I continue to believe Munchak was by far the best coach on the staff in his time here including the HC. It will be interesting to see today. Munchak has some good young talent at the position. A couple first round guys at Tackle James is a reclamation from Miami. A rookie at Centre that many of us were high on in Cushberry. But they are facing a Top five force unit. Maybe as high as 1-2. The Steelers have two non starters on their oline, but do not have to go against one of the premier edge players in the league in Von Miller. Before you get on the he left for family reasons thing, sure ok I'm not doubting that. Personally, I would have made it very difficult financially for him to leave the building. There is no salary cap on Assistant Coaches. Secondly, my point is the importance and value of assistant/ position coaches.
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Yeah I expect Munch to have his Oline well versed. Bud and TJ will be earning their pressure today.
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Yeah, no free lanes into the backfield for Bud today.
Every week is going to be different for us. What worked last week is on tape and we need to add a new wrinkle and adapt to how this new challenge approaches us. This defense besides giving up some long throws played real well last week. I think they improve this week and our offense shouldn't take so long to get going either. Let Ben go no huddle a lot sooner than last week.
That said, I'm not sure that the defense will have to commit the same resources to stop the run game this week. So I expect better coverage from the back end.
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Just free lanes for everyone else. Denver's qb all but won the game for them but he took a huge beating. I didn't see any Munch factor. Denver's OL was horrible today.
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They gave up 19 QB hits and 7 sacks.....That OL was abused.
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Rome wasn't built in a day as well as MUNCH took a couple years to get our OL act a going. I'm not saying he will replicate what he did in the BURGH but I also don't want to lose what he did do in the BURGH either. MUNCH turned our very average line into one of if not the BEST in the NFL.
I'm with Sask in thinking MUNCH was the best coach while he was here.
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I'm with Sask in thinking MUNCH was the best coach while he was here.
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They made some very good adjustments against the Steelers and almost pulled it off. Munch did a good job of slowing down the pass right rush.
And they lost their starting QB. It's Munch's 2nd year there. No excuse for him when he knows what our defense runs.
Goes to show that you need talent, even the best coach can't turn crap into NFL caliber players.
To be fair, Munch developed a ton of late round/undrafted talent. Villa was a DL/ College WR and became a pro bowl T. Bunch of swing guys became starters in this league after leaving us.
I'd say his protoge is doing a pretty damn good job as well. Coach Sweet Feet had 2 new starters on the right hand side of the line, and one was a rookie. Dotson and Chukes looked great considering their situations. though we were deep at T with 2 starter capable RTs. Dotson not only showed he can play, but the game wasn't too big for him. Did you see him on Ben's TD to DJ? He released and ran down field to lead block for Ben! This kid is going to be good.
The lone sack was given up by Feiler right? If I remember correctly. So against a pass rush capable team like Denver that right side held up nicely.
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I've read here or somewhere else. The O'line coach is an essentially a running game offensive coordinator. I think munch's experience very much helped our run game. I don't think starret is a bad coach. I just think that munches experience helped us more in the run game area.
Started rough, but as the game wore on the Steelers were having to commit secondary resources to get pressure. Game was sealed by safety blitz. They could and some might say should have won the game with a no name QB. I'd say that was good coaching.
I just rewatched the sack. Dotson pulls and takes out the rushing LB on the LEFT SIDE OF THE LINE! Feiler got confused in the cross and let his man run free.