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DAVIE — If Jay Ajayi keeps rumbling and Ryan Tannehill keeps going without stumbling, there will be many reasons for the Miami Dolphins’ improvement on offense.Perhaps none is bigger — and more underplayed — than the improvement of guard Laremy Tunsil.
Tunsil is living up to his first-round draft status. Tunsil is playing more aggressively. More definitively. And quite simply, Tunsil more often now knows what to do.
A review of the the Miami Dolphins’ upsets of the Steelers and the Bills show this — Laremy Tunsil is one dangerous dude. Known as a smooth, pass-protecting offensive tackle at Ole Miss, Tunsil is emerging as a mean, multi-level, pull-heavy, road-grader.
He ties up defensive tackles. And now he is consistently climbing to eliminate linebackers.
“It’s really just staying tight to the “deuce” block,” Tunsil said. “My coach has helped me with my technique in how to pull because it’s a new position for me. So he’s tried to help me out. And I’ve got Pro Bowlers next to me in Branden Albert and Mike Pouncey. They help me.
They help me work on the technique.”
A “deuce” block is a combination block between a guard and a tackle. One blocker is supposed to overtake a defender, while another peels off at the perfectly timed moment to attack a linebacker at the “second level.”
When the Dolphins play the Jets, pay attention to how Tunsil and veteran left tackle Branden Albert work together to take on defensive linemen before one moves onto a linebacker.
For a man of his size (6-feet-5, 316 pounds), Tunsil has the feet of a ballet dancer. In order to successfully execute the “deuce” block, however, a linemen must have more than size, strength and movement skills.
“Communication,” Tunsil said. “We’re coming together as a unit. “We are taking care of our responsibilities. We’re talking. We’re communicating. It’s not just me. It’s the whole offensive line.”
Dolphins offensive coordinator Clyde Christensen says Tunsil has been really good the last two weeks and he was really, really good against Buffalo.
“Tunsil, I think, is just improving in big strides,” Christensen said. “Big strides. I was teasing today, his first pull … if you watch his first pull in the game, I think he could have played for Vince Lombardi and run the Green Bay sweep. We talked about him struggling pulling because he just hadn’t done it a bunch early and he goes tip-toeing through there and he’s agile and he locks him up. It was really impressive.”
Here’s a look at what Tunsil did on three successful first-half runs by Ajayi last Sunday. Tunsil isn’t just trying to get through the game without a mistake at this point in his rookie season.
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Tunsil is living up to his first-round draft status. Tunsil is playing more aggressively. More definitively. And quite simply, Tunsil more often now knows what to do.
A review of the the Miami Dolphins’ upsets of the Steelers and the Bills show this — Laremy Tunsil is one dangerous dude. Known as a smooth, pass-protecting offensive tackle at Ole Miss, Tunsil is emerging as a mean, multi-level, pull-heavy, road-grader.
He ties up defensive tackles. And now he is consistently climbing to eliminate linebackers.
“It’s really just staying tight to the “deuce” block,” Tunsil said. “My coach has helped me with my technique in how to pull because it’s a new position for me. So he’s tried to help me out. And I’ve got Pro Bowlers next to me in Branden Albert and Mike Pouncey. They help me.
They help me work on the technique.”
A “deuce” block is a combination block between a guard and a tackle. One blocker is supposed to overtake a defender, while another peels off at the perfectly timed moment to attack a linebacker at the “second level.”
When the Dolphins play the Jets, pay attention to how Tunsil and veteran left tackle Branden Albert work together to take on defensive linemen before one moves onto a linebacker.
For a man of his size (6-feet-5, 316 pounds), Tunsil has the feet of a ballet dancer. In order to successfully execute the “deuce” block, however, a linemen must have more than size, strength and movement skills.
“Communication,” Tunsil said. “We’re coming together as a unit. “We are taking care of our responsibilities. We’re talking. We’re communicating. It’s not just me. It’s the whole offensive line.”
Dolphins offensive coordinator Clyde Christensen says Tunsil has been really good the last two weeks and he was really, really good against Buffalo.
“Tunsil, I think, is just improving in big strides,” Christensen said. “Big strides. I was teasing today, his first pull … if you watch his first pull in the game, I think he could have played for Vince Lombardi and run the Green Bay sweep. We talked about him struggling pulling because he just hadn’t done it a bunch early and he goes tip-toeing through there and he’s agile and he locks him up. It was really impressive.”
Here’s a look at what Tunsil did on three successful first-half runs by Ajayi last Sunday. Tunsil isn’t just trying to get through the game without a mistake at this point in his rookie season.
More at LINK: http://dailydolphin.blog.palmbeachp...oure-blocked-laremy-tunsil-blocking-everyone/
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