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Robert Hunt – September 30, 2021 Download PDF version

Thursday, September 30, 2021

G/T Robert Hunt

(Obviously, despite it being a loss, when you looked at the film as an offensive line, did you come out a little bit more pleased with your performance compared to the Buffalo game?) – “Yeah. I think we did. We had an emphasis that week – last week – to come out and prepare better and do what we can do better. Taking it a play at a time, I think we did that. It definitely wasn’t a perfect game. We can still improve, which we are trying to do and which we will do. But yeah, it felt better than it did the Buffalo week.”

(We didn’t see C/G Michael Deiter out there today, so obviously that raises questions about whether he’ll be available on Sunday. If you are to go with OL Greg Mancz at center, how does that affect the line play? How does that affect communication?) – “I think we’ll be ok. Greg practices just like the rest of us. We’re all in the same meeting room learning the same deals. He’s a center so he’s definitely in-tune with everything that’s going on. I think we’ll be fine.”

(You guys did rush for over 100 yards. We’ve asked you guys a lot about pass protection, but as offensive linemen and kind of getting those five guys together, are there any nuances to maybe run blocking that the average person doesn’t know about?) – “Yeah, as an O-line, that’s what you want to do. You want to run the ball so you won’t be in third-and-10s and they bring the house. We want to run the ball and we want to be good at it so we can manage the down-and-distance, so we can be third-and-2, third-and-3 and third-and-5. So yeah, it’s a big emphasis to run the football. That’s what we want to do.”

(Do you all feel like that can be your identity as a run team?) – “I think so. I think we’ve got the backs. I think we’ve got the guys to do it. It’s just up to us to do it.”

(You’re talking about creating the holes?) – “Yeah.”

(What was different this week as opposed to what you guys have done the first two weeks?) – “I wouldn’t say anything was different. I think we just had to step back and look ourselves in the mirror and hone-in and focus in on our individual selves and then as a unit. We just knew what we did. At Buffalo, everybody knew how that week went and we just wanted to improve on that week.”

(With the tandem blocks that you guys do, how much of that is a technique thing versus practice?) – “Tandem blocks? What do you mean?”

(In terms of working on two guys.) – “How much of that is technique than…?”

(Chemistry or…) – “I mean I don’t know. As an offensive lineman, you’ve been doing this for a while so you know where the B-block is, you know where the C-block is. You’ve just got to – you’ve got to practice it. So if that’s what you’re asking, then yeah you have to practice it, I would say, to be better at it and continue to get good at it. I think we’ve been hitting it a lot. We’ve made an emphasis on double teams since the beginning of camp. That’s something that we want to do is run the ball.”

(When you don’t – and this is just a question for the technical aspect. When you don’t go live in practice, do you get the real looks of those tandem blocks in the run game?) – “Yeah, I think so. I think so. I mean of course it’s not a game rep block but you can definitely make it as close as you can. With pads on or without pads on, we focus on the guys holding the bag, get out on them and stay low. If we’ve got pads on then you’ve got to try to fit the gap. We aren’t D-linemen but we try to play like we are D-linemen. It’s an emphasis for not just us to get the block but the guy that’s on defense doing a block for us, acting like he’s the defender, it’s an emphasis for him to give us a good look. We try to get as close as we can.”

(As an offensive lineman, is it just kind of natural and naturally easier to block on a regular called run play as opposed to an RPO because you know that you can’t go more than like one yard down the field?) – “Yeah, I think so. It’s a normal run play. You’ve got to go. You pin your ears back and let’s go. RPOs, being downfield, you’ve got to be kind of careful with it.”

(Did Offensive Line Coach Lemuel Jeanpierre sort of say or stress anything throughout last week that was particularly helpful or showed up on Sunday that you remember?) – “Just like we’re all stressing, just take it one play at a time. Just take it one play at a time. We know what we can do. We’ve got to play with confidence and we’ve got to play fast. That’s what we’ve got to do. We knew that. There wasn’t nothing that he stressed that we didn’t already know.”

(Was the RB Malcolm Brown touchdown run as perfect as you could draw it up?) – “That was exciting. That was a good run. That was beautiful to see actually. That was really good. Hopefully we can keep that up.”

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