Golden Nuggets: Another look at offensive line failures

Your San Francisco 49ers links for Thursday, June 23rd 2016Good morning! It’s been another slow day in the offseason, but I was able to find an interesting ESPN article with former San Francisco 49ers player and offensive line coach Howard Mudd. In the article, Mudd gives an alternate reason why offensive lines have been sub-par as of late: The collective bargaining agreement and it’s insistence on keeping players and coaches away from each other.

The CBA has really hamstrung a lot of coaching practices for all positions. For instance, with the Greenbay Packers, the one-on-one tutelage Aaron Rodgers got two of his first three years in head coach Mike McCarthy’s ‘Quarterback School’ wouldn’t…