09-21-2017, 02:40 PM
(09-21-2017, 02:28 PM)OutsiderFan link Wrote:Maybe some of you have seen it, but I've never in all my years paying attention been aware of a team that changed its starting OL three weeks in a row without being forced to do so because of injuries.
Many people on this board talk about the OL needing to jell. How can this happen when so many guys are being shuffled in and out and from position to position, from game to game?
This "musical OL" doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in whoever is coaching that position. They had 22 practices to figure out who the best 5-7 guys were, and couldn't do it?
It's unclear whether the coaches were forced to not start Hall in the Rice game. He did not travel to Sydney and it has not been answered whether that was because of injury or disciplinary reasons, but it is clear that the USC line-up was the one the coaches would have used against Rice had they been able to.
I agree that switching the offensive line around is not conducive to the line as a whole being effective. At the same time, if you have a player who is not performing, that is also not conducive to being effective. At some point you have to pull the trigger.
As for whose "fault" this is... I mean, eventually the buck has to stop somewhere.
BC