Thomas Huxley once said that walking through nature with an ignorance of geology was like walking through a museum with the paintings turned backwards against the wall. That’s how we feel about watching offensive line play during a game. Miss all that lineman goodness, and you also miss the real story behind a football game, the thing everything is built on, and the thing that supports the more noticeable, obvious parts of the game.
Miss offensive line play, and you miss actual stories, little microdramas everywhere.
For instance: At first glance, this looks like a very mean block by the center on the nose tackle, a full twist and drop combining all the thousand things a lineman has to be good at all at once.