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I don't know if "hey maybe our OL will stop being shockingly incompetent" is stubbornness, especially for a team whose problem in losses historically has been not running enough.

This is where I would appreciate an ex lineman to tell us what was going on.  Did the WSU D-line get into our backfield so often because our O linemen were incompetent and missed blocks?  Or was it some sort of scheme for which our O line was not prepared?  Was there a possible counter to what the D-line was doing that a coach could have implemented?  Or was the only "counter" simply blocking better?

I really don't know.  It is hard for me to believe that these highly recruited linemen, playing for coaches who have had great success with O-lines in the past, are simply incompetent.  Yet they failed miserably.  I'd like an expert's diagnosis as to why, since it seems so surreal.
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I definitely can't help there, but it does seem like we've historically struggled against these "small but fast" DLs more than we really ought to. It seems like for the past few years WSU has just had our number, and that's concerning.

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[quote author=stupac2 link=topic=17904.msg210806#msg210806 date=1509892824]
I don't know if "hey maybe our OL will stop being shockingly incompetent" is stubbornness, especially for a team whose problem in losses historically has been not running enough.

This is where I would appreciate an ex lineman to tell us what was going on.  Did the WSU D-line get into our backfield so often because our O linemen were incompetent and missed blocks?  Or was it some sort of scheme for which our O line was not prepared?  Was there a possible counter to what the D-line was doing that a coach could have implemented?  Or was the only "counter" simply blocking better?

I really don't know.  It is hard for me to believe that these highly recruited linemen, playing for coaches who have had great success with O-lines in the past, are simply incompetent.  Yet they failed miserably.  I'd like an expert's diagnosis as to why, since it seems so surreal.
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I definitely can't help there, but it does seem like we've historically struggled against these "small but fast" DLs more than we really ought to. It seems like for the past few years WSU has just had our number, and that's concerning.