While walking through the Nutter Center, if Patrick Towles or Drew Barker overhear an offensive lineman say they are hungry and don’t immediately produce cheeseburgers, then they are doing it wrong. Outside of my family, offensive linemen have always been my favorite people. Smarter than their on-line defensive counterparts (head nod to Zipp and Billy Joe), offensive linemen are a genetic anomaly of girth and brains. OL gets very little credit and too much blame. Following are situations from 2014 I’ll use to make my point.
Example one: RB received hand-off and proceeded on an incorrect path toward the line of scrimmage.