'22 WI OG Billy Schrauth (Notre Dame Signee)

[Jiggafini19Deux]

When I think of chemistry, I think of reality show dating. If Knapp knows what color Otting's eyes are and what his favorite album is, I guess that's fine. Little weird, I won't judge, but ultimately their chemistry should just be cogs in the machine doing their jobs.

Be where you're supposed to be, put a hat on someone and block him, assume the other four guys with you are doing such as well.

As much as I despised them, the SC OL under Poodle were always blocking people. You never saw anyone standing around dancing with no one. Those dudes put a hat on someone and moved them around. The chemistry there was likely steroids, but whatever.

 

[ViewsFromTheDome]

Left Tackle is EXTREMELY overrated(relative to the other 4 positions on the OL)

The whole concept of a QB's blindside is antiquated when you're in the shotgun

 

[IrishInOntario]

Left Tackle is EXTREMELY overrated(relative to the other 4 positions on the OL)

The whole concept of a QB's blindside is antiquated when you're in the shotgun

Completely agree. In today's game, teams will move pass rushers around in a variety of sub packages, taking advantage of whomever they can along the offensive line. They'll attempt to exploit any significant protection weakness along your front and they don't care if that's the byproduct of beating your left tackle, right guard, attached tight end, or running over your RB in protection.

If you have a weakness, they'll find it and exploit it.

 

[PolishDomer]

So do we know this is a certain point? Or is this talking head speculation?

 

[Old Man Mike]

As to "left tackles, right tackles, etc etc": the minimal relevance comment about the difference is truer or not depending upon the quarterback you've got. Not all quarterbacks are equally "aware" of the pocket. A highly aware one has less need for a blindside protector obviously, since he sees it all. There are MANY QBs however who are not sufficiently aware, or they get tunnel focussed post the first two seconds after snap. We still see them occasionally get blown up even in the NFL. Our guy Carr seems NOT to have that pocket non-awareness problem.

The other reason that your best foot speed tackle might be better on the left is if your QB tends to fade slightly to the left when the pocket gets goofy. (I believe that Book was like that.) Some QBs do that because a slight shuffle to the left (I'm talking about right-handers) is easier for most of them to anchor, then square shoulders and fling it. -- your motion to the right tends to keep drifting for most, and the square-up isn't done as often. (I personally found it {in basketball} much easier to square up going left than arcing right on jump shots, which is a similar athletic ask of the body.) If the QB "feels the pocket going awry" and tends to drift up and left, it's nice if your left tackle can run the speed rusher wide and leave that gap.

Obviously all of that is personnel specific and a guy like Carr or Book can sense the whole pocket, but there is some possible reason still for having your best anti-speed rusher tackle playing blindside.

 

[ViewsFromTheDome]

As to "left tackles, right tackles, etc etc": the minimal relevance comment about the difference is truer or not depending upon the quarterback you've got. Not all quarterbacks are equally "aware" of the pocket. A highly aware one has less need for a blindside protector obviously, since he sees it all. There are MANY QBs however who are not sufficiently aware, or they get tunnel focussed post the first two seconds after snap. We still see them occasionally get blown up even in the NFL. Our guy Carr seems NOT to have that pocket non-awareness problem.

The other reason that your best foot speed tackle might be better on the left is if your QB tends to fade slightly to the left when the pocket gets goofy. (I believe that Book was like that.) Some QBs do that because a slight shuffle to the left (I'm talking about right-handers) is easier for most of them to anchor, then square shoulders and fling it. -- your motion to the right tends to keep drifting for most, and the square-up isn't done as often. (I personally found it {in basketball} much easier to square up going left than arcing right on jump shots, which is a similar athletic ask of the body.) If the QB "feels the pocket going awry" and tends to drift up and left, it's nice if your left tackle can run the speed rusher wide and leave that gap.

Obviously all of that is personnel specific and a guy like Carr or Book can sense the whole pocket, but there is some possible reason still for having your best anti-speed rusher tackle playing blindside.

I would love to see a breakdown statistically of where most sacks/pressures come from and if there are more sacks/pressures from LTs getting beat vs the other 4 positions my guess is its a very small difference under center and no difference in gun

 

[Dale]

 

[Dale]

Rats.

 

[arrowryan]

Poor decision

 

[EvilleIrish]

Classic ND offseason boys.

 

[Dale]

“Player go to the NFL. Classic Notre Dame”

What a zinger of a line as usual

 

[EvilleIrish]

“Player go to the NFL. Classic Notre Dame”

What a zinger of a line as usual

Spin this offseason as a positive. Let’s hear it.

 

[Huntr]

Too bad.

Wonder what draft grade he has, 3rd or 4th?

Think he could work himself into top 2 rounds with another year.

Best wishes, tho.

 

[Dale]

Spin this offseason as a positive. Let’s hear it.

It’s December 26th.

Can you answer once and for all why you are even here?

 

[NDMatt91]

I have no doubt that ND was willing to pay him whatever to return. It seems like it was his decision. Not gonna lie, it's a bit frustrating that last year's Ohio State team was able to get multiple players to return who were projected to go much higher than Billy, had they come out.

Guard could definitely be a big question mark next year.

 

[stlnd01]

Classic ND offseason boys.

Yep, you're right, every offseason players from Notre Dame enter the draft. Some even have eligibility remaining.

 

[Irish du Nord]

Spin this offseason as a positive. Let’s hear it.

Dude it’s way too early to be this negative, transfers can’t even sign yet.

 

[RudyVerse]

I have no doubt that ND was willing to pay him whatever to return. It seems like it was his decision. Not gonna lie, it's a bit frustrating that last year's Ohio State team was able to get multiple players to return who were projected to go much higher than Billy, had they come out.

