Robert Brewster play by play

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I went threw and rewatched Brewster's play by play. In all he played 53 offensive snaps. Of those 53 snaps, he was beat 4 times with one of them appearing to be a mental error, and a possibility of 2 other plays where he might have made mental mistakes.

Brewster beat by DE who makes tackle on Choice (Brewster is beat)
Brewster block DE on pass play
Michael Johnson on a blitz gets to Kitna, because Kitna backs into the DE, Brewster keeps DE wide…
Brewster blocker DE on running play and holds his ground.
Brewster blocks DE on pass play, takes Michel Johnson out of the play
Brewster struggled in blocking on the second level on a run play, but gets in the way of Michel Johnson so he can’t make a play.
Brewster does a good job, of pass blocking, takes one man, but when he goes inside, pass his him off, and picks up outside blitzer…
Brewster holds his ground against Michael Johnson
Brewster takes his DE all the way around Kitna, Barron gets beat and his guy causes the fumble.
Brewster tries to get into the 3rd level to block, but struggles to, just gives a little push to a DB.
Brewster blocks DE and holds his ground.
Brewster blocks DE on play to his side, his guy ends up making the tackle but 5 yards down the field, on a draw as he runs away from the Brewster block.
Does a good job, getting an initial block on LB on the second level, on big run by Choice, but loses his guy when he starts to chase Choice. His guy is not in on the play.
Brewster hold block against Rucker on run play, where Donaldson fumbles.
Brewster holds ground on block on pass play at LT.
Brewster struggles to block Pat Simms on an inside move on a run play, but does keep Simms from making the play.
Brewster doesn’t pick up Pat Simms after being passed off from OG. (Appears to be a mental mistake by Brewster)
Brewster double teams DE, along with TE on a run play away. Does a good job.
Micheal Johnson gets the sack where he is unblocked because Brewster blocks inside. Not sure who is at fault. Brewster does a goo job blocking the MLB he does pick up. (possible mental mistake by Brewster)
Brewster does a good job blocking on pass play.
Brewster does a good job blocking DE, on a draw play.
Brewster holds his ground on pass play.
Brewster give no ground on pass play.
Brewster blocks DE on quick pass play.
Brewster gives no ground on pass play.
Brewster gets beat on big inside move by Michel Johnson going back around to where the center was lined up. Johnson is in on the sack. (Brewster is beat)
Goes to block Michael Johnson lined up wide, but Johnson goes after Choice on swing, has noone to block.
Brewster gets beat by Michael Johnson making a big move back around to where the center lines up. (Brewster is beat)
Brewster gives lots of ground to Johnson, on bull rush, but stays in front of his man.
Brewster blocks his guy, on a draw play to his side.
Brewster blocks DE on run play and holds his ground.
Brewster picks up stunt and blocks his guy on pass play.
Brewster gives lots of ground but keeps in front of DE.
Brewster blocks Michael Johnson and holds his ground on pass play.
Brewster blocks his guy on running play away.
Brewster holds ground and blocks Michael Johnson on pass play.
Brewster does a good job of scraping off a double team, and getting to the second level and blocking a LB.
Brewster holds his ground on pass play.
Brewster holds ground on running play away.
Brewster blocks DE on pass play.
Brewster blocks DE on blitz.
Brewster blocks DE on run play his direction.
Brewster holds ground on pass play.
Brewster gives ground, but blocks DE on pass play.
Brewster blocks LB on run play.
Brewster takes DE around outside past McGee.
Brewster holds ground on pass play.
Brewster stone walls DE on run play his way.
Brewster blocks DE on pass play.
Brewster looks inside and Rucker comes clean outside on a blitz. Might be a mistake on Brewster. (Possible Mental mistake by Brewster)
Brewster blocks LB on running play away.
Brewster gives ground, but stays in front of DE on pass play.
Brewster blocks DE on pass play.

Looks to me like Brewster played a solid game.....
 
