05-10-2021, 03:16 PM
(05-10-2021, 02:46 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Because anything that only happened once is inherently untrustworthy in the NFL. Doubly so in the run game. Otherwise Jeremy Hill and Peyton Hillis would be HoFers.
Yeah, the PFF grades dropped like a stone because the two best OL on the team left that season. Corey Glenn for all his attitude/motivation problems was at least a starting quality LT. In 2019 he was replaced by 32-year-old Andre Smith being a LT for the first time. Also Clint Boling retired and was replaced by Michael Jordan.
Cordy Glenn > Andre Smith
Clint Boling > Michael Jordan
Of course they dropped like a stone the next year, they didn't have a single starting caliber player on that OL in 2019. Their best player was probably John Miller.
(They were also running Zac Taylor's "scheme".)
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Don't get me wrong, I will take him over Turner every day. I just don't see the hype.
The 2018 line put out a better performance than the 2016 line that had Whitworth, Boling and Zeitler...
I attribute Mixon's success more to Pollack than anything. Why you think he was so mad when we let Pollack go, and so thrilled to get him back? To brush that off as a one year wonder deal seems kinda silly when we only had one other season remotely close to being that efficient in the last 20 years...despite countless talented RBs.
As for the PFF grades, I was talking about players who played for both Pollack and Turner
Btw, I think it's a little unfair to remove Pollack's time in Dallas simply because he had talented players (that he was involved in drafting). Maybe he was partly the reason for their success? His career in Dallas did coincide with all of theirs. And we all saw how long Paul Alexander lasted in Dallas. This dude Pollack is definitely the best line coach we've had in a long time. Even if he's just "competent...which I believe he is.
The training, nutrition, medicine, fitness, playbooks and rules evolve. The athlete does not.
