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Point of attack: Dolphins run blocking

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The Miami Dolphins were decent when it came to run blocking last year. They had two capable backs in Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams, finishing 11th in the NFL in average per carry but 22nd in average yards per game.

2008 Dolphins O-line at the point of attack
Player POA------- --att. Yds Avg POA pct.
Jake Long, LT- ---- 105 532 5.1 88.6
Justin Smiley, LG --- 86 433 5.0 87.2
Andy Alleman, LG --- 52 167 3.2 73.1
Samson Satele, C-- 132 711 54 79.5
Ikechuku Ndukwe -- 126 638 5.1 85.7
Vernon Carey, RT-- 119 646 5.4 84.9



KC Joyner's film-room research, which will be included in his upcoming book, "Scientific Football 2009," shows the Dolphins were pretty good --- not great.

The chart here breaks down a lineman's performance by net point-of-attack attempts (plays in which he was at the point of attack plus penalties committed and drawn), yards gained on these plays and his blocking success rate.

Joyner considers an 80 percent POA success rate borderline acceptable.

The Dolphins had four who met that baseline. But two linemen didn't, and nobody graded out at 89 percent or higher. Every other AFC East team had at least one 90 percent grade.

That illustrates why head coach Tony Sparano, an offensive line coach at his core, fired line coach Mike Maser after the season.

The Dolphins also addressed the biggest weakness, according to Joyner's numbers. They signed Oakland Raiders free-agent center Jake Grove and later pawned Samson Satele off on the Raiders.
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http://myespn.go.com/blogs/afceast/0-8-32/Point-of-attack--Dolphins-run-blocking.html

Nice READ ...........
 
Nice to see Long leading our line. anybody know where jake grove is on these stats?
 
Long has the potential to get better and Grove should improve things in the middle.

They need to get the combined average up on the right side though. Here's hoping Donald can help with that.

Nice reminder about the O-line coaching change.
 
mikethewreck said:
What do we know about the new guy Dave DeGuglielmo:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3836109
other than he coached with the Giants and is Sparano's old bud?
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http://www.bu.edu/alumni/buforward/archives/Dec_2006/articles/football.html
Football is a passion with DeGuglielmo. He began playing at nine and has been a player or coach for nearly thirty years. “I love the strategy,” he says. “Football to me is like mathematics to a mathematician. I look at a still shot, and I can tell you what’s going to happen.”
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Considered too short for college ball, DeGuglielmo didn’t attract interest, even from the small schools. But at five eight, what he may have lacked in height, he compensated for with his 235-pound weight-lifter’s build. He joined the Terrier team in 1987 and within six months became its strongest member. Training with Mike Boyle, now an internationally recognized strength and conditioning coach, he “reaped the benefits of this genius who convinced me that I had something to offer in football,” he says. By his senior year, he could squat 660 pounds and bench press 415. Playing guard and center during his years as a Terrier, he was a two-time Yankee Conference All-Academic Player and a First Team All-New England selection.
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http://www.nj.com/giants/index.ssf/2009/01/new_york_giants_officially_los.html
DeGuglielmo is a high-energy guy the Giants' players loved being around. They'd rip on him, he'd rip on them and somewhere in the middle, they'd get some quality work done. The players will surely miss the guy they dubbed "Googs," a member of Tom Coughlin's staff since he joined the Giants in 2004.
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The line as a whole came in just under 84 POA pct.
Assuming the guards are healthy and with Grove's addition
that should rise to 87-88 pct.

from good with weak links to great
 
Somehow the article on DeGuglielmo didn't surprise me. This is a BP/TS kind of guy all the way. Can't wait to see what the "Orca-5" will do this year. Combine smashmouth football with the WildPat, might be epic. With this year's schedule, we need epic. Nothing else will do.
 
The run blocking or lack there of last year IMO will hinge our fate this year. Our interior line needs lots of help. The apparent starters we do have appear all to be injury prone and recovering from injuries never a good sign. We really need a couple of Devon Bess type OL to show up this year to be sucessful. This team is being built to run the ball with a play action pass something we really did not do well last year shich is why we reinvented the wild car. Eventually we will get there. A interior running game also rest our defense and with Jason Fergueson getting old and Channing Crowder shaky knees then the running game is even more important. After the interior line we needs that young stud NT and a good backup to Channing. They ran all over us when he missed a game last year. After that we need more OLB help but that is another issue.]\
 
Long-Smiley-Grove-Thomas-Carey
the Orca-Five
I believe by the end of the 2009 season our Offensive Line will be recognized as one of the best in the NFL & is destined to enter the books with the likes of the RedSkin's infamous Hogs.
 
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