Offensive Line Through 2 Games

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(09-20-2021, 04:01 PM)GodFather Wrote: Well this off season's biggest focus for improvement was the OL. There has been PLENTY of debate on here on whether it was addressed properly or not.

Let the numbers speak for themselves..

Burrow sacks so far.

* 2nd & 7, Shotgun, play-action
* 1st & 10, Under Center, play-action
* 1st & 10, Under Center, play-action
* 3rd & 5, Shotgun
* 3rd & 3, Shotgun
* 3rd & 10, Shotgun
* 2nd & 1, Shotgun, Empty
* 2nd & 10, Shotgun, Empty (busted play)
* 2nd & 10, Shotgun, Empty

In addition to 16 QB hits according to ESPN stats.

So I guess it wasn't addressed so well after all the back and forth this offseason debates.

My only hope is we don't have Burrow get knocked out for a second year in a row and eventually become Andrew Luck 2.0 because of an inept front office addressing this issue. We have a Quarterback who can become one of the greats if allowed with protection. Instead, he looks like he will be a casualty of war from lack of protection if this trend continues throughout the year.

Good information, but many of these sacks are on the backs, TE's, and/or Burrow himself, not necessarily the OL.  Thuney or Sewell would not stop Joe Mixon from blowing his assignments.

Out of 10 sacks this year, only 4 are on the OL(2 on Hopkins, 1 each on Jonah and Reiff).  That's still not great through 2 games, but manageable.  Assignment errors are killing them in pass pro.  When you look at when the sacks occurred, only 2 were in obvious passing situations (3rd and 4+).  3 of them came off play action that didn't fool anybody.