Joe Rudolph - Offensive Line Coach

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Jiggafini19Deux said:
Each guy needs to do his job and execute at the highest level possible. The whole concept of "chemistry" and "gelling" never made any sense to me. The tackles have three bodies in between them. One doesn't need to have cohesion with the other, or even the guard next to them, to do their job.

Know your assignment. Put a hat on the guy you're supposed to and block the crap out of him. If you don't know your assignment and don't know who to put a hat on, go put a hat on SOMEBODY. Your number gets called, you answer to the best of your ability. The end.
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Cohesion is the most important thing. Period. I've done it and coached it. If they don't function as a unit all the individual ability is meaningless.
 
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Playing OL is about cohesion more than anything else. I hated it from the jump but here we are. Coogs was our lynchpin—even if he wasn’t a top tier talent. OL is a weird place where “Jimmy’s and Joe’s” matter less than doing the damn thing for the dude beside you. Argue that all you want—but if you do you’ve never played or coached OL.
 
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calvegas04 said:
yeah the guys in orange should be 5 yards to the right
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Guerby is fine there. Knapp is pulling (and he screwed up a ton tonight—just not here), but the biggest issue is Aamil getting walked back into the hole by the DE.

My biggest problem is that we do our OL no favors in run blocking. Let them fire off the ball instead of catching and jumping the train.
 
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Nights like last night are bound to happen with a new unit. Takes time for cohesion and for them to gel into one unit. Would’ve been nice to have had an easier opponent to start the season but a good lesson learned last night.
 
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I think the biggest issue is you got just about every OL guy playing out of position. Wagner and Knapp are undersized for tackle. Here is what I’d do when Jagusah comes back.
LT/RT: Lambert, Will Black
RG/LG: Wagner, Jagusah
Center: Knapp or Craig
 
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I didn't even realize Bryce Young was #95 now. Those guys from Miami must be Giants cuz he didn't even look nearly as big as he did last year
 
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IrishLax said:
As everyone has said, this is the main issue. Your LT cannot play at this level against a good team. This is also why ND saw immediate improvement when he was replaced by Jagusah last year.

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Literally 0 idea how they decide the best thing for this football team was at Knapp at Left tackle and Jagusah at guard. Do they understand Left tackle is the major important position after QB?
 
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I didn't want to write this ... but I'm weak.

If you go back through my OLine comments over the last year-plus, you wouldn't notice but I've rarely said anything about Knapp. (same, by the way, vis-a-vis Wagner.) This was because people here were generally high on him, and I felt it served no purpose to throw any cold water. But ... Knapp has not impressed me (I know that's not worth much) at any time. His footwork is just not very good. He gets extended to the point that you could call it "splayed out". (Lambert by the way looks this way too, too much of the time.) Because of this "intuition" and my view that Wagner on the other side just didn't show up powerfully enough, I remained silent that our interior was at least a violent hard mashing bunch of guys and our backs could live with that.

My "dream" for this season's OLine was Jagusah// Schrauth// Craig due to smarts-communication-and-OK-strength// (forgive me for this next one) Spindler, as a powerhouse mauler// and "Wagner" improved. When Jagusah briefly returned and got inserted at RG, I winced. OK, I thought, there must be some internal reason for this (Rather than LT) but I didn't like it. On reflection, this RG thing might also played in Rocco leaving. My reasoning was not reasoning at all -- just seeing the occasional sweeping away of defensive lines of scrimmage by Jagusah at a double-team with a strong guard. Sometimes that looked like a people-wall turning into the middle of the field, and if a puller or a TE got the kick out block, Love et al were looking at a soccer field sized area of green grass.

