[News] John Urschel Thankful Joe Flacco 'Took Care Of Me'

[Bob21043]

Too funny - he'll watch the game film to track the trajectory of each snap.

[EddiOK]

I'm sure he'll come up with an algorithm to figure it all out by the Jags game.

[Asmodeus71]

Far from guaranteed to happen, obviously. How about an errant snap that causes a turnover... think maybe that's a problem?

 

Blocking is priority #2 for a center. Priority #1 is getting the ball to the QB accurately and on time. 

 

Additionally, you also wouldn't want to be judging how well Urschel does by just how he blocks his man. Remember, that half second slower that his ball takes to get there is a half second more that the edge rushers (who aren't being blocked by Urschel) have to get to the QB.

 

He's indirectly causing that pressure without even blocking them.

The turnover didn't happen, the pressure was there the whole game and Urschel is a backup in a position he has never played so we can keep less O-line man and more of other positions we felt were more important. So # wasn't blocking or hiking, it was getting what needed to be done to win that game and he did that with a lot of help. Now #1 is either getting someone else to center or getting him a lot better over the next two weeks at getting the ball to the QB accurately and on time.  

[harfordravenfan]

Hm, if he works on those snaps, we might have a Matt Birk 2.0 on our hands in the middle of the o line. Good blocking plus brains equals better protection for Flacco, who seems to struggle with reading blitzes and could use the help.

 

Agreed but can't lie... I was freaking out during the game watching so many bad snaps. Glad it didn't bite us in the butt and very glad we have a few weeks to work on it