Guard could definitely be a big question mark next year.

OSU has a much higher NIL budget. Have we ever paid a player more than $1.5M a year? Jeremiah Smith is getting $4M.

 

[notredomer23]

Spin this offseason as a positive. Let’s hear it.

ND is returning essentially their entire defense, their WR3 (Greathouse), retaining Aneyas Williams, retaining Jejuan Seider and Al Washington. ND also just signed their best recruiting class of the internet era with more 5 stars this year than that of the last 10 combined.

ND hasn’t lost a single player to the transfer portal of consequence, and I’m sure the 1 or 2 rotational players that end up going in will have you deem it a failure of an offseason.

You take the easiest, most annoying route a poster can take if you’re not a troll (which is becoming cloudier and cloudier). Either, you are right and you told us so. Or you are wrong (which is far more frequent than not) and you can act relieved and be glad you’re wrong.

If it’s a bit, it’s annoying and played out more than NDfan2008 and all the posts that respond to him about DTs. If you’re trolling, touch grass. If this is how you truly are in your day to day, I’ll pray for you.

 

[sfk324]

It’s December 26th.

Can you answer once and for all why you are even here?

Don't you get it? We should want our guys to be great, but not so great that they are very good NFL prospects despite remaining eligibility. And we should want our coaches to be great so they can recruit and develop kids into great players, but also somehow not so great that they would be candidates for other jobs.

This is what having a good program looks like. I think people forget that.

 

[allenm5333]

ND is returning essentially their entire defense, their WR3 (Greathouse), retaining Aneyas Williams, retaining Jejuan Seider and Al Washington.

ND hasn’t lost a single player to the transfer portal of consequence, and I’m sure the 1 or 2 rotational players that end up going in will have you deem it a failure of an offseason.

You take the easiest, most annoying route a poster can take if you’re not a troll (which is becoming cloudier and cloudier). Either, you are right and you told us so. Or you are wrong (which is far more frequent than not) and you can act relieved and be glad you’re wrong.

If it’s a bit, it’s annoying and played out more than NDfan2008 and all the posts that respond to him about DTs. If you’re trolling, touch grass. If this is how you truly are in your day to day, I’ll pray for you.

Bingo. Losing two OL isn’t that big of a deal. Wagner was good but may have peeked. Billy has had injuries and one more could end NFL career chances. As long as MF returns and we acquire guys via the transfer portal and dont lose game changers, solid

 

[Huntr]

OSU has a much higher NIL budget.

What's OSU's budget and what is ND's?

 

[Dale]

ND is returning essentially their entire defense, their WR3 (Greathouse), retaining Aneyas Williams, retaining Jejuan Seider and Al Washington.

ND hasn’t lost a single player to the transfer portal of consequence, and I’m sure the 1 or 2 rotational players that end up going in will have you deem it a failure of an offseason.

You take the easiest, most annoying route a poster can take if you’re not a troll (which is becoming cloudier and cloudier). Either, you are right and you told us so. Or you are wrong (which is far more frequent than not) and you can act relieved and be glad you’re wrong.

If it’s a bit, it’s annoying and played out more than NDfan2008 and all the posts that respond to him about DTs. If you’re trolling, touch grass. If this is how you truly are in your day to day, I’ll pray for you.

I’ll throw one in, we signed the best ND recruiting class in the online services era like 3 weeks ago?

 

[Dale]

OSUs retention was also largely overrated in terms of projections. Guys like Burke, Sawyer were portrayed as these 1st round picks they kept and that just never matched their play. More equivalent to keeping like Sneed and Shuler. Egbuka was the big one but he stayed to put 1st round film on tape after a year of nagging injuries, not some rah rah OSU thing.

 

[RudyVerse]

What's OSU's budget and what is ND's?

No idea what NDs is but it’s likely some cut of the $20M cap, as I assume ND splits more of that with other sports than most serious football programs.

Have seen reports/podcasts OSU’s is in the 40s, close to 50.

 

[NDMatt91]

OSU has a much higher NIL budget. Have we ever paid a player more than $1.5M a year? Jeremiah Smith is getting $4M.

ND appears to actually be playing the NIL game. ISD said NIL was a big reason why they were able to have such a good recruiting class. They've lost very few, if any, top players to the portal, so that shows that they have a track record of paying to retain their top talent. Schrauth is likely their best/most proven Offensive Lineman. ND knows that potentially having their starting guards be one guy who hasn't started many games and another guy who can't stay healthy isn't ideal, to put it lightly. I don't see this being a Wagner situation where they said "no thanks" to paying 1.5 Million because they have Black waiting in the wings and could move Lambert over.

 

[IAIrish]

Disappointed, but wish the young man well.
He's another player to add to the list of good to great players who never maxed out their talent while at ND. His game against southern cal was glorious; just hoped it could've been close to that for the entire season next year.

 

[NDMatt91]

If the staff is as high on Black as the beat is, I wonder if they will just keep Lambert at RG and see if Black is ready at RT.

 

[stlnd01]

If the staff is as high on Black as the beat is, I wonder if they will just keep Lambert at RG and see if Black is ready at RT.

Or at least in the spring, you try out Lambert or Black at LT and Knapp at guard. IDK, Lambert is just so long, feels like a born tackle. He was certainly a capable guard but he'd maximize his potential on the outside, and our best OL has both him and Black on it.

 

[allenm5333]

Or at least in the spring, you try out Lambert or Black at LT and Knapp at guard. IDK, Lambert is just so long, feels like a born tackle. He was certainly a capable guard but he'd maximize his potential on the outside, and our best OL has both him and Black on it.

My dream lineup has knapp at LG, Craig/otting at C. Black at LT or RT. Lambert and Jagusah could play LT, RG or RT