For a first game after a injury, I will take it. Now let's see if he can build on his initial performance.
 
adbutcher;3494075 said:
For a first game after a injury, I will take it. Now let's see if he can build on his initial performance.

:laugh2: This forum has prodded this guy silly after the first game. I still think he will come around, but there might need to be some patience practiced by the masses.
 
adbutcher;3494075 said:
For a first game after a injury, I will take it. Now let's see if he can build on his initial performance.


not only first game after an injury, but first NFL experience period. i think it's definitely an admirable performance considering that.

but like you say, we have to see consistency throughout the preseason.
 
Excellent stuff, SMC. Cool to see a single player's game in black and white like that.

For a first game after a injury, I will take it. Now let's see if he can build on his initial performance.

Agree. He's definitely gonna get his chance.
 
Dcowboy84;3494085 said:
not only first game after an injury, but first NFL experience period. i think it's definitely an admirable performance considering that.

but like you say, we have to see consistency throughout the preseason.

I would agree.... Consistency is the key....

And he definitely has some things to improve on. But, we have time for him to improve...
 
There are many of us who have tried to tell people that Brewster did not play that bad. He was far from perfect and has lots to work on but plenty of young OL have had much worse debuts and gone on to become good players. He definately showed that he has a chance to become a good player. He must keep improving and I personally think he will be moved inside to guard where he will become a very nice player.
 
SMCowboy;3494064 said:
Brewster gets beat on big inside move by Michel Johnson going back around to where the center was lined up. Johnson is in on the sack. (Brewster is beat)

Good break down of his plays bro. I tend to agree with your point of view on almost all those plays.

The one I have in bold I'm pretty sure not a tackle in the HOF could have done anything about that move by Johnson. It would have taken a rare superhumen effort to recover chase and get a hand on him. He got beat but I have a hard time holding that one against him.
 
Apluz;3494102 said:
Good break down of his plays bro. I tend to agree with your point of view on almost all those plays.

The one I have in bold I'm pretty sure not a tackle in the HOF could have done anything about that move by Johnson. It would have taken a rare aftermath to recover chase and get a hand on him. He got beat but I have a hard time holding that one against him.

I agree, that play especially, and really both of the plays where Johnson goes so wide around, are very difficult plays for any OT to make. Sometimes a QB needs to helpt his OL out on plays like that. Very few OT's have the foot speed to move with someone as fast as Michael Johnson...
 
Thanks for the analysis. Very interesting; I'm not ready to write off Brewster yet.

I didn't do your kind of thorough analysis, but I did focus on Brewster quite a bit during the game and I thought he did decent to good in run blocking, but not as well pass blocking. He is still fairly raw and we should get a chance to see how he develops this camp.
 
But, but, but...DCFanatic and Co. said he played "awful". I don't understand.
 
Wow thanks for doing all the play by play work. Considering his injury that's not a bad performance, dude just needs time in camp, maybe another year or two..
 
I doubt the coaches even planned for him to play at LT. The injury to Barron forced that.
 
sadevil;3494242 said:
This may be the most analyzed preseason performance in NFL history.

With no less than 5 threads and several hundreds of posts describing every intricacy of Brewster's performance, I would say yes.

And it kinda came out of the blue. I never realized that a backup OLman could be such a lightening rod. Or a 3rd round pick for that matter.

The funny thing is if Brewster becomes a starter quality lineman someday it will be good. But if he doesn't we will have plenty of time to find someone who can. Brewster being able to provide anything this year was nothing more than a luxury and not relevant to this years success.

Not many teams could handle the loss of 3 starting offensive lineman. It would take AT LEAST that for Brewster to EVER see the field in 2010.
 
Honestly, I think the biggest problem Brewster had was being lined up next to McQuistan for a good portion of the game. McQuistan was so bad some of his awfulness splattered onto Brewster and the pundits mistook it for his bad play.
 

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