Jedd Fisch Defending His OL

With Landon back and having shuffled some of the guys, are you feeling like there's hope with straightening out this offensive line because it hasn't gotten going other than some time against USC over six games? Yeah, I think, well, I think it's unfair to the offensive line in a lot of ways because the way we're defining straightening out the offensive line would be saying, you know, running the ball better or taking less sacks. and i would say that a lot of the play that's affected the offensive line is the other position groups along with the offensive line i don't know of any elite offensive line that's playing with a set of running backs that have never carried the ball before um i don't think that the offensive line going into this season there was any expectation that they were going to be blocking for a true freshman every snap that's still learning the track of each different zone play or learning the reads I think in terms of protections it's unfair to the offensive line in a lot of ways that they're getting kind of crushed regarding some of the sacks when sometimes we're sitting back there holding the ball for five seconds four and a half seconds you know there's parts of it that running back or tight end might have responsibility and protection and they haven't been able to they haven't done their job in a certain play um i think there's times that as a play caller i need to do a better job of helping the offensive line um against certain defense uh defensive players and defensive fronts and defensive looks so i would say um it's an unfair attack in a lot of ways on these guys and i feel for them