What happened to all the great offensive lineman?

[King Poetic]

They play for the great wall of Oakland

.. I knew u saw the light

 

[BigE214]

 

[PortCityProphet]

@portcityplaya @SubZeroDegrees @cfountain @clutch I miss Deuce, brehs.

Me too. He'd only get 5 carries a game with SP generous ass

Deuce is my second favorite Saints player of all time after Brees

It's between him and Joe Horn for me

 

[CoryMack]

After week one we see these decent teams like sea, nyg, hou, ari with these horrible o-lines. What happend with evaluating these positions?

Where is this generations walter jones, orlando pace, jonathan ogden, joe thomas, tony bosselli, or Larry Allen?

Players like Greg robinson, joekel, eric fisher, jason smith, flowers type of players are drafted just on potential and measurables have been busting so frequently. There are some good young players and elite units like Dallas, but I don't see any future hall of famers. Maybe Jason Peters and probably Joe Thomas.

Football went to the spread option, which took the physicality of the game. A few teams still run power, and the game is slowly coming back to that but that's basically what happened.

 

[Dwight Howard]

I want the league to get back to having lots of very good to great featured backs like the early 00s

Priest Holmes
LaDainian Tomlinson
Ricky Williams
Curtis Martin
Jamal Lewis
Marshall Faulk
Clinton Portis
Edgerrin James
Travis Henry
Ahman Green
Stephen Davis
Deuce McAllister



Those were before the days of "quarterback driven league" where a team could be elite off the strength of their running back, and more running backs were the faces of their franchises.

the RB position is coming back though

Zeke Elliott
Leveon Bell
David Johnson
LeSean McCoy
Demarco Murray
Leonard Fournette
Dalvin Cook
Devonta Freeman
Marshawn Lynch
Kareem Hunt

its some talent in the pipeline too with guys like Saquon Barkley

 

[boskey]

Read somewhere that the CBA makes it so young players are significantly cheaper than veterans so a lot of older players are not getting signed and are out of the league earlier. The whole league is younger than it used to be. That hurts the O-Line more than any other position becuz the speed benefit of younger players cannot make up for the lack of experience at that position...

 

[CrimsonTider]

Some great lines on a few college teams.

Fun to watch.

There's also alot of great running backs to watch in college.

Both positions are possibly more valued and stacked than ever before at the college level

This isn't a great year for college RBs

Last year was tho

 

[NYC Rebel]

Read somewhere that the CBA makes it so young players are significantly cheaper than veterans so a lot of older players are not getting signed and are out of the league earlier. The whole league is younger than it used to be. That hurts the O-Line more than any other position becuz the speed benefit of younger players cannot make up for the lack of experience at that position...

So many levels to this shyt man.

The NFL needs to rethink its relationship with the NCAA and get a developmental league going if it plans to survive

 

[75 Others]

the RB position is coming back though

Zeke Elliott
Leveon Bell
David Johnson
LeSean McCoy
Demarco Murray
Leonard Fournette
Dalvin Cook
Devonta Freeman
Marshawn Lynch
Kareem Hunt

its some talent in the pipeline too with guys like Saquon Barkley

you got three rookies with 1 game under their belt and you comparing them to damn near HoFs

 

[BigE214]

Read somewhere that the CBA makes it so young players are significantly cheaper than veterans so a lot of older players are not getting signed and are out of the league earlier. The whole league is younger than it used to be. That hurts the O-Line more than any other position becuz the speed benefit of younger players cannot make up for the lack of experience at that position...

It has everything to do with CTE too. They don't need players sticking around 10+ years developing CTE. Get em in and get em out

 

[NYC Rebel]

It has everything to do with CTE too. They don't need players sticking around 10+ years developing CTE. Get em in and get em out

The league suddenly gives a fukk about players with CTE if there's a possibility of them still being serviceable as players?

 

[jadillac]

This isn't a great year for college RBs

Last year was tho

It's early. Give it some time for dudes to make a name.

Last yr had guys returning from previous yrs

 

[BigE214]

The league suddenly gives a fukk about players with CTE if there's a possibility of them still being serviceable as players?

I think they'll do what it takes to reduce the amount of players that develop CTE just from a financial standpoint. I'm talking about the JAGS tho

 

[NYC Rebel]

I think they'll do what it takes to reduce the amount of players that develop CTE just from a financial standpoint. I'm talking about the JAGS tho

But there's no evidence they're doing that now.

 

[Tommy Sheppard]

Pass protection isn't as difficult as run blocking.

pass blocking is much more difficult then run blocking , most run blocking requires cut blocking, or just shading defensive lineman, imagine trying to pass block somebody like Gerald McCoy, fletcher cox, or jj watt 1 on 1 all game when they have some of the quickest 1st steps of anybody?

guards also seem more value able then tackles are compared to the league 10 years ago.