What's up with Newhouse? Yeah he was facing Jared Allen but he wasn't just getting beat he was barely even getting a hand on him some of the time. His run blocking has been pretty bad pretty bad too. I really hope he can pick up his play because I'm not sure if Clifton will even be his old self when he gets back from such a bad injury.
Originally Posted by: Stevetarded
Newhouse is indeed no Clifton, but I'm more miffed at McCarthy. Early on, he was asking the O-line to single cover the Vikings D-line. Considering you have to account for Kevin Williams and Jared Allen, that was a puzzling move. Allen has been a friggin beast this year, so at least you'd want them to help Newhouse some. Second half, you finally saw McCarthy bring in Quarless and use him to help out more, which should have been the plan all along.
I'm not sure why on earth McCarthy thought it would be a good idea to try and single-block Allen with a young and still-learning player like Newhouse. Perhaps he was testing one possible strategy to use in the games upcoming against strong front-4s vs the Lions and Giants.
Regardless, it should be apparent that if we expect our O-line to single block against those strong D-lines, Aaron Rodgers is going to get hit. A lot. And we may be in a world of hurt.
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