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Speed / Acceleration on Offensive Linemen

By DarkRogue
9/04/2015 12:33 pm
I was wondering how important speed and acceleration are on offensive linemen, do they matter at all?

Re: Speed / Acceleration on Offensive Linemen

By jdavidbakr - Site Admin
9/04/2015 1:25 pm
DarkRogue wrote:
I was wondering how important speed and acceleration are on offensive linemen, do they matter at all?


Depends on whether you have many plays with pulling guards; for most plays it won't make much of a difference because they don't have far to go to get to their blocking target.

Re: Speed / Acceleration on Offensive Linemen

By DarkRogue
9/04/2015 1:43 pm
jdavidbakr wrote:
DarkRogue wrote:
I was wondering how important speed and acceleration are on offensive linemen, do they matter at all?


Depends on whether you have many plays with pulling guards; for most plays it won't make much of a difference because they don't have far to go to get to their blocking target.


Yeah I had thought about guards pulling, but wasn't sure if acceleration had any effect on countering a DE that has an explosive first step or anything like that.

Re: Speed / Acceleration on Offensive Linemen

By MC_Hammer
9/15/2015 3:13 am
I can see that logic in regards to the DE. Would be nice to know for sure.

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