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roman18
It seems every other word out of his mouth is about teaching. I never really noticed it so much (if at all) from coach Boo. Not saying he did not try to teach, as I as all just don't know. I do know that football is always about teaching. You are taught in HS, you are taught the college game from HS, and you still need to be taught from the college level into the Pros.
IMO (can't prove it, just an opinion) that Coach Boo more just used the players abilities out of college and rolled that into the pro game. At any rate Coach Kromer is IMO really emphasizing the role of teacher in his plan. IMO this entire line came into the league with a much needed dose of that and did not get it.
If he gets his teaching across IMO it will be as much if not more of a big play for the RAMS as getting Wade to run the D or getting all the help for Goff.
At any rate I'm all in on Aaron Kromer and I have a feeling the players will REALLY appreciate him to the point of actually performing for him......and what he has done across O-lines has been done in the VERY recent past....you don't have to look X amount of years in the past to see what Coach Boo accomplished.
Teaching is a McVay theme. All the coaches are talking that way. There is no question that they met and were told this is our message when we're interviewed.
And people are often wrong about Boudreau. The Rams had a good line by any, every, and all measures in 2013---it was decently effective.
The other years what damaged the OLs was either youth or massive, extensive injuries or both.
Some say he may have lost his game in 2016 but I think that 2016 is a result of a LOT of things, and can never be reduced to one or two.
Having said all that I like Kromer. It's just that it's next to impossible to fashion a good, effective line if you're relying on 7 draft picks and UDFAs you took in a 2 year period. It just doesn't work that way--it's not enough time to get players. The odds of them hitting on all 7 players, or even 3 of them, are very bad. So I don't know what they will add to the line this year or how, but it's not a simple process of "draft em all at once and 2 years later voila."
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