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Will Montgomery played six of his 11 NFL seasons on the Redskins’ offensive line, including Robert Griffin III’s remarkable rookie season, so he knows a thing or two about quality OL play in DC.

He met Grant Paulsen for lunch recently and was asked to dive into why and how Washington’s offensive line is playing so well over the first five weeks, and how the running game and short passing game are both firing on all cylinder and he presented his thesis when he joined Grant & Danny Wednesday.

“My first impression is that these guys on the interior are all big men, 6-foot-4 or 5 and 320, much bigger than when I played, and what I noticed about how they blocked, especially in this scheme, is there’s not as much outside zone like the Shanahan era, these guys are doing smash mouth downhill football,” Montgomery said. “It’s called the gap scheme, and it’s powers, counters, and traps, and they mix in a little bit of the zone read, so their version of the zone game is just a simple sort of inside zone. That's more of the vertical zone, and then the quarterback can read on the back side, so I completely agree with your analysis that these guys are moving other humans off the ball.”

Seems simple, but in the trenches, that’s the game – move the other guys and build holes for yours.

“To quote Russ Grimm, they are men and they're moving another man against their will backward, and if you can move the defensive line off the spot a yard or two, that is huge in the NFL,” Montgomery said. “Most of the time you're getting a stalemate at best, but if you can move the line of scrimmage back a yard or two, your running back is gonna get three yards and a cloud of dust every time. Then, if you make somebody miss, now you're looking at those gas runs of 10, 20, 30-plus yards.”

And on top of what they’re doing, they’re doing it a lot from the shotgun, which is hard to do.

“When you're making a snap from the center position, it's a little bit harder to make an accurate snap and then fire off and block somebody, because you almost have to slow yourself down trying to make an accurate snap and then speed back up and piledrive somebody,” Montgomery said. “If you're a guard or a tackle, I don't think it really matters, but the center can definitely fire off better if you're under center. It’s a little bit harder to get the straight fire off with that first step in the shotgun, but these big boys are doing a great job with it.”

The lynchpin is in the middle, where Tyler Biadasz has allowed just one pressure in 185 dropbacks so far, which is allowing Daniels to both move up in the pocket as needed and know

“We had the game on and my kids saw big No. 63 and asked if I was still playing,” Montgomery joked. “But with center, half the time you're in double teams unless you're playing a team with a true zero nose with the guy stacked over your head. So Biadasz is doing a good job; you see him identifying the linebackers and he’s a big thick guy. He reminds me of those old-school big bodies, which is great so that the pocket is firm in the middle, sp there’s room to step up and your tackles are allowed then to ride the guys by. So that's really your prototypical power-iso heavy duty O-line that the commanders have that right now.”

Take a listen to Montgomery’s entire segment above, which includes thoughts on Andrew Wylie’s improvement at RT, the left tackle platoon, and more on the line!

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