Originally posted by thl408:
Going back a bit. Here is the first pick6.
Notice the hop step that gets his left foot out of position.

Easy pickings. If Kap throws this as soon as his drop back is completed, the pass is thrown with anticipation (before VD breaks), and with velocity, because Kap can step into his throw.
This here just shows and crystallizes just how bad the right side of our line is. I coach (and scout), and an elementary principal of pass blocking is that you always protect your inside gap 1st. As a center you NEVER travel outside your own base. That is pass blocking 101, at any level of football

Martin should have passed off the 0 tech. to Devey and picked up 93, while Hyde picks up the blitzing LB (51). This double A gap "game stunt" is ran at elementary levels and should have been picked up. Keap ha no chance, and Hyde simply got overwhelmed. It didn't matter who he picked up that play was doomed. Furthermore, while Pears does pick up the blitzing CB his drop step is just horrible

. I've seen this so much of him during preseason and in all three games we've played, which baffles me as to why this hasn't been corrected, or why he hasn't been replaced as it is a consistent failing of his. From what I've watched of Trent Brown (and Boone) his footwork and dropstep is much better.
If changes aren't made at the right side of our line for game 4, if Jimmie T. takes a "stay the course" approach, we're gonna have no real chance of competing this season and we might as well take our comments over to the Draft War Room to pontificate about next season.