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Originally Posted by barrett
You think pass blocking is an intelligence issue?
Play tells me to go left or right and then I pick up from the inside out. There you have the most complicated and intellectual part of playing RB. A monkey can be taught to go left or right and then choose from inside to out.
Rookies struggle because they don't have to do it in college, not because they aren't smart enough. Being smart and pass blocking are in no way connected.
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I never said it was all that difficult mentally, just that relative to the rest of what their asked to do pass blocking requires the most smarts. The reason they struggle is because they aren't asked to do it in college, but they do have to have at least a basic grasp of the blocking scheme in front of them and read the defense a little (and have watched enough film) to know where the blitz is coming from.