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a team with the problems we've had in both pass rushing and pass protection, would have so few offensive holding and defensive offsides penalties.
I'm listening to an interview with Aikman on WIP, Friday before the Eagles game. He talked about the rivalry and the trouble they had blocking the Eagles his first few years. Week of 1991 second matchup with them (Kmart's punt return game) in philly. Aikman said Johnson's main theme all week was pass protection at all costs. He said he didn't care if we had a holding penalty on every fricking play...WE WERE GONNA PROTECT THE QB.
Would you believe in both the Eagles and Giants game this year we did not have a single holding penalty. How's that possible? We gave up what..12 sacks! PROBABLY 3 TIMES AS MANY HITS TO OUR QB. Here's my rule of thumb...for every sack or hit on the QB an offense should have a holding penalty. This OL of ours needs to get a little dirty. Maybe even a little nasty. I'm tired of screaming at all the holding penalties not called on our pass rushers. We need to understand that now days, you have to tackle someone to get called for holding and play accordingly.
Do we have even one defensive offsides call this year? I don't think so.
Interview with Haley that I'm sure many of you have seen. He explains that on his second quarter sack of Kelly (causing a fumble that J.Jones picks out of the air for a TD) he flat out guessed the snap count. He told a coach that Kelly was going on the same count everytime they went no huddle and that next time he was going on that count. " I might be offsides, but if I'm not, I'm gettin his ***!"
Maybe our boys need to try and jump a count every now and then. In my opinion, if you have a lot more sacks then defensive offsides penalties, maybe you need to take a few more chances.
I'm listening to an interview with Aikman on WIP, Friday before the Eagles game. He talked about the rivalry and the trouble they had blocking the Eagles his first few years. Week of 1991 second matchup with them (Kmart's punt return game) in philly. Aikman said Johnson's main theme all week was pass protection at all costs. He said he didn't care if we had a holding penalty on every fricking play...WE WERE GONNA PROTECT THE QB.
Would you believe in both the Eagles and Giants game this year we did not have a single holding penalty. How's that possible? We gave up what..12 sacks! PROBABLY 3 TIMES AS MANY HITS TO OUR QB. Here's my rule of thumb...for every sack or hit on the QB an offense should have a holding penalty. This OL of ours needs to get a little dirty. Maybe even a little nasty. I'm tired of screaming at all the holding penalties not called on our pass rushers. We need to understand that now days, you have to tackle someone to get called for holding and play accordingly.
Do we have even one defensive offsides call this year? I don't think so.
Interview with Haley that I'm sure many of you have seen. He explains that on his second quarter sack of Kelly (causing a fumble that J.Jones picks out of the air for a TD) he flat out guessed the snap count. He told a coach that Kelly was going on the same count everytime they went no huddle and that next time he was going on that count. " I might be offsides, but if I'm not, I'm gettin his ***!"
Maybe our boys need to try and jump a count every now and then. In my opinion, if you have a lot more sacks then defensive offsides penalties, maybe you need to take a few more chances.