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[cocky4ever]

After the game Spurrier said Elliott is easily the best O-line coach he's ever had. Its easy enough to agree with him, but after thinking about that statement for a few seconds I flashed back to the bowl game against uconn. We were DOMINATED in that one. Sacked left and right, couldnt run the ball to save our lives...and during the game Spurrier gets a text from Elliott that said "I can fix your problems". Man he wasnt kidding. Halfway through his first season and I'd say we have one of the best O-lines in the conference(remember, the Bama game was the first one where we've had the entire line healthy in a game).After sitting through 5(?) years of John Hunt and then more of the same last year I say we need to give Elliott a raise....and fast!

[bmccall]

[foxflyer5]

that was a very good performance from the oline, from everyone really.

i actually thought bama's line looked great on pass protection, but McElroy just held on to the ball so long that we eventually got to him.  our secondary had a lot better game than i expected as well, taking away all his options downfield.

[HFS]

I told you before the season he was good.

[Zee]

I think we really like running the ball on 3-4 defenses. Does kentucky have a base 3-4? I hope so.  But I still want to see more consistency from these guys.  I'm loving Elliott so far but let's wait and see.

[WayzUp]

I'm liking what I've been seeing but the sample size is pretty small for my taste.  Remember we gave Tyrone Nix a raise and promotion after shuttling off Thompson or whatever that co-DC was when SOS first took the job....that turned out to be pretty pre-mature after a small sample of success.  

Granted, Elliott has had much more of a ground-up type job to do and IMO, the results have been very promising but we're still 89th in the country in sacks allowed and still in the bottom half of the conference in rushing.  Granted again, those numbers have more to do with us having played the likes of UGA, Auburn, Alabama and a solid Southern Miss team (4-1 w/ 1point loss to ECU since we thrashed em) which has skewed those rankings quite a bit but it's the stretch coming up that I'd like to take a wait-and-see approach to before I am 100% sold on our OL problems being a thing of the past.  Two road SEC games will be very telling in my book.  

So far, so good....and for the record, I am leaning heavily toward giving that man a raise! :8

[GetEmGamecocks]

If the O-line plays as well as they did against Bama for the rest of the year, forget a raise.  Let's take the raise-differentials SOS has declined throughout the years, and just cut Elliot a big ole' fat check.

[ConwayGamecock]

The thing with me is, I have seen noticeable improvement from the OL this season, in most aspects. Probably the first time under Spurrier I can say this: I thought there were slight improvements last season under Wolford, with less off-sides and holding penalties. There were a lot less INTs, but a lot of those in '07 and '08 IMO stemmed more from poor QB decisions than heavy pressure from DLs. There were still as many sacks, but I wasn't sure if Garcia holding onto the ball didn't have as much to do with that...

Against Bama, TJ Johnson rifles a snap too high and hard for Garcia's liking. Beyond that, what did our OL do wrong? Were there any off-sides penalties? Any holding penalties? Were there any missed assignments (Garcia was sacked once)? A great performance by our OL....hopefully they now start having these performances on a game-to-game consistent basis...

[WayzUp]

lacene said:

Against Bama, TJ Johnson rifles a snap too high and hard for Garcia's liking.

And that wasn't too high at all, it about hit Garcia in the face.  I think it was just coming harder than Garcia anticipated or harder than it usually does and it just flew through Stephen's hands.  Either way, that was just one of those things that happens & looking at the replay, his throwing it at the upright was probably a pretty good decision as his momentum from running back to pick it up likely would have carried him into the endzone anyway.  Had the field position battle flipped there, who knows how long Bama would have had us playing a long field & them a short one if he'd have covered it up at the 2?  I may be in the minority but the more I think about it, the more I think that was a wise choice.