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 On Love's touchdown run, the pulling guard was so late getting there that Love just cut in front of him.  That was a successful play despite the line, not because of it.

I think that play deserves a little more comment.

Here is the video of the game time stamped to that play.
https://youtu.be/jl8ldVjPR9I?t=1h28m18s

The pulling guard in question is Nick Wilson, who is lined up as a more or less a WR (far left side of the formation, not on the LOS). The play had Wilson as a second puller, past at least five other guys.
The first puller was the actual LG Fanaika, who came around and made a beautiful kick out block negating two Oregon defenders. That was really the key to the play. Presumably the design was that Wilson would have been coming around to handle the second of those two duckies.

I'd say that Wilson was just too far away to effectively pull without making the play exceptionally slow developing. That was a design flaw. However, overall, the OL and Williams did a great job blocking on the play. It did succeed because of the OL; Love had a clean hole through the LOS.
By the way, that was Power (or at least a twist on Power - here both the pulling guard and the FB had kickout blocks with the whole right side of the line down blocking).

So you are right that this was probably a design flaw and not necessarily Wilson's fault.  However, Wilson's block should have been the key, as the Ducks still had numbers at the point of attack, and it really took a misplay by Oregon's #15 to spring Love.  Had #15 stayed home, he would have been able to stop Love after a gain of about two yards.  But he foolishly tried to either crash down or get around Fanaika and really took himself out of the play.  Indeed, Fanaika doesn't even really block him.  My guess is he thought Love was going to bounce it outside (and he would have had outside contain had Love done so).  But he should have hesitated at the 20 yard line and seen which way Love was going to go.  When Love went inside, he would have been in a perfect position to meet him straight up (unless, of course Wilson had been able to get there first).

I will give credit to Fanaika, Williams, and Harrington, who each had some nice blocks.  The problem, as has often been the case this year, is that despite 4 guys doing a nice job up front, the fifth guy has missed his assignment, either because of poor design or poor execution, and that is too often enough to make the difference between a successful play that springs Love and a tackle in the backfield or for one or two yards.  In this case, we lucked out because a defender also made a mistake, but we can't count on that every time.

BC

[BostonCard]

 On Love's touchdown run, the pulling guard was so late getting there that Love just cut in front of him.  That was a successful play despite the line, not because of it.

I think that play deserves a little more comment.

Here is the video of the game time stamped to that play.
https://youtu.be/jl8ldVjPR9I?t=1h28m18s

The pulling guard in question is Nick Wilson, who is lined up as a more or less a WR (far left side of the formation, not on the LOS). The play had Wilson as a second puller, past at least five other guys.
The first puller was the actual LG Fanaika, who came around and made a beautiful kick out block negating two Oregon defenders. That was really the key to the play. Presumably the design was that Wilson would have been coming around to handle the second of those two duckies.

I'd say that Wilson was just too far away to effectively pull without making the play exceptionally slow developing. That was a design flaw. However, overall, the OL and Williams did a great job blocking on the play. It did succeed because of the OL; Love had a clean hole through the LOS.
By the way, that was Power (or at least a twist on Power - here both the pulling guard and the FB had kickout blocks with the whole right side of the line down blocking).

So you are right that this was probably a design flaw and not necessarily Wilson's fault.  However, Wilson's block should have been the key, as the Ducks still had numbers at the point of attack, and it really took a misplay by Oregon's #15 to spring Love.  Had #15 stayed home, he would have been able to stop Love after a gain of about two yards.  But he foolishly tried to either crash down or get around Fanaika and really took himself out of the play.  Indeed, Fanaika doesn't even really block him.  My guess is he thought Love was going to bounce it outside (and he would have had outside contain had Love done so).  But he should have hesitated at the 20 yard line and seen which way Love was going to go.  When Love went inside, he would have been in a perfect position to meet him straight up (unless, of course Wilson had been able to get there first).

I will give credit to Fanaika, Williams, and Harrington, who each had some nice blocks.  The problem, as has often been the case this year, is that despite 4 guys doing a nice job up front, the fifth guy has missed his assignment, either because of poor design or poor execution, and that is too often enough to make the difference between a successful play that springs Love and a tackle in the backfield or for one or two yards.  In this case, we lucked out because a defender also made a mistake, but we can't count on that every time.

BC