49ers Offensive Line

Originally posted by NinerGM:
You can't teach "vision".

That is one of the reasons so many of us aussies thought he was a chance to succeed right from the start. On a NRL field it as if he could see what was going to happen before it did. Call it vision, awareness or what ever you like but Hayne has it and it looks like it is there on the NFL field as well, might take a bit of game time to develop to the level he had in the NRL but if it does then he will be something special.
Plenty of other things seem to be transferring across well also, the stiff arm or fend as it is called in the NRL, moving the ball for better security before being hit and stiff arming, the jink or step as its called in the NRL. All of these are skills he has brought across from the NRL things he has been refining for 20 years not something he has had to learn over night.
I don't think his upright running style will even be as big a problem as many think, what the NRL highlight reels don't show is the hard yards he used to make in the NRL. Running at a set defensive line he ran lower knowing he was going to get hit.

Jeff Deeney ‏@PFF_Jeff 20m20 minutes ago
Top grade on the #49ers offensive line last night went to Brandon Thomas with a +2.7 overall grade, including +2.1 run blocking.



best news from last night imo, he's playing football for the first time since late 2013 and going from LT to RG - we just needed to be a little patient. Should only get better

Originally posted by Escobar:
Jeff Deeney ‏@PFF_Jeff 20m20 minutes ago
Top grade on the #49ers offensive line last night went to Brandon Thomas with a +2.7 overall grade, including +2.1 run blocking.



best news from last night imo, he's playing football for the first time since late 2013 and going from LT to RG - we just needed to be a little patient. Should only get better

Fantastic news. Hope he keeps it up, I'd love to see him start next to Martin.

Originally posted by Escobar:
Jeff Deeney ‏@PFF_Jeff 20m20 minutes ago
Top grade on the #49ers offensive line last night went to Brandon Thomas with a +2.7 overall grade, including +2.1 run blocking.



best news from last night imo, he's playing football for the first time since late 2013 and going from LT to RG - we just needed to be a little patient. Should only get better

Happy for the guy! Hope he can be a fixture for many years!

Originally posted by dtg_9er:

Originally posted by Escobar:
Jeff Deeney ‏@PFF_Jeff 20m20 minutes ago
Top grade on the #49ers offensive line last night went to Brandon Thomas with a +2.7 overall grade, including +2.1 run blocking.



best news from last night imo, he's playing football for the first time since late 2013 and going from LT to RG - we just needed to be a little patient. Should only get better

Happy for the guy! Hope he can be a fixture for many years!

same here...looking at this line..there's a lot of beef there

if they can gel..we might com out of this and the future is bright

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:
same here...looking at this line..there's a lot of beef there

if they can gel..we might com out of this and the future is bright

Dare I say this might be a better pass pro line than last year? Boone is a better pass protector than Iupati was, and Thomas was a former LT now playing G. Pears has been solid in pass pro in the past playing RT in a ZBS. I think it's certainly possible.

Anybody have the PFF grades for all starters?

Originally posted by InsertNameHere:
I missed the game, and don't want to read through 10 pages of BS to find a few honest opinions, so WRATH, SOFA, NC...how was the oline?

I thought the starting line looked pretty good, but it's hard to tell with how few reps they got together. Staley and Pears played one series and looked okay. Everything after that is pretty tough to figure, since miller appears to suck and Brown IS SOOOOOO gifted, but SOOOOOO raw. Martin and Thomas both looked further along Thani expected, and Loo ey was not a crap sandwich. I still expect Martin and Thomas to start, if they can play with consistency.

Originally posted by jreff22:
Anybody have the PFF grades for all starters?

Would love to get the grades for all the players.

Originally posted by SofaKing:

Originally posted by jreff22:
Anybody have the PFF grades for all starters?

Would love to get the grades for all the players.

Not sure how to collect the various line scores in one table on PFF, but briefly this was the order in ratings, best to least effective. I trust their ratings about as far as I can throw them but...what else do we have to do during the week!

Thomas
Tiller
Silberman
Looney
Boone
Hooey
Brown
Staley
Pears
Miller, Pat
Martin

Any word on Kilgore? I'm excited to see the O-line with him back

Originally posted by SofaKing:

Dare I say this might be a better pass pro line than last year? Boone is a better pass protector than Iupati was, and Thomas was a former LT now playing G. Pears has been solid in pass pro in the past playing RT in a ZBS. I think it's certainly possible.

This is right. I have been calling for a very good LT AND LG (thomas) in college who did well against clowney to start bc he is a very good pass protector. I would say better than Martin for sure. I know it's only one game but this guy should start at rg since lg is taken by Boone. I even think he would be ok as a swing tackle at LT or rt if we wanted. Either way, he is going to be good and I hope Martin is the backup center and guard and Thomas plays rg.

Originally posted by elguapo:

Originally posted by SofaKing:
Dare I say this might be a better pass pro line than last year? Boone is a better pass protector than Iupati was, and Thomas was a former LT now playing G. Pears has been solid in pass pro in the past playing RT in a ZBS. I think it's certainly possible.

This is right. I have been calling for a very good LT AND LG (thomas) in college who did well against clowney to start bc he is a very good pass protector. I would say better than Martin for sure. I know it's only one game but this guy should start at rg since lg is taken by Boone. I even think he would be ok as a swing tackle at LT or rt if we wanted. Either way, he is going to be good and I hope Martin is the backup center and guard and Thomas plays rg.

Agree.

Thomas seems at this point to be developing into a players we'd hoped for.

Originally posted by WRATHman44:

Originally posted by InsertNameHere:
I missed the game, and don't want to read through 10 pages of BS to find a few honest opinions, so WRATH, SOFA, NC...how was the oline?

I thought the starting line looked pretty good, but it's hard to tell with how few reps they got together. Staley and Pears played one series and looked okay. Everything after that is pretty tough to figure, since miller appears to suck and Brown IS SOOOOOO gifted, but SOOOOOO raw. Martin and Thomas both looked further along Thani expected, and Loo ey was not a crap sandwich. I still expect Martin and Thomas to start, if they can play with consistency.

Martin and Thomas would be where? Martin(RG) and Thomas(RT) with Killgore(C)and Staley(LT)Boone(LG), something like that?

Or-

Staley-Boone-Martin-Thomas-Pears

Or like that?

Originally posted by InsertNameHere:

Originally posted by WRATHman44:

Originally posted by InsertNameHere:
I missed the game, and don't want to read through 10 pages of BS to find a few honest opinions, so WRATH, SOFA, NC...how was the oline?

I thought the starting line looked pretty good, but it's hard to tell with how few reps they got together. Staley and Pears played one series and looked okay. Everything after that is pretty tough to figure, since miller appears to suck and Brown IS SOOOOOO gifted, but SOOOOOO raw. Martin and Thomas both looked further along Thani expected, and Loo ey was not a crap sandwich. I still expect Martin and Thomas to start, if they can play with consistency.

Martin and Thomas would be where? Martin(RG) and Thomas(RT) with Killgore(C)and Staley(LT)Boone(LG), something like that?

Or-

Staley-Boone-Martin-Thomas-Pears

Or like that?

This?