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What will it take for the Dolphins to pass block?

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• Sure looks like tight end Dion Sims had responsibility to pick up Walter Thurmond on that safety blitz that produced a blindside sack/safety against Ryan Tannehill.
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• Landry refused to acknowledge his touchdown involved much luck (or even some luck), but it may well have been the result of a screw-up. On the play, it appears RT Jason Fox slid over to double-team second-year DE Taylor Hart, which left Pro Bowl LB Connor Barwin free. Barwin wasn’t even sure what happened next, but his arms got a big piece of Tannehill’s pass, sending it skyward. Landry came down with it partially out of self-preservation.
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This stuff seems to happen every freakin week. And this was just two instances, you wonder how many more times it happened. Every week someone on the line fails to do their assignment? It's bad enough we got guys who have trouble blocking as it is but when you've got guys who don't even know who they're supposed to block that's just inexcusable.
 
I'll grant you that we've had some really bad play from Jason Fox, Dallas Thomas, and Jamil Douglas at times this season.

But this happens a lot. Look at the sacks, pressures, etc. we're giving up and count how many times you see a lineman, back, or end slide over to double team someone while an adjacent rusher just runs right past them. And it's not just on the guys who have been struggling, because I've seen Miller, Sims, James, and Albert do it. It's consistently just been a situation in which guys are choosing to block the wrong player.

I have to think they're being coached to do the wrong thing at this point. I have no other explanation.
 
Don't have a revolving door along your oline for one. Continuity, which leads into playing as one big unit, is what creates a good Oline. Changing our RG mid season, combined with Albert missing some time, and adding James going down are all factors. I guess you cant really do much about the injuries, but the OG play has been bad for a long time since anyone we plug in ends up sucking anyway.
 
It is definitely coaching.

The pats have 2 rookies on their line.

They also continually move them around from position to position
 
The other theory I've seen is that since Mike Pouncey handles the line calls, it has to be his fault.

I don't buy it. I'm not the biggest fan of Pouncey, but I don't recall us having this particular problem to this degree under Sherman/Turner. We had OL problems in 2013, but we also went into the season with a pretty pedestrian line that lost two key starters and never looked back.
 
1-Players
2-Coaching
3-Scheme
4-Coaching
5-Coaching

It could be any one of those reasons, or a combination thereof. But you're right, we gotta nail this down and fix it!
 
I feel like i've seen many more missed assignments this year than just flat out bad blocking, although images of Jason Fox getting burned on the outside do come to mind. Hopefully James will be back soon. Even Dallas Thomas I recall one snap earlier in the year where he goes to help out on the double team with Pouncey as soon as the ball is snapped, and an LB just shoots right through unblocked. These things are making our line worse than it should be.
 
Who is Fox blocking this week?

Haha, "Fox Blocking" sounds so nasty and it is.
 
foozool13 said:
Don't have a revolving door along your oline for one. Continuity, which leads into playing as one big unit, is what creates a good Oline. Changing our RG mid season, combined with Albert missing some time, and adding James going down are all factors. I guess you cant really do much about the injuries, but the OG play has been bad for a long time since anyone we plug in ends up sucking anyway.
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Yet New England has offensive line injuries and plugs in Andrews an undrafted free agent,Stork, Kline,Fleming and Mason all 4th round picks, who don't miss a step
 
Sims seemed to think he was supposed to let the blitzer go. Tannehill didn't even notice the blitzer. Only Lazor knows for sure what should have happened but I would put money on the fact that Sims did what he was supposed to. Either way you can't stand in your own endzone like a statue, either throw it immediately or start moving immediately.
 
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