(07-08-2024, 10:42 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(07-06-2024, 12:14 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: FOUR left guards over the first half of the season. I don't think we can overstate just how bad the revolving door on the left side was last year at both tackle and guard. Then the worst guy on the line plays every snap, lol. I remember distinctly watching the Falcons game down at Lynch's and when Lawrence threw that beautiful TD pass to Ridley and just got blown up by the DT I thought, "He's not going to last the season that way." Here's the link to the YouTube, it won't play embedded so you'll have to go there. It was a great play for him to dodge the blitz to begin with, but the second guy smoked him. He's a tough kid and hopped right up, but that play was the one where I really thought he wasn't going to survive the season because we were seeing those hits several times a game at that point. No one holds up to that kind of beating in this League.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-gL1KfdGXw

That hit could have been prevented by the right guard Sherff. He got lost momentarily right at the end of the play.  Fortner actually did his job on that one I think.

Watch it again, there were two blitzers coming through after the left end followed ETN out wide. Sherff moves left at the snap to help Fortner with the down linemen which resulted in 4 on 2, while Anton got hit with both blitzers. Anton lets the outside free blitzer go to push the inside blitzer further in, then TLaw extends the play and Anton let the second blitzer slide back outside where he popped Lawrence. If Scherff had read the blitz right he would not have doubled with Fortner, he'd of walled off the inside blitzer and it would've been fine. Anton made enough of a play to get Lawrence free, but he just didn't recover and left the gap that 55 slid through to hit the QB. Scherff missed it at the start, likely because he was busy playing Assistant Right Center all season.

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