Slaussson plays guard he is not usually asked to go backwards. As for
his feet he ran into the RB as often as he got to his blocking
assignment when asked to pull last year . He is OK if Hunter plays at
that level we will be OK.
with the line that included brick, faneca, mangold, moore, d. woody...
the big play was:
moore pushes the DT in front of him forward in no frills fassion,
mangold pushes his guy to his left, faneca pulls to his right and
clears the backer, woody pushes the defensive end or olb to his right
and ties him up. thomas jones goes through the moore hole either in
the *a* or *b* gap and to the right where faneca has cut of the lb.
they ran that or a variation of that a dozen times a game.
the problem now...
no faneca to pull and no d. woody to muscle up the end and seal the
inside lane.
you can have one "no frills" hole blaster at the G spot so long as
your other G can do other things. It is also OK if you have a very
good pass blocking LT who does not run block so well if the RT is able
to sustain your outside run on his side. with the current jets line,
slauson and moore are both no frills straight ahead run blockers that
dont pull and hunter is not a good run blocking RT. it looks like it
adds up to a problem. they will have to be "air jets" this year.
set up the inside run with the pass. probably the only hope with this
current group to run an offense that produces from game to game. it
is going to be a mess when they play teams with very good db's
the big play was:
the problem now...
I'm still so old school that to me a guard is not a gurad if he can't pull
and be effective. But you described it well. But please stop using the
term G spot...not in reference to football.