Wasn't it just documented that knapp gave up no pressures in 26 pass pro plays?
By no means do I think the line is playing great, but they aren't playing bad either despite how teams are defending riley.
below is the video.
Watch the first drive, the Oline dominated in run and pass pro despite louisville loading the box.
2nd drive, louisville only brought 4 last play, and leonard had about a 5 yard radius of space around him created by the oline for his td to greathouse.
3rd drive - quick td, great oline push
4th drive - either blown riley protection call, or blown assignment, price fumble
5th drive - first play riley steps into pressure with clean pocket, mitchell wide open, then louisville commits 8 in the box. PLay at 3:53 is beaux issue, insane he didn't adjust to hot read, such an easy play. Next play, we're 5 wide, and they're bringing 6, 1-1 on all 5 wrs, this needs to be a shot. oline does a bad job, but poor read on leaonard. That has to be a quick shot to mitchell when you 100% know no safety help pre snap.
6th drive, 3rd down, terrible audible by leonard, they bring house and stuff love
7th drive start of 3rd, first play, well blocked, riley makes mistake and bounces outside for short loss instead of 3-4 yard gain. Next play after penalties good pocket, he checks down pass for loss with wrs open downfield. 3rd and long bad pass out of bounds to beaux, would love to see him give a chance there.
8th drive - great pass pro, eash pass rolling right to faison, terrible throw. Then another roll right, louisville slanted left into it and roco didn't have a chance.
9th drive - 1st and 5, ol did great job blocking but eli whiffs, on what could have have been a big run, huge hole by oline. Now 1st and ten, safety blitz, huge hole by oline, but safety shoe string tackles love or it's probably long TD run. oline great job there. Next play oline walls off entire dline for good leonard run. Next first down, swing pass to love, greathouse messes up block or it would have been big play, loss of two. Drive ends with a leonard power run into a box of 10 when needing 2-3 yards. Dumb. Oline actually got push.
10th drive 1125 on clock, first down, good hole for leonard run. Next play we run short swing to evans with every defender close to box for no gain. 3rd and 6, great pass pro, all day for busted coverage pass to harrison. Beautiful screen for love TD, great sell and pass by leonard, with ol doing awesome out in space.
11th drive - first play good push up middle for a few yards. next play, we roll right for the 15th time and guess what, they slant left right into it and our oline has no shot. oline could have done better there no doubt.
In the end. Oline played solid to good vs louisville despite a loaded box, despite louisville havng a good dline. Denbrock and riley were just way too conservative, mainly riley, to take advantage of it. Also, i see more blocking issues with our TEs than Oline. That gets muddied because it looks like oline. Example like i said above, perfectly blocked play for love to have huge gain, but eli whiffs.
