Notre Dame vs. Georgia Tech: Offensive Grades for 2021 Week 12

Notre Dame football vs. Georgia Tech: Offensive Grades for 2021 Week 12

Offensive Line

An offensive line is a unit. It’s not a couple of players who do their thing, and if it works out it works out. Instead, it’s more like choreographed chaos. Everyone has a scripted job to do, and they need to do it violently. However, everyone can’t be perfect when doing this, because you’re going against people who can adapt to what you do.

At this point, you need to improvise on the fly, while staying on the same page as four other people. It’s incredibly difficult, and it requires that your line be smart, experienced, and on the same page as one another.

Notre Dame’s offensive line was not this at the start of the season. Over time, though, they’ve come together and are starting to dominate the opponents the way everyone expects them to. They’re opening holes for backs to exploit, and giving time to the quarterbacks to pick apart secondaries that can’t hold up in coverage.

The only times the offensive line has struggled are the odd times that Jack Coan is slow to go through his progressions or he panics in the pocket. That does still happen, but much less than it was happening in September.

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Georgia Tech did have three sacks, two of which were on the opening drive. That wasn’t ideal, but it would be wrong to say they were fully the offensive line’s fault. For the most part, they were great.

Grade= B+