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October 26th, 2011 
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The San Diego Chargers lost to the New York Jets after leading in the first half 21-10. The Chargers fall to 4-2 and stay in the lead in the AFC West, as Oakland takes a loss by the hands of the Chiefs. This week, Randy McMichael has a good day run blocking. He records an 82% assignments grade and a -2 power score. He does a better job sustaining blocks and demonstrating a good motor during running plays. Let’s take a look at the rest of the scores…
Run Blocking Stats
Team Run Blocking
Did the lineman get the job done or not? These grades are good for understanding value for a team and not necessarily for comparing across teams. A game in the mid 80s to 90% is a decent score.
Power Blocking
How often did the offensive lineman dominate the block or how often did he get dominated? These scores are good for comparing across teams and finding the most dominant lineman in the league.
PB Score
Anything over zero is a good score. The more over zero the more the lineman dominated the defender. Each lineman is scored a minus for being dominated, a zero for a draw, or a plus for dominating the defender.
Team Run Blocking
The number of success over failures for the lineman when blocking linebackers and safeties on the second level. The lineman must be athletic to accomplish a high second level score.
Player
Name
- Randy McMichael
- Jacob Hester
- Korry Sperry
- Antonio Gates`
Percent
Grade
- 82%
- 88%
- 62%
- 98%
Grade Bar
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Power
Blocking
- -2
- +1
- -3
- 0
2nd Level
Blocking
- +1
- 0
- 0
- 0
Pull
Blocks
- +1
- +1
- +1
- +1
Run Blocking Notes
- Antonio Gates gets a few backside blocking assignments during the Jets game and does a nice job.
- Kory Sperry has some trouble on a few blocking assignments. He usually appears to have a nice effort, but occasionally, the larger defenders get the best of him.
- Randy McMichael has a good day run blocking. He does miss a big block on the edge at 8:16 in the 1st quarter, though.
- At 2:12 in the 1st quarter, McMichael has a good initial block on the 2nd level. Then he just stops blocking. His defender ends up making the play. Holding the block is the difference between a 2 yard gain and a 10 yard gain. Especially, at the 2nd level.
- Jacob Hester has a nice lead block around the left edge to spring a big run for San Diego. Jacob was used a little bit less this week, and McMichael took some duties at a motioning H-back and a fullback. Of the two, McMichael appears to do well at the motioning H-back assignments…but when in the fullback position, he seems to not have the skill (agility) or experience to be as affective.
- I love seeing tight ends that appear to have a thirst for blocking. Those that get after it, show good effort, a high motor while engaged with the defender. Korry Sperry shows a good motor at 5:56 in the 2nd quarter. Now he just needs to do that on every play.
- McMichael has a nice block for a 1st down at 3:27 in the 2nd quarter. But at 8:28 in the 3rd, he gets beat by the defender on the backside and the player ends up making the tackle for little gain.
Pass Blocking Stats
Team % Blocking
Did the lineman get the job done or not? These grades are good for understanding value for a team and not necessarily for comparing across teams. A game in the 90% is a good score for pass blocking.
Power Blocking
How often did the offensive lineman dominate the block or how often did he get dominated? Each lineman is scored a minus for being dominated, a zero for a draw, or a plus for dominating the block.
Pressures
How often did the offensive lineman give up pressure on the quarterback? Every once and a while a lineman can do his job but give up pressure on the QB. This stat will help glean more info from the line grades.
Combo Help
How often did the offensive coordinator provide help for a tough defender or a struggling lineman. Yea, two lineman ended up with the same grade, but how much help did either of them get?
Player
Name
- McMichael
- Sperry
- Tolbert
- Mathews
Percent
Grade
- 85%
- 98%
- 50%
- 50%
Grade Bar
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Power
Blocking
- 0
- 0
- -1
- -1
Pressures
Allowed
- 0
- 0
- 1
- 0
Sacks
Allowed
- 1
- 0
- 0
- 1
Combo
Help
- 3
- 0
- 0
- 0
Pass Blocking Notes
- At 7:39 in the 1st quarter, Ryan Mathews gives up a sack off the right edge of the formation.
- Randy McMichael totally misses a blitz to his side. He looks to the left of the formation the entire time (he was in a splitback position to the right). A defender was blitzing to the left, but the left splitback was taking care of it. Meanwhile, a defender blitzing of the right side runs, untouched, to the quarterback. Sack.
Additional Season Stats
Player
Name
- -
Games
Played
- -
Number of
Penalties
- -
Number of
Drivens
- -
Sacks
Allowed
- -
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