STRENGTHS
Orlando is a confident, smart, big and athletic offensive lineman who does his
job with the efficiency of an accountant methodically looking over your books
just before you have to meet with the IRS. He is the size of a Winnebago with
long arms that could challenge the “Wondering Albatross” for the longest
wingspan in nature. He has good foot movement but what Orlando brings to his
game more than his athletic size and talent is his confidence in his overall
game and techniques NOT to guess or overreact to his opponents on pass blocking
downs. Because of his long arms Orlando can wait for his opponents initial pass
rush move to the outside or inside and then react to cut off the path to his
quarterback. He is a solid run blocker getting out of his stance quick enough to
move his opponent off the line of scrimmage. Orlando reminds me of the Buffalo
Bills LT Cordy Glen.
CONCERNS
Because Orlando is so big he doesn’t flash with quickness and movement that the
average offensive lineman has to use, to do his job. Watching him on tape is
boring because he just doesn’t move quickly unless he has to. He can go out to
the second level and make his blocks and he can be used in a pulling system but
his workouts might suggest otherwise and this could turn some teams off from
rating him as high as I do. Also Orlando is blocking for one of the most
scrambling quarterbacks in all of college football and that too could make teams
feel that Orlando doesn’t have the athletic talent to be a pure Left Tackle. Of
course they would be wrong.
BOTTOM LINE
There will be doubts by some experts who might think that Orlando can’t play the
Left Tackle position at a high level without the work out numbers most think a
player has to have to play that position. As you can see…I don’t think that way.
I think Orlando will become one of the better Left Tackles at the NFL level. I
think that most “experts” will over look him when voting on those “whose your
favorite player”, awards every year also. When you turn on the film Orlando
doesn’t do anything that jumps out at you and because of his size you make
excuses for his opponent not being able to get into the back field all game
long. You say dumb things like, well the only reason he can block as well as he
does is because he is so big…Duh! Another saying you might hear from those
“experts” will be “If he wasn’t that big, he wouldn’t be that good”. That will
be true because he is that big and… he is that good. Although he looks slow, he
moves as fast as he needs to move to do his job efficiently and methodically
just like an accountant looks methodical and efficiently through your books
before your appointment for an IRS audit. Let’s be honest; there is nothing
exciting about accounting unless you’re accountant is good enough to thwart the
IRS! Orlando will thwart the threat (say that three times in a row) of his
opponents methodically and efficiently. He’s the accountant and that’s all you
need to know… am I still, Talking To Myself?
Drew Boylhart
DEC.2017
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