"Soul Train" Kicked Off A Legacy Of Black Joy : It"S Been A Minute With Sam Sanders : Npr

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The Bears offensive sầu line did not play well on Sunday. There’s no two ways around it. You can point to lớn scheme, protection plans, or play designs, but at the over of the day when a quarterbachồng is sacked nine times, some blame lays with the players on the field. Could Matt Nagy have sầu dialed up more max protections, or run more bootlegs khổng lồ help neutralize Myles Garrett and Jadeveon Clowney? Sure. But when push comes to lớn shove sầu, Sam Mustipher says the offensive sầu line has lớn exeđáng yêu when they’re called upon to lớn block five-on-five sầu.

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“We’ve got lớn get it done,” Mustipher said. “That allows for plays khổng lồ develop, backs to lớn get out of the backfield, five guys lớn be in a route. Then we’ve got khổng lồ get it done. I think when you take pride in what you vì chưng, that’s what you want. That’s what you train for. You train khổng lồ block the best of the best, one-on-one, in a critical situation. When the guy in the top row of the stands knows we’re passing the football, what vị you fall back on? Your fundamentals & technique, và too many times during the game we didn’t vị that.”

That’s what Sunday’s offensive line performance boils down to for Mustipher. Players missing personal assignments và failing to execute. Nothing the Browns did surprised them. It was just guys using poor technique and getting beat.


So how does an offensive sầu line get back on trachồng when they simply didn’t execute on the field?

“You just have sầu to lớn be honest with yourselves, the corrections, look at the tape and understand what you did do wrong,” Mustipher said. “Obviously we didn’t exexinh tươi the way we needed to, specifically on the offensive sầu line. There’s things I didn’t bởi vì myself that I’d like to improve sầu on. It’s just being honest with yourselves. That’s all it is. It’s not taking personal criticism. It’s just understanding I have sầu lớn be better for my guys. I have sầu to lớn be better for my room. And how can I bởi that?”

In Mustipher’s opinion it has khổng lồ come from within.


“I don"t really believe sầu in vocal leadership. You"ve sầu gotta vì chưng things. I can sit up here and I can tell you, "Oh, we"re working really hard." I could be lying lớn you. I could be lying straight lớn your face. So for a guy khổng lồ be a vocal leader, I don"t feel like we need that. I feel lượt thích we need some honesty, some truth. Come out & say, "This is what you"ve gotta do. This is what you"ve gotta improve on." When I walk into the room, I tell the guy, "I was unacceptable on this play." That lends them to lớn say, "Here"s where I messed up. Here"s where I screwed up a blocking assignment." So it"s not about being vocal, it"s about being honest.


“That"s how you start getting the solutions. It"s not, "You did this, you did this." I didn"t play perfect. Nobody toàn thân on that offensive line played perfect. And going into the rest of the season, I"m sure we"re not gonmãng cầu see any offense play perfect. As long as we"re honest with yourselves, that being contagious, that"s the key thing. I could call sometoàn thân out. Somebody could call me out. What are we solving? We"re just pointing fingers. We"ll play the blame game & we won"t get any solutions. We"ll be right baông chồng lớn where we were on Sunday. It"s just about being honest with ourselves first.”

Having veterans in the locker room helps with that individual accountability. Jason Peters shared with the group that he’s been on teams where the offensive sầu line was in a similar situation, they looked within themselves, and they came out on the other side better because of it. He’s been on teams where the opposite has been true too. It will be up khổng lồ the players themselves which route they want to take.

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Every week in the NFL is an opportunity lớn correct mistakes, grow, exexinh đẹp và persize at a high màn chơi. For Mustipher that opportunity can’t come soon enough.

“You kinda want to lớn wash that stink off of you and get baông xã and prove sầu lớn yourself, to prove sầu to each other, that we’re better than what we showed. And I think, I truly believe that we are better than what we showed. Now it’s all about getting to that point. We can talk about it or we can actually act on it. That started yesterday và is going lớn continue throughout the week. It’s not gonmãng cầu be a magical fix and we’re not gonna snap our fingers. It’s all about putting in the work. Now that’s what we need lớn vì.”