10-04-2018, 11:26 PM
Hulk is right, as usual. I have to guess that most of the OL are plagued with lingering effects of injury. If you're not 100% when the season starts, you won't reach 100% at all as the season progresses. Each game is like being in several car wrecks, as the saying goes, so you're only putting wear and tear on the body game after game. If there's no upper body punch or connection between legs/mass and hands, then I'm guessing the guys are weak in the core or not getting low enough.
Maybe they're not training hard enough, nasty enough, with enough attitude. I'm not personally convinced you have to have attitude to train hard, but negative emotions do help motivate you through hard work. And as mentioned before, regression is very possible. If you don't get stronger or maintain over the offseason, everyone else is going to surpass you.
I don't think we've whiffed on recruiting. The raw talent is there. The talent needs to step up/heal up and get low/get to work.
Maybe they're not training hard enough, nasty enough, with enough attitude. I'm not personally convinced you have to have attitude to train hard, but negative emotions do help motivate you through hard work. And as mentioned before, regression is very possible. If you don't get stronger or maintain over the offseason, everyone else is going to surpass you.
I don't think we've whiffed on recruiting. The raw talent is there. The talent needs to step up/heal up and get low/get to work.