BTW, Jon Gruden is terrific on the draft coverage. He isolates packages of plays that spotlight specific weaknesses, instead of raving about everything. His focus on Robinson's sloppy penalties (or penalties that should have been called), and Mack's flatfooted lack of energy and instincts when he's behind the line of scrimmage, were fantastic insight and should have received more time. Gruden also understands that special quarterbacks are a separate matter, and you can't slot them as 10th best or 12th best player, or whatever, and pretend that it's rigidly impossible to deviate from that board. Lots of general managers prefer to take safe linemen instead of sticking their reputation on the line via a high profile quarterback.[/QUOTE]
I didn't get Gruden's point in trying to make Greg Robinson's impact block into penalties. I'd like to ask Gruden how many offensive lineman he's ever known that busted out of the league because of too many holding penalties. It doesn't happen. You can either play or you can't.
Secondly, players like Cam Wake are victims virtually every play of much, much worse than the half a dozen plays or so that he highlighted for Robinson, and holding is never called. So how is what Robinson was doing holding in the NFL? He's wrong.
The plays that Gruden highlighted, Robinson was out in space blocking a LB or DB that was 100 pounds lighter than him. He won't be asked to do the assignments in St. Louis that Gus Malzahn's offense had him doing. He'll be in more of a phone booth at left guard.
However, the segment on Khalil Mack when he's off the line of scrimmage in a 10 or 30-tech. was dead on. It requires reading blocks instead of blockers having to read him.
