They’ve been awesome. Besides yesterday, when can you recall a penalty by an OL stalling a drive or negating a big play? The tackle play has been really pretty terrific and the guards have sorted themselves out. Rudolph deserves his roses for getting this group into this type of form.
They really need to adjudicate “hands to the face” by linemen the same way they do a “facemask.” There is a difference between your hands sliding up under the helmet while engaged in a block and grasping and grabbing the facemask. If a ballcarrier or defender doesn’t grasp the facemask, it isn’t a penalty. So should be the case for OL/DL.
He is the perfect check down target, hands like glue!
Or at least turn them on to his brand of gloves 🤣
I realize he hasn’t had the # of touches as Greathouse but I can’t recall any blatant drops either. In fact, he’s usually had to leave his feet to secure the pass. I love Greathouse but he and the rest of the WR corps have had some inexcusable drops. I know we all get frustrated w/ RL’s passing acumen but the WR corps bears some blame, too.
He has certainly appeared a bit more business like in his responses with the media. He has a very “nice guy” image and I think it is sincere but some on the outside would equate that to weakness. I don’t think he is weak whatsoever but the more business like approach with the media is in response to that, IMO.
It was a very strange look and the announcers commented that the flag came in very late. There was quite a bit of confusion in the booth and the penalty reasoning was explained by the replay stand by dude (can’t remember his name). IIRC, he said it was a penalty because of the numbers on the jerseys of the fellas on the line didn’t comply with the rules. I’ve never seen a penalty like that in my lifetime…….
Coogan unnecessarily grabbed the DL facemask and held it for a couple of seconds. Didn’t need to but hard to argue with that one. The other two were BS and ticky tack. ACC officials coming under attack across the conference yesterday.
He was 22-33 with one sneaky int and a couple of TDs. At least 3 passes were dropped plus one pass of beauty that was called back but it showed his improvement. He should have been able to make a better touch pass for the TD.
Darth Marcus
