Mothman wrote:It sure seems like there's an enormous amount of effort being expended in this thread to circle around or justify the elephant in the room instead of just acknowledging it's presence. Why is that so hard?
Its not that we don't acknowledge it, its just that it isn't an elephant. the Oline is the consensus point of weakness, we all agree it needs to be addressed. But the pass protection is holding up through various means that actually seem to be working on a technical level not just a whisper and a prayer. And while the run blocking is atrocious, since the loss of the Best Running back ever in our uniform our offense has average 90+ yards a game in 66% of the the games played and improved every week. It seems the split is on whether or not it should have been addressed earlier, the camps are; yes it should have versus; tit for tat happy with what we got against what we would have had to give up.
It could be that it suffers later on or falters, but as of now everything is trending in the right direction in spite of the borderline laughable number of injuries we have suffered around the running game and the oline.