PhoenixEagles1
Well-Known Member
Actually - according to people regularly looking at O-line tape - he has been pretty good this season. One time beaten quite badly though.
For one, Lane is basically playing on an island most of the game (line fairly consistently slides away from him) which means rushers have gaps on the inside and outside to use. This means that he cannot preset towards steering the DE/edge rusher inside or outside for most of the game, but has to react to what the rusher is doing. Nor can he preset to defend a bull rush. He is apparently more on an island than just about every tackle in the game.
The one where he got beaten for the strip-sack - ironically - was when the line was supposed to slide towards him (Brooks was supposed to fill up the inside gap), which remained open when Brooks got occupied/stone-walled by the DT.
The Indianapolis game O-line problems were mostly a product of massive and consistent holding by the D-line (Indianapolis finally got called for it late in the game); something the Eagles were pointing out to the refs from the 1st quarter onwards. BTW, that was the opinion of Geoff Schwartz having looked at the game tape.
Know what I love about the Hoop? It’s the only place on the internet where you can hear “The Eagles are stupid for drafting a TE because their 1st team all pro RT actually sucks and they should have drafted OLine”... which we did (T and G). Not to mention the Eagles are SKY HIGH on the LT and the TE looks like he’s going to be excellent too.
We also got questioned about Sweat (DE) who was a projected 1st rounder til he got hurt. If they aren’t all pro by game 5 means we had a shit draft evidently.