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2009 tOSU Offensive Line Discussion (official thread)

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The Ohio State offensive line hits the blocking sled: Video
by Doug Lesmerises
Tuesday August 11, 2009

Ohio State offensive linemen hit the blocking sled Video - cleveland.com

How much the Ohio State offensive line does or does not use a blocking sled in practice has been a topic for OSU fans in the past.

Well, they hit it at practice today.

And like in the spring, during the two-hour practice this morning, the left tackle spot was shared between sophomore Mike Adams and junior Andy Miller. The rest of the first team was Justin Boren at left guard, Mike Brewster at center, Bryant Browning at right guard and Jim Cordle at right tackle, as expected.

The second team was either Miller or Adams, Connor Smith at left guard, Andrew Moses at center, Evan Blankenship at right guard and J.B. Shugarts at right tackle.

Now here is Jim Tressel offering the J.B. Shugarts exception early in camp when asked about the left tackle spot.

"That doesn't mean if someone looks good at right tackle they they're buried behind Jim Cordle, who's a senior," Tressel said. "So if the right tackle looks better than the two left tackles, we still have a little bit of time."

He never mentioned Shugarts by name, but that sure sounds like Shugarts, who didn't take part in spring ball after shoulder surgery, is a darkhourse candidate at left tackle.

Tressel also singled out true freshman Jack Mewhort as a freshman he's eager to look at on the line.
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The Ohio State offensive line hits the blocking sled: Video - cleveland.com
 
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Buckskin86;1514339; said:
The Ohio State offensive line hits the blocking sled: Video
by Doug Lesmerises
Tuesday August 11, 2009

Ohio State offensive linemen hit the blocking sled Video - cleveland.com



The Ohio State offensive line hits the blocking sled: Video - cleveland.com
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Technically in spite of Lesmerises article, that is not a sled. . .
sleds slide but that blocking mechanism has collapsible arms, springs, and a stationary base.
The mystique remains, bollman does not use a blocking "sled."
 
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But as yesterday's practice in sweltering heat proved, the beat goes on with the Buckeyes. Tressel and his assistants have a number of projects in this camp, but none more important that the offensive line, whose improvement might be the most pertinent factor in the 2009 team's success.

The first unit picked up the way it left spring practice, with veteran Jim Cordle at right tackle, last year's right tackle Bryant Browning at right guard, Michael Brewster at center, Michigan transfer Justin Boren at left guard and Andy Miller and Mike Adams fighting it out at left tackle.

"But that doesn't mean if someone looks good at right tackle, that's they're buried there behind Jim Cordle, who is a senior," Tressel said. "If the (backup) right tackle looks better than the two left tackles, you still have a little bit of time" to make the switch.

That could mean, for example, sophomore J.B. Shugarts getting into the mix, or freshman Jack Mewhort, who was with the team in the spring and "now looks kind of like a veteran," Tressel said.

"It will be interesting to see how those come around," he said. "But we need to try to get 10 guys ready."
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BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : Summer projects fill Tressel's plate
 
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The sled is not dead

Jim Bollman gave he snap count -- for example, "On two. On two." The offensive linemen turned, lowered into their stance, then fired out when Bollman barked out the cadence. They fired out, in fact, at a sled.

As Ken pointed out at the end of his blog yesterday, the Buckeyes do make use of a blocking sled almost every day in practice, but not in the classic sense. That is, if your idea of the sled is of five or six guys firing out and pushing it across the practice field with a coach along for the ride.

This sled is stationary, snuggled against the north fence surrounding the practice fields. Each of the stations is heavily padded and on a spring loaded arm that can be jabbed and raised. In the modern game of football, with its "legal use of hands," the hands are much more involved in blocking than the shoulders. This sled encourages the linemen to take a power step and explode into the "defender" with a puncher's thrust.
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The sled is not dead (Blogging the Buckeyes)
 
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Taosman;1514292; said:
Like the abominable snowman and Nessie this photo supposedly shows an actual blocking sled at an Ohio State practice! (closet camera?)
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photo courtesy of Adam Jardy and BSB
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It doesn't have a 'Made in Florida' or 'Made in Louisiana' sticker does it? :(

So funny, but oh so tragic.
 
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The Buckeye OL is listed as 11th best in these Unit Rankings.

CFN

Unit Rankings - Offensive Lines
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1. USC
2. Georgia
3. Iowa
4. Okie St
5. Fla St
6. Texas
7. Boston College
8. Florida
9. LSU
10. Mizzou

11. tOSU
12. Oklahoma

15. Illinois
17. Penn St
21. TSUN

32. Wiscy
67. Ntre Ame

Cont'd ...
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A little bit surprised to be that high in preseason. The line has potential to be a top ten line in the country, key word potential. G-C-G we are deep and solid, its the tackles that have to step up, mainly JB and Adams plus some solid depth behind them needs to step up too.
 
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Andy Miller and J.B. Shugarts shared the duties at the left tackle spot, while Mike Adams worked only with the third team. Jim Tressel said the tackle order at the moment is Miller-Shugarts-Adams, while Ballard said he thought the season would start with Miller working there and Shugarts pushing him. Bottom line is that based on today, the most important day of the preseason for evaluations, Adams looks to be out of the fight to start there.
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Quick hits from today's Ohio State scrimmage - cleveland.com
 
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