I've been wondering what's up with Emmanuel Ogbah this season. Jimmy Watkins tries to shed some light on this.
It's a tough job, since niether Joe Schobert or Gregg Williams provide any detail, but they both think he's doing a great job. Williams goes further, and says he'd play him "anywhere".
The (frustratingly) general statements about Ogbah's role boil down to this: He "forces" things toward Garrett...kinda...
I think I've got a partial handle on this now:
Before Myles Garrett was drafted, Ogbah (after a stint at linebacker) wound up at right defensive end, and he put some heat on opposing quarterbacks from inside and outside.
Many of us expected him to really kick ass with Garrett opposite him as he matched up against right instead of left tackles.
But Gregg Williams is different from other defensive coordinators. He adapts his scheme to his players...really.
Ogbah is a good passrusher, but he's not Myles Garrett. As I myself have noted here, Ogbah is unusually strong and uses leverage unusually well. This is one of the reasons he was tried at 3-4 OLB first; he could hold the edge vs offensive tackles in space (along with stopping the run himself).
But I digress: His role now is mainly 4-3 strongside defensive end.
I believe that Gregg Williams is telling him to go through the right tackle as he attacks. That is, not around him.
This guy usually has over 30 lbs and 3" on Ogbah, but he's far less athletic...you've seen these opposing right tackles making false starts, because Ogbah is on them before they can "anchor", and he drives them back.
Ogbah could go around them (and I bet Williams is saving that), but for now, this is what Ogbah does, because:
1: It shrinks the pocket and the gaps on the right side. It clogs stuff up. It tends to force either "bouncing" running backs or scrambling quarterbacks outside in a predictable way.
2: If the offense tries to run Ogbah over (ie run "at" him), he can still get low and hold his position (if not get off the block and get the tackle himself).
3: 4 out of 5 times, we don't notice Ogbah as he screws up and neutralizes right tackles, shrinks pockets and gaps etc., but he can also pursue, mirror, and tackle, and that's another reason Gregg Williams loves him.
This might explain why, for like the first half of the season, Gregg Williams didn't rotate his defensive linemen: He built a scheme based on his four projected starters. All the backups had to adapt to them.
Thomas Moore is one of a ton of people telling you that Baker Mayfield was technically the best week 14 quarterback.
That's cool, but everybody is STILL missing this idiocy:
Baker Mayfield is NOT A PROJECT. He does NOT NEED A HEAD COACH WHO CAN HOLD HIS FKNG HAND AND TEACH HIM HOW TO PLAY QUARTERBACK.
Indeed, Mayfield is a lot like Patrick Mahomes mentally: His memory, if not didactic, is close. We saw that vs the Texans. That's how fast he learns and adapts.
If you're saying the Browns Head Coach in 2019 needs to work with Mayfield, okay. If you're still saying he needs to "develop" Mayfield, you need a brain transplant.
And I can't stand how Freddie Kitchens is just getting ignored in all this! You all had your minds made up, and you can't see what's right in front of you.
Think with your BRAIN.
Mike McCarthy?
Well, per ex-Packer offensive players, Aaron Rodgers rolled his eyes, and otherwise expressed his contempt for some the the playcalls he got in his helmet--dating back a few years.
Yeah let's get McCarthy in here to develop this embryonic developmental project quarterback here!
John Dorsey: You've done such a great job so far here! Are you going to screw it up now by replacing guys who are kicking ass with guys you just like better?
Yeah good luck with that! Gregg Williams somebody else's Head Coach and Kitchens' somebody else's offensive coordinator, and you think Baker Mayfield will be a "good soldier" like Rodgers was!?!
Ohmm...ohmmmm...I'm assuming facts not in evidence. All this crap is pundits throwing darts, based on the ass umtions that Gregg Williams can't be a Head Coach, and Kitchens...well he can't win...no matter what...and that John Dorsey thinks old freinds are more important than winning.
I'll boldly go where no one has gone before, and say that I expect John Dorsey not to be as dumb as local pundits expect him to be.
Next up are the Broncos, who are scary. Then the Ravens, who just barely lost to the Chiefs, and the Bengals.
The Browns can and should win all three of these games.
The Broncos are considered scary mainly because they upset the Chargers, but that was a Division game. Like the Browns vs Steelers or Ravens.
They beat the Steelers too. Ooo scary!
I'll get deeper later, but for right now:
The Browns have better overall talent than the Brocos, and Baker Mayfield. So, they should win.
Get used to that.
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