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673 canicule afore aftermost Sunday was January 9, 2016. That date hurts for best of us for accessible reasons, but besides a assertive accident that happened in some playoff bold amid two AFC North rivals, it was Andre Smith’s aftermost abounding bold starting at appropriate accouterment for the Bengals.
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Since that date, Smith was active by the Minnesota Vikings in chargeless agency, played four amateur at appropriate accouterment for Mike Zimmer’s aggregation in the amethyst and white, and afflicted his tricep, catastrophe his 2016 season. Earlier this year he active aback with the Bengals to comedy appropriate guard, absent that action in training affected to accepted amateur Trey Hopkins, and up until Sunday had been alternating at both accouterment spots anytime since.
After aftermost week’s absent to the Jacksonville Jaguars, we abstruse that starting appropriate accouterment Jake Fisher has been ambidextrous with an aberrant affection beat, and that bold would be his aftermost for the division as he underwent a action to try to actual it. Smith had been alternating with Fisher to affluence his breeze calculation while ambidextrous with this issue, and has alike started a bold at the position, but above-mentioned to Sunday, he hadn’t played 100 percent of an offense’s snaps aback Anniversary 3 of aftermost year with the Vikings. That afflicted Sunday as Smith was the guy on the appropriate bend for the Bengals abhorrent line. Pro Football Focus absolutely graded him as the best accouterment in the absolute alliance this week, as apparent above. I focused on him this anniversary to see how authentic that account is.
["731.5"]Smith’s capital antagonist this bold was larboard alfresco linebacker Derrick Morgan, who for the best part, was accumbent at the Wide 9-technique spot. Morgan approved to cull off this central jab-rip admixture about all bold long. In his aboriginal attempt, Morgan begins with cutting Smith with his central arm. This negates Smith’s addendum on his bite and gives Morgan allowance to assignment about the edge. He uses a rip move to bash abroad Smith’s alfresco duke and tries to assignment the corner. Smith does aloof abundant to run him out of the pocket.
It’s a abashment Andy Dalton fumbled this breeze not alone because it led to a turnover, but because this could’ve been absolutely accustomed as Smith’s best rep of the day. Titans arresting accouterment Jurrell Casey is lined up at 4-technique, alive on the B-gap adjoin appropriate bouncer Trey Hopkins. Smith takes the action to dent Casey and accelerate him to clay afore annoying about Morgan’s delayed blitz off the edge. You adulation to see this in blur review.
This block from Smith got acceptance by Bengals fable Willie Anderson. On this alfresco area playcall, Smith is asked to ability block the 3-technique on the play, which is Daquan Jones. Notice how Jones never crosses Smith’s face, abounding with the play, and Smith washes him out of active aback Joe Mixon’s curtailment lane for the touchdown. He finishes the block and buries him to the arena for acceptable measure, admitting PFF doesn’t accord added acclaim for that.
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We see the central jab followed by an alfresco adverse from Morgan afresh here. Smith is a little backward apery Morgan actuality from that above Wide-9 alignment. Dalton gets the brawl out almost bound and Morgan’s win is finer negated, but this is awkward assignment from Smith.
With a little advice from Hopkins demography on the 2-technique, Smith finishes Morgan on addition ability block on the behind of an alfresco area playcall.
For the majority of the game, the Bengals advised rolling pockets, accelerate protections and comedy action/run/pass options to aid their canyon protection. This play, the accomplished appropriate ancillary and Clint Boling slides to the appropriate to accessible up Dalton’s throwing lane to the larboard and Morgan beats Smith with the inside-rip admixture again, but the bandy is fabricated bound and Smith is adored due to comedy design.
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Morgan kept aggravating the aforementioned move about all game, and Smith kept benumbed him out of the comedy every time he attempted it. Smith was already in the action of benumbed out Morgan back he connected to attack the aforementioned rip move. Smith was abandoned with the accelerate aegis adjoin the comedy ancillary of the play, and aloof pushed Morgan out of the pocket.
In one of the best analytical plays of the game, Smith and Hopkins get askance on a tackle-end aberration performed by Morgan and Orakpo. Smith ends up giving up the c-gap to the stunting Orakpo who annal a QB hit on Dalton, which led to an advised accomplishments penalty.
Overall, Smith had a solid airing adjoin Morgan in both canyon aegis and run blocking. His 85.9 brand accustomed by PFF is absolute to PFF, but that seems like an authentic brand afterwards activity through this bold twice. Smith got baffled a few times, but looked added than advantageous at appropriate accouterment abounding time for the aboriginal time in added than a year. We’ll see if it continues adjoin Von Miller and the Denver Broncos this Sunday.
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