That is just not true. They knew he was a "prospect" and would need to "develop." Mathews was right there ready to go yet they decided to roll-the-dice once again and lost.
The Matthews vs Robinson decision was back in May of 2014 not 2015.
.......this would be very upsetting for me to accept.
I pretty much hone in on the O-line in the games and that's not what I see. What you said might be true when it comes to pass pro but I'm totally unimpressed with his run blocking. Of course my eyesight sucks compared to your vision but do you think I'm missing something? Kind of rhetorical since you already said I'm wrong but I'm just looking for confirmation.
No, seriously, my vision sucks so I just wanted to know if you were including his run blocking in when you made that assertion. Plus, no you didn't say that to me because I just jumped into this conversation.
I hear what you said about the O-line needing cohesion to be effective at run blocking both as a unit and individually but... When we were thinking about drafting him we only had his run blocking to look at and a big part of that was his athleticism and ability to frequently pancake his opponent. You didn't expect him to be much better at run blocking than he is? I mean, it's still most often beating the man in front of you in our run blocking scheme right?
I can second this. Zone blocking is incredibly situational and requires a lot of trust and communication on top of quick thinking. Power blocking is a lot easier on the brain and often each block boils down to a simple 1v1 matchup. It was weird seeing them switch to more zone blocking, most of our guys are built to be power blockers.
I was a Matthews guy myself. Still am.
When did we shift our emphasis from a power blocking scheme? I was under the impression that we only occasionally did some zone blocking.
