Michigan State OC Brian Lindgren Talks Offensive Line

For Michigan State football to have any success offensively next season, it's going to have to start up front.

Michigan State football is coming up on its spring practice finale, and a lot of work has been accomplshed up until this point.

As far as things go on the offensive line, there's work to be done regarding the adjustment to new offensive coordinator Brian Lindgren's system. But that's to be expected.

It's a work in progress," Lindgren told reporters on Thursday. "There have been some days where you turn on a rep and it's like this is it, we've got it, these guys are starting to get it, and then sometimes it's one step forward and two steps back with it, and that happens, just learning some of this wide-zone stuff that we're teaching them, it's just maybe a little bit different than what they've done in the past. Just getting those guys when they go out in live situations, to trust their technique. That is something that we are working through.

"We are seeing the growth, it's just that process of ups and downs. But the guys have had a great attitude and they are putting in time away from it and we have seen it improve as we have gone through the first 11.The first group, there have been maybe 7-8 guys cycling through there. And the second and third group, it's guys trying different positions, working different guys at center. Everyone is just getting used to it."

While it is a new system, Lindgren said there are certain things he doesn't want the offensive line to completely erase.

"I think there are some things you want, at least situationally, that you would love to see them be able to stick with," he said. "But there are some new schemes and new techniques and a detail here and there that's different. For some of the veteran guys that have been doing it, it can be challenging because they have reps doing something a certain way, and we are in that process now of getting them to trust this thing and trust this concept or technique. It isn't going to look perfect the first couple of times, but keep working at it, particularly in the individual sets. I think those guys have been able to see the progress a little bit, where they're buying into it. We're still a work in progress."

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