OL grades week 8

[Einstein]

These rating mean little to me... I know what I see and it doesn't always match up with these ratings.

 

[goshann]

NBC ran a DT rating during the Cowboy/49er game and Smith was 33 out if 32.

math much?

 

[gtb1943]

math much?

Actually he might have been kind
the way Mazi has been I would say most of the time he has been 50 out of 32

 

[gtb1943]

These rating mean little to me... I know what I see and it doesn't always match up with these ratings.

yeah the Mark 1 Eyeball disagrees with a lot of these so called ratings

 

[Bigrandrn]

I have a question to ask. Should they replace 1 or 2 of the players that are struggling. How would you go about doing it to make this o-line better? I mean why are they not even trying?

Yup, why not sit Steele and play Asim Richard’s? Play Bass instead of Martin? I mean Martin has been so bad, he’s got to be embarrassed at his play this year considering his career.

 

[Tabascocat]

Dallas really needs a new OLine coach who can scheme with this current group, play to what strengths they do have.

 

[nightrain]

math much?

over your head?

 

[jblaze2004]

Steele had really one decent year (contract year) and when we should have either traded him or let him go we signed him to big bucks after he suffered a pretty serious injury. It's the Jerry Jones way.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Why not, aren't you tired of taking players from college who play one position and moving them around.

Understand football better.

 

[Coogiguy03]

Understand football better.

If you actually played the game I'd respect your comment

 

[StarOfGlory]

Well at Mazi has been over 30 lol

I believe the PFF baseline is 60 for D-line. The eye test and PFF line up, that's for certain.

 

[StarOfGlory]

If you actually played the game I'd respect your comment

You can move a player around and get away with it if you have good coaching and properly evaluate a player for potential at a new position. Landon Dickerson played center in college but has become one of the best LG's in the NFL from his first year. Jordan Mailata didn't even touch a football until he was 20 and is a top-5 LT. In High school, Lane Johnson was a QB. In JuCo, he was a QB and TE. At Oklahoma, in his junior year, he was a D-lineman (and 3rd QB!!) until O-line injuries had the coaches asking for players to try out at o-line. Johnson made the switch. Coaches saw that his footwork was so good they kept him there. The rest is history.

Now, a bigger question is whether or not you trust the Cowboy coaches to be able to identify and coach up players to make the switch. I saw it happen a number of times while playing at Rutgers. They tried it for me to see if I could be a back-up at TE just in case, but the experiment lasted for 20 minutes. My hands were made for grabbing people and throwing them to the ground, not catching footballs. I had true hands of stone. I got a scholarship to play linebacker, and there I stayed for four years, lol.

 

[Cmac]

I just do not believe that Guyton played better than Tyler Smith after watching the game

Neither do I. Had a tough challenge, but he didn't look good at all.

 

[jay94]

Guyton: 73.7
Smith: 53.8
Beebe: 77.3
Martin: 54.3
Steele: 49.1

I have given up on Steele at this point, but it sucks seeing the strength of this team (OG) performing terribly when we finally get a very solid performance from our 2 rookies.

Side note: Mazi has graded under 50 7/8 games this season.

I think we all noticed watching the game about Mazi when PFF shows DT it was 119 of 119, boy look at our TALENT. It's literally the first time I can recall having the worst rated player by pff on our team.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

I’ve been a bigger supporter of Steele than most but he’s been absolute trash AGAIN this season. I thought last season was an aberration due to him coming off the ACL. It wasn’t. He’s washed.

 

[John813]

They are not wanting to say it but Martin's back is the problem. You can see the way he is playing versus last year and he is so stiff and has nowhere near the power he had. Frankly if Bass was all that they should be playing him as right now Martin is a liability especially with Steele beside him

Martin won't be benched unless he can't be cleared/pain too great. This front office wouldn't bench him due to tenure and they just paid him a year ago IMO

 

[CowboyFrog]

Guyton played better this week. Hopefully that becomes a trend.

Yes Steele and Martin are cooked.

Gotta rebuild the right side of the line.

just in time for the left side to crumble..that seems to be the trend...most team operate with an OL that has strengths and weakness....we seem to be the only team that needs 5 all pro OL to perform at all over the last 28 years....Maybe we should consider that our gameplans dont work...

 

[Smith22]

just in time for the left side to crumble..that seems to be the trend...most team operate with an OL that has strengths and weakness....we seem to be the only team that needs 5 all pro OL to perform at all over the last 28 years....Maybe we should consider that our gameplans dont work...

The dinosaur OL coach is a problem.

 

[CowboyFrog]

The dinosaur OL coach is a problem.

the JG "Beat the man in front of you" theory never left thats for sure...

 

[big dog cowboy]

If you actually played the game I'd respect your comment

So people who played football understand the game better than those who didn't?

Seriously?