The interview with Rudolph convinced me that Wagner had gotten better, and I really felt that Abshur could be a Spindler clone. But what about Knapp? Nobody really was talking about him in any depth. Even Wagner's comments referred to "Ashton", "Billy", and "Sullivan", but not "Antonie." Small things ... maybe not meaningful. Then, in the game aftermath, Knapp is reported to have to leave because of cramps --- in the first half. Sick? Out of shape? What? ... can't help it// don't like it. I'm probably wrong on all of this, but Knapp reminds me (in terms of stage of development, not attitude) of the early Eichenberg. Eichenberg was NOT ready early, but gradually became so by his senior season. He also was way splayed out-of-foot-position lots of the time. There is a reason that both Kraemer and Hainsey got there first.

When Big Charles comes back, I'm betting that we install him at RG instead of where we really need him.

One last useless thought: Note that by the staff thinking of Charles as an interior lineman, that filled our interior up, and we lost three (four?) really good possible linemen to the transfer portal. ... I hate all of that.
 
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Old Man Mike said:
I didn't want to write this ... but I'm weak.

If you go back through my OLine comments over the last year-plus, you wouldn't notice but I've rarely said anything about Knapp. (same, by the way, vis-a-vis Wagner.) This was because people here were generally high on him, and I felt it served no purpose to throw any cold water. But ... Knapp has not impressed me (I know that's not worth much) at any time. His footwork is just not very good. He gets extended to the point that you could call it "splayed out". (Lambert by the way looks this way too, too much of the time.) Because of this "intuition" and my view that Wagner on the other side just didn't show up powerfully enough, I remained silent that our interior was at least a violent hard mashing bunch of guys and our backs could live with that.

My "dream" for this season's OLine was Jagusah// Schrauth// Craig due to smarts-communication-and-OK-strength// (forgive me for this next one) Spindler, as a powerhouse mauler// and "Wagner" improved. When Jagusah briefly returned and got inserted at RG, I winced. OK, I thought, there must be some internal reason for this (Rather than LT) but I didn't like it. On reflection, this RG thing might also played in Rocco leaving. My reasoning was not reasoning at all -- just seeing the occasional sweeping away of defensive lines of scrimmage by Jagusah at a double-team with a strong guard. Sometimes that looked like a people-wall turning into the middle of the field, and if a puller or a TE got the kick out block, Love et al were looking at a soccer field sized area of green grass.

The interview with Rudolph convinced me that Wagner had gotten better, and I really felt that Abshur could be a Spindler clone. But what about Knapp? Nobody really was talking about him in any depth. Even Wagner's comments referred to "Ashton", "Billy", and "Sullivan", but not "Antonie." Small things ... maybe not meaningful. Then, in the game aftermath, Knapp is reported to have to leave because of cramps --- in the first half. Sick? Out of shape? What? ... can't help it// don't like it. I'm probably wrong on all of this, but Knapp reminds me (in terms of stage of development, not attitude) of the early Eichenberg. Eichenberg was NOT ready early, but gradually became so by his senior season. He also was way splayed out-of-foot-position lots of the time. There is a reason that both Kraemer and Hainsey got there first.

When Big Charles comes back, I'm betting that we install him at RG instead of where we really need him.

One last useless thought: Note that by the staff thinking of Charles as an interior lineman, that filled our interior up, and we lost three (four?) really good possible linemen to the transfer portal. ... I hate all of that.
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It was absolutely disheartening to see the tackles struggle with the fundamentals. A bunch of head scratching moments of what in the world are they doing out there. A&M won’t be a cake walk either and I respect Elko a bunch more than Miamis defense.
 
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Driskell going off on Rudolph and it seems like he's on point.

I know I was worried about pass pro and it seemed like I was correct in my thinking.
 
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They stated Knapp was eating popsicles to try and stay cool during the game. How out of shape can you be? Wagner and Knapp trying to add pounds quick clearly isn’t working with their movement and endurance.

I’m really shocked how bad they both played, I expected improvement over last year and they both probably had their worst games in ND uniforms.

We’ll see what our coaching staff is made up of. The film doesn’t lie, and it’s clear who mightily struggled.

My concern though is they’re pot committed to both those guys. Wagner I understand, but not Knapp.

Knapp is too small for guard imo and should be center next year
 
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