Huge make or break year for Terrence Steele

Cowboyny said:
Terrence Steele's calling card has always been is run blocking, but his pass protection has to improve or he will find himself off this roster. However, he will be given every opportunity to succeed, but he may have reached his peak potential.

Last season he gave up 9 sacks and 37 pressures. He was ranked 91st out of 138 Tackles last season in pass protection. A rating of 58. Lane Johnson for example didn't give up a single sack and had a rating 88. Steele's running blocking grade was 15th. His breakout season was pretty much the same, a top 10 run blocker and a bottom half pass protector.

You can protect a Tackle with a TE chipping or staying in to block, but that affects the entire offense, especially with a LT in his developmental stage.
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I think he improved substantially towards the end of the season. But I don't think Steele is going anywhere before 2026. They don't have anyone who has proven to be better. People talk about moving Guyton to the right side and shifting Tyler Smith to LT but I don't thatk that's going to happen, and I don't think Guyton has given us any reason to believe he would be any better than Steele.

And I may be mistaken, but I thought I saw a video of Parsons beating Lane Johnson for a sack last year. He had 2 sack the first time the two teams met in 2024. Maybe it was 2023?
 
Creeper said:
I think he improved substantially towards the end of the season. But I don't think Steele is going anywhere before 2026. They don't have anyone who has proven to be better. People talk about moving Guyton to the right side and shifting Tyler Smith to LT but I don't thatk that's going to happen, and I don't think Guyton has given us any reason to believe he would be any better than Steele.

And I may be mistaken, but I thought I saw a video of Parsons beating Lane Johnson for a sack last year. He had 2 sack the first time the two teams met in 2024. Maybe it was 2023?
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I agree, he isn't going anywhere this season and will be given every opportunity to succeed.

Those were Lane Johnson's stats I read online.
 
Bobhaze said:
I’m a Texas Tech season ticket holder and have watched Terance Steele play since his freshman year there in 2015. He blocked two seasons for Pat Mahomes in the 2015-16 seasons.

To be honest I was really surprised Steele made it in the NFL. He was never a great pass blocker and in the days when Mahomes was at Tech, they didn’t exactly run the ball that much so you didn’t see his run blocking ability much.

One thing I’ve always seen about Steele is for his size, he is very athletic and his rookie year in Dallas he surprised me how well he played immediately as an undrafted FA in 2020.

His athleticism allows me to still have some hope he can improve his pass blocking skills. I do think the team rushed him back a little after his knee injury. He was injured on Dec 11, 2022 and was back playing in 2023 early in the season. I honestly don’t believe he was ready.

I agree with you that this is a pivotal year for Steele. If he doesn’t have a better year he probably needs to be a June 1 release in 2026.
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Doesn't need to become a pro bowl Tackle, just able to hold up. There were games last season that he greatly impacted the offense in a negative way, that cannot continue.
 
Cowboyny said:
Terrence Steele's calling card has always been is run blocking, but his pass protection has to improve or he will find himself off this roster. However, he will be given every opportunity to succeed, but he may have reached his peak potential.

Last season he gave up 9 sacks and 37 pressures. He was ranked 91st out of 138 Tackles last season in pass protection. A rating of 58. Lane Johnson for example didn't give up a single sack and had a rating 88. Steele's running blocking grade was 15th. His breakout season was pretty much the same, a top 10 run blocker and a bottom half pass protector.

You can protect a Tackle with a TE chipping or staying in to block, but that affects the entire offense, especially with a LT in his developmental stage.
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Shotty says he’s going to put the 5 best offensive lineman out there so Steele may not even start the season. He’s going to have to earn it.
 
Rockport said:
Shotty says he’s going to put the 5 best offensive lineman out there so Steele may not even start the season. He’s going to have to earn it.
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Steele is an elite run blocker and will certainly be among the 5 best lineman. Richards is a quality backup that potentially can push one of the starters.
 
Cowboyny said:
I agree, he isn't going anywhere this season and will be given every opportunity to succeed.

Those were Lane Johnson's stats I read online.
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It was 2023 when Parsons beat Johnson for a sack. I saw a video of every snap Parsons vs. Johnson. Most the time Hurts got rid of the ball quickly. Had he held that ball I think Micah may have gotten a couple of sacks on Johnson.
 
Cowboyny said:
Steele is an elite run blocker and will certainly be among the 5 best lineman. Richards is a quality backup that potentially can push one of the starters.
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he was NEVER an elite run blocker; he was VERY GOOD and he has not been that good since his injury
 
Depends. I don't follow college: is there a Tyler who can play RT coming out for the draft next year?
 
My prediction. Come the end of Septemberish all of the objective Steele bashers are going to be admitting how well he is blocking in the run game. I have no prediction for his pass protection nor do I have a comment on what the subset of fans on here who refuse to do anything other than double down on their comments even when proven wrong will say. Some of us make up our minds on players and just aren't going to change them and with an Offensive Lineman who can't flash stats that can't be argued with, it's just not going to be an argument that can be overcome and since there will be sacks that can be pointed to, it's admittedly not going to happen. So I'll stick with those likely to be open and objective and say they will even have to admit it. Steele has IMO been pretty good overall as a run blocker other than when he was banged up and also when he had poor play next to him (and sadly that included Martin at times last year) and I don't expect either of those this season. He is at his best in a power scheme and after hearing Adams talk about how he tailors his scheme to his players and not the other way around and constantly bringing up "violence" I expect us to see a lot more of a power scheme which I think is going to fit Steele well and especially with the 3 big boys all to his left in a row. How he does in pass protection and how Guyton develops will IMO determine whether or not he is here in 2026 but I expect his run blocking to be good this year
 
Bobhaze said:
Don’t disagree with you but this FO is not known to move on from their mistakes early. They wait until they have no choice. So don’t expect any early admissions of problems with Steele or Guyton.
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I try not to be overly critical of Jerry. Because I know he wants to win and make money and I can't fault him for putting money first. Most of us would because that's winning in life. But I think he wants to go all in for 26.

I mean, he's 80 something. I get the criticism; I just think the anomosity and ill will is over the top. I guess I just choose to see the positive side. The way I see it, a lot of people envy Jerry for doing what we all would love to do.

I know he's not perfect. And I'll criticize moves, but I don't hate the man. He's on my team.

You're my boy, Jerral Wayne.

Lol

Like, I'll be critical of him. I don't think he's been as intuitive recently as he was this year. They anticipated their moves well.

Like, I'll be critical of him. I don't think he's been as intuitive recently as he was this year. They anticipated their moves well.
 
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