[TajDeni]

on passing plays ive always hit down on the slider protection, to reinforce the pocket, cept for designed rollouts (ie. boots) then i would slide the protection that way.

personally i would never slide the OL to a given side on passing plays, outside of a designed rollout, so i guess my answer would have to be no i would not trust it.

what i would trust is to hit down on the pass protection to get the OL to pinch, then id use 1 of 2 options...

1. set my HB/TE (maybe both) to block to the side i thought the pressure was coming from

2. or try to better identify where the pressure was coming from pre-snap reads and work on developing a hot route to replace the spot the pressure just came from.

both of these option i would trust before i slide my OL to a given side to help pick up pressure.