Craig Wolfley on Willie Colon/Marcus Gilbert

“Pretty Good”
by CRAIG WOLFLEY on AUGUST 21, 2012 · LEAVE A COMMENT · in PERSONAL INTERVIEWS, STEELERS, STEELERS TRAINING CAMP, TUNCH & WOLF
I was jacked to set up on the sidelines for the pre-season Heinz Field home opener with the Steelers playing host to the Indianapolis Colts. Not because of Andrew Luck, or the return of Bruce Arians or anything like that. I wanted to see Willie Colon make his first start at guard.

All right, i suppose you can call me a Hogg sympathizer, or an offensive line snob, but i have followed Willie Colon’s career for quite some time and i have always believed he could play guard, and do it well. Sunday night, Big Willie didn’t disappoint.

On the openeing series for the Steelers they ran the ball with, i believe it was, Johnathan Dwyer carrying the pigskin that called for a double-team block on the frontside between Marcus Gilbert and Colon. 300 hundred plus pounds of Colts DT Tony Moala dug in versus about 700 pounds of Hogg-on-the-hoof as Willie acted as the post-man and Gilbert the hip banger with an eye to come off on a linebacker trying to run through.

Colon hit Moala square down the numbers and started to “crane” or lift Moala up from a low pad level. Gilbert, as the man who comes in from the side to bang the hip of Moala and double-team him out of the trenches didn’t get low enough but Marcus has plenty of strength, and he used it all.

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If he stays healthy and Starks stays healthy our Oline should be in the top 10 IMO

agreed but i am hoping top 5

agreed...the arrow is pointing up for the OL

I've especially liked what the interior of our line has shown so far. Pouncey continues to look amazing. DeCastro seems to be developing nicely. And Colon has looked great, especially at the second level.

We discussed this on our recent podcast...check it out
http://www.rooneyrants.com/2012/08/episode-13-preseason-week-2-vs-colts.html

The Dude wrote:

agreed...the arrow is pointing up for the OL

I've especially liked what the interior of our line has shown so far. Pouncey continues to look amazing. DeCastro seems to be developing nicely. And Colon has looked great, especially at the second level.

We discussed this on our recent podcast...check it out
http://www.rooneyrants.com/2012/08/episode-13-preseason-week-2-vs-colts.html

Yeah, the interior is looking good, but the outside is still looking suspect. Adams is clearly not ready at this point, Starks is still recovering, and Gilbert seems to have regressed a little. Hopefully they can stabilize the outside with Starks getting healthy and Gilbert getting himself together. The sky will be the limit if Gilbert and Starks can play like they did at their best last year and the interior keeps up the great work.