giving up 6-7-8 yards a running play because of taking the wrong angles and gaps and mesh points and any other dumbass football term you can use. Day gettin' day fanny whipped in da' trenches....both sides.
Part of me understands the play calling Saturday. We could do just enough running the ball to keep our distance from them. Why drop Sean back to throw when the only way we can keep them off of him is for Shon Holdman to get flagged for another 15? We recruited Braden Smith because he could bench press a building, then promptly dropped 15-20 pounds off the man.
No, I'm not saying this would cure all our ills. There's certainly more to it than that. But wouldn't it be nice to know that Slippery Rock wasn't going to come in JHS and big boy us?