Tanor Bortolini

Every time it looked like the pocket was breaking down, I looked and saw Quinton Nelson still engaged in his block, so Nelson did absolutely fine.

Bortolini did absolutely fine.

You're not going to be an all-world offensive line against this Texans front seven.

The Colts did, I think, as good of a job as could be expected.

Protection will determine the outcome here.

And you can't let Anderson isolate on Bortolini.

All right, number three, I think you can work underneath.

I like boots and I like meshes because even when they play zone, They play it really tight.

By that, I mean go for your home run shots in the run game.

Those are like the ones where you get Bortolini and Quentin Nelson out in front of Jonathan Taylor.

Those are the plays that have a shot to really hit big.

You know, these outside zone runs that we see with the Colts, like those ones have a chance to really hit big with Taylor.

Now, the other thing that we gotta be alert for in their NASCAR package is they will move Anderson around.

He's not just always on the edge, and what they did, and it really hurt us a year ago, they actually stood him up, if you remember, and they took Bortolini.

He just took him back to the quarterback.

And so, you know, we can't...

That offensive line, oh, my God, dude.

Bortolini had a solid block to bust JT.

I think it was his first touchdown is when he scored in the right half of the end zone.

Bortolini.

Gonzalez, Quentin Nelson.

I mean, you name it, dude.

Yeah, I think in watching the film, you know, it was kind of what I felt last night.

I mean, really impressed with our offense, really like what we did in the running game, you know, a lot of down blocking and pulling the guard around, you know, tackle down, guard around, tight end down, you know, get those tackles out in space, you know, Quentin Nelson leading on the touchdown, Bortolini was out there in space, and You know, I think with Alec Pierce going down, I mean, hats off to Treadwell for stepping up.

Hats off to Jones.

They were running a lot of cover zero blitz, right, bringing seven guys, free rushers.

It's not the most proven.

Left to right, it's Bernard Ryman, Quentin Nelson, Tanner Bortolini, Matt Gungalvis, and Jalen Travis.

Wow.

Jalen Travis is a second-year guy out of Iowa State.

Test him.

Yeah, test Bortolini.

Matt Goncalves, third year out of Pittsburgh.

Guard.

Now, the one area that is of real concern for them is at the center position, right there in the glue of the middle of it, because...

You know, they got a guy in Bortolini that they drafted out of Wisconsin to play at center who had not played that in college.

And he's done a nice job, but they have no depth in that area.

So I've always said about offensive line, it comes down to this.

And they, if you look at the tape, they like to put him down on, they like to put him down on Gonzalez on our right side and go one-on-one.

They also would like to put him you know, on Bortolini.

So look for him to operate between those two guys.

They had a couple of young kids, Ozama and Thomas, our young guys that have sacks off the edge.

You want 25 first downs, 37 and a half minutes of ball control, and they'll be your best friends.

Got to have a protection plan for Jones.

They're going to come after Gonzalez and Bortolini.

Don't let those two guys get isolated.