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(06-15-2017, 12:04 AM)Shake n Blake Wrote: Too much is made of losing MLJ and Sanu. That is not why we went 6-9-1 last year.

I'd say it was 80% o-line, 10% lack of pass rush and 10% that the run game sucked. Throw in Eifert's injury somewhere as well.

It's easy (and lazy) to look at the outgoing players and correlate that to the drop off, but all the key players are still here.

Yeah, I'd put coaching in there somewhere. Keeping Nuge and OG starting when they clearly didn't have it cost us a few games. 

I'd say it's probably like 40% line 30% coaches and 20% pass rush and 10% injury.