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[quote author=winflop link=topic=15451.msg168105#msg168105 date=1471877508]
Teams that lack depth - especially in the front 7 - usually struggle in the second half against the TWU.  Sounds like McLovin could have a field day in the second half.

Does the OL still call itself the Tunnel Workers' Union?
I haven't heard it from the team for a while, but I may not have been paying attention.

That nickname came about in the Harbaugh years when they were a bunch of generally unheralded guys on an unknown unit who decided they were going to work really hard to lead a team turnaround. Given that was a long time ago, and that these days our OL is very known and mostly made up of very heralded recruits, the name doesn't seem to fit particularly well anymore. [Not that fit has ever been particularly important to sports-nicknames.]

More importantly, we don't really know what we have on the OL for 2016. The open practice reports have been a little scary, but of course practice is practice - who knows the circumstances or just what they were really trying to work on.
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Unless I am mishearing, it seems both teams have the same mysteries heading into the season; OL and QB. I am hesitant to be confident, but I know our OL will be strong by BIGXII play. I very much expect growing pains in the first game. Hopefully our OC and Snyder have a scheme with that in mind.

[DC Cat]

[quote author=winflop link=topic=15451.msg168105#msg168105 date=1471877508]
Teams that lack depth - especially in the front 7 - usually struggle in the second half against the TWU.  Sounds like McLovin could have a field day in the second half.

Does the OL still call itself the Tunnel Workers' Union?
I haven't heard it from the team for a while, but I may not have been paying attention.

That nickname came about in the Harbaugh years when they were a bunch of generally unheralded guys on an unknown unit who decided they were going to work really hard to lead a team turnaround. Given that was a long time ago, and that these days our OL is very known and mostly made up of very heralded recruits, the name doesn't seem to fit particularly well anymore. [Not that fit has ever been particularly important to sports-nicknames.]

More importantly, we don't really know what we have on the OL for 2016. The open practice reports have been a little scary, but of course practice is practice - who knows the circumstances or just what they were really trying to work on.
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Unless I am mishearing, it seems both teams have the same mysteries heading into the season; OL and QB. I am hesitant to be confident, but I know our OL will be strong by BIGXII play. I very much expect growing pains in the first game. Hopefully our OC and Snyder have a scheme with that in mind.