Hey guys, Bud Elliott. Welcome in to the Noel Cast. Today we're going to do our continuation

of the season preview series and we will be discussing the offensive line. This is the

last position preview series that we have to do and we'll be putting this up I think

probably on Tuesday afternoon, maybe Wednesday morning depending on when you hear this.

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team more NIL compensated and help recruiting. Alright, let's get into this. So 2021 was

expected to be a step forward in the offensive line and I think you can argue that there

was a step forward but there was not a substantial step forward if you want to kind of use the

conspiracy legal definition of substantial step. And I looked into this, why was that?

Well in my opinion it did not take a substantial step forward for a couple things. Number

one, Jordan Travis, I think his legs made the group look better than it actually was

in terms of the run game. He also is a guy that holds onto the ball a lot so maybe that

made him look a little bit worse in the past game but then you could tell you could also

counter that by saying hey bud, his escape ability helps these guys to look better in the

past game. I don't know, we'll see about that. It's interesting. So here's some numbers

from last year that illustrate just how far this group still has to go. They were 130th

in power success rate. They were 82nd in havoc rate allowed. They were 84th in pressure

rate allowed and 121st in passing down sack rate allowed. That's not good. And yet Alex

Sackens gets a lot of praise for what he has done with this group, the offensive line

coach and now the OC and as consistently mentioned, as somebody who's going to be a head coach

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